Inconsistant data in performance reports
Hi,My environment is vCenter Server 4, vSphere ESX 4, and PowerCLI 5.1Right now I am gathering the resource pool cpu performance data using powercli for a monthly performance report..I use the get-stat...
View ArticleHow to detect usb/uninstall vmware player completely
Hi everyone, my vmware player can not detect any usb (removable device) after i do some changes. I don't really remember what did i do, maybe add a hard disk using physical disk option. Now i want to...
View ArticleKeyboard not working properly - Wrong Characters & Caps Lock REVERSED
I have found some weird behavior of the keyboard (Spanish ISO) on Mac OS X Server 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard Server) on VMware Fusion 5.0.3 on OS X 10.8.3 (Mountain Lion): 1. In all cases on Snow Leopard...
View ArticleHow to start up in safe boot or safe mode INSIDE a virtual machine?
How to start up in safe boot or safe mode INSIDE a virtual machine? Mac OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1564 In a Mac, you do it pressing the Shift key until you see...
View ArticleNo heart beat issue with ESXi 5.1
I have fresh installation of ESXi 5.1 which is crashing quite often. Almost everyday I can see purple screen with no heart beat. I am using custom made server which was working fine on 4.1 and since...
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vMotioning Thin disks from Oracle NAS (NFS) to NetApp NAS (NFS) results in...
Hey everyone, I've got an issue that I can't quite get an answer to...from VMware or NetApp...at least as of yet anyways. I've got an Oracle 7420 which has caused us some heartache with VMware living...
View ArticlevCenter Server Appliance - network settings
Hi, i have a vCenter Server Appliance 5.1.0.5300 Build 947940. After upgrading vom 5.0.x i have the following problem: Networking - Address: My appliance has got a hostname, IPv4 default gateway, two...
View ArticleReceiving error trying to upload Auto Deploy images
Hi Guys, First post here, hoping someone can provide some insight. I've downloaded an ESXi Image using PowerCLI and the Online Repository for my AutoDeploy setup. I'm receiving an error when attempting...
View ArticleHow to add extra vmdisk if more than 1 SCSI controller and more than 6 disks...
Hi,I would like to script the (extra) disk addition to VMs. The only available parameters are VM name, Size of disk in GB, and DatastoreName where to create it.The challenge (i guess need to do this in...
View ArticleModifying path information for ESXi/ESX hosts
Good morning all! I hope you guys can help me. I have about 47 hosts that I am needing to change there storage path information to Round Robin. If I make the change in vCenter and reboot the host it...
View ArticlevCenter Appliance 5.1 Active Directory not functioning
This is brand new VCA not an upgrade. I've not added any VM's to it yet. I cannot log in to the VC with my Windows credentials from the vSphere client. I get an error "A general system error occurred:...
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Problem installing vCenter Server Update 2
I'm trying to install vCenter Server Update 2 on my existing vCenter server (Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise 64-bit). When I start the installation, it progresses until it gets to "Installing Charting...
View ArticleCan't get past 10%
Hello, I am trying to get up and running with ThinApp Factory, but cannot get it to virtualize one single application. For example, I am trying to thinapp an older version of Firefox (3.6). When I go...
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SRM & VSPHERE REPLICATION REGISTRATION
Hello all .Help is needed.I have the following environment: Vcenter 5.1.0.Build 947673 vi client 5.1.0 Build 941893 esxi 5.1.0 Build 799733 & SRM 5.1.1 Build 1082082.After deploying VR...
View ArticleVMware Guest OS shutdown despite adequate space
We had a Guest OS shutdown and refuse to start saying the datastore was out of space, yet the datastore had 60 GB of available space. Has anyone seen this before? If so, what did you do to sort it out?
View ArticleProtocol failure in VMware view administrator 5.1
Hi Team, We are using VMware View 5.1 & getting "Protocol Failure: on one Pool.We have disable & enable the provisioning,after provisioning,it goes to customize, start up & gives Protocol...
View ArticleHorizon Kerberos not working
I have followed the directions an the Horizon website still won't auto login with IE, neither will the Horizon workspace client. where would I look in the logs to start troubleshooting this. the...
View ArticleVMware Tools and vHardware Updates
Is there any way to automate the upgrade/update of VMware tools and vHardware on 800 virtual machines? Someone out there must have a powercli script of something. Thanks,jd
View ArticlevCloud Director and vCenter
Hi everyone I am currently working for a company that have a MSP looking after their VMware environment. They have installed vCloud Director. Now, I am unable to add interfaces to VM's in the vCloud...
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vSphere Web Client 5.1 the “Use Windows session authentication” is grayed out
vSphere Web Client 5.1 the “Use Windows session authentication” is grayed out after install on Client Integration plug-in. It works in Crome but not iE... Tried:1. reinstall (deleted, reinstalled and...
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