ESX 5.0 U2 and VM renames
Aloha, With surpreme joy I discovered that ESX 5.0 U2 supposedly fixed the problem SVMotion no longer synicing display names, folder names and file names. So I upgraded my test system and did a couple...
View ArticleNo encuentro las -data migration tools-
Buenas tardes a todos: Necesito hacer una migracion del vsphere 4.0 en 32 bits a vsphere 5.0 en 64 bits, me ha bajado de vmware el dvd de instalacion, pero no encuentro la carpeta...
View Articlelinux VM freezes, but no clues in "Tasks & Events"
We have an Ubuntu VM on ESXi that occasionally freezes. VM appears to be running from an ESX perspective, but user interactions are frozen. Clearly I have to increase the debug level to the Ubuntu...
View ArticleHow to Compact the VMDKs with window guest
Dear , I have a problem in manage vmware system storage, i use ESX 5.0 host and IBM storage attact directly to it and was mounted, my VM was created with 200GB HDD (thin provisioning). Some recent...
View ArticleTry delete file " error caused by file"
Hi, I migrate a VM, but some file continue in the DataStorage origin. I try to move and deleted this files but I recive this message Error caused by File /vmfs/volumes/4f.../VM/VM-flat.vmdk the files...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 SSO and failure to successfully authenticate users
I have experienced this problem with the 5.1 upgrade including the latest 5.1.0b. In fact the latest patch makes it impossible to add users explicitly via the vSphere client whereas previously I could...
View ArticleVXLAN cluster preparation issue
Guys I have successfully deployed vCloud Director 5.1 along with the vShield Manager and have deployed a few vApps and VCDNI networks etc... All seems to be OK there. The issue I'm having is I want to...
View ArticleVsphere 5 licensing
Hi, I have 4 HP DL360G7 servers with 2CPU each (8 cores)? How many vsphere 5 licenses do i require per server?
View ArticlePerformance
We are having an issue on our VM environment but i am not sure how to understand it so i am hoping someone can help me with that. We have a VMware ESX v4.1 environment that consist of 6 phisical...
View ArticleStarting VMware Remote Console from HTML page
Hi All, Any has working code to launch VMware remote console from a HTML page. It will be really great if someone has already done.I have developed html pages based on Java/JSP. Now, I want to invoke...
View ArticleHow to convert .xml customization script to vcloud understanble format(.txt...
Hi, I have already few scripts from vSphere. I want to use these scrits in vCloud. How can i use these scripts in vCloud director 5.1? XML format scripts are not supporting in vCloud. Please help Thanks
View ArticlePowerCli to pull RDM info
I use the following script to pull matrix from all my vCenter's. We have some RDM's that I want to capture in this as well... is it doable? When I say capture... Im looking to pull the # of RDM's as...
View ArticleSolaris 11.1 - Jumbo Frames?
Has anyone successfully got jumbo frames, mtu 9000 to actually work in solaris 11.1? --------------vmxnet3 attempt:root@media5:~# dladm show-linkprop -p mtuLINK PROPERTY PERM VALUE...
View Articleconfiguration on private vm
Hi all, I am new to VMs world. I have VM Workstation 9. I have created 3 vm machinesone windows 2008 R2 Server with AD, DHCP installed.2nd one windows 2008 R2, SCCM 2007 and OSD Image on.3rd one i am...
View ArticleAccessing guest when host is on different network
I`m running a guest Ubuntu server 12 vm on a Windows 7 host pc.The host computer ip is 10.0.0.1 and the guest ubuntu is configured as 192.168.21.129 (i dont want to change these ip addresses). I`ve...
View ArticleWorkstation 9.0 resets host system
I have been running Workstation 9.0.1 for a couple of months with no issues on a Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit system. VM operating systems of Vista, and XP. Host system is Dell XPS835T, core i7...
View Articleuploading vmdk file to nfc server using url given by importvapp
hi all I'm running into an issue uploading a local vmdk file to an esx server using the url given by the importvapp call. using the code below I try to do this but I get an immediate 500 write...
View ArticleIs it possible to create a generic Windows 7 image?
Hi everyone Is it possible to create a golden image which can be “deployed” onto several machines?If so, how is it done? Kind regardsNick
View Articlevcenter appliance - AD authentication
Today I was playing around with the new vCenter5 appliance. While setting up AD authentication, I had to include 'administrator' information. I tried using my own AD credentials with quite some AD...
View ArticleVirtualizing existing Linux partition on the local machine.
I am trying out VM Workstation and I am tried to run the existing linux partition by following steps blow:Create a new VM > Advanced > Choose to install the OS later > select Debian 6 64bit...
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