vCloud Director High Availability
Dear Folks. Do we need to have any hardware/software load-balancer to load balance/provide HA for vCD server (multi-cell environment)? or does it have built in functionality of it? please help me to...
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 ArticleVMware Fusion support for Logitech T650 Touchpad?
Does anyone know if Fusion supports the Logitech T650 Touchpad? If so, are all the Windows 8 gestures supported? It seems this device will be perfect to simulate the touch screen gestures supported by...
View ArticleMake a fake RAID 1 for ESXI
Greetings, I have ESXi running from the 1st HD on a machine. I wanted to RAID 1 the other two hard drives, but couldn't since I don't have hardware RAID. For giggles, I used the "fake" RAID (software)...
View ArticlevSGA NVIDIATesla M2070-Q not working with vsphere 5.1
We are having problems getting our NVIDIATesla M2070-Q working with vsphere 5.1 if we set a vm to hardware graphics it gets stuck at 95% starting upwe have rebooted multiple time to no avail, and we...
View ArticleNVidia GPU not working for sVGA
Hello, I'm trying to get an NVidia Quadro 4000 workingin Horizon View 5.2.I have ESXi 5.1.0 build 1065491 booting with built-in video, both cards are listed in hardware. It appears I'm having issues...
View ArticleMaintenance Mode Required to Scan?
Our best practice has always been to put hosts into maintenance mode first, and then scan for updates with Update Manager. We are looking at implementing scheduled scans, and the only thing stopping us...
View ArticleAllocated space, used and free space for all VM's in a data center
I need a powershell script that will give me the allocated space, used space and free space for all VM's in a datacenter and then report as .csv. Thanks
View ArticleVM can only communicate with VMs on same hosts
I have a little bit of a strange problem and thought I would throw it out to see if anyone has any ideas. I have multiple hosts setup in Vcenter currently with a mixture of 5.1 and 4.1 hosts. The...
View ArticleMulti-Cell NTP Sync
Has anyone run into the issue where their cells will fail out of sync over time? I noticed this morning that I couldn't connect to the VMRC console and figured I would check NTP on the cells since...
View ArticleVAAI - Extended Statistics for NAS
Hi, It appears VAAI gives you the ability to see extended stats when using NAS storage. However, I am not sure how I could actually see those stats in the vCenter client.I don't see to get any...
View ArticleWelcome!
Welcome everyone to the MD/DC/VA community. I hope we can all contribute and learn from each other, and build this regional forum community! Feel free to post VMUG announcements, vBeer announcements,...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 management network no connectivity with two nics connected
IBM H Chassis populated with HS22 bladesBlades use Broadcom 5709S dual gigabit NIC With ESXi 5.0, system was running fine with both NICs connected (with static IP) in the management network settings...
View ArticleCan not login to Orchestrator
ESXi 5.1.0, 1117900vCenter Server 5.1.0, 1123961Standard Finally, vCenter Server and Web Client are working well and I am getting comfortable using it. I now want to get Orchestrator setup and I am...
View ArticleSSO can't survive a simple reboot... correction can't survive a password...
I've built up a development 5.1 environment with a few hosts and vcenter running on a Windows 2008r2 vm (on a different cluster). I'm running all services including SQL express on the VM. After many...
View Articleserver-flat.vmdk file
I have guest DC that crashed sometime in March, but I recovered the guest OS using backup. However, huge VMDK files(RAID 5 of which 2 of 4 drives failed) were not being backup. We sent all 4 drives to...
View Articleorphaned vmdk files script
I found the below useful script for finding orphaned vmdk files as seen below: Purpose : List all orphaned vmdk on all datastores in all VC'sVersion: 1.1Author : HJA van BokhovenModifications: LucD...
View ArticleMigration Host on 2 SANs and 2 vMotion Network
Hello, I am trying to migrate VMs between two clusters. I am using one host on the new cluster as the go between. That host is connected to both SANs and both vMotion networks. I seems like I cannot...
View ArticleInitiate Orchestrator workflow via REST/Post with JSON body
I am trying to initiate a custom workflow in Orchestrator by issuing a POST from a client (in this case Fiddler) with the parameters in JSON format in the body.So far i have been unable to get anything...
View ArticlePowershell/PowerCLI Dynamic Email Message Body with Datastores
Hello the following is related to this email but I am stuck in rounding the numbers Powershell/PowerCLI Dynamic Email Message Body I am getting an email with the following info:Datastore HealthCheck...
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