PowerCLI and Host Profile Configuration selections
All, When using Host profiles, we have to ability to check and uncheck settings.This way we can disable configurations to be applied or checked for compliance.(in the vSphere Client, right-click the...
View ArticleVDP upgrade?
I'm trying to test upgrading the VDP appliance from 5.1.0 to 5.1.1 via the upgrade iso package and following the upgrade instructions in the VDP admin guide. I get as far as step 10 in the installing...
View ArticleVM's power(on/off/running) status?
how to find the VM's status(ON or OFF or RUNNING) status through perl script??
View ArticlePreserving the MAC
Do any of the View operations (Refresh, Recompose, Rebalance) preserve the MAC address of the NICs? I've read that at least in versions prior to 5 that all of these operations cause the MAC to be...
View ArticleUnity + Lync 2013 = lots of windows.
Unity and LYNC 2013 don't seem to get along quite well. When you open a chat window, 4 windows open along side it, if you open 2, you get 8 windows (they are all blank/no substance/nothing to...
View ArticleEditing Nat and host-only settings (vmnetcfg.exe)
Using VMware Player 5.0.2 I try to edit settings for Nat and host-only network connections.In the past I used vmnetcfg.exe but it looks it'not available anymore.What can I use to configure the network...
View ArticleWays to monitor health status of the Dell servers running ESXi 5.1
I know that Dell has the OpenManage Essentials and the vCenter Plugin for monitoring the health status of the Dell servers running ESX, but we are having a lot of trouble getting OpenManage to work...
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Slow Multi-Tasking performance...
Quick rundown of scenario:I have a group of Cost Accountants who use VDI's in my main production environment to offload enormous Excel Pivot table processes on so it doesn't lock up their laptops.We...
View Articlethe best form to configure CPUs on VMs (number of virtual sockets x number of...
Hi, I have a HP ML110 G7, with a Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1220 (Quadcore, 3.10 GHz), and i will configure two VMs, one Win2008SeverR2 and one LinuxDebian 6.I have found some tutorials about...
View ArticleAfter customized clone of Windows 2003, the customization page is taking...
After the clone was finished I started it up. Then it rebooted and started the customization process. Then it said waiting for windows to start. This was hours ago. All that happens is a series of...
View ArticleSlow transfer of VMs to ESXi - will a license key help?
I have researched this issue and seen no answer for this anywhere... but I still have to solve the problem. Transferring our VMs from Server 2.0 to ESXi 5.1 is taking an extraordinarily long time. For...
View ArticleUpgrade vCenter Server 5.1
Dear, In upgrade process vCenter Server 5.1 from vCenter Server 4.1. When register vCenter Server with Single Sign On, at Lookup Service URL, in SSO_host_FQDN_or_IP, I type the localhost that I...
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Port forwarding inside of virtual network.
Hi!I have a two virtual machines inside of my virtual environment based on one ESXi host - one is Firewall and second is an ordinary server with running some services on em.I have three physic network...
View ArticleVMWARE VIEW
Hi, I have the following infrastructure.3 X ESXi 5.1 host1 X vCenter Server1 X vConverter server separateSAN Storage with 10GB network.8 X Windows 2008 based virtual Machines and still migrating...
View ArticleRequired permissions for user (non root) on ESXi 5.0
What permissions need to be set on ESXi server to allow upload of VMs from Workstation 9 to ESXi 5.0 without having a vCenter Server? For information, I keep getting an error: "Upload failed:...
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Guidelines for *Host* disk space - Fusion 4
Currently running Win 7 as a guest OS on Macbook Pro (Mac OS 10.7.5). I have a 750GB disk which is currently allocated 80GB to Host and 670GB (pre-allocated) to VM. (Recognizing now, this was a rookie...
View ArticleChoose best OS architecture, which is better x86 or x64?
Hi, I want to deliver virtual desktop to office workers and I have limitation on resources, memory and CPU.I need to advise about OS architecture, which has better performance on x64 processor and ESXi...
View ArticleI think I am lost. How can I create several VMs from 1 image for different AD...
Hello.I have been reading lots of documents and downloaded trials from VMware website but I cannot realize how to make the following things: Create/install one Windows image, like WIndows 8. Like a...
View ArticleQuery List of extensions
Hello Is there a mechanism to programatically query the list of extensions registered on a vcenter server? ThanksLiz
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