enable snapshots for vm with physical ide disk
I'm trying to figure out how to reenable snapshoting for a VM that I added a physical IDE disk to. I understand that snapshots don't work with physical disks and I don't want it the physical disk...
View ArticleDisable Datastore in vCloud Director
I would like to disable a datastore, that no new VM will be provisioned to the datastore but the existing machines will still run on this store. In the VMWare Documentation I found the following for...
View ArticleVDP vs VDR
Hi everybody, i couldnt help myself starting this conversation. i was very suprised for VDR being shutdown.i knew VDR would be updated, but was not expectng so soon, since the latest 2.01 was released...
View ArticleInstalling ESXi 5.1 on Dell 1950
I am going to have one of our techs make a trip out to one of our remote data centers to install ESXi 5.1 on an older 1950. Looking at the HCL it appears both the storage and network adapters (listed...
View ArticleLiberar espacio en datastore (Eliminar disco) ESX 4.1.0
Hola a todos, Mi datastore está por llegar al tope, día a día disminuye el espacio disponible y ahora sólo le quedan 2.88 Gb disponilbes y ahí tengo 3 Servidores virtualizados. Quiero evitar que se...
View ArticleP2V Physical Microsoft Failover cluster
In Our environment,we have a Microsoft failover cluster runing SQL cluster. This cluster has shared storage from EMC. We have to P2V this cluster and we are using netapp storage in new environment....
View ArticleGemFire 7, PDX and ClassCastException
I'm running a fairly simple region. Or I thought I was...Key is a Long. Value is a custom class. Inside value class is a few member variables and a set of attributes modelled as a TreeSet (which is...
View ArticlevCenter connection problem on a copied VM
Hi all. I have this problem that, as a virtualization rookie, doesn't make sense to me.I have a VM with a vCenter installed, set up, all working. I can log in through my vSphere, manage hosts etc....
View ArticleCluster name,Total ESX in cluster,each ESX name, cpu socket & cores for each ESX
Hi,I have VM list, i need to find following details:- Cluster name- Total ESX in cluster- each ESX name in cluster,- cpu socket of each esx- and cores for each ESX can somebody plz help on getting the...
View ArticleBackup Server VM
I have a server that can be deleted, but I'd like to archive it for a while before actually getting rid of it. I'm looking for the best method for removing it from VCenter and being able to put it...
View ArticleHA current failover capacity 0 host
Hi guys, in this cluster i'm hosting veru big VM with reservation on VM level.I have 4 x host with 256 GB RAM each.HA cluster settings "cluster tolerates 1 host failure" and i have few slot with the...
View ArticlevSphere web Client slow on realtime performance graphs
I recently started using the vSphere Web Client within a vSphere Essentials environment to get used to the interface and to be able to create VMs with hw version 9. Being a happy standalone vsphere...
View ArticleBUG? Temperature Sensor data is static in vCops
I am using HP G8 servers installed with the latest HP ESXi (12/2012) build. In vCops under All Metrics -> Sensors-> Temperature -> SensorName-> Temp C, I can see the temp recording and...
View ArticleRe-indexing the vCenter DB
Hello Paul - I need the small clarification on DB size of the vCenter. We have faced an issue with vCenter, as soon as connect using VI console to vCenter, and successfully established the...
View ArticleError - Could not load multiboot modules:bad parameter
Hello.Install VMware ESXi 5.1 (CD ISO) Installable on Intel S5500WB / 2 x E5645 / 32Gb RAM / LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-4i / 4x600Gb SASserver fail with error:The system has found a problem on yourt machine...
View ArticleVMWare View Dedicated VM
Current configuration: Wyse Xenith Zero ClientsVMWare vSphereVMWare ESXi HypervisorXenDesktop Controller etc. Our current XenDesktop configuration has a Desktop Group for each of our classrooms. What...
View Articleconfiguration of vSphere on DR-Site
Hi Guys.. I am about to deploy a setup of vsphere for DR site of local company.. Scnerio: Primary Site 3 Esx hosts + 1 vCenter server and Dell Eqlogic array. there are almost 20 VMs of the Hosts all...
View ArticleWindows 8 doesn't connect with pciop
view version 5.1.2, vsphere 5.1 I have a windows 7 pool that works fine, the windows 8 pool doesn't connect over pciop, black screen for a few seconds then connection drops. RDP works fine. the...
View ArticleopenSUSE 12.2 custom kernel 3.8-rc5 compile problem
hello, i am using opensuse 12.2 with a custom kernel version 3.8-rc5 but i cant compile vmware modules. i obviously cant install kernel-headers from repository cuase i am using a custom kernel. what...
View ArticleBest Practices RAM Management: Large Memory Pages & TPS
Hola Recientemente tras una migración de servidores realizadas me he dado cuenta de que muchas de las máquinas virtuales estaban consumiendo toda la memoria asignada a ellas. Era algo que me extrañaba...
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