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I am planning to have a vSphere complete system for my office use.I will have one vCenter (Dell R320) and two ESXi servers (Dell R510) for clustering, and I will have SAN storage (Dell MD3200) My...
View ArticlevCenter Server Service Won't Start
Our vCenter server service won't start. The vpxd log contains the following info; 2013-04-23T09:25:46.263-04:00 [03640 info '[SSO][SsoFactory_CreateFacade]'] Solution user set to:...
View ArticleHow Calculate the time of a VM is in poweroff state?
Hi, I need to calculate the time of of a VM is in poweroff state, someone already did that? Thanks
View Articlecan't shrink vmdk with vMotion
vsphere 4.1Windows Server 2008 sp2 VMSecond HDD has 166 GB free now after cleanup Sdelete -c e: (e is the disk i'm looking to shrink)Migrate from datastore with 4MB block size to datastore with 2MB...
View ArticleScanning with ThinApps
I work in a clinical environment, and one of the applications we are ThinApp'ing will be utilized by persons performing registration, and will require for documents to be scanned into the application...
View ArticleCannot Change RAM and Other Settings on Shutdown Guests
For some reason, I cannot change the RAM memory allocation for those guest OSs. The settings are enabled (not grayed out) and I can make edits in the settings panels, but the changes are lost as soon...
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Get-VIObjectByVIView broken?
The documentation leads me to believe piping the view object or passing it via the -viview parameter should work. Am I missing somethng or is this broken?
View ArticleIs bridged networking possible via a NIC not bound to TCP/IP on a Linux host?
I have this setup working in VMware WS running on Windows hosts. The NIC is installed but nothing except Vmware Bridge Protocol is bound to this NIC. This NIC is bridged to a Virtual Adapter. Any guest...
View ArticlePrivate vSwitch for a vApp
I am trying to create a vApp that will contain multiple VMs. In my current prototype, I have 2 VMs. The first VM has a single network interface that is configured with a static IP address on a vSwitch...
View ArticleMoving 100+ VMs between Intel and AMD Clusters
And here I thought this was an easy one. Objective:1) Move 100+ VMs from one Cluster to another2) Change network the guest is using3) Move needs to be fast Prerequisites:1) Ensure LUNs from old Cluster...
View ArticleESXI install hung
Hello everyone, Brand new to virtualization and VMware but I thought I'd give it a try and see what it's all about. I downloaded the free product called hypervisor and followed the document to do the...
View ArticleReport or listing on all host and clusters with alarm actions disabled
Having a persistent problem with teammembers forgetting to re-enable alarm actions at the host and cluster level. Anyone know of script that will list or report all hosts and clusters with alarm...
View ArticleError running Get-Task Cmdlet first time against Virtual Center
I was wondering if anyone had seen this error before when running Get-Task for the first time? Get-Task : 10/07/2012 16:58:41 Get-Task An item with the same key has already been added.At...
View ArticleFresh install of vCloud Director 1.5 fails to set up ESXi 5.1.0 hosts
Hello dear community . I have the following error message when trying to create a 'Provider-VDC' on my freshly installed vCloud director appliance :"Could not retrieve state for sequence: seq_os"....
View ArticlevSphere upgrade: VM tools/hw and VMFS
Hello all, Just have a quick question (hopefully). We've gone through the process of upgrading our Mgmt servers (vcenter, update manger, SRM) to 5.1. We have also already upgraded all of our ESX...
View Articleovftool terminating before starting the deployment of the ova
Hi Guys, I want to get some feed back about the below stack trace after setting the --X:logfile and loglevel 2013-04-29T04:47:37.841-07:00 [02188 verbose 'Default'] [SSL_DB] Using C:\Documents and...
View ArticleChange from Foundation to Enterprise not working
Hi All,I tried to change the license for vCOPS from Foundation to an eval license of Enterprise (standalone). I'm able to change it in the licensing area, but even after I restart the vSphere client...
View ArticleSystem network resource pools & NIOC
Hello, I am concerned about system network resource pools and their impact on the user-defined network resource pools. For example; if I create three user-defined network resource pools for virtual...
View ArticleI can't find this online...disabling devices
I have been searching for this, I'm following the vSphere hardening guide, and as an example, I want to disable all the floppies on a machine. The configuration maximum shows that there is a maximum...
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VXLAN vs Host Profiles
Hi, I'm trying to get VXLAN working with host profiles on a group of stateless hosts that I am setting up for vCloud Director use. I've successfully gotten the hosts to auto deploy with the right...
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