Licensing Capacity alarm....
Updated vCenter and my hosts to 5.1U1 yesterday and since then i've been receiving a "License Capacity Monitoring alarm" after digging a bit deeper I've found that one of my license keys is showing the...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 - stuck in reboot loop after Win updates applied
ESXi 5.1 Windows 2008 Server R2 VM Applied normal Win update patch and now stuck in reboot loop(see screen caps attached). Am able to boot to recovery console. Novice(no snapshot! ); and need...
View ArticleHosts briefly disconnecting from vCenter
I have an issue where several hosts will briefly disconnect from vCenter (5.1), causing it to throw a host connection state alarm, but the hosts re-connect just as fast. This has been happening for a...
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 ArticleView 5.2 - Remove hosts from "ESX Hosts" list
I have one vcenter server that manages 2 different clusters. cluster one has just esxi hosts for sql cluster testing. cluster 2 is for vdi proof of concept testing. When I added the vcenter server into...
View ArticleTime Sync Issue with Data Protection Appliance
Hello, I installed vDP in lab environment to test the product. Everything was working well for few days. Since Saturday, I am facing with this error “the most common cause for this error is that the...
View ArticleVMs marked as "Managed by solution VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager...
I have 2 VMs stating they are managed by SRM in their summary tabs. Whenever I try to migrate them, I get a warned statingThis entity is managed by solution VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager...
View ArticleAll available desktop sources are currently busy
Hi, We have an issue where when a user logged in successfully to their VDI using thin client and try to login with same user credentials on another thinclient in a conference room without disconnecting...
View Articleshared folders backing up using other computer - Workstation 9
If I have a set as the following: HostHost Windows Server 2008 r22 external usb drives attached to Host GuestWindows Server 2008 r2Webserver IISsharedfolders enabledWeb applications save files to one...
View ArticleHow to connect to Oracle database on VM1 from VM2 with 11gClient
Hi All, I have a VM running Windows7 x64bit, I loaded oracle server x64bit and created a database. The database functions fine and the listener is up and running for the database. I created a...
View ArticleUsing default Update Manager Baselines
I'm looking to get an idea of when the default baselines that come with VUM are NOT sufficient. Do the default "critical patches" and "non-critical patches" baselines work in most scenarios? When...
View ArticleHP UPS - graceful shutdown
I know that graceful shutdown of VMs and ESXi during a power loss is possible with an APC UPS. Is it possible with an HP UPS?
View ArticleChecking VT-x enabled from a 32-bit Linux guest running on Esx - 4.1
Hi, Is there a way to probe the Esx 4.1 host from a 32-bit running linux guest to check if VT-x has been enabled in BIOS?I could find several ways of doing this on the Esx host - esxcfg-info, finding...
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Workstation 8 + Ubuntu 13.04 Module compile error
All, I upgraded to 13.04, and am having some trouble getting the kernel modules to compile. I used to use the 2.6 patch, but since the new kernel is 3.8...old patch didn't work. I did some searching...
View Articlevmware esxi desconecta los usuarios de red
Buenas Noches Pongo a ustedes el siguiente problema, Tengo un servidor hp dl380 tiene dos maquinas virtuales instaladas con windows server 2012, cada maquina tiene su adaptador de red independiente y...
View ArticlevmwPAD version 1.5.9 released
vmwPAD - vSphere Client for Android version 1.5.9 has been released. The new features are: 1) Inventory panel view pager mode implemented2) Inventory view UI settings saved - panel sizes, view mode,...
View ArticleBest Memory allocation and management
Dear Members: Planning whether to go for for Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit or Windows 8 Professional 64-bit (as host), keeping in mind better management and maximum possible memory that I could allocate...
View ArticleProblem with re-size the volume
I tried to create VM using Vcenter Convert 5.1 from a physical windows swerver 2008R2. I tried to re-size the volumes that is iSCSI from the SAN. I tried to make it smaller because it is huge, cannot...
View ArticleReplication within the Same Vcenter instance.
We currenly have two vcenter instance in two seperate datacentes which have stretch network across the two datacentres. We need to move to a new datacentre and to facilitate the migration we are...
View ArticleJperf Plugin
I'm interested to know if it would be possible to create a Vcenter Plugin for the Jperf Network Performance application list here. https://code.google.com/p/xjperf/ I would like a simple method to test...
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