To cluster or not to cluster...
Hi all, I have just completed a migration from vCenter 4.1 to vCenter 5.1 by swinging all of my 4.1 hosts from the vCenter service under windows to the new vCenter appliance VM. I have 4 hosts (All...
View Article1 vCPU is being used at 200%, How is this possible ?
Hi all, I monitored the performance of a VM having 4 vCPUs, each vCPU was having clock speed of 2.5 GHz. vSphere reported the performance as follow: core 0 : 5205 MHzcore 1,2,3 ~= 1000 MHz Overall CPU...
View ArticlePanic with VMWare Fusion 5.0.3 and Mac OS X 10.8.4
I had a perfectly fine working VMWare fusion setup with OS X hosts, for development and testing. Since I upgraded from Mac OS X 10.8.3 to Mac Os X 10.8.4, my computer panics as soon as I start a...
View ArticleAdmission Control Using Percentage of Cluster Resources Reserved Policy
Hi all, I want to understand something: I have a VMware HA Cluster with 2 identical nodes. Normally, I should reserve50%of resources (CPU and memory)at leastasfailover capability.This would meanthatif...
View ArticleSome kind of routing or security problem between hosts
I am having a problem and need some advice tracking it down. I'll try to give an overview of my setup and what the problem is. We have some software that talks on 3 different networks. Op-Primary,...
View Articlemy newly created vmfs volume is only version 3.46?
Hello, just trying to understand what is happening. I just created a new VMFS volume on my 5.0 (build 914586) and when I look at the version in vCenter it says that its version 3.46? When I look up...
View Articlehow to migrate View pools to a new datastore?
View 4.1 - Have all pools on the old NetApp using FC block storage. Want to move them to the new NetApp on NFS storage. What procedures will we need to execute to get this done?
View ArticleConverter standalone 5.1 crashes host on retrieving source machine information
Hi all, I'm kinda stuck atm. We are using 2 ESXi servers. I'd like to convert the servers of 1 ESXi to another.I'm using Converter Standalone 5.1. The source server is running ESXi 4.0, the destination...
View ArticleCan SRM use NetApp VSC quiesced VM backups?
We're using VSC to quiesce VMs and back them up, then initiate a SnapMirror replication. SRM only sees the most recent snapshot, which is the SnapMirror's and not the VSC snapshot. So when we test, VMs...
View ArticleConnection Error when using Client from Windows App store
Windows 8 Laptop able to connect using full Horizon View client from Desktop and able to connect using Browser to Security Server and access via HTML. Receive unable to connect to connection server...
View ArticleCold Migrate vCenter to new Hosts
Here's what I have going on: I have to migrate all VM's from our old hardware environment to new one. We are basically replacing all hosts and the underlying storage. I was going to add the new hosts...
View ArticleVmware Tools Installation Fails
Host Windows 8Guest Debian Sid VMware Tools fails (as it does in VMWare 9) with following error message: Creating a new initrd boot image for the kernel.update-initramfs: Generating...
View ArticleWith virtualHW.version = "10" I would expect larger vmdks
I thought one of the new features of virtualHW.version = "10" would be the removed 2TB size limitation for vmdks.Will this be added in the release version ? I noticed that using vmdks larger than 2 GB...
View ArticleStrange problems on ESXi 5.0.0 (build 469512)
Hello, I just installed ESXi on a server and there are many strange problems. At first install I got boot image is corrupted error. So, I re-installed the system and now; * I can't access to...
View ArticlePERC H310 Controller vSphere Support
Hello, I am running ESXi 5 Free and have 2 VMs running on this host. We have a PERC H310 Controller with two RAID 0 arrays, a 500GB mirror and a 2TB mirror. The 2TB mirror is degraded and I need to...
View ArticlePackets dropped on virtual machine
Hi friends, I'm facing with packets dropping on some our virtual machines.I had problem with our up-link but I'm sure that there is no problem now.Anyone has idea about that? BR
View ArticleSize of windows pagefile on win 2008 r2 servers running on ESX 5.0
Hey Admins,I have a lot of virtual servers that are configured with 16gb ram.By default windows will create a 16gb pagefile (auto manage page file size)What would you guys say is a good pagefile size...
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Adding multiple RDMs to a VM
Hello community...we're doing a really fun virtual SQL cluster project, running on ESXi 5.0. Without getting too much into the design detail, I'm looking to try to script adding a whole slew (45ish) of...
View ArticleHow to un-flatten a -flat
For some unknown reason, the LSI RAID controller in my server won't let me mirror an existing drive without blowing it up. Very annoying. So I'm stuck trying to back up my vmware situation and...
View ArticleVMware Workstation 9 - Windows 95 - Internet Explorer
Can someone please help me get the internet to work on my guest Windows 95 OS in VMware Workstation 9?I have it set up to be hardware compatible with vmware 5.The sound works - I found the driver for...
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