Tag Archives: vcenter

SQL Statements to resolve “VM Renamed Using PowerCLI Reverts to Original Name After vCenter Restart”

This is a follow-up to my last blog post. In the KB, VMware states that the issue is resolved in vCenter 6.0u2 but that if you still see the issue you will need to look at the database tables. My user informed today that the issue re-occurred after vCenter was patched over the weekend. I… Read More »

New-tagcategory Cannot find a service registration for vCenter service with host name XXXX

I have been trying to test creating some new tag categories after my recent vCenter upgrades. I hit two snags: 1) In PowerCLI I was getting an error about connecting to inventory service on local host (localhost:10089/invsvc I believe). This was remedied by upgrading PowerCLI to 6.x (I went to 6.3R1) 2) Next error w… Read More »

vSphere Replication Error: The virtual machine VM has failed validation and cannot be configured for replication: Host is not connected

As part of our vCenter upgrade plan, we wanted to re-install the vCenter on a Windows 2012R2 box but re-use the SSL and the database by following the following KB. During the re-install, my team forgot to bring the SSL certs over. Once vCenter was up they noticed that all of the hosts were disconnected.… Read More »