Tag Archives: ESXi Host

VM backup job hangs when server has more than 24 disks

In our VMware environment, VM snapshot backup is keep failing or going into hung state after initiating the backup job on couple of virtual servers which has more than 24 disks. We use Veritas Netbackup as a backup solution in our VMware infrastructure environment and we have couple of netbackup appliances. There are two methods… Read More »

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 »

Unable to find the virtual machine backup error 4239

Unable to find the virtual machine backup error 4239 – VM backups are failing with 4239 error. When we receive this error, have tried to sign-in to the respective Windows vCenter whether it is accessible or not. I’m not able to connect to the vCenter server webclient from the browser (have tried connecting from Google… Read More »

No guest OS heartbeats are being received. Either the guest OS is not responding or VMware Tools is not configured correctly

No guest OS heartbeats are being received. Either the guest OS is not responding or VMware Tools is not configured correctly – Issue Fixed and here is the Solution The above said error message will appear while we are trying to migrate a VM from one host to other OR if we are trying to… Read More »