Writes Occured in the Primary and Replica Volumes in VSA
In VSA whatever the writes occured in one of the VSA Datastore those are simultaneously written in the Primary Volume and Replica of this Primary Volume or not?
View ArticlevCD 5.1: retrieving VimObjectRef for OrgVdcNetwork
In vCD 1.5, the AdminOrgNetwork object had a VCloudExtension that allowed me to retrieve its VimObjectRef (in fact, it was even exposed via the GetNetworkVimRef method).It seems that the vCD 5.1 API...
View ArticleDisk management breaks my VM
I am using WS9 in 64bit Linux (Fedora 17.) I recently used "sdelete -c" in my Win7 guest to prepare for virtual disk compression, but it filled the partition and crashed the VM. That crash created a...
View ArticleCapacity and Performance Trending reports
Hi, over the past couple of weeks I have been reviewing numerous posts on pulling data via powercli. I have a customer who wants some executive monthly capacity trending reports for the past year and...
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ESXi 5.x SSHログインで少し楽をする方法（ただし非推奨）
ESXi 5.x では、ESXi自体にSSHログインするときにデフォルトではチャレンジレスポンス認証をする必要があります。 たとえば、TeraTermでアクセスするときは、下記の認証画面で「チャレンジレスポンス認証を使う」を選択してそのあとに表示される別のウインドウにパスワードを入力します。...
View ArticleGet Datastore details by selected DataCenter in a VC
This script will connect to multiple VCs > List Datacenters > Will ask to enter DC name from which you wan to colleact datastore details.
View ArticleStorage for 22 virtual machines
HiI am running Vmware Capacity planner about two weeks, Results got until now, are attached on, see below What would be a better Storage between the following two: IBM Storwize V3700:Two...
View ArticleSound not working on Windows 7 guest
I am using Workstation 7.1.2 with a host and guest OS running Windows 7.I Installed VMWare tools on the guest, and made sure the VM Settings use the default sound card with auto detect. My Audio is not...
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Passed VCAP DCA5
Hi All, Today I received my vcapdca 5 exam result and delighted to see I passed it. This is new year gift from VMware. My new year started with good news, would like to continue the same...
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ESXi 5.x on new Apple Mac Mini 6,2 Late 2012 *NOT* working
Hello! I bought one of the new MacMinis, which were presented yesteraday, plugged two 8GiB DD3-1600 modules in (OsX reported 16GiB of memory, as the models before) and tried to install ESXi 5.1 Build...
View ArticleSoftware Update issues in OSX
I have had issues updating OSX 10.8.1 on my VMs to 10.8.2. The automated software update doesn't work because the VM's don't advertise as a specified piece of Apple Hardware. I attempted to manuall...
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unable to install VMware on Windows 8
I am unable to install either Workstation 8 or Workstation 9 on my WIndows 8 RTM (Technet). It always get stuck on "now loading". I can't even get the installer to start.
View ArticleStorage I/O Control
benefit of storage i/o control on the individual datastore that is not in any datastore cluster
View ArticleESXi 5.0 and older Emulex FC
Just a warning about upgrading or testing ESXi 5.0 on (older) servers with Emulex LP10000-S.(This FC card is not on the HCL list for both Vmware 4 and 5). I have two servers with this working fine...
View ArticleStorage I/O control benefit with one host only?
I noticed that vCenter offers I/O control option to every datastore available, by default it is not turned on. I started to reading about this, and everywhere is said that this is benefit in clustered...
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Shared Folders not working Workstation 9.0.1 on Windows 7+Ubuntu 12.10 64bit
I've built a Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal) 64 bit VM on Workstation 9.0.1. Host is a 6-core Windows 7 Professional 64 bit SP1 system with 32GB of physical RAM. I've also built a Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 32 bit VM,...
View ArticleNo network connectivity between guests and host
Hello all, I'm running workstation 7.2 on a Windows 7/64bit host. I am unable to ping VM guests from my host and guests are unable to ping the host. My guests use bridged networking and everything is...
View Articlevmware host profile host requires reboot before previously applied config...
Hi All, hope this is the correct place for this. I have autodeployed two hosts. I have created the host profile from the reference host and applied it to the second host. This has all been working...
View ArticleSil3124 or 3132 controllers support in ESXi 5.x?
Sil3124 or 3132 controllers support in ESXi 5.x? I found a lot of references to these controllers working in ESXi 4.1, but not ESXi 5.x? Anyone work on this? Have a solution?
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