RAID HDD degraded after installing ESXi 5
Hi, Im trying to install ESXi on my server which has mirrored HDD's. My problem is that after installing ESXi and the computer reboots I am told that the RAID volume is degraded so one of the HDD's is...
View ArticlePerformance considerations
Hello A bit of background.... We run something like a private cloud - there's no self provisioning or anything but there's a shared infrastructure which includes 30 ESXi 4.1 hosts, shared storage and...
View ArticleNetworking on cluster, am i doing this right?
Hello, I have a lab with the following configuration 3 esxi hostsVcenter installed on W2008 R22 NFS shares on different servers I've created a DRS/HA cluster and on every host mounted the two NFS...
View ArticleUnable to Poweron the VM in esxi 5.1 infrastructure
Not able to Power on VM on esxi 5.1 infrastructure, once I disable drs then I can able. Please let me know if any solution or workaround for this issue.
View ArticleWidget Help. . .
All: I am trying to make the Heat Map (2) display ONLY the VM's that are on the datastore I select in the Resources (1) widget. Ideally, the VM's would be there, sized / colored by latency. I can't...
View ArticleTrouble using JVM arguments using --J
Hi, I am using GF 7.0 and i start my cache server using gfsh start server command. I want to give one of my JVM argument using --J option and the arguments value itself contains comma(,) within...
View ArticleCan´t backup one VM
We have VDP major version 5.1.20.24 minor version 6.1.81.130_2.0.24.24 The backup works ok on Several VMs without any issues but one. The VM OS is WS2008R2. We have another VMs with same OS with backup...
View ArticlevSphere 5.1 Licensing details
Dear Team, We have taken Enterprise edition license, we want to setup a Virtual Cloud environment. We got stuck up at networking part. It is going on asking for virtual distributed switch. Is there...
View ArticleBest ESXi 5 hardware?
I was planning to get a Dell PowerEdge r515 configured with ESXi already installed (2x Opteron 8core 4386 3.1ghz, 32gb ram, 6x2tb raid5). Weighing in at 7k+.Now, that's going to be a hard sell to the...
View ArticleVCP510 Exam preparation
Hi,I am preparing for VCP510 exam. I just complete VMware official training few days ago and have almost 4 years hands on experience with ESXI.My question Is the books provided on training cover as...
View Articlelicense of 3.5
Hello,I have to decommission a huge cluster running 3.5 ESX. How I can reuse my 3.5 licenses to my new ESXi 4.1 enterprise cluster?there will be a huge hardware difference as well (G1 to G7). Thanks,...
View Articlevxlan config
I completed my install of vcd 5.1. I have vshield installed as well and I have attached my vcenter to vcd. my vcenter has multiple clusters and I have only installed the vcloud agent on one cluster in...
View ArticleVMotion between 2 Hosts with different CPUs
Hallo, I have a server in my homelab that I use for VMsphere studies and I want to get a second machine to test advanced features like HA, Vmotion etc.My first server has an X9SCM-9 board with Xeon...
View ArticleUnable to accessing VMDK files of Windows 2012 Guest os with VixMntApi. (VMDK...
Hi, I have mounted the the VMDK file with the following API and got a handle to it. I have opened the disk using VixDiskLib_Open( vixDiskLibCon, fileName,...
View ArticlevCloud API multiple concurrent sso Federation Login session
We encountered inconsistent behavior on the vCD ssoLogin which return unauthorized error. Following is the test scenario we performed 1) single SAML Assertion with multiple vCloudClient SDK instance-...
View ArticleCertificate issue on 1 client host with update manager 5.0
I am getting the following error on only one client machine when launching the vsphere client. there was an error connecting to vmware vsphere update manager - [myupdatemanager.local.com:443] the...
View ArticleVMware Fusion 5.0.3 crashes repeatedly opening shared folders in Windows 7...
Hi,I've noticed the following (serious) problem with Fusion 5.0.3, Mac OS X 10.8.4 and Excel 2013 in a Windows 7 VM. Everything worked without problem until we upgraded Mac Os X to release 10.8.4....
View ArticleChange DNS servers in configuration?
Deployed the OVA, but it did not set the DNS servers, although they were entered. How do I change networking settings to add DNS servers? It states in settings:- To change network settings, please see...
View ArticleVcenter Appliance Certificate Regeneration Not Working
I am setting up a new vCenter Server Appliance and for some reason the certificate regeneration feature is not updating a certificate with the new hostname and IP. I toggle certificate regeneration to...
View ArticleVCDX Design Defenses in Singapore and Beijing - November 2013
To support VCDX Program growth in the Asia-Pacific region and Greater China, VMware Certification would like to offer VCDX Design Defense opportunities at vForum Singapore and vForum Beijing in...
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