Hi
I'm busy doing a roll out POC environment utlising Auto Deploy yet when I get my stateless ESXi hosts to boot via DHCP and then the TFTP server i get the attached error in my TFTP server. Has anyone expereinced this before? The tramp file is pointing to the correct location and all windows firewalls are disabled and i've tried numerous times to download the tftp boot files incase it was corrupted. Also permissions are open for all on the tftproot folder.
Gregg
The advertising for vmware now is "better than xpmode".. while in terms of performance and capabilities in so many senses, you cant deny, you can run 64bit, duel cpu etc.. great.. ( I couldnt get xp mode to reliably run slackware, it ran the install and then screwed up)
one thing XP mode has over vmware, in my mind, again, without quesiton is its integration. Unless I really missed the way it works unity is really only available as a second start menu, and once you are logged into the vm. Whereas xp mode, integrates all installed apps with the current machines start menu, and quietly if necessary, launches the virtual guest, and runs the app. At which point the users documents is remapped to the local disk rather than the guests user documents, and everything.
For the average person, this is better and more intuative. Once installed you can call upon the menu, it will change to the appropriate virtual guest mode to allow it, and so on. Surely to make this version truly better than xp mode, this is something we need to be able to do?
Did I miss something? Am I being that stupid I missed it? or, is this something we are aiming for?
Hello everyone,
I have strange situation.
Small cluster based on 10 Dell R720 servers which have mentioned CNA cards and are connected to Cisco Nexus 5548 switches.
After vMotioning virtual machine from one ESXi server to another, in strange way this VM loses communication to virtual machines which was left on source ESXi host in the same vlan.
We can see that:
1. MAC addresses are travelling along with VM on Nexus switch
2. VM's left on source ESXi host can "hear" arp-requests from migrated VM
3. Migrated VM no longer "hears" arp-replies from VM's located on source ESXi host
4. After changing MAC address on migrated VM everything runs smooth
5. There's no problem at all with storage access, FCoE works like a charm.
Switches don't have any port security enabled. This situation is independent of load-balancing mechanism on ESXi, it's seen on both vSwitches and dvS (Nexus 1000V).
I presume that this can be problem related to drivers or firmware of Dell/Qlogic cards. Did you ever see such kind of behavior?
Best regards,
Peter.
Hi there,
I am currently playing with the VimApi via C# and i can not seem to figure out how to create a OSCustomizationSpec as I can via the powercli. I have tried to do this as well using the ONYX project however the output i am getting from Onyx is that can not be displayed.
It seems that PowerCLI seems to be very powerful and well documented where I am finding the C# API is not documented as well.
has anyone had success with creating an OSCustomizationSpec via the C# library and have some good tips for me on this?
basically i want to write a windows service that will monitor for .xml file that will have all the settings needed for deploying a vm template and then be able to configure it as needed. I would prefer to keep this all in C# and not call the powershell script from my C# application.
many thanks for any pointers you can share!
Jonathan
Dear all,
I am using ESXi 3.5 (Free version) and I am triailing Veeam Backup & Replication. The most I can get out of it is 5 - 6 Mb/s My VM is 570GB and the whole thing is taking 25 odd hours.
Is this a limitation to the free version or have I go something wrong??
Remove-VirtualPortGroup has an optional -confirm switch with a default value of $true.
How do you set this to false?
I have tried -confirm $false and -confirm false, but neither work.
I originally upgraded my existing vCenter server from 4.1 to 5.0 I have been having some isses with the server that I do not seem to be able to resolve. After discussions here, we decided to build an new vCenter 5.0 from scratch using SQL 2008 R2 for the database.
I took a host out of the original cluster and I built a Windows 2008 Standard Edition server and added SQL 2008 R2. I then loaded vCenter Server 5.0 U 1. so far, so good. I created a Datacenter and cluster without any issues. I turned on EVC and imported the host and guest without issues. Now that I am ready import the remaining hosts into the cluster I get an error telling me "The host cannot be added to the cluster's EVC mode. Powered on or suspended machines on the host may be using using CPU features hidden by that mode."
I'm having an issues here because all the guests on the hosts in the old vCenter were created in 4.0 or 4.1 using the Merom EVC mode and they are currently running Merom for the EVC mode.
I had something similar to this when I created the orginal 4.0 cluster and I had to edit the CPUID mask to make things work. That did not work in the first attempt to put a new vCenter server 5.0 into use. I took the vCenter host out of the new cluster I was able to add all the old hosts into the new cluster, but could not add the host with vCenter. I kept getting the host cannot be added error. I tried the CPUID mask and could not get that to work.
I'm looking for advice or some KB articles to help.
Thanks
Good morning,
I am looking to find out how to export script information into an Excel spreadsheet. I can see the data just fine but I need to manipulate the data.
Thank you!!
