vShield Manager "The SSL certificate of STS service cannot be verified"
Hello, For about 2 weeks I am struggling with this problem and now have become desperate enough to post it here. When I want to register vShield Manager with vSphere SSO it gives me the error "The SSL...
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Bug report for vShield Manager 5.1.1
Hello, I am currently evaluating vShield App and since I don't have SnS, I'll document the bugs I found here. 1. GUI glitch when generating a new certificate signing request When generating a new CSR...
View ArticleCould not look up host [username]. Proper password, but will not convert
Hey all. I know I am using proper syntax, but it seems like there's a missing service running on my esx cluster. I am able to log in with vSphere, but cannot use ovftool to export a stopped server in...
View ArticleESXi 5 crash
I have 4 esxi servers in my cluster. 2 of them crashed with same screen. any ideas? we do use lefthand for vmware and ntfs systems. i wonder if this article is related:...
View Articleimage profiles
Hi, I'm having a slight block about image profiles. You load a software depot in powercli and then you have image profiles that will list. These are not persistant between powercli sessions. I have...
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Mac Pro compatibility with installing ESXi 5.0
Starting a thread to discuss ESXi on Mac Pro hardware. MacPro1,1MacPro2,1The first two generation Mac Pro's boot to black screen prompting to pick cd boot type 1 or 2. However no keyboard input is...
View ArticleCan't consolidate a snapshot for one VM - ESX 3.5.
Hi , I have a VM which when snapshotted is ok however when the snapshot is consolidated the VM hard powers down and won't start back up - with an error: Reason: The parent virtual disk has been...
View ArticleNew !! Open unofficial storage performance thread
Hello everybody, the old thread seems to be sooooo looooong - therefore I decided (after a discussion with our moderator oreeh - thanks Oliver -) to start a new thread here. Oliver will make a few...
View ArticleLaptop auto shutdown when playing game by using vmware workstation. please help!
seriously need help! my laptop auto shutdown when playing game by using vmware workstation. it is totally shut down (not blue screen, auto restart) im playing a chinese RPG game "chinese paladin 5" by...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 - dell health status for storage
What's going on with the dell certified esxi servers? This year and last year I have purchased a couple of Dell R310 and Dell R510 servers and they all don’t have storage shown in health status unless...
View ArticleVMWare Server 2.0-WIndows 2012 Server
Has anyone had any sucess creating a Windows 2012 VM on VMWare Server via loading an iso image? I tryied loading the iso but keep rebooting, reporting "Your PC Ran into a problem and needs to...
View ArticleErroneous Buslogic SCSI driver warning - WinXP running in Fusion on Mac
In Fusion 4 and now in Fusion 5, every time I start up my Windows XP VM I get this warning: "Windows XP does not include drivers for the BusLogic SCSI adapter that VMware Fusion uses for virtual SCSI...
View ArticleRepository
I'm new to VMWare. What will be impacted by a reboot of the virtual machine that hosts the repository? I'm assuming none of the esxi hosts, clusters, or other VMs will be impacted negatively. By...
View ArticleVmware architecture on Blades
Hello everyone, so im going to install ESXi on a couple of blade servers both of them with 32 vCPU, 32 GB and 252 GB HDD, in addition to that i have a 4 TB SAN, the question is, what would be the best...
View ArticleRemoving Headers
Hi I have this code that is walking the datastores. I have the data put into a hash table. I want the labels but only once. It appears to put the headers in for any datastore that has the criteria i am...
View ArticleReplacing physical firewall with virtual appliance
We have a small environment that's mostly virtualized. But, we still have several physical servers that can't be virtualized. We have a physical firewall appliance between our network and the outside....
View ArticleSpecified file is not a virtual disk, RAID 5
Hello to all helpful people, I have a raid 5 setup with a separate SSD for the main disk in VMware workstation for Windows Home Server 2011. So the server is running virtually on the second part of the...
View ArticleDuel Monitor Setup
I am using Fusion 5 with a duel monitor setup. My 21.5 IMAC is the main computer monitor, and my 24 Toshiba is the secondary. I want to open my Windows 7 programs with Fusion 5 and use them on the...
View ArticleHow get vcloud director version using Powercli 5.1
Hi, After connect to vCD (using Connect-CIServer), how do I get vcloud director version (e.g. 5.1.1 or 1.5.0)? Thanks.
View ArticleExport of OVA template keeps failing, operation timing out.
I am running ESXi 5.0 (free version). I am having issues exporting an OVA template. I've done it before on this machine dozens of times without issue. I do monthly exports to back up an application...
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