Systems Administration Problem Solvers

Month: August 2017

  • 00:0c:29:4c:6f:70 is not an allowed static Ethernet address. It conflicts with VMware reserved MACs.

    You are attempting to manually assign a MAC to a vSphere VM in the 00:0c:29:xxx range. You receive this error: Module DevicePowerOn power on failed. Could not set up “macAddress” for ethernet0. Invalid MAC address specified. 00:0c:29:4c:6f:70 is not an allowed static Ethernet address. It conflicts with VMware reserved MACs. Solution:  Edit the .vmx file […]

  • vCSA Postgres Database Repair – PANIC: checksum mismatch

    You are confronted with various database errors in the /var/log/vmware/vpx/vpxd.log and you also have various errors in /storage/db/vpostgres/pg_log Similar in theme to: error ‘Default’ opID=HB-host-8637@82541-3778684f] [VdbStatement] SQLError was thrown: “ODBC error: (00000) – ” is returned when executing SQL statement error ‘Default’ opID=HB-host-8637@82541-3778684f] An unrecoverable problem has occurred, stopping the VMware VirtualCenter service. Error: Error[VdbODBCError] […]