ESX to access The vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS)
Hello! I understand that VDS essentially a virtual network layer that provider inner communication between the VMs, however I was curious whether ESX has access to that info?Specifically, if I have a...
View ArticleMirage 4.2 Help Desk Admin Portal Authentication
I upgraded my Mirage 4.0 cluster to Mirage 4.2 today and installed the new Web Management package on both Mirage servers. I can access the File Portal and the Admin File Portal just fine. However, no...
View ArticleVMFS VolInfo: invalid magic number 0x00000000
I am referring your article on sanburrow.com on how to recover VMFS3 with LINUX Live CD. I have tried everything but this error is kind of dead block for me. VMFS VolInfo: invalid magic number...
View Articlevsphere 5.0 tuning and maintenance
Hi. I am new to the site and really, a bit newish to vsphere 5. Our original implementation was done well from what I knew at the time and recently I have taken over the administration of our vm...
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 ArticleGuest mouse pointer only moves on click when in unity mode
I have an Ubuntu 13.04 host running Windows 7 Professional in VMWare Player 5.0.2, and I'm having a problem with Unity mode. After switching to Unity mode, the guest's mouse pointer only moves when I...
View ArticleExternal Access View and Workspace
Have a question on external access with Horizon View and Horizon Workspace, thought i would ask it here as there seems to be more activity. We would like users to be able to access Horizon View...
View ArticleAdding OWA as a web application to Horizon Workspace
We have setup horizon workspace and have most of it configured.The one thing we would like to do is add Outlook Web Access as a web application but finding it difficult to find information on what we...
View ArticleFusion on Mac OS Mavericks 10.9
I'm testing Mac OS 10.9 Mavericks.I put fusion on it and it's working pretty good at the moment. the only thing that's not working is : " Use all display as full screen" I've 2 screens connected to my...
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Error: Missing LVM Magic
What is the suggested procedure if:- a VMFS volume no longer automounts - trying to add storage wants to reformat the volume- the volume has the correct partition ID- it is NOT detected as snapshot...
View ArticleWhat software to take images regularly
Hi People, I am looking at datto product Siris Lite which essentially takes backups of your servers on a regular basis and puts it into a cloud.Its £599 up front plus £49 per month for 250gb but...
View Articlestart menu and task bar missing when RDP into win vm in unity mode
This is not specific to the preview version of fusion but maybe it can be addressed by the release... I use unity mode 99% of the time on my main work system with a win7 vm. Sometimes I need to RDP...
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Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller Cards
Hi All, Does anyone have experience and best practice recommendations for configuring a PERC H700 controller in an ESXi...
View ArticleWhat tools to run for benchmark?
Hi People, Relatively new to ESXI other than playing around but I am looking to benchmark an existing Win2008 Server running Exchange in order to tell me what sort of server I would need to migrate it...
View ArticleESXi 4.1 -> 5 / VMFS 3 -> 5 migration and live Storage vMotion
Hi Community! I'm looking at migrating VMs from 4.1 to 5 and then storage vmotioning them from old VMFS 3 to VMFS 5 datastores. If the old VMFS 3 datastores are presented to the new ESXi 5 hosts (4.1...
View ArticleHow do I transfer VM to another ESXi server?
Hi, We just bought a child company and they are running 2 VMs on an ESXi server. We bought a new physical server and installed ESXi (latest version) and would like to transfer the 2 VMs to the new ESXi...
View Articleupgarde hardware ver4 to 7
Dear Team, If i upgrade my hardware version 4 to 7 is there any impact, will i able to boot VM, will there any impact on a VM. is there any possiblity to revert if required 7 to 4. regardsMr VMware
View ArticleLoading ESXi onto a blade
Hi Guys, I apologize for a very simple question, but could someone help to understand how to configure ESXi on a bare metal host for my school project. I have ESXi ISO on a disk but the blade does not...
View ArticleESXi5.1 and Large Amount of Local Storage
Hi, I have a ESXi 5.1 host with a VM acting as a file server. The host has over 4TB of local storage which is not in use. Is it possible to present this 4TB as a single volume to the file server VM?...
View ArticleCan/Should you store old snapshots in a different location or at all?
My question is whether I can or should store old snapshots? And if so do I have to keep them with the latest snapshot or can they be stored in a different location?
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