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ESX5.1 immature: Converter and VMwareTools problems
I probably made a huge mistake in upgrading an ESX5.0 host to 5.1 as I encounter several problems:- Standalone converter 5.0 crashes as soon as the ESX5.1 host is selected as target (it was running...
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God awful VDI performance!
So... we are about to torpedo our VDI deployment because it is just not performing to expectations. I am hoping someone can point out what we might have overlooked. Cluster:4 Dell R900 servers with 4...
View ArticleStorage disks not seen by converter
Hi, I'm using Vmware Converter 5 to try and P2V a Suse Linux Enterprise 10 server. But only the local physical disk is being seen by the converter. When doing the "convert machine" wizard, at the disks...
View Article3D Acceleration not working for Win7Pro(64bit) Guest on Ubuntu 12.04 (64bit)...
Hello, I successfully installaed VMWare Workstation on Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit.I tried installing Win7 Pro (64bit) and this works successfully. However during installation i got these messages hardware...
View ArticleConverter doesn't see any multipath devices from netapp
Hi. Sorry for my english. My problem is that converter doesn't see any devices from netapp: df -hFilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on/dev/sda3 129G 80G 44G 65%...
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OVF Properties for Fun and Profit (vami.hostname vami.timezone)
I read in the Developer Blog that the vami.hostname and vami.timezone properties are "built in" to Studio 2.x. On the Output tab of VMware Studio 2.5 I do see the OVF Properties section. I want to use...
View ArticleNAT does not work in Edge 5.1
Hello! I am trying to build a very simple test environment where a DMZ zone behind a port-group is isolated from the rest of the network. I have created two simple NAT rules (SNAT and DNAT), but it...
View ArticleESX Files - read only
Hi, Is there a way to read any ESX file I want through any of the API provided. As far as my research I could not find any api to get read only access to any of the ESX file I want. What I'm looking at...
View ArticleReg hands on lab Login credentials
Hi Admin, Its been quite good time I have registered, however haven't received the login credentails to access vmware lab, could you please send it,as I exited and eagerly to test/hands on....
View ArticleConverter Fails at 91%
I have a physical server with a large disk structure. 1 volume is nearly 2TB and it takes 2 days to do the conversion. I have ran it through the vCenter converter 3 times now and each time it fails at...
View ArticleHardware Compatibility Question
We're looking to upgrade from ESXi 4.1 to 5.1. I can't find any information on the servers motherboard. Does anyone know if a SuperMicro X8DTL-6F is compatible with ESXi 5.1 The server also has an...
View ArticleVMware View: Load-balancing VMs across multiple hosts with local storage
Hi there, I have an issue that involves load-balancing VMs across multiple host with local storage (Fusion-IO). We are using VMware View 5.0.1 on two sites with vSphere 5.0 (one cluster) and vSphere...
View ArticleHow to configure Generic Scoreboard widget to interact with other widgets in...
In vCops 5.6 I can see that the Generic Scoreboard can act as a receiving widget. However, I cannot figure out how to set it up to receive data and match up to the metrics selected. For example, I...
View ArticleList Cluster, Host and Datastores
Hi I'm fairly new to PowerCLI. Is there a way to list Cluster, ESX Host and datastore in that order? Also does someone point me to some documentation on how to drill down to the .net objects that can...
View ArticleUser connection to a View workstation disconnects
I've setup a pool of workstations with 3 VM Workstations running Windows 7. I've setup a test user to have access to one of the machines. When I try to connect with the View Client it either just sits...
View Articlevcloud director signed SSL Certs
I am using the vCD appliance version 1.5.1 and I am having trouble applying signed SSL certificates. I have followed this KB (http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1026309) over and over and I can not get the vCD...
View ArticleTrick question about virtual processors and ESXi 5.1
Hello everyone, I have a new client and he is driving crazy. He wants to do things with VMWare that is not possible (in my opnion). The last architecture adventure of my client is: Using VMWare ESXi...
View Articlehost disconnected, why???
hii add 2 esxi host in vcenter server but after 1 minute or less these host automatically disconnect from this server then i have to re-connect these again. why this is happening? is there any...
View ArticleVMware needs to give Derek Seaman an award
Anyone who tried upgrading to vCenter 5.1 probably got smashed by certificate issues. If you're like me you relied upon Derek Seaman's 14 part blog to get me into a working state....
View ArticleQuestion about the smartd daemon in ESXi 5.1
The default polling interval is set to 30 minutes. Any way to change this (and make it persistent across reboots)? Thanks.
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