Parent virtual disk has been modified error vSphere 5

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Whilst p2ving I came across this little issue when powering on a vm for the first time. I received an error stating the below: Cannot power On: Reason: The parent virtual
disk has been modified since the child was
created. The content ID of the parent virtual disk
does not match the corresponding parent content
ID in the child.
error
DATE TIME
Power On virtual machine Now the only thing that I can guess happened here is that vDR created a snapshot of the vm as it was being created. The first thing I tried to resolve the issue was to right click the vm select snapshot and then consolidate. This then thew up another error message similar to the first so that was no good.
I deleted the snapshot and tried again but received again the above error message. I googled around a bit and found somRead More…

VNXE registration error

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When you first switch on a VNXE you have to go through the management network setup tasks, then you have to register the product to download and install the licence file for the software packs you have purchased with the hardware. This is where I hit a bit of a brick wall for a while with our first VNXE 3100. All I got when clicking the obtain licence button was a message on the EMC website saying the Product ID is not recognised. This happened if I type the product ID/ serial number in manually or let the system do it (as it does when you click obtain licence). So I rang emc support and after a few days of waiting I finally got an answer from them. The support chappie said that it does that if the order company that is registered against the device shows and different to the name of the Read More…