How to setup an HDD for file storage
I've just setup a new server with the free version of ESXi 5.1 installed on a USB stick. I have migrated my 10, Win7 VM's from Vmware Workstation to my 3 new HDD's on the ESXi host and have accessed...
View ArticleVM shut down unexpected
Hello.I'm quite new to vSphere I have few VM in one host. Some of them after for example 1 hour - are shutting down unexpected. Where or what I can fix to stop it ? in vmware.log from this vm i see:...
View ArticleConnection Server's certificate is not trusted
This morning around 4:13am all of our View Connection servers lost communication with Composer, and possibly vCenter. When logging into the View Admin page I noticed the Connection Servers and View...
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VMs Migration issue when datastore is roughly full
Hello all,I am currently testing VMware 5.1I have 3 hosts A, B and C in HA mode with 3 attached SCSI disks (1 per host), 3 attached SSD disks (1 per host) and a fiber channel datastore called...
View ArticleVMWare x Veeam x Backup Exec 2012
Good morning everydoby! I have had a big problema with this applications: VMWare x Veeam x Backup Exec.If I process the job backup (Backup Exec) with Veeam stoped, the job finish with success. But, if...
View ArticleDisk Latency ESXi 5.1.0 799733 HP-ML350 G6
Hello, We Deployed an HP ML350 G6 Server with ESXi 5.1.0 799733 and a P410i Raid Controller. The media I used was the Official Media from VMware and not a "Customised" HP Image.Since this server has...
View ArticlevSphere and HA
We have purchased VMWare essentials plus to provide 2 physical hosts with virtual machines. 1 physical host would be used as the primary host with primary servers and the secondary server as failover....
View ArticleAnyone using multisite SSO with SRM 5.1?
Hi, We're going to put in a "active/active" SRM 5.1 deployment (half the protected VMs on each site - using the opposite site as their recovery site). The vSphere 5.1 environment will be brand new too...
View ArticleImport Log Files?
I saw in the Log Insight user guide that it was possible to manually import log files for analysis. I can not find this in the UI. Anybody find a way to do this?
View ArticleAdd VLAN to vmnic
Hello everyone. (I've attached a few image snips.) I need to add VLAN 127 (10.127.1.1/24) to vmnic5, which currently sits on host ESX3. ( (This will be a secondary nic that uses a separate vlan to...
View ArticleUnable to add additional CONNECTOR
Hello ! I'm trying to add an additional connector-va whith hznAdminTool : hznAdminTool addvm --type=CONNECTOR --ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx --useGatewayAsIDP=y --directoryPassword=xxxPlease verify the...
View ArticleVoma reports wrong size of VMFS-volume
Last days I was busy with recovering data from a VMFS-volume that looked completely blank. The VMFS-volume was attached to a local RAID controller and the system was running ESXi 5.0.The day before the...
View Articlesome questions about ESXi and FC SAN with HP P2000 G3
Hello everybody!I'm new in ESXi and SAN, then i need some help in it. I have C7000 Encolosure system with 4 blade servers BL460c already installed ESXi 5.1U1 (HP custome ISO image). Everything work...
View ArticlePowerCLI - How do I tell if a session is using a security gateway?
I got tired of logging into the admin page to see what users are connected. I've written a program that runs on my desktop that shows who is currently connected, by calling a PowerShell program on the...
View ArticlePDXSerialization inconsistencies
Hi, We are using ReflectionBasedAutoSerializer to serialize the domain objects between client and server. We are noticing strange behavior, where one request is successfully received by the server....
View ArticleCópia VMDK
Senhores bom dia! Gostaria de uma grande ajuda. Necessito criar um template de uma determinada máquina, mas não posso copiar todo o disco provisionado, apenas o disco utilizado. Conforme figura em...
View ArticleHow to avoid permission issue when deploying VM from template if user other...
Dear All, The script attached work fine when the user is having root access to deploy VM from template, we got this script from this fantastic forum. Since my user is having only permission to deploy...
View Articlevsphere 5.x licensing
hello i have to use 5 host each one 2 CPU ( 6 core ) with 128 G Ram so on this case i m plan to use 10 * standard edition my question is :- on this case i will be able to use just 8 Vcpu per VM anyway...
View ArticleWINXP PRO OEM OS PROBLEM(S)
Fusion Community(?), VM Guest PC Error message: Unable To Configure target Virtual Machine. Hello All, - New to VM Virtualization, thus far, thankfully haven't drowned, anxiously treading water!...
View ArticleChange New Virtual Machine Defaults
I have a powershell script that uses Plink to add some lines to the etc\VMware\config file so that new VMs will default to enabling the ability to hot add memory and CPU, as well as enabling the...
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