Provisioning error
I'm trying to add more VM's to an existing linked clone pool. Error during provisioning: View Composer Fault: Virtual Machine with input specifications already exists -Provisioning error occurred for...
View ArticleHow to wipe and do a new install with attached iscsi luns?
I am planning to migrate two esx 4.1 hosts to esxi5.1 by wiping them and doing a clean install. Each host is connected to two iscis sans, with 4 luns from each san attached to each host. Each lun is...
View ArticleVMPlayer VNC Freezing Bug
The error is very easy to reproduce,Vmplayer version: 5.0.2How to reproduce: Start a Full screen 3D application in vmplayer, use VNC viewer to connect the client. Then request full screen update in the...
View ArticleSRM 5.0 API - Unable to Initiate Recovery Plan.
Forgive me if this is posted in the wrong forum but there doesn't appear to be one specifically for the SRM API. So I've downloaded the WSDL files and compiled them to a C# dll and been able to...
View ArticleVery poor VM guest performance
We are experiencing very poor VM performance on all our Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 servers. All the VMs are shared from 2 different Netapp NFS volumes on our FAS2050 filer. We have 3 hosts and we've...
View ArticleView 5.1.2 Problem with Smart Cards - Desktop not seeing reader.
Hi all, We're trying to roll out a Linked Clone desktop pool that will be used by our Accounts department and as such they need to be able to use Smart Cards for banking purposes. We've installed all...
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Error launching vSphere 5 - No remote consoles (pref.dataCollectionEnabled...
I get the following error message when lauching vShphere 5. Everything works fine except remote consoles won't open!Value "use-system" for variable "pref.dataCollectioNEnabled" is not a valid boolean...
View ArticleJumbo Frames with Fibre Channel over Ethernet on ESXi 5.1
Would I gain anything by enabling jumbo frames for my ESXi 5.1 hosts? I am running FCoE on 30 IBM H blade hosts connected to Nexus 4001i's and Nexus 5010's. I known by default FCoE has MTU of 2158...
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Windows 8 & 64-bit Guest OS Support
Hi All, I just moved a Windows 7 64-bit Guest VM to Workstation 9 on running on a Windows 8 host and all seems lost... My host PC is a Gateway NE56R41u with an Intel Pentium B960 CPU, which does not...
View ArticleESXI5 on MAC BOOK PRO EARLY 2011
I was trying to Install ESXi 5.1 on 2011 Mac book Pro. I got it installed properly. But i am having issues with DHCP lookup failed. Can you please help me how to resolve it. Have you tried to...
View Articleadmin password is not set automatically when launching vapp with composeVApp api
The AdminPasswordAuto is not working properly in vCloud 5.1 when launching vapp from a vapp temlate via compose api. vcloud.txt is the shell script i am using to compose a vapp from a vapp template....
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Use the vCloud API over iland hosted vCloud Director
Hi all, I'm new to vCloud so please forgive me if I'm asking a dumb question. I'm currently trying to develop an automation solution using the vCloud API (.Net), and I have at my disposition a vCloud...
View ArticleInvalid content was found starting with element 'CustomizationScript'
vCloud version 5.1 The only chars I put in CustomizationScript is "touch". How can the string "touch" invalid in the xml? Request Method: PUTRequest Payload:<?xml version="1.0"...
View ArticleCannot install VMWare Workstation
VMWare Workstation (file VMware-workstation-full-9.0.2-1031769.exe) cannot install on computer with Windows 7 Professional SP1, I attach screenshot of error message and installation logs from temp folder.
View ArticleSNMP, Generic SQL Data Loader and embedded Port Adapters
Anyone have any success with using the SNMP (non-default mibs) and/or the Generic SQL Data Loader third party adapters? I'm running vCenter Operations v5.7 vApp and testing the custom-ui. I've...
View ArticleBug in DOS-Function FindFirst / FindNext File
I have several DOS programs which run excellent under real Win XP, but under virtual XP they run faulty. These Programs find existing files, but report some of them twice (instead of once). To find...
View Article"Cannot open the disk 'XXX' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on....
I created five virtual machines in VMware server 5.0. I then tried to load them in VMware workstation 6.0. One loaded succesfully the other four all gave me the message: "Cannot open the disk 'XXX' or...
View ArticleMaterialized Views
I couldn't find readily in documentation on how to create materialized views in SQLFire (in case they exist). I found how to create regular views, but not materialized. I also found some mentioning...
View Articlelogs are not display on 'logs' tab in Orchestrator client
Hello Guys, I'm trying to execute workflow through Orchestrator client. Once execute workflow, logs which are put in worflow task are not display on logs tab.Any idea or sugesstion guys? Thanks,Mukesh
View ArticleUSB 3.0 External HDD, connecting to ESXI or ESX....copy speed?
Hi folks I am trying to figure out the fastest way to get 6 Exchange Databases totalling 1.5TB in size (SITE A), which are hosted on a Windows VM on VSphere, , to SITE B (1 mile apart). To copy these...
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