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SAN / RAID / vCenter issue
Interesting day today. We have a virtualised 5.1 environment mixed with Solaris 10 and Sunray thin clients. We have load balanced terminal servers and the vm running the load balancing software was non...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 Commvault Backup Failed Items
Hello,I have vCenter 5.1 installed on a WS 2008 R2. I have tried searching the web and the forums. Can someone please provide insight on any of these failed items? We seem to have a problem with them...
View ArticleCareer change to VMware or SAP BASIS?
Hi Friends, I have 4 years experience as a System Administrator (Windows & Linux). Now I'm planning to change my career to another technology. I considered VMware and SAP BASIS....
View ArticlevSphere + iSCSI = проблемы
Всех приветствую. Уже второй раз столкнулся с неприятной ситуацией.Во время работы сферы перезагружается система хранения по iSCSI. Ситуация для вмвары относительно штатная, все ВМ при этом стопятся и...
View ArticlevCO Appliance License configuration error
Hi, I upgraded the vCenter and vCO Appliance in 5.1 Update 1 but I have a big probleme with the vCO configuration.In first time the Appliance lose the DNS server and don't communicate with my vcenter,...
View ArticlevMotion fails for certain VMs (14%)
I'm having an issue where a few VMs will not vMotion - the process stops at 14%. So far I've found 3 that have the same issue, all others work fine. The error I receive is: A general system error...
View ArticleCan't use more than 3GB of RAM, else SVGA error
Hi, I somehow have astrange problem.When I set my RAM to more than 3GB of RAM the virtual machine won't start with an error: VMware Player unrecoverable error: (svga) Invalid SVGA FIFO registers. A...
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ESXi 5.1: vmsvc warning guestinfo RecordRoutingInfo: Unable to collect IPv4...
Hi, we have two RHEL6.3 VMs which need 15 minutes to boot!The problem happens when starting the network interfaces in vmsvc. Host: ESXi 5.1, latest 5.1 tools from repo installed, two vmxnet3 interfaces...
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output variables to excel spreadsheet.
HiI wrote this script, it works perfectly but I cant output this script to a excel document. Anyone knows how to do that? $list = get-content -Path D:\vCenterList.txt #List of your vcenter to retrieve...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 host not responding
I have ESXi 5.1, suddenly it is not responding, I have tried restarting management network, but still no luck, even I am not able to ping the gateway..What could be the reason and how to resolve it?
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 provisioning
Hello, I tried to provision Windows Server 2012 using vcac using vCenter. Clonening works, guest customization is kicked off, but often the VM hangs, so it needs a manual reboot. This documented in the...
View ArticleDhcp settings of the organization
Hi What is the difference between the DHCP settings of the network andthe DHCP setting of the edge gateway of the network. It seems thatone can set different values for the two. The egde gateway...
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How can i use powershell on"edit virtual hareware (experimental)"?
Hi All,I got a problem here. So, request any help from you guys .I wrote a powershell script with PowerCLI, to scheduled clone some VMs in vCenter 4.1.0.Problem:There are 2 ESX servers, ESX A has two...
View ArticleMaximum number of hosts in an N+1 cluster
I am using HA on ESXi 5.1. To start with I have 4 hosts in each cluster. To begin with setting the admission control policy for "Host Failures the Cluster Tolerates" to 1 works perfectly. As I...
View Articlehow to get object created by addDVPortgroup_Task
Hi, I am trying to get the object created (dvportgroup object) by the addDVPortgroup_Task. dvPortgroupCreationTask = dvSwitch.addDVPortgroup_Task(specArray); Is there anyway of getting the port group...
View ArticleTransfer Storage ISCSI ???
Hi AllHas anyone got any form of documentation / Link to show something other than NFS being used for the Transfer Storage area?I cant find anything on the web but the documentation states other shared...
View ArticleConvert Ubuntu 9.04 to VM???
Hi, i have strange problem.I need to migrate a physical server to VM. Using Converter tool 5.1 and server ESXi 5.1.When i type a fdisk -l on physical server i get thisDisk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB,...
View ArticleCall to Reset(VIX_VMPOWEROP_FROM_GUEST) hangs at some guests
Hello, calling Reset with the option VIX_VMPOWEROP_FROM_GUEST and then calling Wait hangs at some guests waiting forever for the operation to complete (even when the guest SO restarted ok). Currently I...
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Updating vCenter Server 5.1 SSL certificate - error
Hello everyone, we setup a new Windows Server 2008 R2 as a vCenter Server 5.1I'm now trying to install new certificates for all vCenter parts (server, inventory service, web client, ...) with Windows...
View ArticleiSCSI Problems in ESXi 5.1
I'm trying to get iSCSI working with my home lab setup. I'm running FreeNAS 8.3.0-Release with iSCSI running on top of ZFS. My datastore consists of two 1TB SATA drives in a striped zdev. I have...
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