Virtualisation

During install of vmware tools on newly p2v’d server error 1606 was displayed and vmware tools would not install.
Error ocured as location of administrators My Documents had been redirected to a network location which could not be accessed as no network driver installed.
If you are unable to change the path of the My Documents folder [...]

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Received this error today trying to create a new snapshot of a Windows VM guest running on VMware ESXi. VI client showed no existing snapshots, tried reboot of VM and ESXi host but still unable to create a new snapshot.
Was eventually able to create the snapshot by renaming the snapshot definition file for the [...]

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