vCAC - SCVMM Integration with Hyper-V 2012
The installation guide (page 50) for vCAC 5.2 refers to some additional requirements for integrating with SCVMM: "Hyper-V servers within an SCVMM instance to be managed by vCAC must be Windows 2008...
View ArticleInstall vmware tools in Debian 7.1 guest will not work
Hi, may anybody can help with this, I have tried to installthe vmware tools in a Debian 7.1 guest and got the following error: "VMware Tools 8.8.2 build-590212 for FreeBSD will not install on the...
View ArticleCustomizing the vCloud UI
I noticed that if you create a vApp and if you choose the option "Power on vApp after this wizard is finished", the 'Start vApp' blocking task is never kicked off. Is this by design? In our...
View ArticleLefthand/HP4330 design question
We have just purchased a Lefthand/HP4330 san, comprised of 6 nodes, with 3 nodes each placed in 2 separate buildings, configured in a stretched metro cluster, so network raid will distribute the data...
View ArticleBinding VMs to the domain
Has anyone been successful in using Sysprep.Identification.JoinDomain, with Sysprep.Identification.DomainAdmin and Sysprep.Identification.DomainAdminPassword under the custom properties?
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View Agent installs fails with Error 1920: Trouble with the View Composer...
I'm running into this issue with a virtual Windows 7 system which had the View Agent installed. I made updates to our base-image template and following an advised from our Sys Admin I removed and try...
View Article101 Free Tools for VMware Administrators
After a hard work, Finally prepared a Post with 101 free tools which are absolutely free. This tools helps VMware administrators to manage the virtual environment efficiently and intelligently. You...
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Happy Birthday VMware Community
Exactly 10 years ago on Thursday, July 10, 2003 Daryll posted the first threads in the discussion forums! Congratulations to everybody involved in running this great Community! André
View ArticleShrinking on guest running on SSD drive
Hi, I have arouns 20GB free unused space in my guest system (win 7). The partition has already been reduced. I want to shrink the VM to free them up on the host. The VM is running on a SSD drive on the...
View ArticleUpdrading from 4.1 to 5.1
Is it possible to upgrade an IBM Server x3530 M4 running VMware ESXi 4.1 to VMware ESXi 5.1 (meets all ESXi 5.1 requirements). We are using local storage for datastore usage. If it is, please send...
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Extra Disk Created during Clone/Sysprep for Windows Server 2012
I am running vSphere 5.1 with all patches applied to everything. When Windows Server 2012 was RTMed I started building a primary server to use for clones for all of our other ones. This worked fine...
View ArticleVmotion and NTP drift
Hello; Long time lurker here and first time posting. I have a couple of clusters that are beefy 128GB of ram each 16+ cores per host and 3 servers per cluster and a few different clusters in different...
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 ArticleAttempting to deploy .OVA from fileserver to ESXi host and/or vSphere cluster
I am attempting to determine an easy method to deploy .OVA templates for quick provisioning/deployment of VM's. I have built VM baselines using a development vSphere cluster and exported the VM to .OVA...
View ArticleFind HBA with less than 2 paths
Hi I am looking for a script with I can run against my whole environment and show me any host that has HBA with less than 2 paths to each LUN am sure some body out there has done this already? Cheers
View ArticleNFS Shares no longer work in VMware after Firmware upgrade
I have also posted this question in the EMC/Iomega User group. I am hoping between the two groups I will be able to figure out what is going on. I have a single VMware ESXi 5.0 host. I also have an...
View ArticleI have a datastore called VCENTER
I have a datastore called vcenter. When I take a SAN and hold host offline, it also goes offline. I'm curios what the vcenter datastore is for because I'm about to remove the SAN and old host for...
View ArticleReading host files
Hello, Is there any way to list the contents of a host file (like: /etc/vmware/esx.conf) using the SDK? Actually I want to get the PSA claimrules for the host...
View ArticleVmotion Nic question regarding implementing vsphere 5.1 solution with SAN
Hey, We are in the design faze of a vsphere 5.1 implementation. The specific question that I have is should I put the Host vmotion traffic on my core flat network or on the Iscsi network? Thanks,Rob
View ArticleConfused about ESXi 5.1 VM Memory Usage
I am really confused about what I was just told by support on the phone. Maybe it was some of the language barrier between myself and tech support, so I'm posting on here for some follow up. Just for...
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