vCenter 5.1 - Nessus scan results and remediation
Hi all, I recently ran a vuln scan of an in production vCenter server with Nessus and got a few items that I'm not sure how to resolve. A quick google didn't give me as much info as I would have liked,...
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VMs shutting down automatically after booting in ESXi 3.5.0 running in...
Hi, I have successfully installed VMWare ESX Server 3.5.0 in VM Ware Workstation. But I am facing problem in starting any VMs whether it is Win XP or Ubuntu. I have tried all three possibilities but...
View ArticleNetflow Status
How can I pull the status of Netflow for all of our dvPG's and dvUplinks? I looked around and did not get that available via the Get-VDPortGroup cmdlet. Has anyone had any luck finding this yet? Thanks...
View ArticleAny timeouts that restart or shutdown VMs?
Recently we had a network outage that affected out NFS vlan for several mins. I am being asked what's the default and/or best practice timeouts that will restart or shutdown a VM. Example:HA host...
View ArticleESXi 5.0 does not recognize 4TB storage array
Hello all! This is my setup: HP ProLiant ML350 G52x XEON E5345 quadcore12GB RAMintegrated Smart Array E200i connected to single 250GB SATA diskSmart Array P400/512MB connected to two 2TB SATA disks in...
View ArticleSymlink bug in shared folders with Linux guest
I have a Linux x86_64 guest running on an OS X Lion host. I am experiencing strange behavior with symbolic links accessed from the Linux guest in a shared folder. The guest is unable to follow some...
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VMware Player on a Windows 2003 64bit VM
OK here is the situation i have. We have a need to run a tool from EMC called Environment Collection Appliance (ECA) this tool is a vSphere based appliance. Only problem is our environment is Virtual...
View ArticleNew Storage
Hi, we have currently our Exchange 2010 mailbox/dag servers on NFS storage but the database and logs on iSCSI due to the Microsoft support. We are changing storage so the 6 database drives will be...
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Windows 2008 R2 "Time machine"
Dear everybody, I'm faced to the following problem: (first of all I'm not sure is this a esx issue) I have a Windows 2008 R2 server on a ESXi 5.1 a few days ago I need to restart this server. The...
View ArticleProblem when try to use View Connection Server with Viewplanner
Hi, I've got the following error message on the viewplanner appliance when I try to use a workload profile with View Connection Server. Exception in thread Thread-2:Traceback (most recent call...
View ArticleAuditing User Access to Dashboards
In the custom UI, I'm trying to figure out which dashboards each user has access to. Under Admin --> Security, I can see the which groups a user is in, but I can't figure out a way to show which...
View ArticleBuilding a Thin Client using Windows Thin PC
Hey Everyone, I just did a write up on how to build a View Thin Client on a system running Windows Thin PC. Check it out and let me know what you think. We have been using this solution at my company...
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Guys you are my last hope!
Windows 7 sp1 x64 pro (up to date) I am trying to install vmware player v5,v4,v3 none of the versions work the errors i receive durring the install are: The first one is the one that says The MSI...
View ArticleDell T610 slow data transfer to datastore ESXI 5.1
Hello All, This is my first post so hopefully I am doing it right. I have a Dell T610 server, 2 seagate x2TB SAS drives, 32mb ram, 2xIntel Xeon E5620. My problem is if I add a 6gb ISO to the datastore,...
View ArticleUsing Connect-CIServer in a Start-Job
Has anyone been able to complete something like this? This works perfectly in a plain PoSh window but running in a Start-Job it never gets past the connect-ciserver. The job shows running and...
View ArticleRetention Policy query
Hi Folks, I would need your assistance to understand retention policy of VDP.Unfortunately VMware document doesn't explain it so well. I want to backup a VM daily and retain the backup for 14 days....
View Articlecannot install the vcenter agent service. cannot upload agent
on my esxi 5.1 host, I am trying to reconfigure HA but got the error cannot install the vcenter agent service. cannot upload agent any idea why? othe hosts in the cluster are ok
View ArticleSingle image, dozens of VLANs
I've been retooling a clients View Horizon 5.2 install for the last few months. The basics are this: a VDI cluster in a centrally located data-center and relatively low latency extended LANs to branch...
View ArticleSet CVDs to upload once a day
In our Mirage System Configuration>Settings, our Number of Snapshots at 1 hour intervals is set to 0, 1 day intervals is set to 1, 1 week intervals and 1 month intervals are also set to 0. Perhaps I...
View ArticleBriged connection cause "crash".
My host is a Windows 8 (64 bit). I'm using Workstation 9.0.2 build-1031769 to virtualize 3 guest OS (Win8, Server 2008 R2 and Server 2012) which I have set to Shared VM`s.I want to share them so other...
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