what is the purpose of vCloud Director exactly
hi all, i working on vmware virtualization for an year and half now, i want to plan learning vCloud, when i was watching videos, i came to know that it is like creating virtual datacenters for the vms...
View ArticleUsage meter not recording after vCentre upgrade to 5.1
We upgraded our vCenter servers to 5.1 and since then the usage meter (v3.0.2) has been unable to login. Message is: "A collection from x.x.x.x, begun at 2013-05-06 12:05:01, failed at 2013-05-06...
View ArticleNested ESXi 5.1
Hi All, I build a server with ESXi 5.1. On this server, I deploy 100 Nested ESXi VMs from template. How can I use a script to assign ip address for 100 ESXi VMs? Thanks so much.
View ArticlevCenter Operations Foundation Edition
Hi all, Just had a couple of questions around vcenter ops foundation edition. I understand this is free, with a vsphere license. Is it only available with a vsphere 5 license or can it be downloaded...
View ArticleVADP Recovery Issues for SRM Protected VM
We get the following error when trying to recover a VADP image level backup for a virtual machine which has been protected using SRM: Invalid or unsupported virtual machine configuration.vSphere...
View ArticleEasier way to rejoin domain on password expiry?
Hi All, Our organizations' passwords expire after a few months, and when they do it's bad news for me since I'd then have to rejoin the domains on my VM's using my new domain password. Is there an...
View ArticleZimbra SSO using SAML?
Hi, I've tried to get this app in Workspace to work against my Zimbra server (Network Edition), but find too little specific information on what needs to be done on the Zimbra side specific to this...
View ArticleReset View Adapter pairing password
I'm working on doing my vCOPS for View upgrade and I'm up to the point where I need to enter my pairing password with vCOPS except I do not remember it. Does anyone know how I can reset this password...
View ArticleHELP, please
Best Regards, please need VMware Fusion for Mac 10.5 I tried to get it and I could not, thank you very much. I want to have window and mac at the same time, because the MAC will not let me see many...
View ArticleDell OMSA VIB not in Dell customized instrallation ISO
Currently after building an ESXi host with a Dell customized ISO, you still have to manually install the OMSA VIB. Is there a reason for Dell not including it in the ISO and if not anyone know if this...
View ArticleThin provisionig question
Hello,i tried to scp a vmk virtual disk outside esx, but there is somethink I don't undestand.I have my vmdk thin provisioned: # du mydisk.vmdk43.8G mydisk.vmdk# ls -lh mydisk.vmdk-rw------- 1 root...
View ArticleUpgrade issues from 3.02 to 3.10
Hi There, i'm trying to update my vCloud Usage Meter, but i run in to some issues, The ./update-dbms past goes well but when i run ./302-310.sh i get messages that some directories don't exsist,...
View ArticleERROR: Failed to execute processSetup for the Setup : Failed to execute...
I got following error while running tests on Workbench 2.1 with 5.0 SAS Certificaiton: 2.0.0-810278. The tests are running OK on Workbench 2.1 with 5.0 SAS Certificaiton: 2.0.0-470301. Any idea why it...
View ArticlevDS or vSS?
Hi Champs, I am planning to migrate vSS to vDS so I can use some advance features and also planning to use vCloud Suite. I have vSphere5.1 ent plus.I need your help to understand best practices, any...
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I kicked my vCenter server out of network
Hello Everybody, I have a vcenter 5.1 server running as a VM (win2k8R2). We have all the VMs on distributed switch. I had to upgrade the vnic on vcenter server vm from E1000 to VMXNET3. I made a...
View ArticleWireless bridging duplicates MAC addresses
Hello, VMware gurus. =)I have very strange situation.Some points:Notebook Asus K93Sv has Windows 8 + VMware Workstation 9 installed. There're some VMs inside it. Network is shared through wireless...
View ArticleDelivering Uptime - Analysis of IT at the Retail Store
Retail is one of a handful of verticals whose revenue, brand, culture and customer experience is directly driven by their distributed sites/stores. Enterprise retail organizations with 1000’s of sites...
View ArticleDelivering Uptime - Analysis of IT at the Retail Store
Retail is one of a handful of verticals whose revenue, brand, culture and customer experience is directly driven by their distributed sites/stores. Enterprise retail organizations with 1000’s of sites...
View ArticleAccessing VM Properties when Instantiating from VApp Template via AMQP
Hello, I am trying to determine whether VM's from an Instantiated VApp Template are using a certain Storage Profile. I am having great difficulty accessing this data without letting the task...
View ArticleFusion 5+OS X 10.8.1 host doesn, but upgrade OS X 10.7.4 guest to 10.8.1 fails
I recently upgraded my host from 10.7.4 to 10.8.1, and Fusion from 4.1.3 to 5.0.1. I have two Mac OS X 10.7.4 guests I'd like to upgrade too, but the upgrade fails at the first reboot. I attach the...
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