Best Practice for Creating NIOC shares
What is the best strategy for keeping a consistent, intuitive, allocation of NIOC shares in an enviornment with many different virtual distributed switches?For example, I have one distributed virtual...
View ArticleHorizon Workspace: installation wizard fails with SSH error
Hi all I have deployed the OVA file for Horizon Workspace via the vSphere Client.I started then the console of configurator-va.I answered the questions in the Horizon Workspace Installation Wizard...
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Unable to login to any vCenter or ESX hosts through vSphere Client
Hi, I am trying to connect to the vCenters and host through the vSphere Client 5.1 from my local desktop and am unable to do so.I get an exception that reads: I tried a re-installation of the vSPhere...
View ArticleFAILED: Unable to find the system volume, reconfiguration is not possible.
While converting a Server 2003 server to an ESX 3.5 server I received this message after 95% Complete. Error Reconfiguration failed. With a status of: FAILED: Unable to find the system volume,...
View ArticleTotal Processor script
Hi, Looking for a script that will return the total number of processors for all clusters / hosts. I want to compare this againts total vCpu to see what our subscription levels are. Thanks for the help...
View ArticleErrors, VMWare Tools
I am in Event Viewer in Windows XP, and in 2 days, there are many VMWare Tools warnings and errors. What is going on?
View ArticleIs Workstation appropriate for my small business
I appreciate your help. I have been evaluating Workstation 10 on my Asus Q550LF (i7-4500U, 16gig ram, 256 gig SSD, 1T HD) in a Windows 8 environment. I operate my own business without an IT...
View ArticleRaid 5 and Number of Drives
I am setting up new servers and I was reading the release notes on the 5.1 U1 and it gave examples of supported raid. I was planning on installing 8 1TB drives and setting them up RAID 5. The release...
View ArticleLicense... how does it work
Hello, When i look on my dashboard and look at toal events by hostname is see alot more "devices" then i am monitoring. Thats cause my devices sometimes show up twice.Once with their IP and once with...
View ArticleMoving ESX hosts (running on vDS) to new vCenter Server ??
Hi guys... as the title suggest.. can anyone guide me with the best way to move ESXi hosts running on vDS from one vCenter to new vCenter? Also, apart from loosing the performance stats, what are the...
View ArticleESXi 5.1U, Z87-PRO, Adaptec ASR-6805E
Hello, I am posting this to help somebody else to set up an ESXi Server with following hardware: - Intel i7-4770- Asus Z87-PRO- Adaptec-6805E To use on board I217-V Network Card and This particular...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Black Screen when opening VM console
Hello All, I installed a new ESXi 5.1 server and it is a member of a cluster of 2 ESXi Servers.One is 5.0 and the new one is 5.1 When i power on a VM on the 5.0 it works fine, after it boots and i...
View ArticlePowercli find phatom snapshots
Hi We are running into an issue with phantom snapshots on are data stores. I can search for delta files in the vmfs\volumes directory and find numerous delta files but it is not reflected if I do a...
View ArticleShould I See Two vmtoolsd.exe Processes Running in Guests?
I have VMware Workstation 9.0.1, and in my guests, which I'm trying to get to run as lean as possible, I see two copies of vmtoolsd.exe running, one by user SYSTEM and one by my logged-in username. One...
View ArticleSwitch between guest VMs in full screen mode in Vmware Player v5 and v6
When two or more guest VMs are running in full screen mode in VMplayer 4 we can switch between they with arrows on the pull down strip on high of screen.In VMplayer 5 (and v6 now) I didn't find this...
View ArticleHow Can I tell if a hypervisor is patched in vCenter using VUM or otherwise?
Hi, I'm doing an audit of a vSphere 5 environment. How can I tell if a hypervisor is patched with certain VMware patches (I've pulled a list of most recent ones from VMware security bulletin)?I'm...
View ArticleOrchestrator v5.1 - allow non-admins access to webview
I am running the Orchestrator v5.1 appliance. I have created a custom request portal using the info from here. However, I can only log in with an account that is part of the VCO administrators group....
View ArticleHow to set up Channel network when primary and secondary servers on different...
Hi, In LAN V2V config, when primary and secondary servers on two different ESXi hosts, how do we set up the Channel network? In this case, virtual distributed switch (vDS) needs to be used. In this...
View ArticleWhen will vCSHB 6.6 be released?
Hi, Does anyone know when vCSHB 6.6 will be released? Thanks.
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