Advice: migrate from standard vSwitch to dvSwitch using separate NICs
I've never used a dvswitch before, but I think I am at the point of needing one. Right now, I have a cluster with 6 hosts, all 5.1 (not U1). Each has just standard vswitches defined (one for...
View Articleguest systems show fibre 10g adapters as twisted pair
Hi,I have installed esxi 5.1 on a assembled intel 5500bc motherboard along with a dual port intel 10g fibre lan card.The has gone smooth on the vmware side, i do see that within vmware ethtool shows...
View ArticleWhen to use multiple vSphere Distributed Switches
I have a number of port groups that will reside on distributed switches. I have a number of clusters. Some clusters are dedicated to only containing certain kinds of VMs which are all on the same...
View ArticleShare Management network with other out-of-band traffic (iLO, etc.)?
Is it common or 'best practice' to put ESXi management network on the same subnet/VLAN as other out-of-band "management" traffic, such as iLO, Onboard Administraotr, Switch Management, etc? Or should...
View Articlesetting up NFS server - 2008R2, sharing out secondary disk - advice on...
I need to set up a temporary NFS server. I was thinking of creating a virtual machine, running NFS file services on it and adding a second hard disk. I have several attached LUNs available, and want...
View ArticleVery slow P2V with Standalone converter 5 without SSL
Hello all, we are trying to P2V a physical server (Proliant G4 with Win2k3, 1Gb lan connexion) to a VM using Standalone converter 5 (destination Proliant G7 with redundant Gb LAN running ESX 4.1).This...
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Bizarre CMD/sec in esxtop far exceed physical disk boundary.
Hi, All I'm testing VDI performance on ESXi 5.1. The machine is IBM X3650 M4, which has two 8 core CPU with 8 disks (15k rpm SAS) in RAID 5. I used esxtop to collect IOPS statistics. When I...
View Articlecan't exit vi on console
I want to enable ssh om my esx 4i on the consolei enter unsupported and edit the inetd.conf file, but when i press escape to exit vi nothing happens so i cant save the filethe only way out of i is to...
View ArticleData on virtual hard disks can be lost?
Hi all. I have a background on Windows Azure, and in that platform a Virtual Machine can be reimaged. When that happens, the data on the Operating System Disk is lost. For that reason you need to...
View ArticleMac Keyboard & Mouse profile not automatically chosen for Mac OS X VM
This has probably been reported, but I didn't find it on the Forums. Easy fix! Fusion 5.0.3 (on HOS 10.8.4) I created a new Mac 10.8 VM. Noted that the keyboard profile was set to 'default', not 'Mac'....
View Article000001.vmdk and 000002.vmdk
Hi guys, wondering if you can shed some light on how these 000001/2.vmdk files work. Running Vmware workstation and I have a guest OS with one virtual hard drive. From inside the OS (Server 2k3) it is...
View ArticleView 5.2 and Serial Port
Hi, im planing on a Horizon View Environment. Requirement on the View Client (Windows XP Desktop) to passthrough local connected Serial Devices. Has someone experience in doing this with any Horizon...
View ArticleApoio da Vmware para profissionais
Amigos, Eu acho que a Vmware devia apoiar mais os profissionais que trabalham com sua tecnologia, vejam a Microsoft, tem N ferramentas e sites que ajudam a comunidade de TI a aprender e a se...
View ArticleHost memory always totally consumed, why?
I have 10 VM's and have allocated each 2048 MB through 'Edit Settings...'. I had assumed that this means, that the maximum amount of memory that the VM will draw is 2048 MB, but if the VM requires...
View ArticleRun Win 7 on Mac Pro OS X using VM Player?
hello People, I have a mac pro with OS X 10.8.4. Is there anyway possible to Run windows 7 OS parallel with OS X? Will VM Player will work? Thanks,Duggs.
View ArticleVSphere Client cannot "Connect to USB device"
Just installed VSphere Client (5.1 update 1) on a freshly built W7 x64 system (Intel Haswell) and I'm completely unable to connect any USB devices on the host via the VSphere Client to any of my guest...
View ArticleEsxi Consulenza Napoli Italia
Salve ho un Server Dell con ESXi 5 con un sistema di 5 macchine virtuali, il mio vecchio consulente non si occupa più della ns. infrastruttura e vorrei un azienda ho un esperto Vmware capace di...
View ArticleDatastore on an USB Device
Hello, I had a dream of my home server, now i have bought a server and have my first problem. My Hardware:HP ML110 G7 I hoped that it would be possible to install esxi 5 on an sd card (which works...
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Timed out while doing Export to OVF...
Hi friends I was doing Export OVF template.. of a VM (RHEL6 guest) which is around 60GB from my ESXi5.1 to my laptop. every time i try while in progress around 5% to 6% it is saying that timed out.. as...
View ArticleHands-on Labs blog posts
Hi Everyone, I'm new to the Hands-on Labs team and wanted to let you know that I'm planning to write some HOL-related blog posts on both the Hands-on Labs blog and the vSphere blog. The stuff on the...
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