powercli script to capture cpu & mem usage stats
i am new to powercli and am not a good scriptor yet however, i need a script that will capture the max, min, avg cpu & mem usage stats per esxhost & vm for the past month and import into excel...
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Hello all, I have got ESXi installed on our server. I recieved some VM folders with our test VM's listed inside from our europe office. Using the vSphere Client I uploaded the folders for the VM's to...
View ArticleCan't ping ESXi host after upgrade to ESXi 5.1
Hi, I've upgraded our host from ESXi 5 to ESXi 5.1,After upgrading, we can connect to our host by vSphere client but we can't ping that,Please help me. BR
View ArticleTesting vSphere ESXi Free Hypervisor, clon baremetal server?
Hi,I'm testing VMWare vSphere ESXi Hypervisor, the free one. I'm trying to get advise which motherboard should I buy for testing the vSphere Hypervisor? I tested in a few motherboard form Intel and...
View Articlevmware view for windows RT (metro/start screen)
as the topic title indicates when is the vmware view client for winRT going to be released? many people want this. Businesses wishing to adopt MS surface tablets are going to need this. The pricing was...
View ArticleCan't mount datastore after reboot
Hi there, im having trouble mounting a Datastore partition after rebooting my ESXi 5.0. The Volume is not mounted automaticly.A manual mount shows the following: "Error on...
View ArticlePlease vote for feature request: Add sudo to ESXi
Hi all, talking about AD integrated ESXi hosts. With ESXi 5.0 VMware has introduced an important improvement in AD integration by making the name of the infamous "ESX Admins" AD group configurable (see...
View ArticleHow do you update a single vm host with update manager
I have a single vmware esxi 4.1 host at a remote site and vcenter is a virtual machine on it, along with 2 other vm's. It is the target for SRM as well.Anyway I was trying to remediate updates in...
View ArticleThe agent running on machine has shut down.
Has anyone ran across an issue in View 5 where randomly a VM (we run Win7 32bit) will be unavailable and if the user attempts to connect they will get a "all available desktop sources are busy"? Upon...
View Articleconsolidation::Needed throwing an error
I'm currently looping through all my vm searching for which vm's need consolidation, but the line > print $vm->runtime->consolidationNeeded; is throwing this error "Undefined subroutine...
View ArticlePlease help with 'full' virtual drive
Hi. I'm using Windows 7 in a 40gb virtual drive on a MacPro (Fusion 5). The virtual drive is full, sluggish, and can't be backed up because there is no room for the necessary temporary files, I...
View Articleusing VMWare Player 5, how can I access a web server running in a VM via an...
Win7 PC running Rails in an Ubuntu VM via VMWare Player. I'm working on a site and would like to show it to a friend who's outside my network. I found this blog post, which got me very close:...
View ArticleESXi hosts generating IPv6 AAAA DNS records
While troubleshooting another issue on my Windows 2008 R2 domain controller I noticed that in my wireshark capture there are packets from my ESXi 4.1 U2 hosts for DNS queries using IPv6 (they show up...
View Articleauto deploy with image builder of mulitple host
Dear Friends,I am experiencing issue to understand how to build an esxi5.1.0 host with imagebuilder. See below are the powercli command that I have been trying to get it done. I am just knee to learn...
View ArticleVsphere and Vcenter 5 to 5.1 question
Hello, I have limited knowledge but I still use v center and sphere5 every day. I am wanting to upgrade from 5 to 5.1. This is what I am thinking. 1. do vcenter 5.1 upgrade first (Whats the best...
View ArticleVM Power on Process
Can anyone describe the steps a VM goes though the boot process including BIOS, enumerating devices, initializing devices, etc? Thanks,vProud
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Error 1075 when trying to start vmware host agent on windows-8 64 bit
I am getting Error 1075 when trying to start vmware host agent on windows-8 64 bit. after installing vmware-server 2.0.2 successfully. Please find the abve images
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 ArticleConverter v2v fails Error 1 opening disk vpxa-nfcssl
Hello, I'm attempting to shrink a VM from 2.0TB thin provision down to about 1TB thin using v2v conversion between hosts. I'm using Converter 5.0.1 and the hosts are ESXi 5. I've shut down the virtual...
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