How do you properly configure persistent disk permissions?
I ran into an issue today with one of our newly created Dev Pool VMs. Essentially, the persistent disk isn't available to the developer. When an Admin logs onto the machine, they can access the drive...
View ArticleFirst New-VM : An item with the same key has already been added.
I'm getting a strange error that I've seen a few other posts about, but with no resolution (or at least one that I can find). When attempting to create a new VM using the New-VM cmdlet, I receive the...
View ArticleSMTP username and password on Vcenter
Want to configure SMTP and using a hosted exchange which requires SSL and port 587 to be used. Updated the port on the Vcenter advanced setting and want to know what will be the key parameter to add...
View Articlevm shutdown during suspend operation
Running the July preview. Is there a way to securely upload a log file?
View Articleattachment lun physical machine in virtual machine
Hi, I'm planning to migrate a machine physically with red hat and she has a lun that foreign direct wanted appends the vm. The question is, will lose data?
View ArticleNoisy neighbor with RDMs
We've got SQL server VM which puts a huge load on storage: 1,5k average commands per second, with 3,5k spikes (as reported by vCenter). It negatively impacts all datastores latency as a result. We are...
View ArticleProject and Visio 2013 ThinApp
I've ThinApp'd (separately) Microsoft Project 2013 and Visio 2013 with a Windows 7 32bit clean image with ThinApp 4.7.3. I used MAK licenses for now, just because I didn't want to deal with the KMS...
View ArticleCalling Oracle Aces, Oracle Certified Master....
One of the best kept Secrets at VMware os the Vmware Guru Program...VMware Guru Program OverviewIn this Program, VMware will provide evaluation licenses on selected VMware fully functional products at...
View ArticleHow force a vm to use a static ip
HIi'm using esxi 5.1 and vsphere client 5.1i wana foce every vm use one static ip and can't change or add another one....because every vm can find out another ip in their ip range easily and add it....
View ArticleWorkspace and View Client
Is there a way to tell Workspace when integrated with View to use the full View client versus the HTML5 browser when a user has the View client installed locally? I think I can turn of HTML access on...
View ArticleFailed SSH Check
Greeting, Got error ` Failed SSH Check`` I did the steps which followed vmmark 2.5 manual page 108 for esxi 5.xPlease help me take a look what is wrong, online waiting... result file attached Thanksnewbie
View ArticleWindows LSI_SAS Driver, Storport hotfix and performance
While investigating a Windows 2008 R2 VM disk performance problem, I recently came across the following article about an updated Storport driver for Windows 2008 R2 that indicates it could...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 - Can't log in vSphere client and SSO can't register vCenter server
I have created an LDAP connection to AD, and the "Test Connection" comes back successfully. I have it set for LDAPS, and imported the cert from the CA, and the connection points to the same DC which...
View ArticleCreate an alarm to turn off a VM on host performance
Hi, I would like to create an alarm that monitors the HOST cpu/memory/datastore usage and triggers an alarm if say the cpu usage hits 95% for 5 minutes. I want the host to then turn off a specific...
View ArticleTemplate and cloning options not available in vSpere client
Hello. I'm relatively new to the virtual environment, just under a year, and I'm having trouble with templates and cloning. Here's the story. ESXi 5.1.0, build 799733vSphere Client 5.1.0, build...
View Article(New|Get|Remove)-VICredentialStoreItem
Hi, I'm confused about how these are used. Can they be used to store and retrieve any kind of credential? I'm looking for a way to store creds for use in Windows cloning. THanks,-T
View Articleclipboard syncing erratically doesn't work
for as long as i can remember, clipboard syncing of the OSX clipboard to my XP vm's clipboard has been erratic. i made a Screen Recording demonstrating the clipboards being out of sync and attached...
View ArticleP2V Cluster
Good Afternoon All, I have a question in regards to clustering of a Physical server with a Virtual one using ESXi VMFS RDM. I have a 3 node Veritas cluster with 3 SQL instances running on Windows 2008...
View ArticleVirtual Machine moved or copied message after ESXi 5.1 upgrade
I upgraded a ESXi5.0 host to 5.1 and when I rebooted the VMs the all gave me a message about asking if they were moved or copied. I didn't see this on the 4.1 to 4.1U2 upgrade I did last time. Why does...
View ArticleVCP5 certification requirements
I have been reading up on getting the VCP but cannot get over the class requirements. This would be fine for a single class, but what happens when ESXi 6 comes out? Do I have to take another 3K course,...
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