vSphere5 Storage Profiles

Storage profiles in vSphere5 allow you to organise you storage within vSphere based upon its capabilities. vSphere includes some specific API’s that can detect a storage devices specific capabilities however not many storage devices support this function at the moment.
However you can also create user defined storage profiles which allow you to assign capabilities to datastores and then create Read More…

Parent virtual disk has been modified error vSphere 5

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 cRead More…