WS7 to WS8
I have WS7 license, if I upgrade to WS8, do I need to buy upgrade license? thanks
View ArticleESXi 5 + BL25P (G1) in a lab setup?
Hi there, Today I took delivery of two decommissioned HP enclosures with 16 BL25p G1 blades (~2005/2006-era), all maxed out with 16GB ram, dual Opteron 285 processors. This sounds like an ideal lab...
View ArticleOne big flat Virtual switch vs multiple Virtual switches
experts, what is the advantage of having one big flat Virtual switch Vs multiple Virtual switches for all type of virtual machine traffic ( Management, Vmotion,Vm Network). Any improvement in...
View ArticleStorage Working but HDs oranges and comand vifs.pl not found
Guys, I'm in trouble. I'm working a weeks in my first VMWare ESXi installation and I don't know much things about it.Until now I could create a RAID with HP Smart Array and alocate this RAID on the...
View ArticleESXi 3.5 Failed to Boot
So I lost power to my ESXi 3.5 update 4 server and now when I power on the physical host the host can not find ESX and declares no bootable drive found. Any hints on what I should try to possibly...
View ArticleESXI 5 HP BL460c G7
My vmWare environment consists of ESXI 5 installed on HP BL460c G7 servers with Qlogic HBAs. When it was initially setup the images from vmware.com were used for install. We are now going to be...
View ArticleUsing NAS with Workstation ESXi 4
How do I point or configure ESXi 4 to make use of a NAS folder as additional storage? thanks
View ArticleWS 7.1 and NAS
How do I configure my NAS to make use of a NAS folder as additional online storage?
View ArticleDynamic DRS Anti-Affinity Rules
Hi All, I'm very new to PowerCLI and looking to achieve something a little out of my depth. I work for a cloud provider, we host lots of virtual machines on shared ESX clusters.These virtual machines...
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FT problem
hi every onei successfully created DRS cluster with two ESXi hosts , every thing is ok except when tryinig to configure FT for av2irtual machine : 1-when trying to configure FT for arunning...
View ArticleTrouble Calculating RAM for HA
Calculating HA for a vCenter, vSphere 4 Enterprise 20 CPU licence Two Blades HP BL 460c G1 x 16 GB RAMIntel E5420Processor Sockets 2Core per Socket 4Logical processors 8Hyper threading not...
View ArticleWill Workstation have better performance than Server 2
Hello, We've been happily using VMware Server in our SMB for years, but I'm becoming increasingly worried that with Server being a dead product we should look an alternative. I know I could use ESXi,...
View ArticleView Linked Clones and Thinapp
Do you use mostly use Streaming or Full assignments when assigning Thinapp packages for linked-clone desktops? Thanks, Mike
View ArticleTiered Storage....Kind of
Hi All, When I initially setup my View environment, I had a few LUNs for clones and a LUN just for replicas. When I setup a pool, I have been putting the replicas in their dedicated LUN. Lately, I have...
View ArticleMigrate VM and Upgrade OS
All, I have 2 version of ESX, 3.5 and 4.0, I would like vm which on ESX 3.5 moved and use by ESX 4.0 (done by vCenter Converter), but i can't upgrade the vm from Windows server 2003 to Windows server...
View ArticleОбратная конвертация v2p
Имеются ли каки либо средства для обратного конвертирования системы? илипроще поставить схожую систему с виртуальной на физический сервер установить все необходимые программы и накатить на него system...
View Articleesxcli: configuring a vmnic as unused for a portgroup
Hi, I am trying to script the esxi5 networkconfiguration for software iSCSI.(The screenshot best describes what I want to do). For this-I have a vSwitch0 with two portgroups iSCSI1 and iSCSI2.-The...
View ArticleFTP client on ESXi5
Hi gurus.. I'm running a few VMs on ESXi 5 which I need to backupMy backup facility is remote and only accessible by FTP (not even sftp) I've been googling for a ftp client on ESXi, and I found posts...
View Articleesxi 4 configuration to esxi 5
Hi, I have a little question about the config of the esxi. I have a esxi USB-drive on version 4 and i want to upgrade to esxi v5.As the installation of esxi 5 won't recognize the installation of esxi 4...
View ArticleV2Vコンバートができない
こんにちは。vCenter Converter5.0を使い、V2Vを実行しようとしているのですが、パワーダウンしている仮想マシンの情報を取り込む所で「選択したマシンのハードウェア情報を取得できません」と表示が出てそれ以上処理が進みません。...
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