cannot install vsphere webclient
Hi!We installed vcenter simple and now, we cannot install vsphere webclient. When we asked to enter credentials admin@System-Domain, we get an error that are invalidad credentials (the provider...
View ArticleVMWare Workstation - Memory Technology Question
Hi, ESXi uses advanced memory technologies like Ballooning, Deduplication and Compression. I am curious, does Workstation (or Fusion) use any of them? Thanks.
View ArticlevCloud Director Branding CSS sugestions
Hello, I'm trying to do the branding on our implementation of the vCloud Director and am running into troubles getting rid of the blue on some accented widgets, as follows: Since the buttons seem to be...
View ArticleImport ova from esxi shell to localhost
Has anyone been successful at getting the ovftool to import an ova from the esxi 5.1 shell to the local host? Background: I have a kickstart DVD install that installs esxi 5.1 then copies files to the...
View ArticleNo USB Device in web client?
I connected to an ESXi 5.1 Server from the standard vSphere Client. I created a vCenter 5.1 VM. At the top of the Windows VM on the vSphere client, there are small icons to connect a CD/DVD, Floppy,...
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Esxi 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 Articlepowershell variables setting
Hi, What would be the easist way to acheive this: I have an IP, 123.45.56.79 $myip = "123.45.56.79" I need to capture the subnet: 56 and place it in this string network-056 (notice the 0 ) $mynetwork...
View ArticleGet children folder
Hello, I'm a new powercli user and i need get the children of a given folder in a particular datacenter. For example: get-datacenter $datacenter | get-folder - location $folder How do i do it?
View ArticleIs it possible to run Mac OS X guests in ESXi nested?
Is it possible to run Mac OS X guests in ESXi that is running not on bare metal (like Apple XServe), but rather as a guest in VMware Fusion that is running on a MacMini computer? After all the physical...
View ArticleUsers reporting only 2/3 of monitor shown and rest black
I have some users that are reporting to me that when they return from a break / meeting that only about 2/3 of their monitor is showing the VM. If they have dual monitors the secondary monitor is all...
View ArticleUnable to do external folder share.
When i try to share o folder to an external mailadress i wont send the mail. Or at least thats how it appers so.. This is from the log Failed to send...
View ArticleInstalling patch advice on 9.1
I'm about to embark on applying my first patch upgrade since we upgraded from Infra8 to VSM9.1.2 a few weeks ago. I'm planning on applying patch 9.1.5. Does anyone have any advice they can give me...
View ArticleKeyboard not working properly - Wrong Characters & Caps Lock REVERSED
I have found some weird behavior of the keyboard (Spanish ISO) on Mac OS X Server 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard Server) on VMware Fusion 5.0.3 on OS X 10.8.3 (Mountain Lion): 1. In all cases on Snow Leopard...
View ArticleHow to start up in safe boot or safe mode INSIDE a virtual machine?
How to start up in safe boot or safe mode INSIDE a virtual machine? Mac OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1564 In a Mac, you do it pressing the Shift key until you see...
View ArticleUpload Policy - User Area
Hello, Can someone explain me the user area part in an "upload policy" ? I don't really understand the main differences between "User area" and "Unprotected area". This is what I understood:For the...
View ArticleShared Folder Issue in Fusion 5
I am experiencing a shared folder issue on 2 of my mac's running Fusion 5.01/5.02. This does not occur in Fusion 4.1.4. When navigating through shared folders using File Explorer the VM will...
View ArticleCommitting snapshots when there are no snapshot entries in the Snapshot Manager
Committing snapshots when there are no snapshot entries in the Snapshot ManagerAbove problem on my esxi 4.1.0 host. Committing snapshots from the ESX/ESXi command line failed.Cloning failed: Failed to...
View ArticleAccesso storage eterno
Ciao,ieri si è spenta una macchina con esx 4 a cui è collegato uno storage esterno (un qnap), alla ripartenza dell'host fisico all'interno da vsphere (in "datastores" --> identification") non era...
View Articlehow to ESX(i) to start using RAM again and immediately
Hey folks -- suppose ESX has decided to swap out certain pages of a guest VM to swap space on the host because there was severe memory crunch -- how do we make sure ESX recalims all pages back from...
View ArticleVDP will not backup Server 2008 R2 - lots of errors
I just downloaded and installed new newest version of VDP on Vsphere 5.1. I had it back up two linux VMs....no probem. I then tried to have it back up a Windows 2008 R2 VM (twice)....both times it...
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