The host returns esxupdate error code 15 – ESX Host Patching issue

The below error might have received while you patch the ESX host – The host returns esxupdate error code:15. The package manager transaction is not successful. Check the Update Manager log files and esx update log files for more details. This error occurs due to one of the VIB package which needs to be removed … Read more

New 12 Digit VMware SR Number not allowing to create new folder to upload logs

New 12 Digit VMware SR Number not allowing to create new folder to upload logs

New 12 Digit VMware SR Number not allowing to create new folder to upload logs by using sftp site. VMware recommends to upload the log files to its ftp or sftp site with maximum size of 2GB size. New 12 Digit VMware SR Number not allowing to create new folder to upload logs However, VMware … Read more

vmss2core error Cannot create memory dump

vmss2core error Cannot create memory dump

vmss2core error Cannot create memory dump – One of the Windows server had an BSOD and Microsoft asked the snapshot file (vmsn) to be converted in memory dump (win debug format) using vmss2core which can be downloaded from vmlabs. Snapshot taken and downloaded from the data store to a local machine, tried to convert the … Read more

Could not open/create change tracking file, Module Disk Early power on failed

Could not open/create change tracking file, Module DiskEarly power on failed

Could not open/create change tracking file, Module Disk Early power on failedĀ error message popped up while trying to power on the Windows VM session from vCenter console after upgrading the VM tools and Hardware version. Here is the work around how to fix this issue. Steps to fix the locked CTK (Change Tracking File) files … Read more

Cannot create a ramdisk of size 387MB to store the upgrade image, Check if the host has sufficient memory

Cannot create a ramdisk of size 387MB to store the upgrade image, Check if the host has sufficient memory

While I was trying to upgrade the host from ESXi 5.1 to ESXi 5.5 version, received this error message. Cannot create a ramdisk of size 387MB to store the upgrade image, Check if the host has sufficient memory Usually this error pops up when required disk space or memory not available on the ESXi host. … Read more