vCenter Licensing
Hi Can someone help with me a vCenter licensing question.We are about to P to V multiple infrastructures, and need to know if the vCenter licensing model purely works on the amount of processors you...
View ArticleUsing Host Profiles to add hosts to Distributed Switches
I'm attempting to use host profiles to add hosts to vSphere Distributed Switches. The process is failing and the process is actually reconfiguring the management network settings on my host to that...
View ArticleNested 64-bits VMs
Hello, (Specifications of my hardware: Laptop Packard Bell EasyNote TE with the processor AMD E1-1200 , and Windows 8 64bits, with 8GB RAM) I would to ask the following question: I have...
View ArticleVM host affinity rule for use within vCloud
Is it possible to configure a catalog item to only be deployed on a certain set of hosts within our vCloud cluster using VM host affinity rules?
View ArticleEvent Logs vs. Syslogs
Under Event Configuration, there is a spot to setup an event database and a spot to setup syslogging.What is the difference? I am thinking that having the syslog server setup would be better?
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Copy and paste sometimes don't work between Windows guests and hosts?
Hello. Is it me or does sometimes Workstation v9.0.1's copy and paste do not work between hosts and guests even if the latest tools are installed and running? Rebooting guests does not fix it. Only...
View ArticlevShield App vs Cisco vs Juniper vs . . . .
Has anyone seen a comparision of VM based routers/firewalls? I am trying to find out more about the options available for routing and filtering both east-west (VM to VM) and north-south (VM to outside...
View ArticleCisco VSG vs vShield App?
What are the benfits of using the Cisco VSG over vShield App? I know that with the VSG you do not need a service VM on each ESXi host, a single VSG can handle the rules for all of your servers. Aside...
View ArticleSRM - Remove Synchronization when performing Disaster Recovery Production Test
Consider the following scenario:Production Site contains the following:HP SAN P4500G2 for Storage System (v9.5)A couple of ESX v5.1VM's acting as several mission critical servers.Colo Site contains the...
View Articlehow to find the list of ideal vms
Hi experts, we've persistent pools for desktops. its found there are ideal desktops of the user who had left the company or transferred to a different region. Is there is a way in view management...
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vCenter Appliance joined to domain, but no domain available
I´ve setup vCenter Appliance 5.1 and I joined it to my AD domain, but when I try to create permissions and and link them to AD group, I can´t see my domain: Any idea, why this is happening?
View ArticleNIC layout
Hello, We have two esxi5 servers (Dell R710s) in a cluster. We use all seperate physical switches, no trunks/vlans. We have redundant switches for all networks. Today we have one management...
View ArticlevCenter Server 5 Role Permissions Required to Apply Host Recommendations?
I have a subset of admins to take care of specific VMs. The role created to give them access to the VM allows them to power off and power on the VMs. However, if we are doing some maintenance in the...
View ArticleUnable to accessing VMDK files of Windows 2012 Guest os with VixMntApi. (VMDK...
Hi, I have mounted the the VMDK file with the following API and got a handle to it. I have opened the disk using VixDiskLib_Open( vixDiskLibCon, fileName,...
View ArticlePersistent Issues with QLogic 10GbE nic - Appears and Disappears in vCenter
Please Help! We had a 10GbE card fail in a vitural host, 5.1 U1. We replaced the card with an identical card, but the nics never showed up in vCenter. After hours of fiddling with it, we installed...
View ArticlevCenter Server Service Won't Start
Our vCenter server service won't start. The vpxd log contains the following info; 2013-04-23T09:25:46.263-04:00 [03640 info '[SSO][SsoFactory_CreateFacade]'] Solution user set to:...
View ArticleMirage 4.2 Help Desk Admin Portal Authentication
I upgraded my Mirage 4.0 cluster to Mirage 4.2 today and installed the new Web Management package on both Mirage servers. I can access the File Portal and the Admin File Portal just fine. However, no...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 services distribution
I am currently performing an upgrade from ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.1. I"ve decided to use split the services across 2 vCenters. I am wondering, wich services should go where, is there any recommandations...
View ArticleVPN disconnecting connection between host and guest
I have installed VMWare and created a virtual machine with Windows 7.0. My host is also Windows 7.0 and I am using Bridged Network connectivity. I use a VPN client on guest machine. The VPN software...
View Articleclient closed, idle vcenter session remains
In vcenter I see idle sessions that I don’t believe should be there and I don't understand why. I’ve had users put in <inactivitytimeout>120</inactivitytimeout> in their...
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