Driver Updates?
I purchased Unblue's driver because having it find and update hardware drivers was much more accurate and convientent than doing it manually. The following drivers were marked as "ancient" Intel(R)...
View ArticleMost efficient Anti-Affinity Rule
I'm wondering if anyone has an opinion on what the 'best' anti-affinity rule would be, between VM-to-Host & Keep-VMs-Separate. Here is my situation: 6 ESX servers in 1 cluster~100 VMsHA, DRS, &...
View ArticleQueryChangedDiskAreas returns a FileFault error while trying through "mob"
Hi, I have tried to query the changed disk area(QueryChangedDiskAreas) of a VM through Managed Object Browser(mob) [reference : How to find or validate Change Block Tracking results returned by VMware...
View Articlevshield problem
my vms sometimes cannot get any network access. vshield is installed on every host on the cluster. anyone experiencing this. Also sometimes I have to go into the vm to remove the dvfilter lines from...
View ArticlevCD query service and metadata filters
I am stealing this question from an older post since they did such a succinct job in stating their question. Basically I cannot figure out how to format the filter expression for querying the metadata...
View ArticleUSB 3.0 support ?
I've been trying to mount a USB3.0 drive in a VM on my MBP(Mid 2012, OSX 10.8.3) but I keep getting the following error before it even gets to the VM:The device 'XXX' was unable to connect to its...
View ArticleMultiple cache creations in Gemfire
Hi, I'm trying to create a local-cache and a client-cache inside one JVM, however i get the error stated below which i think is occurring due to cache being singleton and you can only create one per...
View ArticleCannot connect to VM after migration from vmware server 1.6
Hello every one, we were running a Citrix Access Gateway 4.5 on vmware Server 1.6My Job is to set up an esxi 5.1 on a new hardware and migrate the vm to that server. Migrating the old vm to the new...
View ArticleManagedObjectNotFound while registerAgentVm....
Hi, While trying to manually provisioning an Agent VM using registerAgentVM api as below is raising exception: ManagedObjectReference vmMor = new ManagedObjectReference();...
View ArticleWhat is Best practice for expanding Hard disk for VM?
My client asked D drive expansion for 100 GB for VM is 2008. I have a few questions on that 1. Can I use same hard disk for disk expansion (Using same HDD and same Datastore1)? Ex: now D drive has...
View Articlevmotion issue
Hi I have a vcenter, both esxi server i have added them by host to vcenter, & then i have two esxi5.1 Server, they are esxi A & esxi B, they have their own storage, its not sharing the...
View ArticleHOWTO: The nightmare of installing vCLI on CentOS 5 x86_64
I wasted a bunch of time today figuring my way around numerous issues so I figured I'd post about it in hopes Google picks it up and others find the thread so they don't waste as much time. I have a...
View ArticlevSphere client over ssh tunnel on a guest OS ?
Hey there, I'm not quiet sure if this is the right place to ask this question but since it is kinda network related I post it here enayway. imagine following situation a ESXi 5.1 Host hosting a openBSD...
View ArticleList ssh settings with PowerCLI
I am attempting to get the following informatoin with PowerCLI:-Whether ssh is enabled (I've got this part)-Whether it is set to start and stop with host I need to get both sets of info also for NTP...
View ArticleHow to List networking information for an ESXi host using virtual distributed...
I would like to list the following informatoin for an individual ESXi host using virtual distributed switches with power cli. Here is what I'm wanting to see: 1. Name of distrubted virtual switch...
View ArticleVMware to Vista - screen lock
I purchased a 21.5 inch iMac and wanted my windows programs on it so I purchased VMware Fusion 5.I downloaded the Fusion 5 and migrated all of my information into the iMac. When I try to get the...
View ArticleESXi / iSCSI / Etherchannel
I am doing this as part learning exercise - part mother is the necessity of invention. I am using a dell 1950 pizza box as a temporary iSCSI SAN. Linking to it over just 1 1GB connection leaves a lot...
View ArticleWill VIX API continue to be supported in vSphere 5.5 ?
Hi, Will the current VIX API's continue to be supported for the upcoming vSphere version - 5.5?I know that, now similar functionality are exposed by Web Services APIs. Still wanted to check whether the...
View ArticleVMDK & VMX files have vanished -> VM is somehow still running?
Hi Everyone Bit of a weird one, I have a VM which has lost it's VMDKs, including the folder that everything was residing in. It's 100% gone. SSH cannot see the folder either(with LS).The odd part is...
View ArticleHorizon 1.5 change FQDN
When going through the initial setup wizard and entering the FQDN I am getting "Invalid IDP host/port". When I click on detail message says "Error when updating Connector with Federation IDP URL". I...
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