purple screen with one server esxi in cluster HA
Hello, First of all, I am pleased to join this community. This is my first post with a little problem I cannot solve.I do not understand.I have 2 identical servers esxi in a HA cluster. It's two DELL...
View ArticleProblem removing Linked clones - HELP!!!
I've been trying to clean out some out of date Linked clones "with issues" in a View 5.1 installation with "issues". They are throwing thousands of errors:The issue was triggered when I moved the...
View ArticleVCAP5-DCA My thoughts
Dear Friends, Took the VCAP5-DCA exam today at Reading, UK and thought I will share my experience. Prepared for almost 4 weeks and it was a good experience all together. Attended 23 questions and...
View ArticleVCAP5-DCA Passed... !
Hi, Yesterday I received my score report and I found the unexpected result "PASS". Yes, it is unexpected result for me because I did lot of mistake during exam and I was doing study again to retake...
View ArticlePCoIP & Black screen
Helloeveryone,I'mtestingon VMWareviewand I have aproblemwithblackscreenwithPCoIP. With only the View Connection Server -> No problemWith the View Security Server (in a DMZ) with a etexternal...
View ArticleDistributed port state find
Hi I am looking for a powercli script or maybe a one liner to find the state of a distributed port. We had a situation where they were applying patches to hosts in a vblock configuration. Patching team...
View ArticleVMWARE VIEW MANAGER LICENSE
Good afternoon guys! I need a free license of VMware View Manager, but where have vmware site of the trial license, I could not find! For this I need to be able to continue in my virtualization...
View ArticleGuest OS Quiescing - is Grayed out
Hi All, I am trying to enable vSphere Replication (VR) on windows VM ( server 2012), everything works fine but Guest OS Quiescing is grayed out. Vcenter and VR in Base and DR is version 5.1.1. Any...
View ArticleHost with 2 NICS + iSCSI - Best Practice?
Hi, I'm sort of new in virtualization and although I have some knowledge about network administration, but i'm not really a network administrator, so the question might be dumb Recently the company I...
View ArticleShow the State(InvalidState) of a machine via scripting
HI All,I have a problem with some of my VM's in my VCenter:Few ones of them go in an unknown state and aren't accessible for our users.When I try to start them via Power CLI I get the error: Start-VM...
View ArticleAnyone collecting Netscout data into vcops?
5.7 vapp collecting from Netscout? How and what is the use case?
View ArticleDatastore's Performance data
Under a Datastore's performance tab if I select <Performance> in the [View] dropdown I can see several graphs. My problem is that most of them state "no data available". Is there a switch I need...
View ArticleHow to set up VMplayer 3 network for VMs to comminicate with each other ?
Folks,Hello. I am using VMPlayer 3.Host OS: Windows 7Guest OS:Windows XP and Oracle Linux 5I need to set up the network and enable Windows XP communicate with Oracle Linux 5. I follow this tutorial...
View ArticlevSphere Replicator and Storage
Hi Guys, When we run Test Recovery , in documentation it says storage snapshot will be taken and all HBA scan will be started on all ESXi servers at recovery site.I did test recovery plan in our LAB it...
View ArticleCluster members with different management network addresses
Hi All,I have a Vsphere cluster which has 6 members managed by VCenter 5.1 . All servers are HP Proliant DL 380 G7. Now I'm in the process of cluster upgrade from ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.1. In addition to...
View ArticleESXi 5 Testing/Installing environment?
I'm stuck with a very old network so I thought, lets start updating/reinstalling it with some "new" hard and software. So I pulled out a "server", installed ESXi 5 on it and hooked it onto my...
View Article"Vcenter alarm: ESXi 5.1 Host connection failure/ Host not responding"
Hello Everybody, I am facing a strange issue with my Vsphere environment and VMware Technical support hasn't been able to help me so far. The case is still pending with them for about 2 weeks now. We...
View Articlerandom network Performance on host, inter-host
network performance issue between host communication etc. we have 3 esx4 host in infras. lets say esx 1/2/3 esx 1 has VM A B C D esx 3 has VM F G H I When copying files from vm A to F , noticed speed...
View Articlemaintenance mode stuck at 2%
I have a 2 hosts cluster but when i put one host in maintenance mode its stuck at 2%. No cd rom is attached to any vms. no pending vmtools install. what is the problem?
View ArticleESXi 5.0 and VMTools on XP
We are starting to build our Test -View environment. We have to ESXi servers running the new 5.0 version and Vcenter 5.0. I am building our template computer (WINXP sp3), but I can't install VMTools...
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