Customize toolbar in fullscreen
Why I can not simply customize the toolbar?Why I can not choose only the icons I use?Why I can not hide the menu? I never use it!Why I can not choose the position of the bar on the VM's...
View ArticleVmware view or vdi
Доброго времени суток.Подскажите, если пронатить view connection server наружу, то будет работать подключение пользователей из вне корпоративной сети? Или обязательно использовать security server?Спасибо)
View ArticleLarge VM system on ESXi 5 storage question
I have been tasked with building a server with quite a few guest servers and guest clients. The customer wants to store all of the guests on a scsi storage array. Won't the VM's performance suffer...
View Article4 x 10GB NIC's - Best Practices
Hi Group, We are upgrading to hosts with 4 x 10gbe interfaces. I have not specifically seen it stated but would it best to create 2 nics for iscsi and 2 for vmotion/management/network or combine all...
View ArticleCabling UCS Fabric Extender for ESXi
Scenario: UCS Fabric extender to a Nexus 7000 physical switch. Inside VMware, virtual distributed switch is used. Should the links between UCS and Nexus 7000 ALL be active? If I have 4 uplinks from...
View ArticleHow to automate drag and drop VM to a folder?
As we can easily drag and drop a VM from one VM folder to another VM folder in VMs and Templates view of vSphere Client, how can this be automated using vCloud API? I looked many places, but it was...
View ArticleUnable to access raw partition in VMware Fusion - permission denied, and not...
At other times when I've added a raw disk using vmware-rawdiskCreator, VMware Fusion has asked me for my administrator password when I start to boot that virtual machine. And the whole process has...
View ArticleCannot ssh into ESXi 5 host
I had to do some security hardening on a host and now I cannot ssh into it. I can revert what I have done, but I want to pinpoint what line in the sshd_config file is causing this. I'll list out what...
View ArticleLicensing Question...
We are migrating from vCenter 4.1 to vCenter 5.1. We are going to stand up a new server for vCenter 5.1 and then migrate the ESXi hosts from vCenter 4.1 to the new vCenter 5.1 server. We will need to...
View ArticleNPIV question
Hi, I have a VM that need more than 60 vmdks....with vmdk and rdms can't do this.....what about NPIV??? can i present more than 60 disks to a VM with NPIV???Regards,Leandro.
View ArticleMy options for fault tolerance, nic teaming, and link aggregation
Hey Guys, We are moving to a new datacenter and we have a chance to reconfigure 4 esxi hosts with efficiency in mind. Right now we aren't nic teaming and do not have redundancy. I came into this...
View ArticlePerforming update blanks out manifest-installed
I had one user report back that his update failed. I looked at the VAMI web management page and it had no properties about the current appliance version. The update tab that usually displays Vendor,...
View ArticleNetwork Shared Drives Performing Extremely Slow
Our shared drives are performing very poorly. They sometimes take 2-3 minutes to connect to folders but other times they connect immediately . It seems to very intermittent. This can happen upon first...
View ArticleVCP 5 course credit - how to apply course credit for Install, Configure,...
I took a class for VCP 5 that was on VMware's approved course list. How do I apply that to the Plan Title: VMware Certified Professional 5 - Data Center Virtualizationsection online to fulfill all the...
View ArticleNetwork customization using powerCLI
Hello all, I'm brand new to scripting and I'm not sure why I seem to have to run these two commands separately: get-vm "MYTESTVM" | Get-VMGuestNetworkInterface -Guestuser Administrator -GuestPassword...
View ArticleCannot start virtual machines with USB 3.0 compatibility
I'm trying to connect a Nikon D800 to a Windows guest OS on a Mountain Lion host with VMWare Fusion 5. If I try with USB 2.0 compatibility, then it gives me the error described here:...
View ArticleUpdating Storage drivers on Host
I installed a host on a Dell T420 and added a couple VM's to it and now having a bit of a storage issue. Read/writes seem to be very slow and after talking to Dell they tell me that I needed to use...
View ArticleStart workflow in Parallel
Hey all, I have a simple workflow to migrate a VM from one cluster of hosts to another. I want to be able to select multiple VMs and store them in an array and then run that workflow in parallel for...
View Articlepowercli script to capture cpu & mem usage stats
i am new to powercli and am not a good scriptor yet however, i need a script that will capture the max, min, avg cpu & mem usage stats per esxhost & vm for the past month and import into excel...
View ArticleAdding a wait time to a script
Hello, I am brand new to scripting and I am working towards being able to deploy a large number of VMs from a .csv file and then customize their network settings once deployed. I know that there are...
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