This can by far be one of the most frustrating error messages you will run across in a vSphere environment. I was at a customer site yesterday and the customer ran across it while I was working through some other things. He asked if I could fix it for him. :) I immedieatly dove into the issue and started looking at the problem he was having and the error message was very generalized in nature. "Powering on a virtual machine fails with the error: A general system error occurred" I wasn't able to change any settings on the VM…
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This can by far be one of the most frustrating error messages you will run across in a vSphere environment. I was at a customer site yesterday and the customer ran across it while I was working through some other things. He asked if I could fix it for him. :) I immedieatly dove into the issue and started looking at the problem he was having and the error message was very generalized in nature. "Powering on a virtual machine fails with the error: A general system error occurred" I wasn't able to change any settings on the VM…
I've run into this issue with a couple customers the past couple weeks, and there isn't anything definitive out there that I could find, so I thought I'd write about it. These customers have a need for disks in a VM larger than the 2TB - 512 bytes that is currently supported. They have a couple options to get around this limitation but these solutions cause a tad bit more complexity in their environments. One nugget of knowledge that I confirmed with @VMwareStorage last week was that an NFS volume size…
I've run into this issue with a couple customers the past couple weeks, and there isn't anything definitive out there that I could find, so I thought I'd write about it. These customers have a need for disks in a VM larger than the 2TB - 512 bytes that is currently supported. They have a couple options to get around this limitation but these solutions cause a tad bit more complexity in their environments. One nugget of knowledge that I confirmed with @VMwareStorage last week was that an NFS volume size…