vSphere Replication 5.1.0.1 unable to recovery unavailable VM
Hi, I have only one vCenter with vSphere Replication 5.1.0.1. If source VM is unavalibale (disconected host and datastore) I perform recovery of target VM, but task is failed. Recovery is successfully...
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Dear All,I am new to Vmware, attended Vsphere 5.1 training and it was registered in an email id but by mistakenly I registered in pearsonvue for certification using another email id(yet to take...
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I'm using a Mac with Fusion as the host and running a Kali Linux VM. Main connection to the Internet is via the Mac's wifi which is bridged. That works fine. I want to use USB wifi adapters with the...
View ArticlevCAC REST API - Where do I start to request a new machine?
I'm poking around in C# looking to create a machine request programaticly. I've got the context to ManagementModelEntities and wanted to know am I creating a VirtualMachine object or am I creating a...
View ArticleUsing Thunderbird with roaming profile
I am using VMware View 5floating pools/persona managementall of my apps are working well except Thunderbird.Everytime the user logs on it wants to setup and account If you browse to...
View ArticleAdvantages of upgrading Virtual Hardware
I have been unable to find any information on VMWare's KB regarding the benefits of upgrading to the latest virtual hardware, which I believe is 9. I know VMWare recommends that those running on ESXi...
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We are trying to configure vCAC accordingly to support some of out internal requests but didn't find much information in the documents. We are hoping if any one of you would be able to help and...
View ArticleHorizon Upgrade
Has anyone upgraded from view 5.1 to horizon 5.2 yet? I have read over the documentation but wanted to know if anyone has hit any snags or has some advice/reminders during the upgrade process? Thanks!
View ArticleConverted VM image throws BSOD upon restart
Hello, I have an VM image that when converted with VMWare vCenter Converter Standalone v5.0.0.0 to a server location, everything runs fine intially but upon the first reboot the VM in ESXi v4 the BSOD...
View ArticleSRM - Possibility of Auto failover and Auto failback (No manual intervention)
Auto Failover from Site A to Site B with out manual intervention?Auto Failback from Site B to A with out manual interventaion?What will happen if Single virtual machine fails?What will happen if OS...
View ArticleTo CBT or Not
We are upgrading our vSphere environment to 5.1 and are moving away from NetApp volume based backups to Hitachi NetBackup based backups. Our vendor is asking us to enable VMware CBT and I wanted get...
View ArticleView client for chromebook
Is there a timeline for a view client with pcoip support for the chromebook (chromeos)? I know there is the HTML5 one from Ericom but it does not support pcoip and has separate licensing fees whereas...
View ArticleTiming Out Pings / Dropping Packets
We have the following scenario:ESXi 5.0 U2HP Proliant BL460c G7Network Adapters:(1) Emulex NC553i 10GB 2-port FlexFabric Converged Network Adapater(2) Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM57711E/NC532n 10 Gigabit...
View ArticleStorage profiles per harddisk
Hello all, We have a business user who would like to seperate OS disks (put them on SATA) and DB disks on SAS. Now I would rather not manage all these relationships by hand; however, I do see that...
View ArticleHow to change Authentication > NIS Server Settings and retain Vsphere client...
Hello all, As title, says we'd like to point our Vcenter Server Appliance to a new NIS domain, while keeping the user permissions the same as they currently are found on each of the different hosts...
View ArticleHow does the initial SSO identity source browse the Active Directory Tree
I understand that the orginal identity source is automatically configured to use "Authentication type" reuse session. When I add additional identity sources it seems I need to use password. Just trying...
View ArticleFiltering items from tasks & events
We use orion software for all of our monitoring, and orion logs into the hosts every 5 mins. This fillts up all of the events section making it unusable. So I am wondering is there a way that I can...
View ArticleVmWare workstation 9 doesn't prereserve host memory for VM
I just upgraded to version 9.02. My PC has 16 GB of memory. It is 64-bit Win7. I set Preferences to "fit all VM memory in to reserved host RAM", and allow it to use up to 13 GB. When I start the VM...
View Articlemoving VM in Datastore browser brakes the config.
Hi, Using ESXi 5.1 (build 1021289) in my lab(no vCenter server). Havdatastore is local. Have a VM Vyatta in root of datastore with 2 NICs - eth0 and eth1. When moving VM via datastore browser to the...
View ArticleUI failure/The session is not authenticated
We encountered an issue recently where our UI workflow stopped working. It was designed to display a list of Clusters that correspond to a Datacenter for user selection. After looking thru the various...
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