Persistent Issues with QLogic 10GbE nic - Appears and Disappears in vCenter
Please Help! We had a 10GbE card fail in a vitural host, 5.1 U1. We replaced the card with an identical card, but the nics never showed up in vCenter. After hours of fiddling with it, we installed...
View ArticleUsing more than 8GB of ram for ESXi
I am using a Mac Mini with 16GB ram. When I installed ESXi, the most ram it will allow me to assign to the VM that ESXi is running in is 8GB. Is there a way that I can assign it at least 12GB of...
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P2V Dynamic Disks
Dear all, We have an organisation who desperately want to convert a Server into VMware, however the disks are dynamic, please see image. Can anyone suggest the best route to achieve this? Many thanks
View ArticleVCA
When you are deploying vca and connect via web browser and the installation starts, you get to the static IP and dns information. It says to perform those tasks and then relaunch the wizard to...
View ArticleWhy different results of 'ping www.google.com' on three different CentOS...
Hello, I have three CentOS 6 machines running in VMware workstation 9. My laptop (running Windows 7 Pro, 64-bit) has an IPv4 address of 192.168.0.10 & a gateway of 192.168.0.1; my VMware adapter...
View ArticleBrownfield Installation - Where does vCenter live while installing VSA?
I was doing vSA 5.1 installation in a lab environment and wanted to try Brownfield Installation (vCenter and other VMs residing on the local datastores of ESXi hosts prior to vSA installation). The...
View ArticleESX / DATASTORE details in inventory list.
Hi all, Thanks in advance for all volunteers who helped me to understand little bit about power cli. today i came with a different topic in power cli. how to get the esx/ details and datastore details...
View ArticleWindows não reconhece pen drive / Windows doesn't recognize pen drive
Eu tenho instalado um Windows server 2003 R2 em uma VM com o Vmware workstation 9.0. Porém não reconhece de jeito nenhum o Pen Drive. I have a Windows Server 2003 installed on a VM, I'm using Vmware...
View ArticleCannot access machine on host-only network
I am running OS X 10.8.4 and Fusion 5.0.3. I have two guests VMs running Windows 2008 R2. One of the Windows server is a domain controller and DNS server, while the other does not run any services....
View ArticleCluster with two generations of AMD Processors
Hi everyone.... I have a ESXi 5.1 U1 cluster with 5 AMD Opteron Processors model 2216 and I want to add a new AMD Opteron server with processor model 6272. I want to know if it's possible to mix both...
View ArticleDR-IP-Customizer on Shared SRM Instance
Getting an error when executing the DR-IP-CUSTOMIZER on the target vCenter server: error: unable to locate the srm extention on the vmware vcenter Has anyone successfully run the tool with a shared...
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Using Powercli I having trouble modifying vm hardware and nic portgroup when...
Hello, wondering if anyone can help out, i am trying to deploy 1 or more vm from multiple templates, the variables are being imported from a csv file each line is a new VM with specific name, ip,...
View Articlehgfs file corruption when using different file handles to the same file in...
Hello all, I'm encountering a problem when using shared folders where files that are written to by a single process are being corrupted if another thread in that same process merely reads from the same...
View ArticleReport to list vm name disk(s) name disk capacity and used space
Hi Does any one have a script to list the following:vm name disk(s) name disk capacity and used space Thanks
View ArticleIt is absolutely impossible to obtain a license for HP Custom Image for ESXi...
As I said on a support call I've just raised. The funny thing is I have no confidence now and the clock is ticking, evaluation expires all too soon. Does anyone know how to obtain the free license...
View ArticleESXi inside KVM
Hello! I wonder, if it is possible to run ESXi 5.0/5.1 inside KVM (proxmox) ? I need to run few for testing purposes. I cannot setup any other virtualization software. I need only ESXi itself, even...
View ArticlePushing Updates - Only Deltas?
I have been pondering this for some time now. Does anyone know of a way in which you can push a package with the updates for a virtual application across an infrastructure that only carries the deltas,...
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How do I force a mount of a VMFS volume ?
I have a Raid 10 volume with a 700 Gb vmfs-volume and cant mount it with Viclient. How can I mount it from cli ?
View ArticleESXi 5.1: can't mount .iso files more than 3GB to Windows VMs
Hello. I do have one server with ESXi 5.0 and another server with ESXi 5.1. Both used for Windows based VMs.When I mount .iso file on ESXi 5.1 VM with size more than 3GB VM can't see it (no disk in the...
View ArticleMultiple vCloud Hosts, choose one using REST
Hello,This is my first post so please bear with me as I learn all the proper terminology. I have gone through Orchestrator training and know a little about workflows and vApps etc.. Now I am trying to...
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