Monitoring IOPS across multiple ESX hosts in vcenter
Short background: We have inherited a rather messy setup with ~30 ESX hosts and ~150 datastores with almost 500 guest VMs. Unfortunately the naming and organization is very chaotic. We are looking into...
View ArticlestartSTAFProc.bat issue
Greeting, from the virtualclient I can see that the schedule task was working. But on the Prime Client machine. I cannot see the similar window active there, just a black (dos windows) open then close...
View ArticleISCSI Connection Failure Causing ESXi 5.1 VMs to shutdown
Hi all, Was hoping someone may have seen the problem we have encountered over the last 2 weeks.Our VMs are performing unexpected shutdowns. Our Exchange server has rebooted twice today The timing of...
View ArticleGuestOSIds for different editions.
VMware mentioned different GuestOSids for different OSs with different Editions in below link. But in CreateVM task through vSphere client shows only basic OS names and with OS editions like 'Windows...
View ArticleOptimal method for duplicating production VM configurations
A client of mine is in need of an integration and test lab environment to represent production. The production system is 90% virtual, running vCenter / ESXi 5.0. There are approximately 500 VMs,...
View ArticleSome VMs not showing in vcenter
I have two host running ESXi 5.0 which I have succesfully added to my vcenter (5.0 client and server). However one of the hosts is missing 3 vm's from its inventory. I can connect directly to the...
View ArticlevSphere Client5.0 connection error
Server machine which contains ESXi5.0 had a trouble with power supply and stop running for a while.After succeeding booting server machine by replacing with new power supply I was able to bootguest OS...
View ArticleUsing the vSphere API to Register a vSphere Client Plugin with VCenter 5.1...
Hello I am attempting to use the vsphere API to register a vSphere client plugin. I am programmatically creating an Extension object and filling in the extension details. However I am unable to set the...
View Articleurgent: can we have multiple monitors for VDI with HTML access?
Hi all, Horizon view 5.2 We are able to enable multiple monitors when users access VMware Horizon View Client through view client group policy. But, I do not see the option to enable multiple monitors...
View ArticleWS 10 July TP
Host: Windows Server 2012 x64Guest: Windows Server 2012 R2 x64 Physical Machine. HP Proliant G5 Quad Core Xeon E5420 CPU 10GB RAM Uninstall May Tech Preview per instructions. Uninstallation To...
View ArticleANDROID
HI, am unable to install android on exsi 5.0. i have tried many ways..can any body help me...fatal error cfdisk press nay key to exit this error a getting
View ArticlePoor Performance on 8Disk Raid 10
Hi Everyone, Firstly if I've put this in the wrong place, apologies! I currently have an ESXI 5.1 whitebox setup at home which includes a LSI 9240-8i SAS/SATA raid card with 8x2TB Seagate SATA drives...
View ArticleLately losing Pre-sales battle to Hyper-V 2012 in SMB market
Most of the sales in my country Sri Lanka are more on SMB markets. I have been in many Pre-sales meeting and it all comes down to the cost of licenses. Lately I must admit that VMware is losing the...
View Article2 APC и 3 хоста в кластере
Доброго дняЕсть 2 apc smart без сетевых карт и 3 хоста в кластере. Каждый хост имеет 2 бп одновременно подключенные к разным из 2-х ибпvmware 5 + vcenter server управленияЗадача 1: мониторинг работы...
View ArticleUrgent - How to check VM logs?
We had some issue during weekend, some one deleted few files or something happened? How to find out the root cause analysis? I have exported the logs from vcenter and I got almost 3 GB logs locally?...
View ArticleDefault Gateway changing when configured from DCUI
Hi Community, We have a couple of re-purposed ESXi 4.1 hosts. They were moved from one blade server chassis to another to be put into service for another project. We are re-configuring them (re-IPing)...
View ArticleUrgent - VM Will not power on
Have a single ESXi Host 5.0 and 3 VMs. Local Storage is a RAID-1 datastore, 553 GB with 256 GB free. The Database Server VM will not power on - getting a message of "Virtual machine disks...
View ArticleTrying to install VMware-Workstation-Full-e.x.p-1245816.x86_64.bundle hangs
Trying to install VMware-Workstation-Full-e.x.p-1245816.x86_64.bundle hangs on Ubuntu 12.04.1 after printing "Extracting VMware Installer...done." CPU goes up to 100%. nothing happens any more...
View ArticleNewer IBM servers not vMotion compatible despite identical CPUs
I just installed a new HS22V blade, identical to a pack of others installed about a year ago. CPUs are identical, UEFI version is identical, Processor Settings in the firmware are identical. Still...
View ArticleTech preview module configuration fails on Fedora 19 host /...
I have an Asus laptop (Intel Sandy Bridge i5 CPU) running Fedora 19. The tech preview installed successfully, but the module configuration step fails. I ran "vmware-modconfig --console --install-all"...
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