Category Archives: VMware

Easy way to deploy an appliance with OVA or OVF file in the vCenter

How easily we can provision or deploy an appliance in the vCenter management console with a customer provided OVA or OVF file. Before you start, need to check the cluster capacity where the appliance can be accommodated. Based on the cluster capacity, you can plan the appliance deployment. Step 1: Go to the cluster and… Read More »

Error during quiescing snapshot backup failed with error code 4 status 156

The guest OS has reported an error during quiescing. The error code was: 4 The error message was: Quiesce aborted. Above said error reported in the vCenter server 6.5 management console on one of the Windows server. In the sense, VM snapshot was failed while creating the snapshot. It is a Veritas Netbackup software which… Read More »

vMotion error – No guest OS heartbeats are being received

For one of the VM on vCenter 6.5, backup started failing. I tried to take quiesce manually, but, still failing. Thought, try migrating the virtual server to another ESXi host. However, while I’m trying to migrate, it is showing this error – “No guest OS heartbeats are being received. Either the guest OS is not… Read More »

VMware ESXi datastore GPT primary table corrupt

The primary GPT table is corrupt, but the backup appears OK, so that will be used. This is what the message received when we check the status of a datastore. How to fix VMware ESXi datastore GPT primary table corrupt, here is the answer. VMware recommends to fix the GPT error when identified GPT primary… Read More »