VCAP5-DCA exam issue
Hi, I had appeared for VDCA510 exam yesterday in India. During the exam i faced some technical issues so I had informed test center administrator. He called VSS support from PearsonVUE, who took remote...
View ArticleMoving View 5.1.1 Infrastructure to new Datacentre
Hi all, I'm planning a move of our View Infrastructure from one datacentre to another, and am looking for some assistance. At the moment we have a vCenter/ vComposer and 4x View Brokers in the old...
View ArticlevCloud Log Files
Hey Guy's, Its probably just me but when tasks fail in vCloud the error messages are somewhat vague and cryptic. I'm trying to add a vApp to a catalog and I get an error message saying "Cannot...
View ArticleSetting pathing policy
Is there a faster method than the command below to set the pathing policy for a specific naa id? For whatever reason this command is taking a good 1-2 minutes per lun per host to run and I'm looking...
View ArticleDoes Vcenter VUM downgrade new drivers on Host update?
Hello, I know when deploying Update 1 or Update 2, etc via the command line with VIB installs, you can control whether Update 1 will downgrade or keep newer drivers, such as Nic,HBA, etc. I am...
View ArticleHow to build a firewall VM for ESXi 5
Hi everybody! Long time to see, now i have to return back the virtual project with VMWare ESXi in that i'm just newbie and i need you help.I'm struggling not know how to create a security layer for all...
View ArticleXenApp 6.5 on VSphere 5->Vm performance issue
Hi all,I am having some perfs issues with Vm (Win 2008 R2, 4 GB Ram, 1 vcpu and XenApp 6.5) and I am wondering if that could be a datastore issue because we are using datastore clusters.Has someone set...
View ArticleTrying to go as simple as possible: One floating VM from vCenter / ESXi....
Okay: So far, I've .. : 1. Failed at creating a pool of automatic linked clones with Quickprep: I need a KMS for that. Don't want to do that.2. Failed at creating a pool of automatic lined clones with...
View ArticleVM's lag on one host vs the other identical host.
Greetings!I have two (old) ESX 4.0 hosts, running Enterprise, with Vmotion etc. They are identical Dell 2950 machines.I have a total of 15 machines running on them.I can move all the machines to Host...
View ArticleReplication more than 500 VM's
Hi,based on the vSphere Replication FAQ, there is a limit of 500 protected vm's per an appliance.my question:can i use multiple vSRA Appliances registered against the same vCenter and by doing so,...
View ArticleDefault or All attributes for adapters?
My vmware adapters are set to default, yet my other adapters - like smarts, hyperic, oem and msft all use the ALL attrib value. Should I change those adapters to use default?
View ArticleVmotion Nic Teaming esxi 5.1
We do not have shared storage so we do vmotion and storage motion simultaneous with live virtual machines to other hosts. I have 3 1gbit nics dedicated to vmotion and I wonder what's the best way to...
View ArticleError Deploying Orchestrator ovf
When I go to deploy the ovf I downloaded from vmware for Orchestrator I get the following error: Unable to access file: C:\orchestrator\vCO_VA-5.1.1.0-1070383-system.vmdk. Could not find the fie;...
View ArticleVCenter alarm history
Aloha, Where can I find a history of all alarms triggered?? Mahalo, Bill
View ArticleHost profile error - activeDirectoryAll doesn't match spec
I am trying to configure a host profile for a number of ESXi 5.1 hosts. The profile is being applied to an HP Gen8 blade after updating it to 5.1 update 1a (build 1117900). After checking compliance,...
View ArticleVCP Certification
I heard from some Institutes in Chennai, India that we can write VCP Exam without attending the Vsphere class room training. They are not VATI (Vmware Authorized Training Institute) and still they...
View ArticleHow to backup and restore VCO appliance (Postgres)
Hello,Is there an official KB on how to backup and restore the VCO appliance using the Postgres? Similar how to backup the VCSA...
View ArticleBest practices for scratchconfig location in ESXi 5.x
What is the best practice for locating the scratchconfig location in ESXi 5.1? Is there a lot of traffic that goes from the ESXi host to the scratchconfig location so that you would want it on fast...
View ArticleHow to hide/disable side search bar?
Does anyone know how to hide or disable the side search bar for the latest View Android App? Whenever I click on the start button on my VDI it always seems as if my screen slides to the right a bit...
View ArticleGenerating Alerts in vCenter
Hello, I am looking for a way to get alerted if a host is experiencing high Storage Adapter latency. I can't seem to find the alert for it, although I can see this latency in the performance view...
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