Using a Virtual Drive via a USB Memory stick or HDD
Greetings; I have a Macbook Air 13", Mid-2012 model with an i7 Processor and 8GB of ram Unfortunately I only have the 256 GB SSD and I like to conserve space I originally had VM Ware Fusion 5 set to...
View ArticleOVFT: unable to export with spaces (in path) on server.
Hi All, I'm unable to get ovftool to export a vm from my server that has spaces in the path to the vmx file.Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! On the server:~ # vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvmsVmid Name...
View Articleadapter to show up in vcOps
I've got an hyperic server which collects data from some physical machines. I've also setup the hyperic adapter in vcOps which shows up in the vcOps-custom UI. Is there a way to show all collected...
View ArticleCan't able to edit VM settings
I have deployed a VM from a template and i was trying to edit the VM settings(Note: VM is powered off) but i can't it is greyed out. I tried to migrate the VM to another ESX host even migrate option...
View ArticleEsxi 5.1 pci passthrough broken
I got a purple screen when I start up a vm with a pci device With Esxi5 was working fine. I tested it with 2 vm on different hosts ( but same hardware) i7 2600 32gb mb: dq67sw What can I try
View Articleask help
someone need log in one of the vms I shared in my vmware workstation, but I don't want him to know my login infomation, whether I can do sth to avoid it , or are there some APIs the WSX provide?
View ArticleHow do I restore a virtualized OS X Lion 10.7 client with Time Machine?
Hi all, I've got a Time Capsule set up so that my virtual Lion clients back themselves up. This works great; my Lion clients see it as a remote Time Machine and happily back up regularly. So far so...
View ArticleWindows 7 login with space does not work with WSX
Windows 7 host: I connect to WSX via http://localhost:8888I am able to login to WSX when using a username that has a space in it: Example: John DoeUser 'John Doe' is part of the Administrators group,...
View ArticleInserting thousands of objects and Cache Listener
If I have partitioned region and I did putAll several thousands of objects. Does it mean that Cache Listener will fire several thousands times (split to number of server nodes)?I assume it will. Is...
View ArticleUnable to configure replication after failover
Hi, excuse me for my English and I will try to translate the error message from my vSphere GUI I recently implemented SRM 5.1 and try to configure a DR between 2 sites (A, B). Everything seems working...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 and SSO Failover - Who needs heartbeat?
So for those of us who don't want to drop the 10k per license on Heartbeat, here is a work around. While it is not as flashy, it is a free option. Also, while the process as a whole is not supported,...
View ArticleCreating a Custom Template for ESXi Hardening
I'd like to run a compliance check on our virtual environment. But I'd like to run it against our own internal hardening guidelines. How can I make a custom template based on the ESXi hardening...
View ArticlevSphere Web Client: how do I deploy a ova that is in one of my datastores?
I can browse to the ova via the datastore file browser, but can't figure out a way to get the ova itself deployed into my datacenter. I'm having to download it so I can upload it on the deploy ovf...
View ArticleUpgrade Vsphere 3.5 to Vsphere 5.1
Hi allwe have 5 Vsphere 3.5 Esx servers with a vCenter server 3.5 in (HP EVA storage)shared storage. we are plaining to upgrade this in Vsphere 5.1 in EMC VNX5300 (Block Level) shared storage.Our Old...
View ArticleThe host returns esxupdate error code:15
I keep getting this error on patching some esxi 5.0 hosts Remediate entity10.50.233.67The host returns esxupdate error code:15. The package manager transaction is not successful. Check the Update...
View ArticleWriting custom triggers for new alarm definition section
Hi All, I am writing a plugin for a hardware management software. Here we have hardware faults like CPU temperature faults, DIMM faults, hard disk faults etc. What will be the best approach to show...
View ArticleView 5.2 Administration Console takes longer time to load.
* View Admin console takes longer time to load the host information like VM, Snapshot,Resource Pool,Datastore.(approx 20 mins in loading each dialog box).* Found a KB with similar issue...
View Articleesxplot
Hi all, I am going to ask a purely pointless question. I want to gather data and plot it using graphs so I figure esxplot would be great.. it is, but the "unfortunate" piece is the target audience...
View ArticleОтвалились диски vsphere 4.1
От хоста отвалились замапленные разделы с схд, виден только локальный диск(жму add storage, вижу луны которые были замаплены! Что могло случиться? и как вернуть разделы без потери данных?
View Articlepref.fullscreen.showDelay -- anyone know if that should work in Fusion?
Would like to modify the delay before the toolbar appears as discussed here: Resize, relocate, remove or delay Toolbar in Fullscreen mode? Doesn't seem to work in Fusion. Thanks,Doug--
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