vmrun getting close to useless with Player
In case anybody else goes through this... I updated a client and wanted to continue with running their VMs using vmplayer (Linux host for winXP guest(s)), yet still make automated backups, preferably...
View ArticlevCenter High Availability HA
Hi, I am trying to understand how does someone know whether there is enough resources for HA capability. I know that HA can fail if there is no memory and CPU resources but just wondering how is this...
View Articlerecompose floating vs assigned.
Per http://pubs.vmware.com/view-50/index.jsp?topic=/com.vmware.view.administration.doc/GUID-FDEFFAA9-08F2-40F9-83D3-2E7C654BE3B1.html It talks about the difference course of action of doing a...
View Articlevirtual socktes
intel xeon cpu e3120 3.3 ghz bir makina var. esxi5.1 kurulumu yaptığımda uzerinde birde bir guest eklediğimde guest oluştururken aşağıdaki ayarları nasıl yapacağım. yani hangisi fiziksel cpu ve hangisi...
View ArticleHostların Saat Güncellemeleri Hk.
Merhabalar, 3 Adet host mevcut ve aşağıdaki uyarıyı vermekte. Saati farklı göstermekte. storage views are generated periodically and may be out of date. To update to the most recent inventory, please...
View ArticleCpu data gathering script - need help optimizing it.
Hello This is a follow up on this topic:http://communities.vmware.com/message/2192431 The script requires Powershell 3 and PowerCLI v5.1 Release 2. Also advice from here was used:...
View ArticlevCAC and vCO for VM cloud deployment
Hello, I have done some vCloud director automation using vCenter Orchestrator, so I can provision VMs in an organization and then run post installation tasks. Then I started looking at vCenter...
View ArticleIBM V3700 SAN experience and thoughts?
We need to purchase a new SAN this year, and I am doing research. Does anyone have experience or opinions on the IBM V3700 yet? It was just released in November of 2012, and so far the price and...
View ArticleVSP certification
I apologize for posting in the wrong forum (can anybody please point me to the right one, if any?).Can an individual get the VSP (sales) certification even if not working - at a given moment - for a...
View ArticleVMWare Fusion 5.0.2 - No Network in Bridged Mode on Mac with more than one...
It has come to my attention that the bridged Network mode yields no connection at all if you have more than one ethernet adapter, if you have more than one then really Shared Mode is all you can do...
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arp can't find a bridged interface
I opened two VMs running NetApp filer simulators (a dialect of FreeBSD) as guest operating systems on Workstation 9.0 (9.0.1 build-894247), which are installed on two WinServer 2008 R2 boxes. Bridged...
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Edit the landing page for VMware vSphere
We have recently gone through an extensive p2v process as well as upgraded our Vblocks to esxi 5.0. Since doing this we have had more and more server owners request access to vcenter.I am wondering if...
View ArticleChoosing a virtual switch Load balancing policy with a Cisco UCS or virtual...
How does having a virtual I/O device affect my choice of a load balancing policy? For example I have 2 vmnics for NFS. Normally I am using load based teaming to distribute load among two physical...
View ArticleChoosing the best Version
Good Morning, I'm currently running ESX 4.0 Update 2 across both my UAT and production environments. Over the next few weeks I plan to move to a more recent version, either ESXi 5.0 Update2 or ESXi 5.1...
View ArticleLinux RHEL 6 cluster and fencing
Hi, I want to test Linux (RHEL 6) clustering on vSphere 5. i am confused regarding for fencing, how can i select for fencing device. thanks
View ArticleExtending VMWare disk corrupted it.
I expanded a VMWare workstation 7.1.6 virtual disk using VMWare expand tool (the VM was shutdown). Disk was the "C:" partition for Windows Server 2003 SP2 x86 and was the one and only drive for that...
View ArticleStorage Monitoring service Initialization Failed / Got duplicate entries for...
Hi in our vCenter, the Storage Monitoring service cannot intialize. Storage views fail to launch orrectly, and for example, VC Operations manager cannot collect informations about storage capacity....
View Articlesometimes WstxInputFactory not found on vimPort.retrieveServiceContent
I have some strange behaviour in action extension I've added. Sometimes vimPort.retrieveServiceContent fails on class not found exception and message 'javax.xml.stream.FactoryFinder$ConfigurationError...
View ArticleHTTP error 503 View Conneciton Server
I'm getting HTTP error 503 while trying to connect to the view connection server through the view client. Anyone have any idea on what might cause this. It was working fine for months, no upgrades or...
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