Monitor Raid Status in vSphere Client
I want to monitor the raid status of my esxi 5.0 system within the vSphere client. Afaik the built in controller is an adaptec 5405...
View ArticleError while P2V my Vm Center
I get this error, The source computer has GPT disk(s). Conversion of live computers with GPT disks is not supported. Conversion of virtual machines with GPT disk is supported only if disk-based cloning...
View ArticlevCenter Server Appliance (vcsa) Services enable/disable
Hello, I'm thinking about using only the sso and web components of the vcsa, especially in upgrade scenarios. Is there a way to permanently disable all unused services (vCenter, Inventory, Dump...
View ArticleTime sync in Debian guest
Hello, I have various virtual servers with the vmware tools installed (VMwareTools-8.6.0) under Debian 6.0 x64 and these are running over physical host with ESXI 5.0.0. All the ESXI have ntp...
View ArticleView Composer "database not supported" error
Trying to install View Composer (v3.0.0-691993) on my vCenter 5.1 server that has SQL Server 2012 SP1. I have a 64-bit DSN pointing to my View database called VMwareView and the connectivity test...
View ArticleTrying to create a reconfig job using throws invalid argument
I am creating a reconfigjob for managedVM.Here is the code snippet I am using to get the VM I want to reconfigure private ConverterComputerSpec buildReconfigSourceVMSpec() {...
View ArticleVCServer VM to VCServer VM?
Hi all, I have recently put in a support ticket querying how to use converter-cli to automate vmware converter to copy a VM from one VC to another, to find that converter-cli is no longer supported...
View ArticleCopy paste from guest to host strips out formatting
Windows Workstation 9.0.1 build-894247 on Windows 7 x64 host. Any VM I run, if I copy paste from a web page into a Word doc on the host, ALL formatting is getting stripped, just plain text only. No...
View ArticleView, Windows 7, PCoIP can't change font size
We are running view 5.1 with 5.1 clients using PCOIP. (Windows 7 SP1 guest). I have a user who is very sight impared and needs to change her 'font' size. If i log in as her onto a console of a VM...
View ArticleScripting interface
I need to pre-provision AD groups in vCAC enterprise groups section as part of silent install. How can I do this ? Is the an API reference or command line interface thanks
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 ArticleCloning an ESXi 4 USB Host
I'm running ESXi 4 off of a 1GB USB drive. I have 4 guest machines configured and running smoothly. Now that I have everything configured the way I want it, I'd like to clone that USB host drive and...
View Articlevmkapei module unsigned
I am going through the vmware-vspher50-hardening-guide.xls on an ESXi 5.0.0 768111 host running on a Dell R905. When I ran through the verify-kernel-modules step in the spreadsheet by running esxcli...
View ArticleHow to activate Office 2010 on linked clones?
Hello, I have created a Windows 7 parent VM and installed Office 2010 and activated it with a volume license key.After creating my linked clones via composer automated pool and logging in, I am...
View ArticleUnable to retireve DHCP based IP as guest on ESXi 5.1
Hi all, I'm new in this forum and have just installed vSphere ESXi 5.1 (free version) for testing. Now I have tried to migrate one physical and two new virtual machines onto the server. the migrated...
View ArticleVirtual machines won't reboot
I am having a problem with Windows XP guests hanging up when told to reboot remotely. They start the process but then hang until I open the VMWare Server 2 console and actually launch the console of...
View ArticleVSM 9.1.4 - conditional branch to call stored procedure not updating data in...
We installed vsm 9.1.4 and upgraded the db from v8. While most of the v8 configurations are working, some fo teh customizations are not. We have one particular customization PSO completed for us for v8...
View ArticleProblemas al instalar Vorkstation 8.01 en linux Ubuntu 11.10
Hola Tras una actualizacioón de las "vmware tools" me encuentro que al arrancar workstation me da el mensaje : "Before you can run VMWare, serveral modules must be compiled and loaded into the running...
View ArticleCan't do (almost) anything with backed up files.
I'm running ghettoVCB against an NFS share on Openfiler. I can't seem to copy my backups from my share to my local drive. Here's a sample of a test done on the datastore using Putty to the ESXi...
View Articleesxi 5.1 and snapshot's
Есть хост 5.1 build-838463Остановил машинку для апгрейда virtual hardware.Проапгрейдил. Пытаюсь запустить, жалуется, что нету файла srv_rdp_data-000002.vmdk от которого зависит машинка.Залез через ssh...
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