How to buy a simple vSphere Essentials renewal in the UK
Having an incredibly difficult time finding anyone who'll sell me a simple Essentials 1-year renewal (cost <£52). I'm fed up with chasing the partner list and being told they don't do simple...
View ArticleSpecify Number of Cores per Socket New-VM cmdlmt
Is there a way to specify the number of Cores and the number of Sockets in the New-VM cmdlmt. I can't seem to figure this out. Should I be looking at a different cmdlmt? I am using powercli version 5.1...
View ArticlePETITION - Native Mac version of the VI Client
Copied from the Fusion forum...here's a better place I think. I'm going to start this old chestnut again... I'm here at VMWorld 2008, Cannes and I got talking to a couple of people. Now I'm not...
View ArticleESX to access The vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS)
Hello! I understand that VDS essentially a virtual network layer that provider inner communication between the VMs, however I was curious whether ESX has access to that info?Specifically, if I have a...
View ArticleMirage 4.2 Help Desk Admin Portal Authentication
I upgraded my Mirage 4.0 cluster to Mirage 4.2 today and installed the new Web Management package on both Mirage servers. I can access the File Portal and the Admin File Portal just fine. However, no...
View ArticleVMFS VolInfo: invalid magic number 0x00000000
I am referring your article on sanburrow.com on how to recover VMFS3 with LINUX Live CD. I have tried everything but this error is kind of dead block for me. VMFS VolInfo: invalid magic number...
View Articlevsphere 5.0 tuning and maintenance
Hi. I am new to the site and really, a bit newish to vsphere 5. Our original implementation was done well from what I knew at the time and recently I have taken over the administration of our vm...
View ArticleVMotion between 2 Hosts with different CPUs
Hallo, I have a server in my homelab that I use for VMsphere studies and I want to get a second machine to test advanced features like HA, Vmotion etc.My first server has an X9SCM-9 board with Xeon...
View ArticleGuest mouse pointer only moves on click when in unity mode
I have an Ubuntu 13.04 host running Windows 7 Professional in VMWare Player 5.0.2, and I'm having a problem with Unity mode. After switching to Unity mode, the guest's mouse pointer only moves when I...
View ArticleExternal Access View and Workspace
Have a question on external access with Horizon View and Horizon Workspace, thought i would ask it here as there seems to be more activity. We would like users to be able to access Horizon View...
View ArticleFusion on Mac OS Mavericks 10.9
I'm testing Mac OS 10.9 Mavericks.I put fusion on it and it's working pretty good at the moment. the only thing that's not working is : " Use all display as full screen" I've 2 screens connected to my...
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Error: Missing LVM Magic
What is the suggested procedure if:- a VMFS volume no longer automounts - trying to add storage wants to reformat the volume- the volume has the correct partition ID- it is NOT detected as snapshot...
View ArticleWhat software to take images regularly
Hi People, I am looking at datto product Siris Lite which essentially takes backups of your servers on a regular basis and puts it into a cloud.Its £599 up front plus £49 per month for 250gb but...
View Articlestart menu and task bar missing when RDP into win vm in unity mode
This is not specific to the preview version of fusion but maybe it can be addressed by the release... I use unity mode 99% of the time on my main work system with a win7 vm. Sometimes I need to RDP...
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Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller Cards
Hi All, Does anyone have experience and best practice recommendations for configuring a PERC H700 controller in an ESXi...
View ArticleWhat tools to run for benchmark?
Hi People, Relatively new to ESXI other than playing around but I am looking to benchmark an existing Win2008 Server running Exchange in order to tell me what sort of server I would need to migrate it...
View ArticleESXi 4.1 -> 5 / VMFS 3 -> 5 migration and live Storage vMotion
Hi Community! I'm looking at migrating VMs from 4.1 to 5 and then storage vmotioning them from old VMFS 3 to VMFS 5 datastores. If the old VMFS 3 datastores are presented to the new ESXi 5 hosts (4.1...
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Installing SSO second node in Multisite hangup
Hello, I am attempting to install the second SSO server in multisite mode and its hanging on the "vCenter Single Sign On Type" screen after i click "next" the vim-sso-msi log file says: Action...
View ArticleHow to move a single virtual disk (vmdk file) from one data store to another
Hi guys, I have a virtual machine with 4 virtual disks (e.g. 1.vmdk, 2.vmdk, 3.vmdk, and 4.vmdk) all located on one SAN volume (e.g. SANVOL03). How can I move just one of the virtual disks (e.g....
View ArticleApp Layer : Integration to Workspace
Current situation:App Layer does not have integration to Workspace.ThinApp and Saas application has integration. Feature request:Integration to Workspace. Give users right to "install" application (app...
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