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V-79-57344-38278 – Unable to find the metadata for a disk of the virtual machine

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V-79-57344-38278 – Unable to find the metadata for a disk of the virtual machine.

I recently received this error in Backup Exec 2010 when I selected to back up a Template. This template existed on a VMware ESXi 5.1 cluster. I was using the Agent for VMware and backing up through VCenter using the NBD method. Being a template, it was offline and did not have a Remote Agent installed.

The problem I discovered was that I had used a special character in the building of this machine. Being that this was a template, which I planned to deploy many virtual machines from, I wanted to easily attach a date in its name. Mostly, I did this so I knew how far out it was on Windows Updates. So I named by Template, “Base Win2K8 SP1 (6/20/13)”.

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Internet Explorer 11 Preview For Windows 7 now available!

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Microsoft has released its preview for Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7. The full blog post can be found here.

This blog post has a great video with a significant benchmark test versus Google Chrome and it clearly smokes Google Chrome on that test. The video explains that Internet Explorer can now harness a computers GPU to perform graphics rendering for web applications. Check the video out for yourself!

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Don’t overlook your Thin Clients

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I ran into an issue recently where Thin Clients were connecting to a Server 2008 R2 RDS Farm. The RDS Farm had three Sessions Hosts and one Connection Broker. DNS was providing round-robin and the Connection Broker was providing load balancing.

The issue we were facing was that the Thin Clients were experiencing a double logon. When they connected they would logon, and immediately after they hit enter, they were given a second logon. It almost seemed like it was rejecting their password. But it wasn’t. They would retype their credentials and get in and continue on.

This didn’t always happen and what we observed was the following.

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USB pass-through on ESX 4.1 – have you considered this?

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I ran into a situation recently where a client needed a USB drive connected directly to a VMware ESXi 4.1 host. As many of you know, getting USB pass-through working is a challenge in itself. There are lots of requirements to be met at both the host level and the guest VM level. The strange part was that I seemingly met all those requirements.

I had already added my USB bus controllers through Configuration –> Advanced Settings on the ESXi host. I had rebooted. Seemingly everything looked great and appeared as if it were passing through. I confirmed my VM was running Hardware Version 7 and I added the USB Controller without incident. However, the USB devices were greyed out and when I selected it I received the following message.

There are no USB devices connected to the host.

Initially, I had enabled all USB buses for pass-through. What I ultimately found was that by disabling the EHCI USB bus back in Configuration –> Advanced Settings, along with another reboot, did the trick. The above message went away and USB devices were no longer greyed out. I was then able to add my USB drive to my VM without incident.

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