So, you find yourself in a situation where you have lost the root password for your ESXi host(s). Luckily there are multiple ways of resetting it – but the best method depends on the exact situation. Ill try to outline three different scenarios (of course, more exists) – maybe your are placed in a completely different scenario but maybe this post can help you anyway.
Ill like to highlight that after updating “Veeam Backup and Replication” to “version 9.5 update 3a” you might start to see warnings like this in your Veeam status reports:
Warning: [TDB]Unable to update SQL backupset for instance : Code = 0x80040e09 Code meaning = IDispatch error #3081 Source = Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server Description = The UPDATE permission was denied on the object ‘backupset’, database ‘msdb’, schema ‘dbo’.
I recently wanted to make sure that my lab environment was on the latest VCSA version (Platform Service Controller and vCenter) so I went to the VAMI interface on my PSC and quickly discovered that there were no updates – that’s was strange because my PSC was at build 8217866 (build 6.7.0.10000) and according to the vSphere version list KB2143838 there has been released some newer versions Continue reading
My name is Christian Møller and i have been working in the IT industry since 2004. I’ve been working with a lot of different stuff in my carrier but one thing that has been keeping me busy since 2006 is VMware. In year 2006 GSX and ESX was the new hot thing (at least for me) so it also made sense to get a VCP3 certification which i got in 2007.
On this blog ill try to post ideas, guidelines and provide tips and tricks and solutions to real life problems in the datacenter. Discussing new features and also providing “shortcuts” to daily operation tasks.
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