DMZ hosts on Internal Datastores?
Hello All, I hope I'm posting in the right section, and that this all makes sense. Currently we are running two separate clusters, managed by vcenter. One for all of our internal servers and one for...
View ArticleVCD Upgrade Host issue
completed an upgrade of my vcd 1.01 lab to vcd 1.5 and as the final step upgraded the ESX host from 4.1 to 5.0, after the ESX upgrade i have the following error present in the VCD GUI. Failed to...
View ArticleVCP 510 Passed Today - VCAP Next?!
Hi, I passed the VCP 510 today - so am really pleased. I was a VCP 3, so have "bunny hopped" VCP 4 before the March deadline (phew!). I'm now going to set my sights on qualifying at VCAP level. Does...
View Articlevmotion broken by vdr
I went to move a vm from das to a iscsi shared storage, i recieve a message this method is disabled by data recovery. i am able to move any other vm,s other than this one. i stopped using vdr and...
View ArticleCold Migrate Failed - Need Help
I have vSphere Essentials and recently upgrade to 5. I have one host that is vSphere 4 and one that is vSphere 5 (both are HP DL160 servers, older one is Xeon E5520 and newer one is Xeion E5606 CPU). I...
View ArticleNew VM's can't ping on Virtual Distributed Switch
I've got an interesting problem where new VM's created can't ping ANYTHING if they are given a portgroup on VM creation. If the VM is moved to another portgroup (vlan based) and the IP changed, it can...
View ArticleAloha! Can I use commodity USB 2.0 HD's with my ESX 4.0 host and present it...
Aloha Folks! Good afternoon! Can I ask a noob question and ask the very smart folks here if I can use bulk commodity USB 2.0 external Hard Drives with my ESX4.0 host and present it as storage for...
View ArticleImport VM with VM Studio 2.5.0.0
Having some issues importing a Linux VM into VM Studio 2.5.0.0 using the command studiocli --importvm --name newVM -v all looks well, but makes me wonder if VM Studio is compatible with vSphere...
View Articlemove a VDT to another folder
Dear Gents hi Can I just move some VDT( Virtual Desktop) from pool to folder without moving all pool to this folder ? if yes then How? BR
View ArticleDeframmentazione VM/Datastore è possibile?
ciao a tutti,vi porgo una delle mie ormai solite domande . è possibile deframmentare le vm lato Vsphere??? intendevo proprio fare manutenzione sui file che compongono la VM quidni a livello di...
View Articleinstall window xp in esxi 5
i try to install window xp in esxi 5.the steps i perform shown in the snapshotsbut due to some problem(no idea what problem occurs as i am new in this field) window xp not installed successfully.please...
View ArticleCan Fusion emulate an OS other than Windows?
I have three volumes on my Mac Pro. One is a hard drive running OSX 7 Lion and is my primary work station. The other two are on a partitioned second hard drive with Windows XP on one (via Boot Camp)...
View ArticleLoginVSI Commands
Hi Guys, I'm looking at using loginVSI to simulate user logins but for some reason cannot get the command to look at a csv with a list of iser logins to use. Could someone please help me out with the...
View ArticlevSphere 4.1 vDS performance impact
I have built my vSphere environment on HP G7 blade servers with Flex10 virtual connect. first couple of weeks were perfect. after some time i started having performance issues with all my VMs...
View ArticleWebsite on Connection Server
With my setup I am trying to load up a webpage on the the View connection server (an informational site), I managed to upload the website, but it uses php so none of the php components are actually...
View Articleslow backup of xp vms with vdr
I am getting very slow backup performance on xp vms they are only backing up at 400+mb/min compared to 2008/2003 vms going at well over 1gb/min vdr is located on a different cluster than the xp vms...
View ArticleHow to check automatically LSI RAID 9240 controller health status
Hi,how can I check status of my controller ? ESXi5I can see it but how can I receive a mail or something other in case of drive failure ? (maybe from virtual machine running in the hostIs there a step...
View ArticlevCenter 5 install: Problem: LDAP tools not found in "C:\Windows\ADAM"
Problem: LDAP tools not found in "C:\Windows\ADAM" Brand new install on WIndows 2008 R2 SP1 VM. NO matter what I do I cannot get past this message. I have looked KB 2006850. AD Lightweight services...
View ArticlevCenter 5 permissions, ESXi 4.1 hosts
Hello, I have users assigned custom role with non administrator rights to perform basic tasks.I'm having trouble giving them rights to do the following:Shut Down HostReboot Hostclear the IPMI System...
View ArticleHow do you completely and securely disable sharing between guest and host?
Hello All- I'm implementing a rollout with Fusion 4 where I need to prevent file sharing between my Windows 7 enterprise guest and OSX Lion hosts on MacBook pro laptops. The goal is to have no ability...
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