VMware VCenter health alarm
Hi, I got a VCenter health alert stating that "Performance statistics rollup from the past day to past week is not occurring in the database".What does that mean?
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Lun numbering from different sans and enclosures
HI, I have been searching for this for awhile and cant find an answer. Just looking for some clarity please. I have a small environment, 6 hosts with 2 different sans. One hitachi san and one Hp P200...
View ArticleVDR Recovery of vCenter Server
Hi AllIn case of total destruction of vCenter server and VDR, i need to perform recovery procedur. To recover i need to perform next steps:1. Connect direct to ESXi host. 2. Install VDR from OVF...
View ArticlePurpose of Administion control
Hi, We have cluster of 10 ESX hosts in our network. Enabled HA and DRS. I have question. I can see that we have disabled Adminission control but the HA is enabled. Can you please let us know what is...
View ArticleFTP client on ESXi 5
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 ArticleHow to setup load balancing on view manager
Hi Guys, I'm new to the forums and new to vmwares product for view manager so please bare with me. I'm about to deploy the view infrastructure for our VDI deployment. Please see attached picture for my...
View ArticleIn View 4.6 user having multiple sessions
Hi, We have crreated automated floating pool in which the pool setting is no multiple session for single user.But we have a user who is having multiple sessions on his name from the same pool.How can...
View ArticleQ: vCenter 4.0 reboot?
Configuration is vCentre 4 and three ESX 4 (cluster) are on HP blades g6 and Lefthand storage. When I reboot vCentre blade, all three hosts also go into reboot mode so as my VMs. Tried to unmount...
View ArticleScript get information from excel to Vm description
Hello,i'm interesting to do a particular script with powershell ( if it is possible) who can get a data from my excel file and put it in custom field in vm description.In particular, i have a lot of vm...
View ArticleProvisioned Space for Datastores needed
Hello, I'm trying write a monitoring script which checks for overcommitment of datastores due to deduplication. It should send an alarm if the provisioned space is greater than the capacity of a...
View ArticleAdd a RAW LUN (RDM) twice at the same VM.
Hello, I would like to know if is possible add a RAW LUN (RDM) twice inside of VM? The idea is perform a simulation for Linux multipathing and for that reason I think is required show the same Disk/LUN...
View ArticleESXi 4.1 U2, HP Proliant DL360 G7 and Broadcom iSCSI Hardware Acceleration
I have been trying for a while now, with all possible drivers listed on HP and VMware sites to enable the hardware acceleration on Broadcom 5709 Quadport 1 GbE interface cards in combination with ESXi...
View Articleesx5i HA protected/unprotected VM
Ok, I have searched and read through all docs I can find, but cannot find the answer to the following. I have a new 6 node cluster running esx 5i, and two other clusters running esx 4.1.x.I have EVC...
View ArticleHigh Memory Usage VCenter
Several months ago I upgraded from vcenter 4.1 to 5, and at that time I decided to virtualize my VC system. Since that time I have noticed responsiveness is not what I am use to when performing tasks...
View ArticleHow to keep a VM on a different Host from another VM for load balancing
I have two VMs (servers) that I'm using for application load balancing and I don't want either server/VM to end up on the same host at anytime. Load balancing DRS is being used in our vSphere...
View ArticleError Heartbeat 6.4 with vSphere 5: "Caught Soap Exception while calling...
Anyone knows a solution for this error when the HeartBeat is trying to connect to the vCenter: First error: "VMwareVirtualCenter: Caught Exception: Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name...
View ArticleSide by side error 32 on Windows Server 2003 domain controller VM
Hi.I need to virtualize a working Windows Server 2003 DC (32 bit) on a, new, vSphere Hypervisor machine (ESXi 5) based on a Proliant ML150 G6 server with Intel Xeon 5504 @ 2,0 GHz (64 bit)To do this,...
View ArticleUnable to extend a VMFS volume
I have a VMWare 5 Essentials installation that i upgraded from version 4.I initially had 4 300 GB disks in a hardware raid. After the upgrade to version 5 i added 4 extra disks and used the HP software...
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Thinapped IE and programs
Hi, We have a number of thinapped applications that we would like to be able to launch from our local Intranet. Is there a way to run the applicaions through IE without getting the pop up boxes that...
View ArticleWer hat Erfahrung mit MSCS und/oder MSSQL-Cluster unter ESX?
Diese Frage hatte ich schon auf dert letzten VMUG am 19.01.2012 gestellt. Neben Patrick Häfner (VMUG-Leader) hatten sich nochmal zwei Kollegen gemeldet, die leider gegangen sind, bevor ich die...
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