Issue with increasing drive sizes
Hello all, I've got an apparently common problem but unfortunately the common solutions don't seem to apply. I have a VM that I migrated from ESXi 4 to 5.1 a year ago and have been using without a...
View ArticleVcenter update manager,Patch management for View
Hi All,I am looking for best practice of Patch management in View Environment,as my view infrastructure has 8 esxi(4.1) host & around 65+ Floating Parent & 10 + Dedicated Parents configured...
View ArticleESXi 5.0 Install Issue
Hello, I'm trying to install ESXi 5.0 on my HP DL360p Gen8 server. The problem is it can't see the local hard drives that are mirrored on the server. It only recognizes the internal SD storage. Has...
View ArticleSharing folders on Windows 8 host
I am running Windows 8 as a host and VMware Workstation 9.0.2. I have a Virtual Machine (Windows 7 x 64) that I have brought across from VMware Fusion on a Mac. (I have come back from the dark side)....
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Имеется локальная сеть с двумя хостами ESXi 5.1, и удаленная сеть (через vpn)Из локальной сети я без проблем подключаюсь клиентом к хостам, но из удаленной сети могу подключиться только к одному хосту,...
View ArticleScript to Generate IOPS Report
Hello, I've been looking around for a script but I cant seem to find what i'm looking for. I would like something that would survey all VM's across all clusters and datastores (everything) And...
View Articlevcenter failed to boot from disk 0
lately my vcenter is often having this error of failing to boot from disk 0 , I have to use the operating system windows 2008 disk and do a disk check and then become fine for sometime, but its started...
View ArticleChange to ICMP ping response behavior in ESXi 5.1
Hi, I have a problem with ping response on the ESXi 5.1 hosts, in last febrary VMware published a a following KB : VMware KB Article UnavailableBut it's not authorize nowIn this KB it was a workaround...
View ArticleCan SRM use NetApp VSC quiesced VM backups?
We're using VSC to quiesce VMs and back them up, then initiate a SnapMirror replication. SRM only sees the most recent snapshot, which is the SnapMirror's and not the VSC snapshot. So when we test, VMs...
View Articleupgrade
I'm just new on virtualization infrastruture now i want to upgrade from 4.1 to 5 or 5.1, so what i want to know which procedure i must follow, for instance do I have to reinstate/renew my licences so...
View ArticleHow much does the Mirage Suite & CVD licences costs?
Hello.I was looking for licence costs in the VMware website and i didnt understand what does 10 pack means ( VMware Online Store - Product Information ). Is that the number of CVDs you can create with...
View ArticleDisk performance issue in the VM cluster node 1 in ESXi5
cluster node 1 is having disk performance issue in the SQL DB when cluster node 1 becomes the Active node. while in cluster node 2 there is no disk performance issue when it becomes the Active node. DB...
View Articlevmware-tools as service on ubuntu guest
Hi, when I start: /etc/vmware-tools/services.sh restart I get: Stopping VMware Tools services in the virtual machine: Guest operating system daemon: done...
View ArticleNAT and Host-Only: Conflicting DNS resolution resulting in "slow internet"!
Hi all, I am running VMware Workstation 9.02 on a Win 7 64bit machine. The guest is Win 8 64bit. Both NAT and Host-Only network adapters are installed (DHCP enabled). VMware Tools are installed. The...
View ArticleAdaptec 7805 PCI Passthrough Issue w/ ESXi 5.1 and Ubuntu 12.04 + Windows...
Hello, I am pretty new to VMware/ESXi but I am taking ESXi 5.1 for a spin (free trial license) to see if it will become the hypervisor of choice for my home server. So far so good, until I wanted to...
View ArticleWindows + Space doesn't work as expect when Command + Space is used on OS X
Since Windows 8, Microsoft has added another official keyboard layout switching shortcut, Windows + Space. I am Thai who also uses Command + Space on the OS X for keyboard layout switching between US...
View ArticleResource Reservation
What is resource reservation in vmware ? Having 2 ESXi in my environment, each has 10 vm's in it.In the 10 vm's, 3 are crtical and they need 3GB rams always. How to achieve this ? Kindly give a brief...
View ArticleMSI Failed Problem - Again!
I guess there's a first time for everything so I findally ran into the MSI failed error on Windows 8. Not sure whether the installation log hs been uploaded but I'm attaching it (zipped of course!)....
View ArticleESXi Host has how many luns presented to it
Hi, I have close to 24 hosts in a cluster. On some of them all luns are presented and on some of them only few of them are presented.I have vms with RDMs and it becomes hard for me to track how many...
View ArticleHow is multi-tenancy enabled within vCloud Director?
Hey, I would like to know, how exactly the multi-tenancy is enabled in vCD. So how are ressources from user a isolated from user b ressources. I think this is about user roles and of course networking....
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