vShield Rest API Interface Statistics
Hi, I have a question related to the vShield Edge Rest API related to querying interface statistics. The documentation (http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vshield_51_api.pdf) says the following: Query...
View ArticleIssues with Host Profiles
Hi I can't seem to get host profiles to work properly!I got this failures: I have done as it told in this KB...
View ArticleUSB device is not detected in VM
Hi Sir,I am trying to connect usb device using vsphere client but not able to connect, its status is showing no usb device. my vsphere client is installed on windows 7 and VM have window server 2012....
View ArticleQuery ESXi hostname & DELL Service Tag
Hi there I need audit all ESXi 5.x hosts and provide the DELL Service Tag associated with it. I found the following script with mixed results Script:Get-View -ViewType HostSystem | Select...
View ArticleCannot see multiple tgt iscsi disk after connecting to linux iSCSI server
I am have a hard time figuring out just what is going on . I have an vsphere 5.1 host and a 5.0 host trying to connect to and Ubuntu 12.0 server running TGT. The server had a RAID 50 with 24 TB of...
View Articleesxi 5 disconnects from vCenter server
One of our esxi 5 Update 2 (build 914586) shows disconnected from vCenter server (ver 5 update 1b). FDM log show, lost master, see logs below. SSL Cert is valid until 2024 and we are not using any...
View ArticleGet every vm inside folder
Hello. Im trying to locate a folder on my vCenter, and then list all the VM's thats inside that folder. I took some code from the SimpleClient, however the recurse are really hard to understand for me....
View ArticleHA with vSphere 5.1 on a VM with local SSD storage as temp space
I have a VM that has high-disk processing requirements. I can't meet the requirements or afford to do network-based SSD access for this VM. However, I did purchase a 200 GB eMLC SSD drive for two of...
View ArticleVMware Tools 5.1
I have a problem with VMware tools. After upgrade from VSphere 4.1 to 5.1 I tried to upgrade also VMware tools. I have done the upgrade on all the servers (all Windows Server 2008& 2008R2) but on a...
View ArticleAdvice on creating Cluster from 2 standalone hosts
Hi there, I am hoping to get a bit of advice on what I am trying to do. First off I will explain our setup. We have vCenter Server 4.0.0 and manage a variety of clusters and standalone hosts within...
View ArticleAdding physical disk to ESXi5.1
Hello all, I've added a 2Tb SATA drive (hot swap, to be used for backing up VM's) to a HP DL380 G8 server hoping that ESXi would pick it up. I've tried running a rescan/refresh in...
View ArticleOpening a port on ESXi 5.1
Been looking through the pubs but nothing has worked so far. I've created VM running a speed test server we'd like to be accessible by some clients. I believe ESXi is blocking the port necessary for...
View ArticlePVLAN security
Hi community, we want to use the private VLAN-technology, but we have some doubts on the layer 3 security. There are 3 hosts (1 promicious [P1]- later this should be a firewall, which limits traffic...
View ArticleForum VmWare 2013 Paris
Salut, je n'ai pas pu me rendre au forum cette année encore ! si vous avez des liens de streams ou autres je suis carrément preneur =). merci d'avance
View Articlegroup not shown from openldap - VCSA
Hi I have upgraded vCenter from version 5.0 to 5.1 and configured LDAP source for SSO. So now I can add all ldap users and add the permissions. For this purpose is used the schema inetOrgPerson. But I...
View ArticleAccess ESXI 5.1 using linux
All, How can I access the ESXI 5.1 server, using linux.I'm using Ubuntu 13.04I tried to use the vsphere client with wine but does not work. Tks
View ArticleServer Compatiblity.
Dear Team, I have one ESX Box running esx3.5.0 64607, just want to know this box is compatible with ESX4.1 IBM Systems x3650Processor Type : Intel xeon cpu x5355 @ 2.66GhzProcessor Socket 2COre : 4...
View ArticleHow to allow storage overprovisioning in vCOPS?
Hi - Were using vCOPS trial in our environment. We use a EMC SAN, 2TB LUNs and Thin Provisioning.What is the best option in vCOPS to allow for 3 TB thin provisioning (overprovisioning) of LUNs, but...
View ArticleCan I assume that flat.vmdks always start at the beginning of a 1 mb block ?
I have a question about reading raw VMFS-volumes.Lets assume I found the start of the VMFS-partition.Can I assume that if there are flat.vmdks on that volume - that those flat.vmdks will always start...
View ArticleBiggest upgrade fear with 5.1
I'm on the verge of upgrading my vCenter Server to 5.1. My biggest fear is losing connectivity to my hosts, but I am assuming even if the Host Agent on a host fails to upgrade, that I can still access...
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