2nd drive not being formatted/partitioned in vCAC 6 - what might that mean?
When building both windows 2008 R2 and 2012 R2 servers, the 2nd drive is added but not partitioned even if I submit it with a drive letter and label. I have the vcac guest agent installed on both...
View ArticleCalling Putty via Powershell using Plink - how to auto answer the security...
I'm working on a script that requires calling Putty via Powershell using Plink.exe. However, we use auto-generated keys so I need to answer the "do you trust this security key" question when running...
View ArticlevFRC Compatibility with Huawei ES3000 PCIe SSD
I'm trying to find a PCIe SSD that is compatible with flash read cache. The Huawei ES3000 is listed on VMware's HCL (VMware Compatibility Guide: I/O Device Search) under IO Drive, but not in the vFRC...
View ArticleLoad Ubuntu Server inside VMPlayer on Win 7 Errors
The host is a OS :Win 7 SP1 64-bitProc : Intel Core i7 2.6ghz Ram : 24G I am trying to load Ubuntu-14.04-server-amd64.iso insided a VM created that has been assigned 15g of disk space and 4g of Ram....
View ArticleTime Sychronization on VM Tools
Hello, Curious what the consensus regarding enabling the time synchronization between guest and host. In past years, we done both of enabling them and without. I haven't enabled them on 5.5 ESXi for...
View ArticleHow to get Advance Service Designer - "Request Information" - Description &...
Hi All, I have created a ASD service based on a workflow. When the ASD catalog is requested, the first tab is "Request Information" which has Description and Reason field. How to access these values in...
View ArticleGuest Ubuntu 14.04 makes host Windows 7 unresponsive with Workstation 10
I experience random crashes with VMWare 10.0.4 running on Windows 7 x64 Enterprise and hosting Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop x64 on my HP Z620 machine. Basically, once in a few days guest Ubuntu suddenly...
View Articleconectar NIC a dos vlans
Buenos dias, tengo un servidor con dos placas de red, una conecta a la LAN y la otra conecta a WAN. Estoy por contratar un segundo ISP por lo cual necesitaria poder conectar esa placa de red a los dos...
View ArticleView 6 New Events in Log: SSO credentials locked for user
This isn't really a problem, but I'm just trying to figure out why it's logging this, and what exactly is it doing? After upgrading to View 6.0.2 I noticed these lines in the Event database:SSO...
View ArticleCD/DVD drive disconnection problem
Hello, I am running VMWare Workstation 10.0.4 build-2249910 on a Windows 7 desktop. I tried launching a VM from a Live Linux distro DVD, which worked fine, but then Workstation wouldn't "let go" of my...
View ArticleWorkstation 10 appears slow and unstable under Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate;...
I am seeing the following issues since upgrading to Workstation 10 a few days ago: VM stabilityWindows hosts appear to be running out of memory resources; several recurring crashes have occurred on...
View ArticleVMDK disk naming convention for backup
We are migrating from ESX 4.0 to ESXi 5.5.We do file level backup with Commvault, but now we want to backup de VMDK disk.About 3 or 4 years ago I used vRanger Pro for backup/restore, to create a OTA...
View ArticleVMware ESXi 5.5 crashing
I have a server with ESXI 5.5 and two virtual machines running pfSense, the problem is that almost every morning the server crashes, I can not even access the virtual machines or the own server by the...
View Article[Help] Mouse click issue when running VMware Player on Extended Monitor
I have my PC hooked up on multiple monitors and I want to run VMware player on one of extended screen other than the primary screen. Whenever I moved VMware Player to run on the extended screen, the...
View ArticleMigrate Replication Appliance to Patch ESXi Host
Hi Guys,I'm trying to Storage vMotion/migrate vSphere Replication Appliance to different host for ESXi patches. I'm getting the following message "This entity is managed by solution VR Management. It...
View ArticleHorizon Air support
Any plans to integrate appvols with Horizon Air DaaS? I wouldn't see anything keeping you from taking all my money if they were integrated!Thanks
View ArticleAppStacking Printers?
We have never had much luck with the location based printing mainly because we have printer management software so we need to be able to add the printer via print server rather than directly through...
View ArticleInstalling vCenter Server 5.5 fails at single sign on installation fails and...
I am currently working on trying to install vCenter Server in a lab environment on a workstation running Windows Server 2008 SP2. When running the custom install for single sign on it installs up to...
View ArticleCurious Storage Profiles Error in vCenter Client
After an upgrade of vCenter and ESXi from 5.1 U1 to 5.5 U1, when using the 'traditional' 5.5 C# vCenter Client, my existing pre-upgrade Storage Profiles now show as "Noncompliant" for the "vm home"...
View ArticleHELP! Partition tables.
All, Have installed ESXi 5.5 and grabbed a couple of spare drives. When adding a datastore, I received multiple failures. Found the drives to have existing partition tables on them. SSH'ed into the...
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