VMware vCenter 5.0 U1a has been released. This patch has a permanent fix for the Storage vMotion/dvSwitch bug which caused HA to fail in a… Read More »Storage vMotion / dvSwitch patch released (but manual fix required)
Today I tried to explain why this Storage vMotion / dvSwitch / HA problem actually existis, how the virtual machines getting affected and what I… Read More »Storage vMotion and dvSwitch / HA problem explained
Placing the datastore clusters inside a folder in some cases is not an option, so i decided to write a PowerCLI script which creates the permisson after vCenter service restart. As you might know, all permissons set at datastore cluster level are gone after vCenter restarts. This workaround referred to VMware KB: 2008326.
First you have to find affected permissons. This applies to permissons which are set directly to datastore clusters. A datastore cluster is referred as "StoragePod", so this is the keyword:
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After migrating datastores to datastore clusters and adding permissons at datastore cluster level I run into incomprehensible issues where users suddenly failed to create VMs.… Read More »Datastore cluster permissions lost