Deleting the datastore where a content library is hosted is probably not the best idea but … yes stupid error and now what. If you are not faint of heart (and now how to take a snapshot), you can rectify this. You should contact GSS as there is not documented solution and this might break. Take a snapshot and verify if …

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Today I deployed a new VCSA 7 U1 and as U2 has GA’d recently I wanted to update the environment first. So I headed to the VAMI interface > Available Updates page. Immediately there was an error: Error in method invocation ({‘id’: ‘com.vmware.appliance.update.manifest_verification_failed’, ‘default_message’: ‘Manifest …

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I had downtime in my lab due to an power failure which resulted in a boot failure of my VCSA 6.5 appliance. Looking on the console showed me a "[FAILED] Failed to start File System Check on /dev/dis...uuid/uuid. See 'systemctl status system-fsck-root.service' for details." message. Therefor it booted into 'Emergency …

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When connecting to your vCenter server via PowerCLI, one can use the -menu option. This will give a list of entries you recently used. You can manage the entries here: C:\Users\username\Appdata\Roaming\VMware\PowerCLI\RecentServerList.xml Connect-viserver -menu

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