vmotion for MS SQL, Domain Controller, Oracle database
We have vsphere 5.0 essential plus installed on 3 physical hosts and a vcenter 5.1 virtual appliance managing them. We have VM with MS SQL, Domain Controller, Oracle DB and etc on those 3 physical...
View ArticleIssue after System Upgradation
Not exactly sure what went wrong but I recently upgraded my VM environment from ESXi 5.0 - 5.1.1 along with vcenter. Now I'm getting an error in View "Cannot connect to vcenter server. It's the same...
View ArticleHow to upgrade hardwareversion
Hi i've an OVF virtual appliance with hardware version 4 how can i upgrade it to hardware version 7 and convert to OVA as well? it seems ovftools does not have the ability to upgrade to a higher...
View ArticleLoad balance and/or replicate between two vCenter Server Appliances
I have a small-time setup of 3 ESXi hosts. One of them is at a different site. However, folks from both sites access images on the hosts at both sites. The vCenter Server Appliance I have is running on...
View ArticleESXi scratch location and syslog
Hi, we got some IBM blades runing ESXi 4.1 and 5 through Embedded USB. In the past we had some issues to provide VMware support with valid ESXi logs from the blades. We end up to configure syslog to...
View ArticleNo internet connectivity between guest and host
I have built a VMWare Player guest using Win7 OS. Host is also Win7. I have tried everything I know (not much LOL), but am unable to connect a network that includes internet.I also have a guest that...
View ArticlePDXSerialization inconsistencies
Hi, We are using ReflectionBasedAutoSerializer to serialize the domain objects between client and server. We are noticing strange behavior, where one request is successfully received by the server....
View ArticleDeploy an OVF with Thin Provissioning ESXI 4.0
I have made an OVF template using Vsphere 4.0 from an ESXI 4.0 server. It is thin provissioned. When I deploy this template to another ESXI 4.0 server it always comes up thick and I can't see anywhere...
View ArticleWidget Help. . .
All: I am trying to make the Heat Map (2) display ONLY the VM's that are on the datastore I select in the Resources (1) widget. Ideally, the VM's would be there, sized / colored by latency. I can't...
View Articlelicense of 3.5
Hello,I have to decommission a huge cluster running 3.5 ESX. How I can reuse my 3.5 licenses to my new ESXi 4.1 enterprise cluster?there will be a huge hardware difference as well (G1 to G7). Thanks,...
View ArticleVDI Printing Support
I have a scenario that I need help solving. Location A has internal network consisting of a router/firewall, wired and wireless connectivity. A multi-function copier scanner, printer, fax is connected...
View ArticleRead and write metadata in vCloud Director
Hi.I have a relatively little expirience with js and Orchestrator.I faced with External Network в vCloud Director metadata's read/write problem. I want to write metadata to ProvidervDC, External...
View ArticleLibro VMware Sphere 5.x
Buenos dias, Queria pediros vuestra recomendacion para comprar un libro lo mas completo y practico posible para Sphere 5.x y todo lo relacionado (vcenter, datacenter etc)A poder ser en español.He visto...
View ArticleVCenter Performance tab: Overview view missing memory metrics. Only shows...
Excuse my post if this is a duplicate but I cannot find anything on this in any of the searching I've done. I have several vCenter environment/clusters. All of my ESX servers are ESXi 4.1, and only...
View Articleretreiving Tasks / Events for the datastores with powershell
Hi, I'm looking for retreiving the tasks events using powershell (the same informations you find using the vi client, Home, inventory, datastores, tasks and events tabs) to find the "delete" task (for...
View ArticlePerformance considerations
Hello A bit of background.... We run something like a private cloud - there's no self provisioning or anything but there's a shared infrastructure which includes 30 ESXi 4.1 hosts, shared storage and...
View ArticleHow to move VM's to new RAID
I am using ESXi 5.1 free and have installed a second RAID set. The first set was running out of space. What I would like to do is separate the OS's of multiple servers from their data. I'd like to...
View ArticleCannot find where to create "Customization Specifications" in VM View
So I'm trying to create a "Customization Specification". I found several articles which point to this: http://screencast.com/t/jMeP2Q4nA2c(full article: http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=10292)...
View ArticleFirst Linked Pool fails to ever finish provisioning. Guests are "on" inside...
I'm at another "stuck" point. My linked clone pool refuses to finish. Here are my events from the relevent time period (most recent in first screenshot): http://screencast.com/t/KJM6k67qTZ Basically.....
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