Windows View Client -nonInteractive flag doesn't work
I'm using the windows 32 bit Horizon View Client (latest version) in a program to automatically connect to a vm. The "-nonInteractive" flag is is supposed to suppress error messages, but the session...
View ArticlePower down VApps before DB migration?
I'm running VCloud Director 1.5.2.x with a MS SQL 2008 R2 backend (2003 R2). I'm gearing up to migrate the director and VC DB's to a new SQL 2008 R2 (2008 R2 OS) server this weekend. What I'm wondering...
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Interesting (to me) Speed timing
So, I have Player installed on a slowish laptop.I have win8 Enterprise installed. Close Player with "Suspend" = 1:22 (1-m :22-s)Start Player from Suspend = 1:34Close Player with "Shut-down" = 0:33Start...
View Articlehow do i use the UM across more than one vlan/network?
I have many many vms in different vlans on 1 virtual switch. How do i report on those? The OVA installer wants you to install it to one network and give it 1 ip address. That works for 1...
View ArticleDisplaying alert message when Reopen button or link is clicked for closed...
I have a requirement to display an alert message whenever an user tries to reopen a closed request using the Reopen link at top or the Reopen button at bottom. I tried giving the alert message in the...
View ArticleVirtual Machine redundancy
Hopefully this is the correct forum as i am using esx 4.1 Here we go: I have x number of hosts. (ill be using 2 to explain but know i have more)I have 1 vswitch that runs all of our VMs bound to 2...
View Articlevmware-tools на ubuntu 12.04
При установке vmware-tools выдает вот такую ошибкуРанее не наблюдал такой проблемы при установке на ядре 2.6.x Есть ли какое то решение ? Searching for a valid kernel header path...Detected the kernel...
View ArticleWindows 7 QuickPrep CMID
I'm having an issue with a couple Windows 7 parents. I have KMS setup. However when I provision new desktops the CMID does not change. I'm using QuickPrep to provision new desktops. I ran this...
View ArticleDo you like the web vShpere admin client better than the old C# client?
I know the new web client works on any platform, etc. and I have downloaded the new web apps, because of the plug-in failures, but do you guys really like the new web client better than the old C#...
View ArticleCouldn't deploy vSphere Replication OVF
Hi,I'm trying to deploy VMware-vSphere_Replication-5.1.0.1-885064.ova. I can select local file source and I can review details and accept EULAs. I can select name and folder. But after selecting...
View ArticleProgrammatically assigning IP information to VMs using vSphere APIs??
I see that this can be done with a customization spec. However, this means adding a good deal of other information about the system using Sysprep. I do not want to change the VMs added by other people...
View ArticlePlayer, win8 and Truecrypt questions?
Hi All,I am trying the win8 eval copy and am waiting fro Truecrypt to finish encrypting the win8 System partition, which popped the thought to mind. Truecrypt will encrypt all sectors of a drive...
View Articlesyslogs and logs in vsphere 5.1
We configured and set up syslogs to a remote linux box but we don't see too much information in it. How many logs in vsphere such as syslogs, logs for vcenter server. What other logs are out there?
View ArticleScript to export Alarms from VCenter to analyze.
Does anyone know of a script, or how to script an exportable report of your alarms that are being used in your Vcenter? Need to know what thresholds are being set.Is it emailed or SMNP as an example....
View ArticleSRM Customise IP is Broken/Useless
Has anybody else experienced issues with SRM and customising IPs? I have 24 VMs which I recover using SRM. When I'm not using the customise IP option, they recover fine besides manually entering their...
View ArticleHelp creating partition via CLI
We recently upgraded our environment from 4 to 5Since then I have been frustrated and not having success creating new VMFS 5 datastores via CLI I am absolutely pulling out my hair trying to use the...
View ArticleLocation based printing; occasionally a printer is not assigned
We have 50 new HP T310 zero clients running the newest version of the Teradici firmware located in a library. When first deployed about a month ago we were running View 5.1.1 and using location based...
View ArticleLarge number of luns in a growing ESX environment - when to abort the mesh
I have a growing ESX environment. We started with about beefy 3 ESX hosts, 150 VMs and 10 volumes. Each ESX host sees all 10 volumes. No big deal, makes it easy to move vms and not be concerned...
View ArticleNetwork connection drops for 30 seconds occassionally
I've recently installed VMWare Player 5.0.2, to run a Windows 7 x64 Pro virtual machine. I did this because I've upgraded to Windows 8.1, and my citrix receiver no longer works, meaning I can't...
View ArticleProblems virtualizing Windows 8 OEM using VMware Converter 5.1 and Player 5.02
G'day, I recently purchased a Dell XPS8700 workstation which came with Windows 8 installed. I want to install Ubuntu (not dual-boot) on it but before doing so I wanted to virtualize Windows 8. So, I...
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