Distributed port state find
Hi I am looking for a powercli script or maybe a one liner to find the state of a distributed port. We had a situation where they were applying patches to hosts in a vblock configuration. Patching team...
View ArticleVMWARE VIEW MANAGER LICENSE
Good afternoon guys! I need a free license of VMware View Manager, but where have vmware site of the trial license, I could not find! For this I need to be able to continue in my virtualization...
View ArticleGuest OS Quiescing - is Grayed out
Hi All, I am trying to enable vSphere Replication (VR) on windows VM ( server 2012), everything works fine but Guest OS Quiescing is grayed out. Vcenter and VR in Base and DR is version 5.1.1. Any...
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Host with 2 NICS + iSCSI - Best Practice?
Hi, I'm sort of new in virtualization and although I have some knowledge about network administration, but i'm not really a network administrator, so the question might be dumb Recently the company I...
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Show the State(InvalidState) of a machine via scripting
HI All,I have a problem with some of my VM's in my VCenter:Few ones of them go in an unknown state and aren't accessible for our users.When I try to start them via Power CLI I get the error: Start-VM...
View ArticleAnyone collecting Netscout data into vcops?
5.7 vapp collecting from Netscout? How and what is the use case?
View ArticleDatastore's Performance data
Under a Datastore's performance tab if I select <Performance> in the [View] dropdown I can see several graphs. My problem is that most of them state "no data available". Is there a switch I need...
View ArticleHow to set up VMplayer 3 network for VMs to comminicate with each other ?
Folks,Hello. I am using VMPlayer 3.Host OS: Windows 7Guest OS:Windows XP and Oracle Linux 5I need to set up the network and enable Windows XP communicate with Oracle Linux 5. I follow this tutorial...
View ArticlevSphere Replicator and Storage
Hi Guys, When we run Test Recovery , in documentation it says storage snapshot will be taken and all HBA scan will be started on all ESXi servers at recovery site.I did test recovery plan in our LAB it...
View ArticleCluster members with different management network addresses
Hi All,I have a Vsphere cluster which has 6 members managed by VCenter 5.1 . All servers are HP Proliant DL 380 G7. Now I'm in the process of cluster upgrade from ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.1. In addition to...
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ESXi 5 Testing/Installing environment?
I'm stuck with a very old network so I thought, lets start updating/reinstalling it with some "new" hard and software. So I pulled out a "server", installed ESXi 5 on it and hooked it onto my...
View Article"Vcenter alarm: ESXi 5.1 Host connection failure/ Host not responding"
Hello Everybody, I am facing a strange issue with my Vsphere environment and VMware Technical support hasn't been able to help me so far. The case is still pending with them for about 2 weeks now. We...
View Articlerandom network Performance on host, inter-host
network performance issue between host communication etc. we have 3 esx4 host in infras. lets say esx 1/2/3 esx 1 has VM A B C D esx 3 has VM F G H I When copying files from vm A to F , noticed speed...
View Articlemaintenance mode stuck at 2%
I have a 2 hosts cluster but when i put one host in maintenance mode its stuck at 2%. No cd rom is attached to any vms. no pending vmtools install. what is the problem?
View ArticleESXi 5.0 and VMTools on XP
We are starting to build our Test -View environment. We have to ESXi servers running the new 5.0 version and Vcenter 5.0. I am building our template computer (WINXP sp3), but I can't install VMTools...
View ArticleP2V vCenter 4.1 Server
We would like to P2V our physical vCenter server. I have done some research and come up with a plan. Can someone take a look and let me know if they see any potential issues and/or if there is a better...
View ArticleVMware and 16 core processors
Hello all, I hope this is the right place to ask this, but we recently just purchased a new server, and I would like to install VMware on it instead of just a regular OS, for obvious reasons. I've...
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Increased storage, but can't increase volume?
Have a single ESXi 5 host with local storage. Added additional drives to the array and logical volume. The extra space shows up on the datastore properties in Extent Device, but when I try to increase...
View ArticleQueryVMField.VAPPNAME causes VCloudException
I am trying to use the QueryService's method QueryVmReferences(QueryParams) and I am getting an exception with a message 'Bad request: Unknown property name vappName.' Here is the chunk of code that is...
View ArticleHow to use Option-Space/Tab shortcuts at Host level
In OSX I have Option-Space assigned to Quicksilver and Option-Tab assigned to Witch. In some vmware windows apps these continue to work fine, but in others/most they are taken by vmware even though...
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