Persona Management Issue
I recently started to use the Persona management in View and have an issue with a VM that Already had a persistent disk with a profile. I placed the users VM ion the container that has the persona...
View ArticleGood reason for a 5 to 5.1 upgrade
We are currently running one ESXi v5 update 1a host (vSphere Essentials) and are not experiencing any problems. My usual assessment when it comes to upgrades is "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!". Is...
View ArticleJava - issues with Flash in Firefox
Hi all, I have been trying to get a working thinapp of Java (6 update 37), Firefox (17.0.1 ESR), and Flash (11.5.502) as a single package. I did all the required customization before doing a postscan,...
View ArticleVM Periodically Disconnects from LAN Until Reboot
I run VMs on the vSphere 5.0 U1 platform. Lately, I've had repeated cases where a specific VM disconnects from the LAN and only becomes available after a reboot. Note that the OS/VM doesn't freeze, as...
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Getting vapp template id from blocking task via rest api ?
Greetings, I have a blocking task (on vapp create) dumped out below. Is there a was to find what the vapp template/catalog id is that the vapp is being created from via REST? Hoping I haven't...
View ArticleHP4300 G2 SAN and getting a 10gb nic
hey all. We are looking at getting more performance out of our san. Currently we have 4 HP DL 360's running ESX 5.1 with around 40 vm's. On the network side for the san each ESX host has 2 nic's on the...
View ArticleDirect Parallel Port access from a VM...
I understand it IS possible to fit a parallel device to an ESX host... and then configure it in /etc/modules.conf... and then give a VM direct access to this device. I know this would then create...
View ArticleRedirect parallel Port
hi, can i redirect the parallel Port from my local machine in the VDI machine? i have for a special programm a parallel dongle on the local machine
View ArticleVSM 9.1.4 - conditional branch to call stored procedure not updating data in...
We installed vsm 9.1.4 and upgraded the db from v8. While most of the v8 configurations are working, some fo teh customizations are not. We have one particular customization PSO completed for us for v8...
View ArticleWill be able to done vmware clastering
Hello dear community vmware. My name is Vadim and I would like to ask what if I want to create claster with vmware but my servers not the same type configuration (diferent processors, different hdd...
View ArticleQuery for Unformatted Luns
Looking for a way to query a vcenter for unformatted volumes. I found this script on Luc's site, but it looks like the ConfigManager.StorageSystem only looks at luns that have VMFS on them. Any...
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Error 621 - OS of target is an unsupported version of Windows
Hello everyone! I'm getting this error in my test environment after scanning servers. All servers are Windows Server 2012 Standard (6.2 Build: 9200) and I'm using VMware vCenter Protect Advanced 8.0.2...
View ArticlevCloud Director 5.1 Boot to ISO after OS is installed?
I have an Org. Admin that needs to boot some of his VMs with an OS already installed into a Live CD. Mounting the LiveCD ISO and rebooting the VM through the vCD UI will not work because the default...
View ArticleSRM Test Recovery AD/DNS vs Failover AD/DNS recovery
I read: http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-11517 and it appears for an actual SRM failover DDNS should handle the failover VMs starting up with a new IP (using SRM IP Customizer) using an AD/DNS...
View ArticlevApp Templates - Datastore location
Is there any way within vCloud Director to specify that all vApp templates are located on particular datastores? I have a single provider vDC containing 8 datastores and my organisation vDC's take...
View Articledeleting virtual machine snapshot large size , esxi 4.0.0 (208167)
Dear Experts,I am looking for assistance before doing this step, deleting snapshot of a virtual machine (NNMi-Test),100GB thick disk was assigned to this virtual machine when it was created. After the...
View Articleсхема UPS для клайстера
Товарищи.. вот тут всё думаю. Какую схему ups применить.Имеется 3 сервака (freenas+2 esxi).Правильно должны сначала выключиться esxi , потом NAS1. Можно купить один большой UPS , подвесить его к...
View ArticleDatastore name changes automagically
Hi. We have the following problem with vSphere 4.1U3 (2 x ESXi + 1 VCenter): We mount/unmount the same NFS datastore from both ESXi servers via script for making backups. From time to time we see that...
View ArticleDoes the update require a reboot?
Is there any way to determine if an update is going to require a reboot after instillation or not? We are currently waiting until after hours to run a lot of our updates but if they don't require a...
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