Good day! I recently received multiple errors within my home lab when trying to vMotion Machines. A general system occured: PBM error occurred during PreMigrateCheckCallback: Connection refused  This is the first time i have seen this error in 6 years of Administrating a vSphere environment! Resolution: Various community posts pointed in the direction of a failed or not running service. in this case Profile-Drive Storage Service (I am using the VCSA 6.0) ssh into the VCSA Run the following command to check the status sure enough the service was not running service vmware-sps status To start the service: service vmware-sps start Once again all VM’s are happily vmotioning around! EDIT […]

If like me you forgot to set the NTP server correctly when deploying the appliances The following demonstrates how to add\change\modify an NTP source. As this is for my home lab i will be using the following – http://www.pool.ntp.org/en/ Open a console or SSH to the vCenter Server Appliance Login with Root Credentials Run the following to add an NTP Server ntp.server.add –servers ntp.pool.org Run the command to enable the NTP Server timesync.set –mode NTP To remove a configure NTP Server ntp.server.delete –servers ntp.pool.org To verify the settings ntp.get Note: that the command uses double dashes (- -) however they may show as a single line on my blog. Below […]