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Vm doesn't restart automatically in PDL status
Hello everyone,... For 1 week now we put in place a VPLEX infrastructure with vmware infra (vcenter 5.1.0b, esxi 5.1.0a, metro cluster). And tests after tests, when we are in PDL status (permanent...
View ArticleVMware Tools won't install on Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.4
We have a vCenter Server 5.0.0 managing an ESX 4.1.0 host running a VM with Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.4 installed. Choosing "Install/Upgrade VMware Tools" from the VM's menu initiates the task, but...
View ArticlevCOPS 5.7 login via URL credentials
We are running vCentre Operations Manager 5.7, and want to have a dashboard displayed on a View Client. Is it possible to do the following in the URL string:- Pass login credentials through- Specify...
View ArticleBasic XML parsing using E4X syntax
Hi there, I'm going crazy with E4X parsing. I'm trying to parse a rather simple XML document but I can't seem to find a way to parse what I need. I'm trying to extract vApps name (only 1 vApp in this...
View ArticleGetting Lotus Notes in Fusion to open URLs in Mac Browser
Running Lotus Notes 9.0 in VMWare 5.0.3 on Mac OS X ML 10.8.4. I have set the preference in LN to run on the OS preferred Web Browser. I have set the preference in VMWare to "Open Web Files and links"...
View ArticleInitial seed
Hi, How do you guys handle the initial seeding of data? Our situation is this:We have our primary SAN and ESXi-infrastructure at site A. Also at site A we have a spare SAN. We want to copy (seed) all...
View ArticleAppHangB1
About 10 or more times a day my VM hangs for upwards of one minute and Windows 7 (service pack one) reports that vmware.exe has stop responding. The problem signature reported by Windows is Problem...
View ArticleConfig Information Unavailable for certain servers
I'm curious if anyone has a normal troubleshooting process they follow when specific information on a server is unavailable. I have a few Windows servers that are missing and IP addresses. It shows...
View ArticleThinApp Webex Add in
Trying to thinapp webex add in but it keeps going back to the main page if you look at managed add ons the GCPContainer is there and set to enabled but the activex doesn't launch the add on
View ArticleHow to setup Orchestrator 5.1 with SSO multisite/Vcenter Linked mode
Hello all, Just wondering on how you would go about setting up Orchestrator 5.1 in a SSO multi-stie with vCenter in Linked mode Currently our setup is as such Site1 VC01SSO01VCSQL01 Site2...
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Esx 4.1.0 error vCLI when configuration backup
Hi, I have a Esx 4.1.0 Build 260247, when I try do configuration backup with the command vicfg-cfgbackup.pl --server <insert IP address of name of server here> -s <Where you want it saved...
View ArticleIs it possible to have a NAS device which all VMs have access to?
So we have an IBM storwize v3700 on our network, and ideally we'd like to have it so all out of virtual machines are able to access it, and share data across them. Basically mount it as one large...
View ArticleVmware View Connection Server
Can you run the Vmware view connection server over HTTP and not HTTPS? We are currently running it over HTTPS and would like to run it on Port 80 if possible. Please advise. ThanksMike
View Articleassing fiber card to a virtual machine
How I could assign a fiber card to a virtual machine in ESXi 5.1?, I connected it, my Vcenter recognized it, but when I try to assign as device into a virtual machine, doesn't see it. Please a little help
View ArticleWin 2008 R2 guest shutdown with MONITOR PANIC: vcpu-0:ASSERT error
ESXi: 5.0.0 Build: 4692512Host server: Dell R710, dual core with 80Gb (10 x 8GB in optimised mode)Guest: Windows 2008 R2 Web Edition My Win 2008 guest VM shutdown unexpectedly. The error in the log is:...
View ArticleHow do I determine if I am running on a VM?
I've come to a dead-end I appreciate your help. I am running my .Net C# app on windows 7 OS on a VM and want my C# code to determine whether I'm running on a vmware VM or a physical host. Right now I...
View ArticleScript to set the CPU and Memory for VMs
Hi All, We have an environment with 100s of VMs. We have classified these VMs and each category will have specific vCPU and vMem. An excel / csv sheet has the list of VMs along with the vCPU and vMem...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Host HA status is showing as Election
Hi, I have a 4 node ESXi 5.1 HA and DRS Cluster. Recently I have replaced the SSL certificates of all these hosts and before performing this activity I had disabled the HA. Now, post replacing the SSL...
View Article256GB (16x16GB) @ 1600Mhz or 512GB (16x32GB) @ 1333Mhz?
Hi! We're looking at adding two blades to our cluster consisting of six BL460c G6 and two BL460c G7 all at 192GB. The two scenarios include two BL460c Gen8 with E5-2970 processors. The question is the...
View ArticleScript to set Virtual Machine Settings in Storage DRS?
Hello,I've looked but haven't found a script out there to do this and don't see it in the provided PowerCLI Cmdlets documentation. Does anyone know how to set the virtual machine options for storage...
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