Consolidating BladeCenter blades to ONE x3755 (7163)
I have one setup which is a 8776 BladeCenter running seven LS20 blades and external fibre channel storage connected directly via FC pass-through module.Each of the blades has between 8GB and 16GB...
View ArticleSSO/vCenter redundancy
Hej, we are currently preparing our 5.1 environment and plan to setup SSO servers as HA for failover. We think about putting it on VMs as it is supported by VMware and will run in an ESX Cluster....
View ArticleHow Template get updated internally in Vcenter update manager? and how it...
How Template get updated internally in Vcenter update manager? and how it cane be implimented with VMware webservices?
View Articlevmware host profile host requires reboot before previously applied config...
Hi All, hope this is the correct place for this. I have autodeployed two hosts. I have created the host profile from the reference host and applied it to the second host. This has all been working...
View ArticleVDP fails to start backup jobs
Hello all, I'm new in VDP. I try to run backup job in VDP, but job not started. In VDP I see failure status whitout any error code. VDP create snaphot and after that remove it. I read KB:...
View ArticleBluescreen 0xe0000001 in vmx86.sys
I was using 2 virtual machines, decided to restore a snapshot of one (while it was running), and the host BSODed with 0xe0000001 in vmx86.sys. This is actually the 3rd blue screen I had since...
View ArticleVsphere data protection
Hi all.I have install two vsphere data protection vm and I note some problems during backup windows.In the log of virtual machine I see message like that:"Backup scheduler is not running" and after 10...
View ArticleWhat happens to last restore point if retention period is reached
Hi, Anyone know what happens with the newest version of VDP if backupscan't be made for one reason or other and retention period is reachedand backup is still active and scheduled. First version of VDP...
View ArticleYou may not power on a virtual machine in a virtual machine
I keep getting this message when I try to power on a VM into ESXi, which is running inside VMware Workstation 6.5. I'm doing this to test everything before formatting my production server and...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 on ESX 4.1
Hi, I have physical hosts installed ESX, 4.1.0, 260247 and I tried install nested ESXi, 5.1.0 1065491. Install successful, then I tried to setup in VM on the nested ESXi 5.1, when I power up, I hit the...
View ArticleAudit VCenter 5.x
Hi all, As you might perform an audit in real time or get a log of vCenter 5.x??In this audit do want to see all users all the time you are connected to vCenter. As could be done??Not interested in...
View ArticleDisk performance issue in the VM cluster node 1 in ESXi5
cluster node 1 is having disk performance issue in the SQL DB when cluster node 1 becomes the Active node. while in cluster node 2 there is no disk performance issue when it becomes the Active node. DB...
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Nginx loadbalancer for external access
Hi to all,I am in the process of allowing external access to workspace and as the install doc says that a loabalancer is required I have gone for the Nginx option.The server is up and running. Nginx is...
View ArticleCompact virtual disk while running
Hello all,I use ESXi 5.1 with an external storage array (HP P2000 G3). One of the guests has grown very much. It was created with an 1TB thin-provisioned disk. At the moment the actual data is about...
View ArticleFailed to lookup OID for BIGIP F5 device
I have setup hyperic and added an f5 device. Under Inventory > Configuration properties it gives the error: This resource is turned off or has not been configured properly.The problem is: Invalid...
View ArticleVMware Fusion cannot connect to any of my virtual machines after the Mac OS X...
After the update to Mac OS X 10.8.4 I receive the following message every time I am trying to open any of my Virtual Machines: VMware Fusion cannot connect to the virtual machine. Make sure you have...
View ArticleVDI Windows 7 problems customizing virtual desktops ...
Hi ... I have an environment based on VMware Horizon View 5.2.I installed a Windows 7 Thin Client edition in a parent VM. In this parent I installed some applications (only basics application for...
View ArticleRe: Base Rates
Hello Guys, I am new to the charge back manager. I want to know how the chargeback manager works in the background. We have different vendor model in hardware and i can set up only one base rate for...
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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...
View Articlesimple question about networking best practice - traffic separation for storage
Excuse the newbie question... I am reading up on best practices for network separation for VMware. I see that often things are set up like this (I got this from another post here that was deemed...
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