Have multiple VCP certifications? - Request a version of the VCP logo with...
Does anybody have a sample of these logos? If it doesnt break some VCP agreement can anybody post this? I am still waiting for my 10 busn days to pass before my new logo posts. But I do wonder what a...
View ArticleView letting a user login and then disconnecting without logoff
We have several vm's most of which where built with VM version 7, they all work fine with view. After upgrading to esxi5 I built another vm and it's version 8. When you connect to it with view it will...
View ArticleNTP time source
I have configured My ESXi 4.0 hosts to use a NTP server. Question: If I lose my NTP time source will the ESXi hosts (or VCenter) log anything if they cannot find the NTP server? If so, where is the...
View ArticleWhere's My Lightning Bolt Icon Gone?
When I initialzed vSphere replication and created a protection group, the icon for the VM at the failover site has a nice lightning bolt icon.I played around some and now it's got a tiny 3-square thing...
View ArticleVMWare ESXi host pingable but not client?
I have a virtual Windows 2008 R2 web server running on our Intranet on top of an ESXi 5 host and up until last week everything was fine. We recently moved to a 10.50.x.y network and since then we...
View ArticleHow to create a list of Resource pools
I have a list of resource pools on one cluster. I want to create the same list on a second cluster - both managed by the same VCS. The nearest I can get is the following, but it doesn't work...
View ArticleUpgrade from Vcenter 4.1 to 5.0 on a new machine
I was reading the Upgrade documnetation. It says you can't use the datamigration tool to go from Vcenter 4.1 to 5.0 because 4.1 requires 64 bit OS.True but I want to install on a new machine on 2008R2....
View ArticleGetting Previous vCenter Tasks
So I am just having an issue finding where the previous tasks are stored Get-task only does tasks in the recent pane, and get-vievent only seems to cover the Events portion of the Tasks/Events tab in...
View ArticleClear the "HA initiated a failover.." Notice in vSphere client
I'm not sure why I have this alert as we haven't lost any power/network as far as I've been told. Either way, how do I get rid of the alarm that is up in the client?
View ArticleVmomi tracing Log Level
We are running HP hosts and have ran into the scenario described in VMware KB 1033921 where we get frequent CIM messages that can be safely ignored. We do NOT want to disable CIM as we DO desire the...
View ArticleIs there a newer version of viclient 4.1.0 345043?
Hello everyone, I recently installed 4.1 update 2 on my ESXi- host, now my Vsphere Client once I enter my ip, name and pw, presents 3 tabs, "run the installer, save the installer and cancel." I have...
View Articlelisting vmkernel port #s
I'm in the process of binding all the vmkernel port numbers to the iscsi vmhba using this syntax: esxcli --server 192.168.2.5 --username root swiscsi nic add –n vmk1 –d vmhba40 I'm planning on going...
View ArticleCannot pair VRM servers
I'm trying to pair two VRM servers in two physical sites in SRM 5. I already deployed a VRM server at both sites and created the database on SQL 2008 R2 server. When I look into the configuration tab...
View ArticleESXi hosts and vCenter intermittent disconnects
We've been seeing ESXi hosts disconnect from vCenter for approximately 2-12 minutes. After this period, the host reconnects back to the vCetner server. This happens about 2-3 times per 24 hours. DNS...
View ArticleRumba thinapp via ICA
We thinapped multiple versions of Rumba using thinapp 4.7. We deployed the thinapp via thinreg to a Citrix server. We published the Citrix desktop to the users. The users login, and open the Rumba...
View ArticlePower CLI script to gather RDM info
I've been unable to find this in the documentation. Is there a cmdlet or method I can use to gather a list of VMs in a datacenter that have RDM disks attached and info on those RDM disks, ie LUNID,...
View ArticleCustomization operation timed out : where to start looking ?
Hi,I am having a weird problem with a newly created linked clones pool of WIndows 7 x64 machines. For some strange reasons, as much as my others XP pools work OK, this one works randomly. If a request...
View ArticleUser profile app same to all users
How can I thinapp a java application that normally requires each user of the PC to do the install so that the application jar file gets installed locally in their user profile? I have tried thinapp and...
View ArticleGranting MOB access on HOST
I am working with ESXi 5 hosts and there was request from the security team to grant them access to the mob on the host server without using the root account. Created a local account on the host and...
View ArticleStorage training - EMC or NetApp? - What's the opinion of which to pursue to...
Storage training - EMC or NetApp? - What's the opinion of which to pursue to augment VCP credential? I am getting alot of employment hits for VCPs with Storage capabilities. I work with storage admins...
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