Running ESXi within VMW; expanded disk capacity. Will ESXi notice?
Okay. So I originally allocated a mere 100GB to my ESXi -GUEST- within VMware Workstation 9. Now I'm using VMware Workstation 9 to expand the ESXi guest's disk. When ESXi starts up.. will it just...
View ArticleVcenter 5.1 options for HA without shared storage
Are there any options in Vcenter 5.1 to do HA between 2 hosts not in a cluster having local storage ?... I have heard about Virtual storage appliance ..even Vmware seems to have one for SMB ...any...
View ArticleQueries related to Gemfire Developement
Can any one please answer below given urgent questions related to Gemfire Developement: 1. Can you please provide help in doing a POC based on the following Use Case: Say we have a database...
View ArticleCommand windows appearing when calling an external child process
We have an internal powerbuilder call-center application that I've Thinapp'd and works great, except when you need to call an external application (view images of claims). I've recently added the...
View ArticleSeparating OS and data using separate RAID sets on one host
I am using the free version of ESXi 5. Is there a way to put the OS's of multiple virtual servers on one RAID set and their data on a separate RAID set on one ESXi host machine? My host machine has...
View Articlecron on ESXi5 "operation not permitted"
Hi all, I have my script configured and running ok on my ESXi5 installation. But I'm hitting an issue when I try to add the task as a weekly job to cron. I am editing "/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root"...
View ArticlevSphere vCenter 5.1 Events filling up SQL DB from VDP 5.1.11.3
I have a vCenter 5.1 environment with VDP deployed for backups. The backups jobs run successfully, and the environment is stable. I a specific issue with the SQL database filling up with a flood of log...
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 ArticleConverter standalone 5.1 crashes host on retrieving source machine information
Hi all, I'm kinda stuck atm. We are using 2 ESXi servers. I'd like to convert the servers of 1 ESXi to another.I'm using Converter Standalone 5.1. The source server is running ESXi 4.0, the destination...
View ArticleBest ESXi 5 hardware?
I was planning to get a Dell PowerEdge r515 configured with ESXi already installed (2x Opteron 8core 4386 3.1ghz, 32gb ram, 6x2tb raid5). Weighing in at 7k+.Now, that's going to be a hard sell to the...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Welcome page after Fusion install
Hi, I have an OSX server and after installing Fusion 5 my server's main page is now a "VMWARE ESXi 5.1" welcome page. Why would this happen automatically and how can I disable it now and in the future?...
View ArticleHow is the 'LowFreeThreshold' counter calculated?
Hi I assume that the LowFreeThreshold value is determined by using the 'MemMinFreePct' setting, because both values are about the threshold at which memory reclamation techniques as ballooning,...
View ArticleAdding IPs
I'm fairly new to ESXi so bear with me. I have a system setup and running already and if I wanted to add another public IP to it (I have 13 total that will be going in) what do I need to do to make...
View ArticleThinDirect incase of javaScripts
Hi, Infrastructure at our customer site was being upgraded to WIN7 and IE9 and one of our web applications are not supported on IE9 so we had to make use of VmWare Thin App solution to let users use...
View ArticleWindows 7 - occasionally freezes, even switch back to MacOS isn't possible
Hi, we're using VMWare Fusion 5 on 4 brandnew iMac (late 2012) with fusiondrive (8GB RAM, 3TB fusiondrive). On each of these iMac's we've installed one Windows 7 VM (64Bit, 2 CPU, 3 GB RAM, 120GB...
View ArticleHow do I edit files in the /opt directory and keep after reboot?
I figured out how to edit them, but the changes disappear after immediate reboot. I read this other post about using the autobackup.sh script, but that was for '/etc' and not '/opt' directory. The...
View ArticlevSphere CLI: Error: Unknown Command
This could be as simple as me just missing something, but since I don't use the CLI very much at all, I thought I would just ask. I can connect to the CLI, but no matter what command I use the host...
View ArticleVMWare doesn't start after kernel update
Hello, I've just updated my kernel to 3.10.0-997-generic. After that VMWare Player doesn't start anymore.I've tried to run patches and different solutions I found in google, but it didn't worked yet....
View ArticleNexus 1000v iscsi multipath not working for two hosts.
It seems only one host can connect to my iscsi storage when using iscsi port binding (multipath). When I don't use port bindings, both hosts can see the storage. ie right click iscsi initiator...
View ArticleHardware monitoring service on this host is not responding or not available
This is the error I get when selecting the Hardware Status tab on any of our vSphere servers in vCenter. The servers were upgraded from ESX 3.5 update 4 and the hardware status was working before the...
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