How to save the OEM partition when installing ESXi?
My Dell PowerEdge has a preinstalled disk with an "OEM partition".In the included documentation I could not find what is on this partition.Now, when installing ESXi 5.1 from a CD, it detects that...
View ArticleMulti-Site SSO Setup vCenter 5.1 Linked Mode
SiteA Primary node, SSO and all has been installed and configured.SiteB Backup, all but SSO has been installed and configured. SiteB connected to SiteA's SSO - Linked Mode. Tested everything seems to...
View Articledelete an external network in vcloud
Hello, I am looking to delete an external network in vcloud that was in use in an organization, but is no longer needed, What would be the proper procedure here? From vcloud, documentation says -Before...
View ArticleLink Storage Profile with multiple VM's
Is that possible to link Storage Profile with multiple VM's at the same time?
View ArticleYou do not have enough credits or incomplete entitlements to log in.
Hi, I'm a participant of VMworld 2013. I did some HOL on site. I wanted to see the transcript and do some more labs from home. I've tried to use both my account that I've created on site with password...
View ArticleCannot See vSGA Options in Horizon View 5.2
I currently have a brand new VMware Horizon View 5.2 environment. The build number is the latest i can download 987719. My issue is when i go through the pool creation wizard i do not see the options...
View ArticleVMFS recovery after kind of a disk crash
Hey there! Following scenario: We are running three seperate ESX 4.1 servers, all connected to a SAN via fibre channel. A week ago we restarted one ESX server, it has since lost the connection to one...
View ArticleBackup / copy of a thin, nonpersistent disk?
We have a VM which includes a thin allocated, nonpersistent independent disk. Is it possible to copy the unprovisioned version of this disk? When viewing this disk in the datastore browser it's ~95MB...
View Articleinstall application in vm after deploying from template
As part of my deploy/clone workflow I want to install antivirus. I'm planning to put the install files on the HD and just call a batch file which runs what I need (and then delete the folder when...
View ArticlessoLogin w/ samlAssertion from idp fails: Signature is not trusted or invalid...
I am attempting to login via the java sdk ssoLogin() with a samlassertion from an openam idp. The result is a signature validation exception. I must be missing some trust configuration, but where?...
View ArticleHow to recover an isolated ESXi 5.0 host
I just found one of my hosts disconnected with most of the vm's still up. There's a configuration error about it not being able to be unconfigured properly from HA. I have logged into the console via...
View Articlehow to deploy new functions and regions without restarting cache server
We are using VFabric Gemfire 6.6.3.4 and currently whenever we change out Gemfire function code or region object schema, we stop the cache server, deploy new code and start the cache server again. This...
View Articletwo networks showing on vm when only one nic installed.
Hi, I’ve got a VM which use to have two nics, one nic was on vmnetwork one vlan 20 and the other was on vm network two vlan 21, one of thenics was disabled. I have now removed one of the nic’s but...
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Windows 8.1 Pro/Ent Preview Guests - Windows Net Performance Halting, Barely...
I have a powerful Windows 7 x64 Ultimate workstation. On it I have installed VMware Workstation 9. It's fully up to date. Windows 8.1 Pro Preview and Windows 8.1 Enterprise Preview Guests can barely...
View ArticleFree Esxi and vCPU/vCore per VM
Hello, I'm actually running a ESXi 5 with 2 XEON * 4 Core and i also have my personnal computer (Core i7)+some other thigns lying around. I want to cut down on hardware and make a powerfull computer...
View Articleusing a vmdk to create a vm
I think i made a mistake and would like to know the options to fix (or to avoid for future).Corporate IT sent me a baseline vmdk image to use for building vm's. I copied to a directory i called VMDK on...
View ArticleStrange IP behaviour
I have a reoccurring problem, wanted some other eyes on it. We have multiple IP's assigned to virtual nic1. It also has a Vswitch VLAN assignment. We have other virtual nic's in the VM. OS is Windows...
View Articleadding 100GD D drive to 50vms
How do I add a second Disk (100GB) to 50VMs and change the cdrom letter from D to E and set the new drive letter to D? Can this be done with one script?
View ArticleRelease date of vSphere all version & vCenter Converter all version.
Hi friends,Can anyone tell me the vSphere & vCenter Converter release dates for all versions? or where can we find in any VMware docs? thanks!
View ArticleHow Many CPU's are assigned to one VM
is that possible conclude that with nwld counter of esxtop that how many vcpu's are assigned to that VM where we are checking it.
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