Monday 29 September 2014

HP NMI Error with ESXi - Gen8

In the environment many of our ESXi hosts (HP DL380 Gen8's) have generated PSOD's with NMI generated events.  If you are experiencing this issue please UPGRADE your ilo4 firmware to version 1.51.  The issue described is under HP article c04332584.  You can download the latest firmware from HP.


Tuesday 2 September 2014

Deploying OVA fails with "Failed to Deploy OVF/OVA package: The operation is not supported on the object"

We recently had an issue deploying either an OVA/OVF file that was created from one of the virtual machines in our environment.  Deploying this OVA failed instantly (after entering cluster locations / datastore) with the following error: "The Operation is not supported on the object".  After much investigation and examining the /var/log/hostd.log file on the ESXi host we were trying to deploy too, we found the line:  "Video Ram size edit is not supported when auto-detect is True."  Editing the Virtual Machine hardware settings and editing the Video Card and changing the setting from Auto-detect to Specify custom settings (This can be anything) and then exporting the virtual machine as an OVA allowed the deployment to work! Very interesting that this setting caused a problem!  Previously we have also encountered this when the Virtual Machine has an ISO mounted when to converting to OVA.