Can not register VDP to vcenter
Hallo, i try to register the vdp to vcenter 5.1. I use the embedde SSO. The settings seems to be OK. But after the connection test, i get an error message box without text. If i change the settings to...
View ArticleUpgrading local hard disks in ESXi
Hi, I have a DL380 I am about to install ESXi 5 (with no VCentre) on and I am planning to install to USB flash drive and use the local disks for the VMFS store. One of the main reasons for this is that...
View ArticlePDX serialization and BigDecimal types
How do I deal with PDX and BigDecimal types? I have a class called "Product" with a "price" value in BigDecimal. But PDX doesn't have a "writeBigDecimal" method (And I can't find examples on...
View ArticleFind Host from VM
Seems I have several lost sheep. Is there a way with PowerCLI (or any other way) to get host information from a VM? I found out my client has several independent VM Hosts not in vCenter. They also...
View Articlevc 5.1 thin migrate uses thick!
I've stood up a new 5.1 ua1 VC VM on windows for our dev VI. The VI has some local storage along with an NFS datastore. I have stood up a new 5.1 Data Protection Appliance using thin provisioned disks...
View ArticleEvent: Device Performance has deteriorated. I/O Latency increased
Hi, Since upgrading to vSphere 5 I have noticed the following errore in our Events: Device naa.60a980004335434f4334583057375634 performance has deteriorated. I/O latency increased from average value of...
View ArticleError in Deploying VMs : Run failed due to failure of task (test_1.0,...
I've installed right version of java and agent boostrap. Anyone has idea?? Please help Logs are saying : May 31 2013 18:16:01.095 INFO [main] []...
View ArticleTo cluster or not to cluster...
Hi all, I have just completed a migration from vCenter 4.1 to vCenter 5.1 by swinging all of my 4.1 hosts from the vCenter service under windows to the new vCenter appliance VM. I have 4 hosts (All...
View Article1 vCPU is being used at 200%, How is this possible ?
Hi all, I monitored the performance of a VM having 4 vCPUs, each vCPU was having clock speed of 2.5 GHz. vSphere reported the performance as follow: core 0 : 5205 MHzcore 1,2,3 ~= 1000 MHz Overall CPU...
View ArticlePanic with VMWare Fusion 5.0.3 and Mac OS X 10.8.4
I had a perfectly fine working VMWare fusion setup with OS X hosts, for development and testing. Since I upgraded from Mac OS X 10.8.3 to Mac Os X 10.8.4, my computer panics as soon as I start a...
View ArticleAdmission Control Using Percentage of Cluster Resources Reserved Policy
Hi all, I want to understand something: I have a VMware HA Cluster with 2 identical nodes. Normally, I should reserve50%of resources (CPU and memory)at leastasfailover capability.This would meanthatif...
View ArticleSome kind of routing or security problem between hosts
I am having a problem and need some advice tracking it down. I'll try to give an overview of my setup and what the problem is. We have some software that talks on 3 different networks. Op-Primary,...
View Articlemy newly created vmfs volume is only version 3.46?
Hello, just trying to understand what is happening. I just created a new VMFS volume on my 5.0 (build 914586) and when I look at the version in vCenter it says that its version 3.46? When I look up...
View Articlehow to migrate View pools to a new datastore?
View 4.1 - Have all pools on the old NetApp using FC block storage. Want to move them to the new NetApp on NFS storage. What procedures will we need to execute to get this done?
View ArticleConverter standalone 5.1 crashes host on retrieving source machine information
Hi all, I'm kinda stuck atm. We are using 2 ESXi servers. I'd like to convert the servers of 1 ESXi to another.I'm using Converter Standalone 5.1. The source server is running ESXi 4.0, the destination...
View ArticleCan SRM use NetApp VSC quiesced VM backups?
We're using VSC to quiesce VMs and back them up, then initiate a SnapMirror replication. SRM only sees the most recent snapshot, which is the SnapMirror's and not the VSC snapshot. So when we test, VMs...
View ArticleConnection Error when using Client from Windows App store
Windows 8 Laptop able to connect using full Horizon View client from Desktop and able to connect using Browser to Security Server and access via HTML. Receive unable to connect to connection server...
View ArticleCold Migrate vCenter to new Hosts
Here's what I have going on: I have to migrate all VM's from our old hardware environment to new one. We are basically replacing all hosts and the underlying storage. I was going to add the new hosts...
View ArticleVmware Tools Installation Fails
Host Windows 8Guest Debian Sid VMware Tools fails (as it does in VMWare 9) with following error message: Creating a new initrd boot image for the kernel.update-initramfs: Generating...
View ArticleWith virtualHW.version = "10" I would expect larger vmdks
I thought one of the new features of virtualHW.version = "10" would be the removed 2TB size limitation for vmdks.Will this be added in the release version ? I noticed that using vmdks larger than 2 GB...
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