No longer able to send email notifications for alarms after upgrading vCenter...
After performing the upgrade from 5.0 appliance to 5.1 I am no longer recieving email notifications for alarms. I checked SMTP settings and alarms and they are unchanged setup same as they were on the...
View ArticlevCloud Connector 2.0!
The Cloud team at VMware and I are proud to announce that VMware vCloud Connector 2.0 has been released to the public! You can read our announcements here and here! You can learn all about vCC 2.0 here...
View ArticleHost Connection and Power State - cannot send email error
Just realized that after the upgrade to 5.1 from 5.0 the vCenter server is unable to send any email alerts for the ones we have pre-defined.The current setup I have is broken down to individual vm's. -...
View ArticleESXi installed USB Flash Drive Space?
Hi All,I installed ESXi on 4 GB flash drive. when i connect that flash drive into my windows 7 PC, i can see the space only 3.81MB Free of 3.93MB in MyComputer. Please find the attachements. why total...
View ArticleVM Nic Sleeping
VMWare 5VM - Windows 2008 R2 64bitNetwork Adapter - VMXNET 3 We just set up a new server a few weeks ago. For some reasone the NIC seems to be going to sleep, we can't ping, attach to the server, or...
View ArticleRestoring replicated VM to different network
The situation is this: We have a class C network that is subnetted into two halves. Our internal network is on .1 - .128 and we use the other half (.129 - .256) for clients. The client half is...
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ESXi 4.1 wont install on SD card
Hi I have a weird and wonderful problem im hoping someone can help me with. I have 2 BL465 G7s which im putting EXSi 4.1 on via the Micro SD slot. Server 1 went on no problem and works fine. Server 2...
View ArticleVDI Conversion
Hey everyone, I am having an issue with a VDI Conversion that I have completed (VirtualBox to VMWare). I performed the following on the VDI file: VBoxManage clonehd /location/ARE.vdi...
View ArticleUsing ESXtop to find smoking gun
I have an Oracle environment located in two separate data centers. In data center A all hardware (servers, network, storage) is managed by us. We get very good performance there. Data center B is...
View ArticleBut I like my mouse...
The combination of VMware View 4.6 and the iPad app were about enough to send shivers up our spines, until we learned that there wouldn't be any Bluetooth mouse support. Dashed were our deluions of...
View ArticleInfo on who is using a View VM
I need to write code to react when somebody logs onto a View VM (from a Zero client or View Client). It has got to be from the server side (on the connection server or composer for example)....
View ArticleThinApp Shortcut Help
Hey all, So we're deploying ThinApps through View to our linked clone pools and I'm being asked to place the shortcuts inside (so in this example, for Adobe Pro this is the path):...
View ArticleHow to increase the c: Drive
Hi All i have facing small issur in increasing the c: drive spaceActually the server (VM) contains 1 HDD in that C: and D: drive, now the C drive going to Full,User wants increase the C: Drive memory,...
View ArticleAgent update for the masses
I've uploaded the latest agent to our desktops to c:\data\vmware-viewagent... And I run the following psexec.exe -u domain\Administrator -p ******* @C:\PSTools\pub_pc_ip_address.txt...
View ArticleESX 3.5/4 not able to connect
Hi Guys, I am not able to connect to my ESX 3.5/4.0 from putty and also vSphere Client but able to access from vCenter Server. just want to know is there anyother option to connect to ESX 3.5/4.0 apart...
View ArticleGet host service status possible with get-view?
Is it possible to see if certain host services are running with get-view? For instance ntp and ssh. I've been poking around in the host view and haven't really seen anything that looked right other...
View ArticleMoving a persistent disk
I have a couple users that were in an old pool when we were on 4.6 and we since upgraded to 5.1. I am just starting to use persona management and was curious if there is an easy way to move their...
View ArticleDHCP Options VM View 5.1
I am setting up an environment using VMware View 5.1 and 1 Wyse P20 Zero Client terminal for testing. What DHCP options are required by either Wyse or VMware when the Zero Client is turned on?
View ArticleHQ 5 server install error on Windows 2008 R2
I'm trying a fresh HQ Server install on Windows 2008 R2 and keep getting an error. Here's the details: Setting permissions on F:\Program Files\hyperic/server-5.0.0...Setting permissions on server...
View ArticleGetting the View client's IP address
I have some code that uses the well established WTSQuerySessionInformation() API call (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa383838(VS.85).aspx), via the WTSClientAddress argument, to retrieve the...
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