No heart beat issue with ESXi 5.1
I have fresh installation of ESXi 5.1 which is crashing quite often. Almost everyday I can see purple screen with no heart beat. I am using custom made server which was working fine on 4.1 and since...
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vMotioning Thin disks from Oracle NAS (NFS) to NetApp NAS (NFS) results in...
Hey everyone, I've got an issue that I can't quite get an answer to...from VMware or NetApp...at least as of yet anyways. I've got an Oracle 7420 which has caused us some heartache with VMware living...
View ArticlevCenter Server Appliance - network settings
Hi, i have a vCenter Server Appliance 5.1.0.5300 Build 947940. After upgrading vom 5.0.x i have the following problem: Networking - Address: My appliance has got a hostname, IPv4 default gateway, two...
View ArticleIssues with snapshots during storage vmotion / storage drs
Hello all, we ran into an issue with our backup software (EMC Avamar) recently. A backup was performed (or at least it was tried) while storage drs was migrating the vm that was backed up between...
View ArticleReceiving error trying to upload Auto Deploy images
Hi Guys, First post here, hoping someone can provide some insight. I've downloaded an ESXi Image using PowerCLI and the Online Repository for my AutoDeploy setup. I'm receiving an error when attempting...
View ArticleHow to add extra vmdisk if more than 1 SCSI controller and more than 6 disks...
Hi,I would like to script the (extra) disk addition to VMs. The only available parameters are VM name, Size of disk in GB, and DatastoreName where to create it.The challenge (i guess need to do this in...
View ArticlevCenter Appliance 5.1 Active Directory not functioning
This is brand new VCA not an upgrade. I've not added any VM's to it yet. I cannot log in to the VC with my Windows credentials from the vSphere client. I get an error "A general system error occurred:...
View Articlesnapshot script help
Most of the below script for listing snapshots was passed to me ( i made some small modifications) and it works great except that it will not list the original creator of the snapshot but rather the...
View ArticlevExpert: Jason Shiplett
This document is a detail page for the VMware vExpert Directory.Expert InformationNameJason ShiplettLocationWoodbridge, VAUnited StatesShort DescriptionSenior virtualization engineer, VCAP4-DCD, VCP...
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Problem installing vCenter Server Update 2
I'm trying to install vCenter Server Update 2 on my existing vCenter server (Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise 64-bit). When I start the installation, it progresses until it gets to "Installing Charting...
View ArticleVMware Guest OS shutdown despite adequate space
We had a Guest OS shutdown and refuse to start saying the datastore was out of space, yet the datastore had 60 GB of available space. Has anyone seen this before? If so, what did you do to sort it out?
View Articlew2k8 r2 poor performance on vm
We're had great luck using w2k8 on our VMs except for one server. This one app which also makes use of a database runs horrible in a virtual environment on w2k8, but just great on an old physical 2950...
View ArticleHorizon Kerberos not working
I have followed the directions an the Horizon website still won't auto login with IE, neither will the Horizon workspace client. where would I look in the logs to start troubleshooting this. the...
View ArticleVMware Optimization Guide Windows 2008 R2
I have an optimization guide for Windows7 created (or published) by VMware called VMware-View-OptimizationGuideWindows7-EN.pdf. I can not find a similar document for 2008 R2. Does anyone known if...
View ArticleFlash 10 to Flash 11
Hello, We have a number of machines in our environment that are running Flash Player 10. Protect detects version 10 and offers to upgrade it to the current version of Flash 10. Is there anyway to...
View ArticleCan't create hadoop cluster from Data director for Hadoop GUI
Hi All when i try to create hadoop cluster from GUI, it showing loading page, just like the screenshot. when i create hadoop cluster from CLI, it can show in the GUI page. i tried IE/Firefox/Chrome,...
View ArticlePLEASE HELP : Migrating VMs from old ESX4.1 hosts to new ESXi 5.1 hosts
hello, we are trying to migrate VMs from old blade server(Intel e5504) running esx 4.1 to new blade servers(intel x5675) running 5.1.we upgraded vCenter to 5.1 to support new hosts. please help me go...
View ArticleInstalling vCenter Server 5.1 on Windows Server 2012
Hiya, ---First of all, I would like to use this topic for experiences running vCenter 5.1 on Windows Server 2012. Hopefully I will manage to get this all running and others will find answers in this...
View ArticleSSO Domain ID do not match when joining linked mode
Hi SSO sure is a pain in the @$S. I have created two fresh instances of vCenter. All services have been installed individually (thus no simple install).Both instances are configured for multisiteBefore...
View ArticleVCenter Server 5.1 show migrated VM on old and new Storage
Hello, we update 2 vsphere 5.0 Hosts to 5.1 and the vcenter too. Now we connect new Storage to the vsphere Hosts and migrate some of the VMs on the new Store.(all of them have latest VMtools...
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