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ESXi 5.x on new Apple Mac Mini 6,2 Late 2012 *NOT* working
Hello! I bought one of the new MacMinis, which were presented yesteraday, plugged two 8GiB DD3-1600 modules in (OsX reported 16GiB of memory, as the models before) and tried to install ESXi 5.1 Build...
View Articlepowershell variables setting
Hi, What would be the easist way to acheive this: I have an IP, 123.45.56.79 $myip = "123.45.56.79" I need to capture the subnet: 56 and place it in this string network-056 (notice the 0 ) $mynetwork...
View ArticleGoing from Essentials to Essentials Plus
We have a very basic installation and a limited budget and are using Essentials and will go to Essentials Plus. A couple of newbie questions: 1. If I buy a new Essentials Plus kit/license rather than...
View ArticleNetwork/CNA Adapters Compared? Emulex vs. Intel vs. ???
Network/CNA Adapters Compared? Emulex vs. Intel vs. ??? Trying to find anyone that has done any independent testing or real experience with NICs on vSphere 5, of specific interest is latest Emulex...
View ArticleVDP and SRM - Do they Conflict?
Dear All, I'm trialling VDP in my Dev environment and it seems to be a really good alternative to our existing system (a very elderly copy of vRanger). We also use SRM in our Production environment...
View ArticlevCenter HA capacity (Admission Control)
Hi Guys and Girls, I would like to ask a question about vCenter HA Capacity for admission control. I have 29 machines that are all powered on on one of the cluster. Servers in that cluster are due to...
View ArticleError Integrating Gemfire 7.0.1 with Hibernate 4.x as L2 cache
Hi, I am trying to set up Hibernate 4.3.0 with Gemfire 7.0.1 1-<prop key="hibernate.cache.region.factory_class">com.gemstone.gemfire.modules.hibernate.GemFireRegionFactory</prop> 2 - jars...
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Storage profile is not showing up during vApp creation
Hi, I'm just upraded one of my environments from 1.5 to 5.1.1. I've enabled storage profiles, they work as they have to almost everywhere,however, when I try to deploy a vApp from public catalog that...
View ArticleCommitting snapshots when there are no snapshot entries in the Snapshot Manager
Committing snapshots when there are no snapshot entries in the Snapshot ManagerAbove problem on my esxi 4.1.0 host. Committing snapshots from the ESX/ESXi command line failed.Cloning failed: Failed to...
View ArticleImport ova from esxi shell to localhost
Has anyone been successful at getting the ovftool to import an ova from the esxi 5.1 shell to the local host? Background: I have a kickstart DVD install that installs esxi 5.1 then copies files to the...
View Articlevxlan preparation basics
trying to get 2 basic questions answered. Setting up up a vxlan i have one vdsSwitch with port group connected to vlan 151 and another cluster has vdswtich with port group connected to vlan 102 when...
View Articlevifptarget command not found
I just downloaded and setup the vMA vapp this week and while trying to get things setup I have added server using the vifp addserver command. I can list the 6 hosts that I have setup but I cannot use...
View ArticleDetermining Memory shares for a sibling VM when Resource Pools are used
If I have a resource pool with 1000 shares and 10 VMs, and one other VM with 4GB of RAM which is not in a resource pool in the same compute cluster, how do the number of memory shares get calculated...
View Articleit seems like I have to reinstall vmware tools every time I update my OS
5.02 1031769 Win 7 host OS, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS guest OS The guest OS was telling me that it was due for an update and restart, so I restarted it. Now I can't see any of my mounted hgfs folders. So I...
View ArticleHP Flex 10 - Received Dropped Packets
VMware Community, We are having a strange issue, which so far VMware/HP support has not been able to solve. We have an environment where we are using 2 x 10GBps and 2 x 9Gbps adapters on a single DVS....
View Articlevsphere 5 - floppy images (read only?)
I am trying to shuttle some config files around via floppy drives as we don't have copy/paste enabled on our vpshere client. I used the vsphere client to create a floppy image on the local datastore. i...
View ArticleSRM 5: what is more efficent between vSphere Replication and Veeam?
We are evaluating a Cloud service that uses SRM to provide disaster recovery. Since we are just starting to think about it and sice we have Veeam Backup and Replicator already, we will find ourself...
View ArticleHow to run DiskWarrior to repair the directory of a virtual machine?
Is it possible to run DiskWarrior... http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11707/diskwarrior...to repair the directory of a VMware Fusion Virtual Machine of Mac OS X Server 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard Server) in...
View ArticleCommitting snapshots when there are no snapshot entries in the Snapshot Manager
Committing snapshots when there are no snapshot entries in the Snapshot ManagerAbove problem on my esxi 4.1.0 host. Committing snapshots from the ESX/ESXi command line failed.Cloning failed: Failed to...
View ArticleHow to check Linux VM is synchroize time with ESX Host or NTP Server
Dear team, we have our internal ntp server which we have configured on every esx host , we have installed vmware tools on all guest vm , how to check whether linux vm are synchrizing with esx host or...
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