Copy .iso file to ESXi server datastore
I have a fresh install of ESXi 3.5U2. I need to copy a windows install cd image (.iso) to the server now in order to create a new VM and boot from it. I use winscp in ESX 3.0.2 but I understand ssh...
View ArticleCannot Install Ubuntu under ESXi
I cannot figure out how to actually install the guest OS, in this case Ubuntu 12.4. from an ISO image on a DVD, or from a USB drive. For that matter, I can't figure out how to make the USB drive even...
View ArticleDuplicate MAC address on VMs.
We have VCenters in different locations and I am aware that MAC address conflicts happens occationally if VCenter instance ID is same. Instance ID is different now however we are trying to change the...
View ArticleReconfigure
Running view 5.1.2, stuck with 5 link-cloned guests in the reconfigure loop. We don't appear to be suffering from:...
View Articleadmin password is not set automatically when launching vapp with composeVApp api
The AdminPasswordAuto is not working properly in vCloud 5.1 when launching vapp from a vapp temlate via compose api. vcloud.txt is the shell script i am using to compose a vapp from a vapp template....
View ArticleUnity Touch
I must be missing something...I cannot get the Unity Touch menu to show up on my iPad when I access my virtual desktop. It did work before. I have reinstalled the Remote Experience Agent and made sure...
View ArticleGet-VM foreach loop slow?
All, I have a list of VM names I am trying to get name and hardware, but this command runs really slow. Why? $vmlist get-content list.txt $vmlist | % { get-vm -name $_ |select Name,Version | where...
View ArticleCDS internal client error
About 9 out 10 times when I try to use the 'Check for Updates...' menu item in Fusion 4 I get a pop-up telling me "VMware Fusion was unable to check for updates. CDS internal client error (3015)....
View ArticlePlanning vCPU per core
I'm doing some planning around vCPU contention ratios, and I'm curious as to whether there is anything actually published by VMware. I've variously heard that the planning range should be 5 - 8, or 5 -...
View ArticleRemove and install vCenter
Dear users We are experiencing to many errors in our environment that it has come to a point I want to reinstall our vCenter by first removing the vCenter from our server and then do a fresh new...
View ArticleV4V - vCenter Operations for Horizon View Dashboards disappearing
Hi guys, we are having some strange issues with a V4V installation. Everything has been up and running for nearly exactly 2 days (minus 4 minutes) after the V4V adapter has been installed onto vCOps...
View ArticleProblems downloading Windows updates through update manager
Recently we've had an issue when tryong to download Windows updates through update manager, I've gone through the logs and dug out the line which is showing the error, but I don't know a lot about SQL...
View ArticleLinux Mint error "out of disk space"
I installed Linux Mint 12 on an external hard drive in it's own folder with 50.0gb of disk space. I intalled Linux Mint without any troubles. I then went to the update manager and downloaded 382...
View ArticleClusters Sharing Datastores
Hi all,Are there any performance or other impacts of sharing datastores between 2 HA clusters within the same vcenter (all vsphere5)?For example if you separated the hosts into separate clusters due to...
View ArticleHow to limit SCOM licenses in vCops?
The method to limit vCops licenses is to limit the access the vCops collector account has to vCenter objects. What is the method used to limit SCOM licenses. Would like to buy 25 licenses for SCOM...
View Articlevcloud Hosts configaration Error
Hi, After creating PVdc i found that my hosts are not in enable/Ready state..I could not find the cause of error This is how i configured my Lab1. 2 Esxi servers version 5.1,32GB RAM,INTEL i7...
View ArticleProcessor for VMWare View Client
We are replacing a virtual lab and looking at 2 different Thin Clients. The first is an HP t510 and the other is a DakTech Orion Nettop 2 thin client. As far as I can tell both seem to perfrom quite...
View ArticleHow to Identify LUN WWN's from ESX 3.5
hello allwe have environment of Vcenter 2.5 with 3 clusters each cluster having 4 hosts of ESX 3.5. LUN's are allocated to each cluster from EMC clariion and VNX storage boxes. i want know how can i...
View ArticleSpring + EclipseLink + Gemfire L2 Cache
Hi, I want to set up Gemfire as L2 Cache we are using JPA with eclipseLink.It seems that Gemfire was performed to use hibernate. Any Is there any docs related to confim or solution or plug in ? Thank...
View ArticleAppSync https server sizing
Hi, a customer is asking me if there is a best practice to size AppSynch http servers. We have a load balancer in front of two apache server with 4GB of ram and 4 CPU (we asked for 8 GB) but the...
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