NIC's Per Kernel - vSwitch - iSCSI
Hi there. I'm planning a new VMWare ESXi 5.o installation in conjunction with a Dell EqualLogic SAN. My question is what is the best method for configuring the Kernels on my vSwitch. I have created a...
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Need assistance with vmview SSL. I have two connection servers; one for internal and one for external. We use a wildcard cert for our domains. I established mydesktop.domainname.com.I copied our cert...
View ArticleVMware Workstation 7 on Windows 7 host with 2 NIC cards
I installed Vmware workstation 7 on a Windows 7 host with 2 NIC cards. One NIC card is on the local network behind the firewall and the other is directly connected to the Internet. Only the Internet...
View ArticleMigrating User Profiles
Hi Guys, I wanted to hear of experiences or opinions on the best methods from moving from local Windows XP (v1) profiles to Windows 7 with persona managment. Ie View Persona Management, AppSense,...
View ArticleESXi5 Strange Networking, static IP set but can't communicate unless dhcp is...
First off, I'm very familiar with networking. So, I have an ESXi5 box (one NIC) that I move between two networks, one being my home network with generally the usual setup one has at home where my ISP...
View ArticleSRM Implementation question
Hi,My company has finished the first part of our Disaster Recovery. We have the DR site set up and we are using snapmirror to send our VMs to it. We are looking to set up SRM, but we're not sure what...
View ArticleTemporary Storage vMotion
I have 2 ESXi 5.0 hosts, under an Essentials Plus license, attached to a SAN. We are planning to replace the SAN. The least disruptive way to do that would be to attach the new SAN to the configuration...
View ArticlevCloud SDK for Java 1.0.1 request encoding
Noticed in the release notes that the 1.0.1 version of the vCloud SDK for Java that support for handling for internationalized characters was added. This appears to work for internationalized usernames...
View ArticleESXi 4.1u2 - Update Manager claims complete u1 and u2 is missing - Strange SD...
Hello together I'm facing a strange problem.We just installed a number of new ESXi 4.1 u2 hosts from the same ISO. Two of them are running fine, but one behaves really weird!! If I scan the host via...
View Articlehow to attach esxi 5 host across network to storage
I have a Dell PS6000E on my network. I would like to create a volume on this and use it as the shared storage for a new esxi5 setup with 2 hosts. The PS6000 already contains 2 volumes in use by...
View ArticleSRM5 Test networking
Running SRM 5, when you run a test of a recovery plan and the plan completes should you be able to ping the other servers and communicate with them or does the test network isolate everything at the...
View ArticlePCLI 5.0.1: Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -InvalidCertificateAction "Ignore"...
PowerCLI C:\> Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -InvalidCertificateAction "Ignore" -Confirm:$false Proxy Policy Default Server Invalid Certificate Mode Action------------...
View ArticleCan't start a VM - /dev/vmmon error - RHEL 6.2
Guys,Using RHEL 6.2 and VMWare Workstation 7.1.5 on a Dell Optiplex 790. Just created a fresh RHEL 6.2 image and installed VMware. However, when I try to launch any VM I receive the error: Could not...
View ArticleHow many ways to update ESX/ESXi host
To my understand there are 3 ways to update ESX/ESXi host.VMware Update ManagerVMware Host update UtilityvihostupdateVUM - update host, vm, vApps and templates (this one I am sure)VMware host update...
View ArticleQuestion complexe.
Bonsoir à tous ! Pour mon premier message ici, je vais poser une question complexe, enfin pour moi en tout cas. Alors, tout d'abord, j'utilise VMware pour lancer un FPS online puisqu'en fait, j'ai été...
View ArticleHow To Monitor Drive Health on an Intel RS2BL040 RAID Controller
I have recently installed ESXi 5.0 on new hardware which includes an Intel RS2BL040 RAID Controller configured as RAID-5. I am trying to determine how to monitor the health of the drives, either using...
View ArticlePowerOn operation not working
I have some vApps that the PowerOn operation is not working for soem VM's. Code run... isDeployed = TRUE, status=8 bool isDeployed = vapp.IsDeployed();int status = vapp.GetVappStatus();vapp.PowerOn();...
View ArticlevCO - Cloning RHEL 6.1 Fails to Find NIC
Hi, We are trying to use the cloning/customization workflows with RHEL 6.1 and, at the most basic level, getNumberOfNic() isn't working. In the same workflow, choosing a Windows VM returns a value of...
View ArticleDetermine the IP used? Issues with VMWare Workstation/Fusion, PGP Universal...
I'm trying to restore PGP Universal Server on both VMWare Workstation and Fusion. My local networks that I'm configuring this on is the 192.168.x.x network. I can install the software fine (it asks you...
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