content pack : Bar colors in Graph & enable & E-mail JSON tags for Alerts
Hi, I am writing a content pack. I am facing following issues. Can anyone help me how to solve them or provide link to documentation to write the content pack. #1 I would like to render different...
View ArticleHow to shrink OS in vsphere 5.1
Whats the best and easiet way to shrink my windows 8 file since its getting so big? I havent even installed any software on it and its like at 12gb for no reason.
View ArticleNew To Distributed Switch Clarification required.
Hi All I need some clarification. Just created a distributed switch, in my lab, which was created without any issues. I have 2 hosts in my lab Host A and Host B. There were no vmkernel ports to...
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vCenter is not responding correct
Hi,I've upgraded vCenter 5.0 to vCenter 5.1 U1a all is good, expect for the fact that when I eg. try to mirage a VM or set some settings on the cluster I get an error : The request failed because the...
View ArticleBest Raid Practice
Hello, I'm somewhat new to the vmware world. Here is a breakdown of our system. we have 3 Dell R610 on 1 Md3200 with 15000K drives 24 drives totalwe currently have 40 VM's. now is it best practice to...
View ArticleWorkstation 9 - Slow network performance between host and guest
I am running windows 8 on the host and installed Workstaion 9 trial. Then installed windows 8.1 as a guest system. I am getting slow, really slow network between the two. If i send files to and from...
View ArticleHELP! vmware won't mount vmfs volume
We recently had a hard disk failure in an esx 4i free host. Long story, but for some reason the failure of a single disk managed to take out the entire raid 5 volume (so much for resilience!)(There is...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Hangs after a few hours to a few days of running
Hi, i am hoping someone can help with the crurrent issue I am faced with The build machine we are using for ESXi 5.1 is as following Gigabyte GA-970A-D3 motherboardAMD FX-8350 (Eight Core) CPU32GB...
View ArticleBest Practise - Which SCSI Controller for Windows 2012
Hi, We are building a new environment for Windows 2012 servers and was wanting to know what the best practise is for the SCSI controller for Windows 2012 servers. Ive had a look on the net but i cant...
View ArticleZimbra Credentials
I am trying to setup Zimbra on vCloud Usage Meter. I have tried to enter the Zimbra admin, but that does not seem to work. If I enter a Linux user, that seems to be accepted, but it never reports any...
View Articleafter doing a failover and failback -- replicated datastore
So I have a question of the state of the datastore where my vms are on after doing a array based failover and fail back. I did a reocvery failover of a few vms, and then did a reprotect and finally...
View ArticleCrash when running Baldur's Gate II on Win XP VM
iMac 2011 27", running Mac OS X 10.8.4, 20GB RAM. VM Running Windows XP, assigned 2GB of RAM and one processor core. I installed Baldur's Gate II, started it up, graphics were off-center (lower...
View ArticleEvent Viewer being flooded with VMWare Tools [Warnings]
I have began deploying VMWare Tools to all my VMs within the network. Install goes fine and a day later my one co-worker makes me aware of an immediate increase in log traffic, I go and review event...
View ArticleUnable to obtain hardware information for the selected machine - Standalone...
vCenter: 5.1.0Standalone Converter: 5.1.0ESXi : 5.1 I am unable to complete any P2V conversions with vCenter Standalone Converter. I get the error message "Unable to obtain hardware information for the...
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Using Powercli I having trouble modifying vm hardware and nic portgroup when...
Hello, wondering if anyone can help out, i am trying to deploy 1 or more vm from multiple templates, the variables are being imported from a csv file each line is a new VM with specific name, ip,...
View ArticleVMware Tools crashing
When I open my Win8 Enterprise VM in the Fusion Tech Preview, VMware Tools seems to load, but then crashes (or exits) silently. This breaks copy/paste from the host which is very irritating....
View ArticleVMware Virtual Machine Port Group Loop
It is possible a single virtual machine have two network adapter's pluggedinto the same port group using the same vlan id? -- Network Adapter1 -------|VM --...
View ArticleHow to disable Hypethreaded core sharing in VMware Player?
Hello, Is it possible to disable hypethreaded core sharing for a machine running in VMware Player?I've read about such possibility in ESX but found nothing about doing the same in Player. May goal is...
View Article'Hardware Status' not updated for months
ESXi 5.0.0We've got 2 ESXi hosts in a clustered high-availability environment. Recently we noticed that the Hardware Status for both the hosts isn't updating. On both hosts I've restarted the CIM...
View ArticleMigrating VMs from one datastore to another on ESXi 5.1 (free license)
I am running ESXi in my lab (for Cisco voice servers and some Windows VMs). The VMs are on an iSCSI datastore hosted by a Netgear ReadyNAS Pro Business. Due to major issues with iSCSI on the ReadyNAS...
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