Get-VM | ForEach-Object {
$vm = $_
$Devices = $vm.ExtensionData.Config.Hardware.Device | Where-Object { $_.DeviceInfo.Label -match "SCSI Controller" }
$Devices | ForEach-Object {
$Report = "" | Select-Object -property VM,Label,Summary,DynamicType,DynamicProperty
$Report.VM = $vm.Name
$Report.Label = $_.DeviceInfo.Label
$Report.Summary = $_.DeviceInfo.Summary
$Report.DynamicType = $_.DeviceInfo.DynamicType
$Report.DynamicProperty = $_.DeviceInfo.DynamicProperty
$Report
}
}as i knew that for configuring vSS Nic Teaming Based on Port and Mac Address does not work if on the physical switch etherchannel is configured. So my question is this etherchannel should not be configured on complete physical switch (means anywhere on the physical switch) or only on those ports with whom that vSS uplinks are connected? Anyone any idea?
This is what i read it from ICM5 book:-
Hello,
I'm gathering statistical data from a large number of VM's, clusters and hosts and have found that several entities are missing stat types for the chosen interval. I don't manage these enviroments myself but need to report on any so that they can be fixed.
I'm using the attached script which LucD kindly helped me with, I would ideally like the same script to produce a made up value like "-99999" if the stat type doesn't exist for any entity it comes across (VM's in the attached example). Alternetively could I have a completely new script that I run across the VI enviroments that just reports on entities that have missing stats.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks
/M
In these tabs there is a value called unaccessed can anyone tell me about this. Picture is attached.
I've discovered some inconsistencies in a vSphere environment (ESX 4.0 hosts) I'm looking to help migrate from.
There are a number of RDMs configured where 3 out of 4 hosts have one LUN ID assigned, and the fourth has a different LUN ID.
The result of this is an error when trying to vMotion an affected VM we get an error along the lines of "Virtual Disk 'Hard disk x' is a mapped direct-access LUN that is not accessible".
I've seen a few articles (e.g. 1029786) that refer to removing disks etc. but that article is a little more confusing to me than I'd like it to be when potentially "destroying the mapping file" so I want to ensure I get things right!
As per that article, I've verified that the 5th & 6th characters of the VML file aren't consistent but this is due to the storage having been originally provisioned with an incorrect LUN ID.
(Storage is provided via iSCSI from physical FalconStor NSS appliance cluster.)
I'm hoping the following should work to correct this issue for each affected VM:
Should it be this simple or am I missing something critical?
Regards,
Paul
Does anyone know where i can confirm the hard compaitbility to use VSA?
I've got 1 x dell poweredge 2950 and 1 x dell poweredge 1950 and i've got to the wizard part of the vsa manager with choosing the esxi host but both hosts says unsupported hardware so i can't tick it.
Just wanted to check what was wrong with those hosts.
Both have over 6gb ram as needed, more then 2ghz processors, plenty of hard drive space.They have 2 nics.
Trying to remove snapshot from vCenter and get teh following message "The object has aready been deleted or has not been completely created". The only way to remove it is to go directly to teh host. That does work however is there an issue withvcenter that i need to be aware of? Thanks!!
Perry
hello ,
Can we setup the Windows 2008 r2 cluster in two diffrent ESX clsuters,is it possible ?
Regards,
Surya
I had a problem while opening the STAX wizard. I follow all the steps mentioned in the guide and i had this problem.
What slhoud i do?? The error is in this pic
Friends, someone already configured with Microsoft Lync PCoIP? I'm having problems. The audio from webcam works perfectly, but when I start the video to audio.
OBS:Using VMWare VDI and VMware vSphere 5.0 5.0
We have vSphere 5 in place and try to upgrade Windows NT 4 domain to Windows Server 2003 AD. I am running into a road block creating a Windows NT 4 BDC virtual machine and join the NT 4 domain.
VMware suggests that do not convert physical NT 4 domain controller but to create a VM as a BDC and join the NT domain then promote it to the PDC then upgrade the PDC to Windows 2003.
When I create the VM as Windows NT BDC, I have to join the NT domain. However, I can't join the NT domain since the network card does not work without SP6 install. I have tried AMD and E1000 network card under the VM but none works without SP6.
Opened a ticket with VMware tech support and was told VMware does not support NT without SP6. He suggested me to slipstream SP6 to NT installation disk but I haven't found a way to do it since slipstream service pack is not an option for Windows NT.
If you have figured out how to create the VM as Windows NT 4 BDC and join the existing domain without SP6, please let me know. Otherwise, if you know how to slipstream SP6 into Windows NT 4 installation that should work too.
Thanks,
Hien Doan
Trying to find the best way to power off an entire desktop pool I have running in View. Computers are used for training and I need to temporarily power them off. Don't want to do it within vCenter. Please advise proper method I should use to shut them all off. Can't find anything within the Broker GUI.
Regards,
Erik