How to limit number of user sessions on vCenter?
Plese how to limit maximum possible vSphere Client sessions of one user to vCenter? Ideally to prevent multiple logins of one account to vCenter.
View ArticleAvamar Gen 4 not taking snapshots of Vcenter or SQL VM's
So in one of our domains that we manage I have an EMC Avamar system backing up our Vcenter which is working fine using Proxies. We have an isolated cluster for our Vcenter server and Vcenter SQL...
View ArticleNeed help with vSphere PowerCLI script to report on all Thin Provisioned...
Hello I am having trouble writing a script to list used, total % provisioned space and free space for all data stores using the vSphere PowerCLI (formerly VI toolkit). I'd basically like to know what...
View ArticleVCAP-DCA Scheduled for tomarrow
Have my test tomarrow and using today to review other peoples experiance on the exam. I figure If I can minimize the wasted time with the lag I'm reading about in the test, it will allow me to maybe...
View ArticlevCenter Web Service Authentication Fails
Hello, I am having an issue authenticating to the web service on vCenter 5.0. Here is the situation: Case 1: vCenter 5.1Setup a Windows account in vCenter with read-only permission.The authentication...
View ArticleESXi 5 critical Issue
I have 20 standalone ESXi 5 Servers in the vmware farm . For some reason we did not put them in cluster & SAN is not attached. all 20 esxi 5 servers have only their local storage . I am facing many...
View ArticleESX SNMP ISSUE
" /var/run/vmware/tickets/vmtck-52 .XXXXXX Could not be created by the application " hosted-worker" " --- i have been getting this error after configuring SNMP traps on esx for netcool ( monitoring...
View ArticleQuestion about MAC addresses Automatic vs Manual
Hi I am running 2 physical hosts with vsphere Essentials Plus. I have been using the automatically generated MAC address for each virtual machine to register them with our DHCP server (every MAC...
View ArticleESXi 5.1.0 do not TAG VLAN frames - BUG REPORT
Hello, in my scenario I am using more virtual switches. Traffic between VLAN xxx portgroup and TRUNK (4095) port group inside vSwitch2 is NOT tagged! VM1 - virtual Linux firewall with 2 NICs and more...
View ArticleMigrate but DO NOT restart VMs with HA?
I have a scenario where I want HA enabled, but on certain VMs, I don't want HA to restart the VMs on another host if there is a failure, but I want the VMs accessible. The closest option that I saw...
View ArticleVMDirectPath and ATI Radeon
I am using VMware ESXi and I am trying to setup a guest that is Windows 7 that will have an ATI Radeon video card passed through to it. I actually had this working on a previous system but I had to...
View ArticleWin 7 64-bit host and Server 2008 SP2 64-bit guest. System periodically slows...
The hardware isi7-2655LE with a QM67 chipset, 8GB memory and 500GB hard drive.The host system is just there to launch the image and I do not want the user to be able to access the host system.Image...
View ArticleWhat LUN does an RDM point to?
I am in the process of updating some home grown ESX 4.1 U3 service console disaster recovery scripts to run in the vMA with ESX 5.1 U1. I have run into an issue. Under the service console on 4.1, I...
View Articleram disk full on ESXi 5.0
Hello,The vmkernel log on my ESXi 5.0.0 machine is full of the following: WARNING: VisorFSRam: 227: Cannot extend visorfs file /var/log/ipmi/0/.sel_header.raw because its ramdisk (root) is full.I have...
View ArticleDoes VCENTER control access to external objects
Going through the database STIG I am attempting to find out what controls access to the external objects referenced within the VCENTER database but stored externally to the database. I need to know...
View ArticleProblemas para que vmware vea mis interfaces de red
Buenos Días, Tengo windows8 y he intentado crear con vmware player y Workstation una maquina Linux. Por mas que lo intento, y créanme, lo llevo intentando muchas veces después de leer en foros,...
View Articlejava sdk vcloudclient ssoLogin() w/ samlassertion
Hello, I am attempting to login using the java sdk's vCloudClient ssoLogin method. I have configured a vcd organization to use a saml idp (openam) and can successfully login with an account from the...
View ArticleCtrl-Alt-Del "secure attention sequence" screen requires clicking on user tile.
On our active directory domain joined golden image with default credential providers, when a user resumes from screen saver or unlocks the screen, they are immediately presented with a field to type...
View ArticleVMware offering Mock Exam
Does VMware offer some practice lab questions like they do with the VCP certification. I am looking for some mock exams for practice. I have the ones from Sean Crockston. and NTPRO. Thanks. Ed
View ArticleOva build issue over ssh on vmstudio
Issue related to VMstudio build 1. stduiocli command throwing error whenbuilding via ssh "Failure:Unable to reset process group id" 2. with help of vabs.pl we able create OVFs, butwhen...
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