VM Performace is Slow
When i connect to a Esxi Host using Vsphere client and try to install Windows 2008 on a VM. The VM responds very slow. I am not sure why this is happeninng.The ESXi host is at different location atlest...
View ArticleManually controlling workflows
I am looking for commandlines to force startup of workflows which are scheduled for later time and also to kill currently executing workflows. Need this for development, testing and troubleshooting...
View ArticleVM Player & Windows 8
I have used VM Player for a couple of years under W7 to host XP to run Simian, an automated audio program, recently upgraded to W8 and it runs with garbled and "slow" audio. I have checked all the...
View ArticleSNMP.XML
I didn't set this up and I'm not 100% sure if the setting setup is correctly formatted. I have a fleet of ESXI servers and I was hoping someone could look at this snmp display when I do a...
View ArticleWSX 1.02 won't display console for VMs on licensed ESXi 5.1 free
Testing with: ESX 5.1-799733 on machine named ESXI1, with license installed ESX 5.1-799733 on machine named ESXi2, with license installed VMware-WSX-1.0.2-928297.i386.bundle on Ubuntu...
View ArticleStale Info in Hardware Tab
I’ve been working at this IT department for over 10 years now and this year our company decided it would be rebuilding our remote offices server infrastructure on HP DL380 G7 servers running ESXI 5.x....
View ArticleVM Workstation 8.0.5 cannot add bridged network: There are no un-bridged host...
I have an Ubuntu 12.0.4 host 64 bit with 4 1 Gbps ethernet cards, all functioning and routing properly from the host to other hosts. However VMWare workstation's 8.0.5 network editor recognizes only...
View ArticleTry and run two tasks on Converter5-Errors out.
I have no issue using converter 5 until I kick off a second task/job. It fails at about 10% with aFAILED: An error occurred during the conversion:'The operation experienced a network error' However,...
View ArticlevSphere 5.1 group vms by folders
Hi I have been used to using Workstation and grouping VMs into folders such as LAB1 or Production. Is there anyway to do this on vSphere ESXi 5.1 (free version)? I would have thought that just...
View ArticleNeed Disk Space Alarms on Guest Logical Drives -- How?
Familiar with monitoring but new to vCOPS and can't figure this out. Here's the breakdown. Using vCOPS Advanced I can drill down and see vCOPS show me that logical drive E: on a VM has been at 98%...
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When creating a linked cloned, prompt for which cluster and cluster datastore
Hi, I have been working on this script to create a linked clone with a certain customization. All good there but something basic as getting a popupbox asking me to to deploy to which cluster? and which...
View ArticleMock Exam and other test question
Hi, i'm preparing my VCP-DC certification, I've read some VCP preparation books (The official VCP5 Certification Guide and the VMware docs) and i took the Mock exam a couple of times, i'm getting more...
View ArticleMultiple monitors stopped working in Workstation 9 with Windows 8 host
I am running Workstation 9 on Windows 7 host with 2 physical monitors.I have two VMs: 1. Running Windows 72. Running Windows 8 Both VMs have the latest version of VMWare Tools installed. Until recently...
View ArticleНет доступа через Management Network
День добрый!Не могу подключиться к бесплатному ESXi 4.1 через VMware vSphere Client, хотя виртуальные машины работают. Ping Management интерфейса не проходит. Restart Management Network не помог....
View ArticleNFS datastore on a Guest VM
Hello, i have VM on local SATA datastore. On a Windows 2008 R2 VM i've installed file services and configured NFS so i exported one VM drive to a ESXi host over NFS. The problem is when i start cloning...
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SNMP configuration with powerCLI
Hi people, I'm looking for a script to enable and update snmp configuration on close to 400 esxi 5.0/5.1 hosts.. I know we can use Set-VMHostsnmp cmdlet for this purpose but getting stuck with where...
View ArticleSysprep won't start
Hi! I'm using ESXi 5.1 build 799733 and vCenter Server 5.1 build 947673 My problem is, when cloning or building a VM from a template, and using the customization tools, sysprep never start once I start...
View ArticleEsx 5.1 64 vcpu?
I know 5.1 will support 64vcpu. I am guessing this is only based on core count, not HT. For instance I have a 4 socket 8 core box with HT which gives 64LCPU. However my vm only seems to be able to...
View ArticleNeed VM's VLAN inventory for each network adapter
Hi, I'm looking for VM's VLAN inventory for each network adapter, the script will list out the following details in CSV file output. VMname | Cluster Name | NIC Name-1 | VLAN Name | NIC Name-2...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 delay when opening vm console
Last week we updated our vCenter Server from 5.0 to 5.1. And since that moment we experience some delay while opening vm console windows.We used to have a black screen for about 1 or maybe 2 seconds...
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