Tips & tricks

If you are not able to connect to your VMWare Server using the vSphere client but you are sure that the VMWare server is up and running, try this : If you have enabled the ssh service connect to the SSH console of the server and type : services .sh restart This will restart the services without stopping the virtual machines

My ghettoVCB backup script was running fine (at least my backups were performed) but that error message ' Datastore not found ' stung my eyes every time I ran the backup manually. In fact, the fix was easy : I had to use the datastore name (a symbolic link) in the path of the backup instead of the GUID of the datastore. So, I changed my configuration file from : [...] VM_BACKUP_VOLUME=/vmfs/volumes/ 53af15fa-cd616a94-e1a4-9ee2ba7c8e2c /backups [...] to : [...] VM_BACKUP_VOLUME=/vmfs/volumes/ DS1_R5_4_8TB /backups [...]  And voilà...