Cold Migrate vCenter to new Hosts
Here's what I have going on: I have to migrate all VM's from our old hardware environment to new one. We are basically replacing all hosts and the underlying storage. I was going to add the new hosts...
View ArticleVmware Tools Installation Fails
Host Windows 8Guest Debian Sid VMware Tools fails (as it does in VMWare 9) with following error message: Creating a new initrd boot image for the kernel.update-initramfs: Generating...
View ArticleWith virtualHW.version = "10" I would expect larger vmdks
I thought one of the new features of virtualHW.version = "10" would be the removed 2TB size limitation for vmdks.Will this be added in the release version ? I noticed that using vmdks larger than 2 GB...
View ArticleCluster performance data source timeout
Hi, I'm using vCenter server 5.1b and facing with data source timeout on cluster performance.Anyone has idea about that? BR
View ArticleStrange problems on ESXi 5.0.0 (build 469512)
Hello, I just installed ESXi on a server and there are many strange problems. At first install I got boot image is corrupted error. So, I re-installed the system and now; * I can't access to...
View ArticlePERC H310 Controller vSphere Support
Hello, I am running ESXi 5 Free and have 2 VMs running on this host. We have a PERC H310 Controller with two RAID 0 arrays, a 500GB mirror and a 2TB mirror. The 2TB mirror is degraded and I need to...
View ArticlePackets dropped on virtual machine
Hi friends, I'm facing with packets dropping on some our virtual machines.I had problem with our up-link but I'm sure that there is no problem now.Anyone has idea about that? BR
View ArticleSize of windows pagefile on win 2008 r2 servers running on ESX 5.0
Hey Admins,I have a lot of virtual servers that are configured with 16gb ram.By default windows will create a 16gb pagefile (auto manage page file size)What would you guys say is a good pagefile size...
View ArticleRed alert on cluster
Hi, I have an cluster with 3 hosts and there is no problem and no triggered alarms but it has red alert.Please help me to clear that. BR
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Adding multiple RDMs to a VM
Hello community...we're doing a really fun virtual SQL cluster project, running on ESXi 5.0. Without getting too much into the design detail, I'm looking to try to script adding a whole slew (45ish) of...
View ArticleHow to un-flatten a -flat
For some unknown reason, the LSI RAID controller in my server won't let me mirror an existing drive without blowing it up. Very annoying. So I'm stuck trying to back up my vmware situation and...
View ArticleVMware Workstation 9 - Windows 95 - Internet Explorer
Can someone please help me get the internet to work on my guest Windows 95 OS in VMware Workstation 9?I have it set up to be hardware compatible with vmware 5.The sound works - I found the driver for...
View ArticleSecuring a connection server questions
We originally installed View (pre-4.6) when Security Servers didn't exist. We've now setup and paired security servers with our connection servers so I'd like to lock down the connection servers from...
View ArticleESXi Compliance - Custom Template - Rules vs Template
I've asked a similar question in the past, but concerning creating a custom compliance template for our company... It was recommended that upon running a compliance check with the default ESXi...
View ArticleSnapshot report on how often
I was wondering if there was a way to query vcenter with a powershell script to get a report on how often snapshots are taken and how often snapshots are reverted. Thanks
View ArticlevCloud API - How to get only public catalogs or only organisation catalogs?
Hello, I want to get the public or the private catalogs from an organisation.There is a method (getCatalogRefs() from class com.vmware.vcloud.sdk.Organisation) that gives all the catalogs. Is there a...
View ArticleSSL Automation Tool Error
I'm trying to update my certificates to certs that are signed by our CA. When I go to update the SSO certificates, it asks for my master password. When I enter it in, it gives me an error that the...
View ArticleSuddenly getting email notifications for discussions I've never visited!
I suspect this is a Forum software bug, but I'm suddenly getting email notifications for activity on random forum discussion threads I've never visited. When I go to the discussions, in the Actions...
View ArticlevCloud Director 5.1 prepare hosts with busy load
Hi, we have 3 hosts in a vSphere 4 cluster with vCenter 5.1. I am planing to install the vCloud agent on all three hosts. My problem is there are currently tons of VMs running on those 3 hosts. If I...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 u1a build numbers don't match
I downloaded the latest vCenter Server - filename: "VMware-VIMSetup-all-5.1.0-1123966.iso", which according to the docs on VMware's download site should be build number 1123966. However after doing...
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