Migrating Profiles from win2k3 TS to Win7 View
I searched around a bit and didn't find anything on this... has anyone had any experience migrating user profiles from Windows 2003R2 Terminal Services to Windows 7 using a Persona Management...
View ArticleBeacon Probing from the Network Perspective
Is it true that beacon probes are sent with a source MAC address of the virtual MAC of the physical ESXi NIC? Our networking team is seeing MACFLAP log messages on our switches because the same source...
View Articlememory consideration
I am in the process of upgrading the RAM from 92 to 192 on my four blades 460c G7. I have two options: 1333 Dual Rank instead or 1066 Quad Rank. Which one would be better for virtualization?
View ArticleVMware 5.0.3 hanging on OSX 10.8.3 - MacBook Retina mid 2012 8GB Ram (SSD)
Is anyone experiencing hangs on VMware 5.0.3 ? I was originally on OSX 10.8.2, VMware 5.0.1 (I could not use 5.0.2 because VMware crashed due to the Apple video update.) I started my Mac this morning,...
View ArticleUpgrade vSphere client to 5.1 U1 but using vCenter/ESXi 5.1 (not U1)
So I saw this recommendation from VMware: -----------Update sequence for vSphere 5.1 Update 1 and its compatible VMware products (2037630)If you are using vSphere Client in your environment, it is...
View ArticleAccessing VM Properties when Instantiating from VApp Template via AMQP
Hello, I am trying to determine whether VM's from an Instantiated VApp Template are using a certain Storage Profile. I am having great difficulty accessing this data without letting the task...
View ArticleDo I need two static IP addresses?
I am new to VM. We have the HP DL380 G7 server with two NIC plus an iLo card. When setting up the static IP for the vSphere, how do I know which NIC card I'm adding/setting the static IP to? Do I need...
View ArticleVMs that mysteriously change Port Groups (Network Connection: Network label)
In one of our environments we have over the last few days experienced issues where VMs mysteriously had their Network connections changed to a different port group on a vdSwitch. When we leave at night...
View ArticlePresent iSCSI Target to Guest OS
We are running ESXi 5.0 U2 in a clustered environment and would like to present a target on a separate SAN to a guest OS for testing purposes. Is it possible to present an iSCSI target directly to a...
View Articlemaintenance mode Question
How long does it take after exiting maintenance mode for my guests to return back to their original home? For some reason they are not doing it... I want to make sure there is no set time before I call...
View ArticleNew-Harddisk Problems
Guys, I wonder if someone can help me. I need to add additional hard disks to several virtual machines and am using the vSphere PowerCLI v5.1 against a vCenter Server running 5.1.0b. When I attempt to...
View ArticleSoftware Defined Datacenter – La evolución del Cloud Computing
Mucho se ha oído hablar en los últimos meses del termino Software Defined Datacenter (SDDC) o Datacenter definido por Software, termino acuñado por Steve Herrod, ex CTO de VMware, pero que exactamente...
View ArticleIs it somehow possible to prevent the USB connection checkbox? ("choose where...
I have a couple Mac OS X Server 10.6 VMs, each hosted on a Mac Pro running Mac OS X 10.6.6. These VMs run 24-7, but the Macs they run on are used for other purposes, too, so USB devices are sometimes...
View ArticleClash of the PoSH / PowerCLI cmdlets
So, I learned today the hard way that by adding the vSphere Powercli snapins to my PoSH 3.0 session on a server 2012 with the Hyper-V role enabled, that there are several cmdlet names that clash by...
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Hard drive size - 2 specs??
Please excuse the newbie question but I'm completely confused why I can mount, format and use a 3TB drive using the vSphere client but the hardware spec says the maximum is 2TB - 512kb? Formatted drive...
View ArticleThinapp IE7 running on Windows 7
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I'm trying to Thinapp IE7 (on an XP machine) and ultimately run on a Windows 7 machine. The Thinapp appears to build successfully, but crashes (on Win7)...
View ArticleDebian Squeeze guest idenfication
I've imported a Debian Squeeze 32-bit guest to ESXI 5.1. Using vSphere Client 5.1 Build 941893, I do not have Debian 6 (squeeze) as an available guest OS. (For the mean time I've used Linux Other...
View ArticleAccessing values stored in configuration element
I am modifying a series of workflows that used values stored as an array within an configuration element. The element is shared among several workflows, with it being populated initially via a webform....
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