VCAP-DCA Exam ??
Hello,I have scheduled my VCAP-DCA exam for 5th April 2011. Is there someone share their experience with this exam ? I want to get some idea about this exam, Is it more towards command based Lab...
View ArticleLost access to volume after upgrade from ESXi 3.5 to ESXi 4.1.0
Setup A number of Dell PE1950/R610 servers connected to MD3000i disk array via dedicated iSCSI switches Cisco 3750. Problem After upgrade from ESXi 3.5 to ESXi 4.1.0 hosts may lost and restore...
View ArticleVmware Data Recovery advice
I need a bit information about vmware data recovery in terms of backing up our virtual machines. We have a Data centre where we have about over 100 VM's, these are backed up by a 3rd party software....
View ArticlevCenter Plug-in manager: Plugins Disabled
Hi, I have a problem which is presented on picture below.I have read some similar problems, but I couldn't find a proper solution. I would be grateful if anyone can help me with this. Thanks in advance!
View ArticleConverter fails to connect to remote Linux machine.
I am running CentOS 5, and have installed Converter Standalone 4.3.0-292238 and enabled remote connections, I set the http port to 8888 and ssl to 444. I can browse to this from my windows server as a...
View ArticleAzerty Keyboard on IPAD
Dear, We are using VMWare View 4.6, throug a VMware Security Server 4.6, and we can connect using PC or MAc without troubles. Now, I f I want to connect trought an IPAD, the keyboard doesn't Match...
View ArticleHELP - Alarm Host connection and power state?
Hi.I'm running vSphere 4.1 on two PE 2950 hosts, named esx01 and esx02.The system has been installed and configured about 2 months ago.Until now I already received this alerts in email 4 times....
View Articlevicfg-cfgbackup command failing
Hi,installed and configured ESXi 4.1 Update 1. Added some VMs, all is working fine.I figuered it was time to backup the config and entered the following command on a Windows 7 machine with the latest...
View ArticleSlow performance on SAN with 10Gbe via VMXNET3
We have built a SAN using Nexenta and 10Gbe for our VMWARE environment and with some tweaking and testing I am able to hit up to 1GBytes (not Gbps) per second to the SAN using iSCSI from a Win 7 Guest...
View ArticleGuest OS is not showing volume in Diskpart
Hi All, Using Vsphere client I added Raw Device Mapping of volume to Guest OS, after adding the guest OS is not showing volume in Diskpart or Disk management. Please help me Thanks,Vijaya
View Articlepassword format in update xml file
Hi since Studio v2.1 the credentials to reach the update server are (at least) stored in: /opt/vmware/var/lib/vami/update/provider/provider-deploy.xml There is a value within which describes the...
View ArticleLoad Bance View Connection Server 4.5 over WAN
I have two large datacenters in the US. I currently have a very lage pipe with low latency between the two. I have a ESXi VDI farm at each site and 1 vCenter and 1 view connection server at one...
View ArticleView Composer trouble: "Awaiting shutdown for checkpointing"
Well, as the title says I have started getting failures with my linked clones. Everything goes fine until I found out the my postscrips weren't running anymore. So I started looking at the...
View ArticleBad read performance vmware guest(win2008r2)
Currently we're having an performance problem with our ESX 4.1 environment. Situation: Vmware 4.1.0 build number 348481 Vmware luns are configured with a 1MB blocksize. Hosts:3x Dell R710...
View ArticleLab Manager - vCloud Director (Licensing Conversion)
How do I convert my Lab Manager Proc Licenses to vCloud Director per VM Licenses?
View ArticleESX/ESXi evaluation mode
I'm studying for my VCP exam and just had a quick question about how evaluation mode works. I understand that it lasts for 60 days. And my understanding is that for both versions all features will be...
View ArticleLooking for the esxtop equivalents to Windows Performance Monitor parameters
I am looking for the following parameters equivalents for esxtop so I can compare performances. So far I can only find the equivalents for a handful of items: Performance MonitorvSphere Performance...
View ArticleInvalid cast from 'System.String' on Virtual Machines Tab on Datastores View
Hey everyone! So I have the issue that popped up the other day and I think it may be related to an indivdual VM, but I was not able to find anything on the net about my error, so perhaps someone can...
View ArticleView 4.6 - Windows 7 VM will not detect second display
I've been trying to resolve this issue for the last few days, any help would be appreciated. We are currently running View 4.6 with composer and Windows 7. We have a WIndows 7 parent image that a VAR...
View ArticlevCenter "Tasks & Events" Permission Problem
I have a vCenter and a Cluster with lots of different Resource Pool inside. What I am trying to do is a User can login to admin his own Resource Pool only but not the vCenter & Cluster. I have set...
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