Creating a separate vdisk for paging purpose
Dear Experts, In physical servers sometimes we do create custom paging file to a separate partition on a hard disk if running low on virtual memory. I would like to know if this also makes sense to do...
View ArticleUnable to Connect Serengeti to BDE - Check Certificate Failed?
Using BDE 1.1 and Serengeti .0.8. I can install both OVAs fine, and get BDE registered, but when trying to connect a serengeti server with the error "Check certificate failed. Select a correct...
View ArticleView 5.2 Persona Management "Files and folders excluded from roaming"...
We want to exclude AppData\Roaming\test_*.doc or AppData\Roaming\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects from the persona and we have added these to the list of exclusions but they keep ending back up...
View ArticlevCOPs licensing
A couple questions about per VM licensing with vCOPs If I license all my VMs with per-VM licensing, will vCOPs still allow me to view host metrics? Or will I need to do CPU licensing for that?I have...
View ArticleVMDirectPath I/O GPU Pass-through
Here is my setup and scenario I am facing: I am running ESXI 5.0 on a single host with a single Win7 64bit VM (Testing/POC). We are trying to prove that it is possible to virtualize engineering...
View ArticleWhy is this code so slow? (vCloud .NET API)
I apologize a thousand times but I couldn't find code tags. Anyway, why is this code so slow? There are about 70 total machines deployed and this takes between 30 seconds and a minute to run. Have I...
View ArticleUnable to Remove vDS from vCenter 5.5
Hi All, I'm trying to remove a distributed switch from the vcenter but it comes up with an error message box: "vDS SW-DCN-C1_C2 port c-40 is used by entity <not-found.> Virtual NIC 4000,...
View Articlecorrelation of changes logged in VCM environment to performance in vCOPS
We have VCM and vCOPS in our environment. The adapter for VCM is functioning fine as far as I can tell. The VMware documentation indicates that you can correlate performance issues identified in...
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Storage Health Status
Hi. Can anyone help me understand if the attached is actually "normal" like the status says. All the sensor messages look a little frightening to me. I am new to the community and am far from an...
View ArticleStartup stuck after "procMisc loaded successfully"
Hello VMWare gurus, I recently installed ESXi 5.5 on on home server running AMD 6344 with 16GB RAM & NVDIA 2GB AGP card. After installation, the host booted just fine, but once I enabled/added...
View ArticleVM Priority in a 2 node cluster
Hello,I'm new to this forum and have a question... I have a 2 node cluster. Each node has 192GBNode A has the Production VMs (USING 192GB)Node B has the TEST VMs (USING 192GB)If I reserve 192GB of...
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Storage Management Service Alert
Hi, We have a vCenter appliance 5.5 , after I configured storage providers and restart the appliance it boots up with the following alerts: Can anyone help us please? Thanks!
View ArticlevSphere booting stops at cnic register load successfully and hangs
Hi, Our vSphere suddenly hangs. When we tried to restart it wont restart so we rebooted the server to by pressing the power button for 5 secs.It booted successfully and we thought its just a minor...
View ArticleProblems uploading files using the vCloud 5.x REST API
Hi all, We are using the vCloud REST API to upload ovf packages, as described in the documentation VMware vCloud Director 5.5 Documentation Center and we are having some problems. While following...
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Yes I am a victim of PSOD while using E1000 Network cards
Hi Guru's This is a more learning why this would happen. I received the PSOD as per below screenshot; I know this could be resolved using this KB article VMware KB: VMware ESXi 5.x host experiences a...
View ArticleHost-profile: Virtual machine Startup/Shutdown
Hello, Currently we are using vCenter Server 5.1 and Auto deploy 5.1 for deploying ESXi hosts.I am trying to "enable" the "Virtual machine Startup/Shutdown" option through the host-profiles so that all...
View ArticleCannot install ESXi 5.1 U1 or U2, getting CPU_CORES ERROR
Hello! I cannot install ESXi 5.1 U1 or U2 on a Supermicro X10SLM+-F motherboard with a quad-core Xeon E3-1220 v3 CPU. It shows "CPU_CORES ERROR" claiming that I only have one core and it stops the...
View ArticleProblems resolved and problems accumulated
So, glad that VM Player no longer screws up API calls to wininetdll I admit, it was a useful distraction in not blaming microsoft for incompetent coding (at least for a while). But, now, if an update...
View ArticleUbuntu 14.04 guest: Shared folders /mnt/hgfs doesn't work (VMWare Workstation 9)
*** [vmhgfs.ko] Error 2I've read a lot of posts on the internet about this, apparently there is something incompatible in the vmhgfs module that it won't compile with my kernel (3.11.0-20-generic). I'm...
View ArticleVSphere 5.1 Compatibility with Buffalo terastation
We are looking for a storage server to be used in a two VSphere host environment. We are considering the below Buffalo Terastation. I couldn't find it listed in the compatibility site, I'm assuming...
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