vMotion config for large VM
i have a large 5.0 cluster setup with 2 Dell R910s with Quad Socket & 1TB RAM each. this is used for SQL vms. We have 1 VM that is setup with 512GB of ram. During a vmotion today, we lost enough...
View ArticlePlease vote for feature request: Add sudo to ESXi
Hi all, talking about AD integrated ESXi hosts. With ESXi 5.0 VMware has introduced an important improvement in AD integration by making the name of the infamous "ESX Admins" AD group configurable (see...
View ArticleConvertTo-HTML is hurting my brain
Before I start, let me say that I get the results that I want when I output the results to a text file. I am trying the run the code below, and I will explain what I am trying to do. I am filtering...
View ArticleView 5 Dedicated Full Clones Windows 7 Fails to Join Domain
Hi, This is my first time posting so I apologize if anything is inappropriate. I have 2 pools set up, both dedicated full clones, 1 is XP and 7 is the other. The XP pool works fine but the Windows 7...
View ArticlePortGroup Permissions
I am looking for help from community in building a script to report permissions on Portgroups. I have been working to work with get-vipermission, but have been having difficulties figuring out the...
View Articlesvmotion server to multiple datastores
Hello, I couldn't find anything in search but I think the CLI has this ability: I have a 3 ESXi 4.1U2 cluster to a HP P2000 with 6 volumes configured and mapped to each ESXi host. This is a...
View ArticleIs there a way to defrag a VMDK with ESXi 4.1
I am having serious slowdown issues with my older VMDK files. Even with no traffic on the server or iSCSI server. If I have a VM with two hard drives. One old and one new, the new one runs fast. The...
View ArticleiPad View Password Caching
The iPad is a mobile platform; thus it is susceptible to the underlying transport reliability shortcommings that come with today's wireless networks. iOS multi-tasking implementation leaves much to be...
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Connect-VIserver -AllLinked Issue
I've had difficulty getting this functionality to work. I get the following error when issuing command Connect-VIServer -Server VC -AllLinked:$true I have tried it a variety of iterations and still...
View ArticleVMware View with Sun Ray 2FS sessions to a Windows 2008 R2 Server
Summary:We are standing up an environment in which Sun Ray 2FS thin clients attached to Sun Ray Software Server (SRSS).We want to establish sessions through the VMware View Manager to 2FS appliances...
View ArticleWorkstation 8 on OpenSUSE 12.1
I got past the install header issue and then I gte this error: Cannot execute command ' ''\''/usr/bin/vmware-modconfig'\'' --icon='\''vmware-workstation'\'' --appname='\''VMware'\''...
View ArticleWhich is boot laoder used by Windows 7 ?
Which is boot laoder used by Windows 7 ? Wanted to cross check if it is NT laoder only !
View ArticleAdding Disks to my VMHost Server, what to do?
I've read threads about this and I'm getting the impresssion that you cant add extra storage to your VMHost without wiping the entire thing and restoring from backups right? the problem is that I have...
View Articlesyslog host not getting messages
I've configured a remote syslog server for all our ESXi hosts. Problem is, the syslog server appears to only be receiving messages from Vpxa. I want the syslog server to receive all the messages I...
View ArticleWS 8.0.2 and Linux kernel 3.2.2 work with weltall patch
So far so good. http://weltall.heliohost.org/wordpress/2012/01/26/vmware-workstation-8-0-2-player-4-0-2-fix-for-linux-kernel-3-2-and-3-3/#comment-1622
View ArticleSetting otherAttributes for VM reference
Hi,I am trying to pass on some application specific values through otherAttributes. The way i am storing is: ReferenceType ref= vm.getReference();ref.getOtherAttributes().put(new QName("erpDeviceId"),...
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SAN Strategy, SQL & Exchange, Dell MD3200
Hi everyone, For background, we are a SMB with <50 users. All the users are on our Exchange server (Database currently approximately 100GB, WAY TOO LARGE, but I digress), and 25 of the users are on...
View ArticleNetwork port group names
Hey Guys, I know power cli has so many commands-lets. and get-virtualswitch might help. But What I want to do to get the port group. I want to list all the port groups for the hypervisor. Also can i do...
View ArticleError conexión por vsphere a cualquier maquina virtual
Estimados Adjunto el error que sale no podemos conectarnos desde vsphere a ninguna maquina virtual, ya lo reinstalamos y sigue saliendo el error. por favor si pudieran colaborarme con este tema les...
View ArticleESXi4.1.0 and HP Smart Array P212 Sas + MSL2024
I'm trying to use a HP MSL2024 tape library attached to a smart array P212 .VMware just show's the Hp tape drive , but no changer device Has anyone tried such a configuration? Is VMware planning to...
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