VMWare ESxi 5 wan simulator?
Hi, Can I use ESxi 5 to emulate a wan situation. Specifically I want to simulate a 1 mbit link and have low latenciecy? It looks like it has some traffic shaping but I wanted to find out from others...
View ArticleQuery About the VCAP-DCA Certification
Very Happy to meet All DCA and DCD Techs ... I have a Query About the VCAP-DCA Certification..... Am VCP4, My Target is VCAP5 ... To Appear VCAP Exam VCP5 is Minimum Requirement... My Query is ..If I...
View ArticleShrink Linux vmware?
I know this has been asked before, but I haven't found a conclusive and working answer. I have several Linux guests (Debian x64) servers which are thin provisioned on ESXi 5.1.Some of these guests have...
View ArticleESXi5 OVF import not working with monolithicSparse
It seems that OVF import only supports the stream format and not monolithicSparse,could someone confrm that? I ask as we are trying to give a hand-crafted OVF to ESXi for import. We use qemu-imgto...
View ArticleHow to run DiskWarrior to repair the directory of a virtual machine?
Is it possible to run DiskWarrior... http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11707/diskwarrior...to repair the directory of a VMware Fusion Virtual Machine of Mac OS X Server 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard Server) in...
View Articlehow to reduce used capacity in data protection?
A customer of ours uses vSphere Data Protection.In the reports, I see that Used Capacity is growing at 1%~2% per day.It has reached 86.31%.We removed old backup some days ago, so it should have been...
View ArticleHow to check Linux VM is synchroize time with ESX Host or NTP Server
Dear team, we have our internal ntp server which we have configured on every esx host , we have installed vmware tools on all guest vm , how to check whether linux vm are synchrizing with esx host or...
View ArticleCondition Length for Events
Hi, Here is my configuration: I have hosts with two alimentations, one directly on sector, and the other on a UPS.I would like to use the default "Host hardware power status" Alarm to put my host in...
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 ArticleMonitor/alerts from ESXI 5.1 of local storage
Hello,i am using a HP-branded installation on my ESXI 5.1 host.I am looking for a option to monitor local raidsets and alers of my Host.I have tried this by HP SIM, but can not find the configuration...
View ArticleDatacenter redundancy
Hello all,I am by no means an expert in virtualization (heck, I'm a noob compared to a majority of you) which is why I come to ask this. We are wanting to setup a virtulaized environment where we have...
View ArticleError when attempting to revertToCurrentSnapshot
I am attempting to use the "Revert To Current Snapshot" functionality in the REST API and I am failing. The documentation says that you send a POST request with no body to this URL (replacing the base...
View ArticleVMware vCloud Director 5.1.2 has been released + New KB
Download Page: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vcloud_director/5_1 Release...
View ArticleNFS Perf issues with VMXNET3 driver on Linux Guest
Hi - We're trying to convert some of our Linux VMs from using the e1000 network driver to the VMXNET3 driver. We've encountered a problem with NFS when using the VMXNET3 driver, where performance is...
View ArticleVDP Scheduler won't start
hi guys suddenly my Backup Scheduler won't start (I can see that in status VDP configure tab). It was working fine.I manually start it. No go.I used command: dpnctl stop mcs - dpnctl start mcs. Same...
View ArticleVM reboots. Leaves Domain
Hi all,I've got a VM setup for adding to a new pool. When deploying to the pool the PC doesnt join the domain, but puts itself in a workgroup of the same name. If I create a VM from the same template...
View ArticleVMware View 5.2 PCoIP Poor Performance
Hi, We're running view 5.2 via PCoIP, everything with the virtual desktops runs great, however when we start viewing the internet or watching anything on YouTube even @ 380p it's very slow and all...
View ArticlePowerCLI: Exception calling "CreateCollectorForTasks" with "1" argument(s):...
Hi, I have the following PowerCLI script that I've hacked together from numerous examples. The problem is it works for a while then starts repeating the following error before for every line....
View ArticleErrore nella creazione di uno snapshot
Ciao a tutti,ho un problema su esx 4.1 nella creazione di uno snapshot, questo problema si presenta su duu vm mentre sulle altre tre non si verifica.Nel dettaglio quando provo a crare uno snapshot...
View ArticlePerc6/i and ESXi 5.1 - VM creation failures
Hello, This is my first venture into RAID. I'm running an AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ on a ECS A780GM-A mobo with 8GB Ram. This is just a home VM server for educational purposes. I recently purchased a...
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