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Creating first datatore on ESXi 5 host (local disk)
2 new Dell R620s, ESXi 5 U2 (build 914586), installed to internal SD card (2GB) Also present in the server are 2 x 600GB Disks for test VMs, etc. When the hosts are added to vCenter, (5.0U2 build...
View ArticleConfigure Advanced vApp Properties with PowerCLI
Hi all. Is there any way in PowerCLI that i can configure the advanced vapp options like product name, version full version, product url, vendor url etc. The page VMware vSphere 5.1 talks about how to...
View ArticleVCenter Host Report Summary Question
Hi guys, I was wondering if anyone else sees this or knows how to fix it.. When i right click any one of my hosts and click "Report Summary".. I get an html output of the host showing details for...
View ArticleDual-display support
Please forgive me if this is something simple and I'm missing it. I have a 13" MBP with a 2nd display connected. I want to run my Win7x64 client on BOTH displays and have Windows see them as two...
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bora/vmkernel/main/dlmalloc.c:4751
Hi, a customer encountered the following error: I checked the errormessage, but google won't give me an answer. Where does it come from and what can I do? Thanks in advance
View ArticleDetermine host profile compliance using PowerCLI
I would like to list the following information using powercli (if possible) or esxcli (if not possible with powercli)-List the name of the host profile applied to the host (have this already)-List the...
View ArticleMost efficient Anti-Affinity Rule
I'm wondering if anyone has an opinion on what the 'best' anti-affinity rule would be, between VM-to-Host & Keep-VMs-Separate. Here is my situation: 6 ESX servers in 1 cluster~100 VMsHA, DRS, &...
View ArticleQueryChangedDiskAreas returns a FileFault error while trying through "mob"
Hi, I have tried to query the changed disk area(QueryChangedDiskAreas) of a VM through Managed Object Browser(mob) [reference : How to find or validate Change Block Tracking results returned by VMware...
View Articlevshield problem
my vms sometimes cannot get any network access. vshield is installed on every host on the cluster. anyone experiencing this. Also sometimes I have to go into the vm to remove the dvfilter lines from...
View ArticlevCD query service and metadata filters
I am stealing this question from an older post since they did such a succinct job in stating their question. Basically I cannot figure out how to format the filter expression for querying the metadata...
View ArticleUSB 3.0 support ?
I've been trying to mount a USB3.0 drive in a VM on my MBP(Mid 2012, OSX 10.8.3) but I keep getting the following error before it even gets to the VM:The device 'XXX' was unable to connect to its...
View ArticleMultiple cache creations in Gemfire
Hi, I'm trying to create a local-cache and a client-cache inside one JVM, however i get the error stated below which i think is occurring due to cache being singleton and you can only create one per...
View ArticleCannot connect to VM after migration from vmware server 1.6
Hello every one, we were running a Citrix Access Gateway 4.5 on vmware Server 1.6My Job is to set up an esxi 5.1 on a new hardware and migrate the vm to that server. Migrating the old vm to the new...
View ArticleManagedObjectNotFound while registerAgentVm....
Hi, While trying to manually provisioning an Agent VM using registerAgentVM api as below is raising exception: ManagedObjectReference vmMor = new ManagedObjectReference();...
View ArticleWhat is Best practice for expanding Hard disk for VM?
My client asked D drive expansion for 100 GB for VM is 2008. I have a few questions on that 1. Can I use same hard disk for disk expansion (Using same HDD and same Datastore1)? Ex: now D drive has...
View Articlevmotion issue
Hi I have a vcenter, both esxi server i have added them by host to vcenter, & then i have two esxi5.1 Server, they are esxi A & esxi B, they have their own storage, its not sharing the...
View ArticleHOWTO: The nightmare of installing vCLI on CentOS 5 x86_64
I wasted a bunch of time today figuring my way around numerous issues so I figured I'd post about it in hopes Google picks it up and others find the thread so they don't waste as much time. I have a...
View ArticlevSphere client over ssh tunnel on a guest OS ?
Hey there, I'm not quiet sure if this is the right place to ask this question but since it is kinda network related I post it here enayway. imagine following situation a ESXi 5.1 Host hosting a openBSD...
View ArticleHow to tell if a ThinPC has connected to a VM
I have a program that runs the view client and does some error reporting via email. It watches the exit codes from the client to get an idea of what's going on, then emails me its hostname and IP if...
View ArticleList ssh settings with PowerCLI
I am attempting to get the following informatoin with PowerCLI:-Whether ssh is enabled (I've got this part)-Whether it is set to start and stop with host I need to get both sets of info also for NTP...
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