vCenter Database retention Policy when does it take effect
I am running low on my vcenter space. If I set database retention policy to 6 months, does it take immediately remove tasks and events older than 6 months, or does it just mark any new task and event...
View ArticleGet Clone Source
I'm trying to run a powercli script that, among other things, is trying to get a list of all cloned VMs. One important piece of data in this is what was the original source of that clone. I'm...
View ArticleHow to see who is currently logged on (Data users) and how to move data off...
Is there a way to see who has logged on to Horizon when it comes to data users (internal or external\virtual)? I also see that you can do the Audit Events report to find out when people logged in and...
View ArticleBase layer update question
I have updated an exiting base layer to a "major" version 2.0 and am in the process of assigning it to my test lab of computers. When all of the computers are assigned my Base Layer 2.0, will I be able...
View ArticleLocation of rotated hostd.log files?
I'd appreciate it if someone could point me to the location of the rotated (old) hostd.log files on the ESX5 host? hostd.log is sitting in /var/log but I can't find the rotated logs. TIA
View ArticleHow do I display bucket info for Partition Region in v7?
In v6, gfsh had the facility to display bucket distribution summary info using pr -b (after cd /RegionName). I cannot find an equivalent command in the v7 gfsh: neither describe region nor show metrics...
View ArticleClient connection failure
In the process of setting up a new computer. I can connect to the server via the website (downloaded and installed the client from there) and I can ping the server. However, when I attempt to login...
View ArticleStart wih VMware vSphere Hypervisor?
Hello, I read that VMware vSphere Hypervisor allows to create/manage freely a server of virtual machines, by installling VMware ESXi (5.1) on a server and by creating/managing VMs from VMware vSphere...
View ArticleUnable to SSH to the source machine
I'm receiving a "ssh connection was refused" error while trying to conduct a Linux P2V with the SDK. I checked that that SSH is running on the source machine and that root is in the AllowUsers for...
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full screen menu stuck
Hi, I know that there's a known defect in this area as mentioned in the release notes, but as there are no details, I'm not sure it is the same issue.Right now I see this a couple of time a day, so...
View Article-flat.vmdk Failed to lock the file (67)
Hi, I'm doing some tries on a test VM as i appeared to have over 30 (!) snapshots... (which wher to be seen ine the snapshot manager).I removed the snaphots (via the "vmware-cmd VmTest1...
View ArticleStep 2a: Database Connection Setup with External DB and Load Balancer
I know that several others have had issues at this step, but I can't seem to piece everything together in order to get past this step in our installation. Here's the setup we have so far. (Generalized)...
View ArticleAll users disconnect simultaneously
We are setting up our View 5.2 system this week. We are using windows 7 x64 Enterprise. We only have about people on the system right now, but all are experiencing the same issue. Randomly all will...
View Articlevmware installation
My situation is like that I`ve got a production site that fully virtualized with 5 Hosts and 13 VM`s and what I want to do is to replicate using "Veeam" what is on production site to the Disaster...
View ArticleBug in vCloud Director 5.1.1 and 5.1 with vCDNI NetPools
Hi, We have after lots of trial an error, discovered a bug in vCloud Director 5.1 and 5.1.1. It relates to vCDNI Pools and connectivity. We re-created and experienced the bug both times in a vCD manual...
View ArticleSSO Database Users
Hey all, Quick question! I've forgot the passwords for my RSA_DBA and RSA_USER users for SQL. Any way to figure them out or is there a way to reset them? Thanks for any input!
View ArticleUnconfigured vm prevents recovery of configured vms?
I'm attempting to test a recover plan. There is an issue with one of the vms on the datastore. It has a drive attached from a non replicated volume. When I run the plan it logs the error below for all...
View ArticleSplitting up a nVidia GRID K2's GPUs?
What I'm talking about is designating one GPU for vSGA and pass-through the second GPU to a VM for high performance 3D work. In theory this should work, but I'm curious to know if anyone has actually...
View Articlekernel: WARNING: at lib/dma-debug.c:802 check_unmap+0x6cb/0x700() (Not tainted)
Just want to report a bug here, not sure where it should go or if there already is a fix for this.One of guest vm encountered this. - ESX 5.1.0 799733(A01)- Dell R710 hardware- Compellant Storage Jun...
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