VM Statistical data
The below query particularly to LucD as he has some excellent articles about collecting VM stats. I am using follwoing code to collect the max, min and avg of cpu.usage.average of all our VMs for last...
View ArticleTrend Micro Deep Security, 2 vCenters: one or two Deep Security Managers?
Hi all, in my environment I have two vCenter 5.1 servers, one for Production in a prod domain and one for Test in a test domain. The production environment is protected with Site Recovery Manager and...
View ArticleDigital Signage Application - Multiple Monitor Outputs from Host
Hi all, have used vmware Workstation quite a bit but before I dive into this application, I would like your input. A client of mine wants to use a single PC to drive four digital signage displays...
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Number of VM Processors on Server
Noob question, So this is the server I'm working with So it has 8 processors I can use for VMs: 1 is used for the ESXi 5.1 installiation - correct?the other 7 can be allocated to the 4 VMs that will be...
View ArticleESXi Management not working Cisco LAG
I am setting up a 3 host ESXi cluster with an Essentials + license. I am using a pair of stacked Cisco SG500-28 switches for switching redundancy. Each host has 8 NICs. 4 to each switch. I have...
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ESXi 5 VLAN VST mode configuration issue
Hi, im trying to configure 2 vlans 1600 and 1601 for 2 vmsit works fine in VGT mode on portgroup with VLAN ID 4095 here is the config: But i think it would be much better to use VST mode because i have...
View ArticlevMotion Fails At 14%
Hi Everyone, Having a bit of a strange issue with vMotion today. It's been working in my lab for months, and was still working fine after I upgraded to 5.1 last week. Now, today, for whatever reason,...
View ArticleCan't RDP into virtual machine after rebooting
Hi all, I'm using VMware ESXi4.0 I'm having an issue where if i reboot a virtual machine, once it reboots i try to use Remote Desktop Connection Manager to access it and receive this error: "The...
View Articleesxi v5 with onboard NIC PowerEdge t420
Please spare me how I shouldn't be using the oboard NIC for anything on a server. Anyway, I'm wondering if there are some drivers I can load that would allow me to use the onboard NICs on the...
View ArticleQuestion about prompt before deleting VM from ESXi 4.0 RAID5
Just wanted to get a confirmation thatI'm not going to blow away resources being used by additional VMs on my server, when I choose "remove from disk" for a single VM. The warning prompt is a bit...
View ArticleNetwork setting for VM
I want to setup VMware infrastructure on my laptop.I have installed vm ware workstation and on workstation I have creaked 3 vm machine.1 esxi52 Windows 2008 r2 on this system installed vcenter server2...
View ArticleBest practice for Vm disk partioning
I want to create a 2012 Windows server with c:\ and d:\ partitions what is the best practice this will be a SQL Database server btw. Should I create a hd c: then add another hd d:\ all on the same...
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 ArticlePHP - vSphere WSDL Primer
I'm not sure if this is the "correct" place for this, but after spending HOURS of searching and many, many curse words, I wanted to share a quick little guide to using PHP to interface with the vSphere...
View ArticleVMware Update Manager
I'm running ESX 5.0 right now and I have inherited this setup with little known about it. In Vsphere, I click on plug-ins-->Manage Plugins and I see there is an available VMWare vSphere Update...
View Articlenested virtual machine Intel-VT EVC mode issue
Hi, I have gone through the threads in the forum that revolve around nested virtual machine and hardware virtualization not being exposed to the VMs. However I could not get to the bottom of the...
View ArticleUnable to ping 2 ips at one time
Hi, I have deployed vCloud 5.1 and I have given 2 nic cards and attached same portgroup. One is for vCloud and another one is for console proxy. But i cant able to ping these 2 ips at one time. But i...
View ArticleWrite-behind scenario
We are planning to use a database as the system of record beneath Gemfire 7 with write-behind on any creates or updates in our regions (both partitioned and replicated) and read through on cache...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 Upgrade
Hello, Currently I am running vCenter 4.1 on a physical server, specs;Processor: 1x Intel Xeon @ 1.86 GHz (Quad Core) The requirements for vCenter 5.1 is at least 2 Ghz. Is it stil possible to run...
View ArticleisDeployed returns unexpected value
When I have a vApp that has some powered on VMs and some powered off VMs, vapp.isDeployed() returns true. This doesn't make sense, since I would expect all the VMs to be powered on when the vApp says...
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