PowerCLI performance tweaks and the use of unique IDs
Hi all Working on an environment w/500+ ESX hosts and more than 2000 VMs, so the performance of my PowerCLI code is essential.I'm very fond of get-view and use it whenever possible, alas, sometimes you...
View ArticlevCloud Usage Meter with free ESXi 5.x
Hi, Our company is about to start using this per h licensing method. We have now only free ESXi hosts which are managed by vSphere of course. A VMWare redistributor instructed me to install this usage...
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troubleshooting VMs showing "no data"
I have a bunch of VMs just showing "no data" in vCOPS. This is version 5.6. I've looked around here at length, and RTFM but I don't see any good troubleshooting suggestions for how to resolve VMs not...
View ArticleRequired permission to query orphaned VMDK files
Hi, What is the specific required permission to query vSphere for orphaned vmdk files? Right now I have a ReadOnly permission and when I run my script, I'm getting an error complaining about the...
View ArticleIs it possible to have a NAS device which all VMs have access to?
So we have an IBM storwize v3700 on our network, and ideally we'd like to have it so all out of virtual machines are able to access it, and share data across them. Basically mount it as one large...
View ArticleVMW Workstation 9 supported hard drives
Am I reading this right? VMW Workstation 9 only supports IDE and SCSI? VMware Workstation Documentation Center It doesn't support SSD or SATA? Regards
View ArticleCould not Run the following 4 Wklds......
Hi I have some error I can not solve . After I finish the vmmark2.5 the program show me the following error: Could not Run the following 4 Wklds: ['MailServer0 reported issues during run',...
View ArticleBase Layer not Deploying
Hi, I have a problem where I am trying to deploy a base and app layer and i'm getting the following failure message: Description: Shim execution failed to complete. Exception Description:...
View ArticleCloud Building
hi AOA everyonei want to build a cloud for mobile data backup i.e contacts, messages, memory card's data etc (as gcloud already exist). this cloud is an experiment. can anyone here guide me and also is...
View ArticleNew Cloud Building
hi everyonei want guideline here that what are the basic requirement to build a new cloud.can anybody here help me by providing complete detailsthanks
View ArticleVirtual USB drive
hi guys, im using esxi 5 at the moment. i plan to do some testing related to usb drive. i understand that there's usb solution with usb paravirtualization and working well with usb drive (when hardware...
View Articlesound card passthrough and use in Win7 how?
by the way: the Lynx Studio AES16e works good in my desktop PC (just Windows 7 not VM)1. So I tried to run it on server with installed VMware ESXi 5.1 U1. Of course in VShereClient I see just unknown...
View ArticleFT in nested VM Hosts replay.supported
Hi All, I am attempting to enable Fault Tollarence on two ESXi 5.0.0 build 504890 hosts, that are nested on top of one ESXi 5.0.0 build 504890 host which is an HP GL380G6 with a single quad core Intel...
View ArticleVM gets rebooted when vmotioned to this Host
Hi Folks, I am running into bit of trouble here, we have a 10 host cluster and all hosts seem to be working fine expect for one. when a VM is migrated to the host from a different host - as soon the...
View ArticleVMware Tools won't install on Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.4
We have a vCenter Server 5.0.0 managing an ESX 4.1.0 host running a VM with Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.4 installed. Choosing "Install/Upgrade VMware Tools" from the VM's menu initiates the task, but...
View ArticleESX 1.0
I know this is an odd question, but is there anybody out there who purchased and used ESX 1.0? If so, do you still have a copy? Thanks, Dan
View ArticleSplitting 2 partitions on a single VMDK to 2 VMDKs
Hi All Due to a configuration oversight when creating the VMs, I have inherited four Server 2012 VMs which have a Single vDISK which in turn contains a C: drive (OS) and D: drive (Data/Files). The...
View ArticleCCMExec service keeps starting during base layer capture.
Anyone capturing a base layer with SCCM installed? I'm trying to capture the layer and have followed all the steps to prep the SCCM client from the Administrators guide. However the SMS Agent Host...
View ArticleHow to access Data Object from Perl thread
I am trying to import OVF. I have gotten as far as getting a Lease and starting VMDK upload. I see the data going through, but connection times out because I need to call HttpNfcLeaseProgress...
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