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About a month ago, we had a server that was migrated from one datastore to another. It is a fairly large VM and it errored out with an general error "A general system error occurred: Migration failed...
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View ArticleServer reverted to previous snapshot after reboot/migration.
About a month ago, we had a server that was migrated from one datastore to another. It is a fairly large VM and it errored out with an general error "A general system error occurred: Migration failed...
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Hi. Instead of hijacking other one's thread having the same problem I decided to start a new thread, so sorry for double posting. After promoting a new DC and demoting the old one we have the problem...
View ArticleMigrated SQL Database; Error Recreating Some Jobs
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Hi, I have updated the vCenter 5.5 to the latest version that is available yesterday. It is linux appliance. I was having problem to get in to web client after the update. I performed the "Regenerate...
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