VMware Certification Announces Upgrade Path from VCDX4 to VCDX5
Following the release of the VCAP5-DCD Beta exam results, the VMware Certification Team is pleased to announce the upgrade path from VCDX4 to VCDX5. Current VCDX4 holders in good standing will be able...
View ArticleThinApp Citrix Receiver 3.2
Hi Guys, I am trying to create a ThinApp package of Citrix Receiver 3.2 for Windows. Capture Machines:- Windows 7 x86 SP1 with VMware ThinApp 4.7.1 installed;- Full administrator rights;- Nothing...
View ArticleBit by the 2k8R2/phantom NIC bug
Aloha, Yes I have read everything about this and none of the fixes seem to work. I am now sitting here with a 2k8R2 VM that thinks it has three NICs but VMWare shows only one. BGInfo aleted me...
View ArticleIssues with my Drobo...
Hello, I am having issues using my Drobo (B1200i). I see it listed as a datastore. However, when I view a map of my virtual machines, I can see that it is detached from the network. My question is;...
View ArticleUpgrade to ESXi5 - NIC strange behaviour
Hello, Currently running a vSphere 4.1 (ESX) environment on a HP Blade c7000 with Flex Fabric infrastructure.Blades servers are BL460c g7 with CNA (Emulex OneConnect 10Gb/s) for FC/FCoE and Ethernet.12...
View Articleport mirroring to external switch - not supported?
Everything I have read about Vsphere 5.0 port mirroring with distributed switches says this will work. Has anyone been successful doing this? Have I misread the documentation?
View ArticleStorage vMotion vkernel NIC usage?
When storage vMotioning from one LUN to another on a single SAN array without VAAI does the data traverse the hosts vkernel NIC?
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raw physical disk access defective in VMware Player 4.x?
I recently tried to upgrade from VMware player 3.1.5 to 4.x and was unable to run my existing machines that use raw disk access to the boot disk where the host OS is installed. I *know* that this is...
View ArticleIf i setup a virtual machine configure all the settings can i then install...
Well i think i said it all in the question is this possible?
View ArticleMouse seems to move around slightly in Linux guests.
Host: Windows 7 x64Software: Workstation 8.0.2Guests: Ubuntu 12.04, Kubutu 12.04, Xubuntu 12.04 (VMware Tools installed in all 3) I've been trying out the new Ubuntu flavors with Workstation and seem...
View Articleresxtop - gid value too large to expand VM
So I wanted to evaluate the individual vCPUs of a VM in resxtop against a 4.1i host and well, the GID value is simply too large to type it all in. The limit is I think 8 numbers (at home at the...
View ArticleA general system error occurred: Protocol error from VMX
Really just posting this for someone else who gets this weird error This is a good one! Running Symantec BE2010 R3 all hotfixes (according to live update)Vcenter 4.1.0 258902ESXi 4.1.0 502767 VMs2003...
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Queryservice Question! about queryAdminXXXX() Method
Hi~Todays..I Ask Something for everyone~ korea wether is aready Summer!! hot! hot!! ^^;anyway.. I`m Using vCloud Director API (v1.5) using QueryService.. I want to get Record Type Data using Query...
View ArticleDual monitors not working right in 4.1.2
Since upgrading to 4.1.2, my dual monitor setup is not working right (Win XP running in full screen mode inside OS X 10.7.3). I can move windows from the primary to the secondary monitor just fine,...
View ArticleHyperic UI Customizations
Hi We are trying to collect logs from our product on to hyperic UI, using live data. The logs we want to display are very huge. We want to keep a download option to dowload to local...
View ArticleiSCSI Luns mapping
How does ESXi map iSCSI luns to vmfs extends? Reason I ask is I believe it has to do some mapping to make it persistent after a reboot?
View ArticleChanging the date format in vCops5
Hi,We aren't based in the US, so the mm/dd/yyyy date format (e.g. on the Alerts screen) is counterintuitive.Is there someway to change it to dd/mm/yyyy? Even if it means editing a .conf file somewhere...
View ArticlevMotion works only 1 way?
I have 3 ESXi servers with similar configurations. The funny thing is this: 1. Server B can ping vMotion IP of Server A and C, but Server A and C cannot ping vMotion IP of Server B. Thus, vMotion...
View ArticleSlow performance on VSA when cloning a VM
When cloning a VM with vCenter a 40GB hard drive takes over an hour! If the *.vmdk is copied from another ESXi host from a local storage group to the VSA this same 40GB copy takes about 10 mintues....
View ArticlevCO 4.2.1 webview not auto calculating default value for text field
Hello, can anyone confirm whether or not webviews in vCO 4.2.1 (Windows version) allows for setting a default value using an action with upstream fields/inputs as parameters? It works fine for...
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