Multiple Pools on a Single VMFS Datastore?
Where tiered storage or SSDs are not available, am I right to assume that best practices for linked clone pool placement on vmfs datastores is 1 Pool = 1 VMFS datastore?Is there a situation where...
View ArticleFailed to update embedded paths in virtual machine file
When running a test of recovery plan (NetApp NFS storage), the following warning appears in the history: Failed to update embedded paths in virtual machine file...
View ArticleNeed Vmware interview questions - only for commandline..
Hi all, pls somebody provide Vmware commandline interview questions, which are the basic and essential to run in common vmware enviroment. thanks in advance, Boopathy S India, TN
View ArticleMaking new firewalls permanent in 5.1?
Greetings. There are some great instructions on how to turn on VNC access for VMs at: https://www.trouter.co.uk/wp/?p=933 Those instructions work fine for 5.1... until the hypervisor is rebooted. At...
View ArticleConfigure Windows Server 2012 with Failover Clustering issue
Hi, hope someone could provide some light here. I tried to configure the cluster above but met with quite a number of issuesI followed the guide here:...
View ArticlevMotion Fails At 14%
Hi Everyone, Having a bit of a strange issue with vMotion today. It's been working in my lab for months, and was still working fine after I upgraded to 5.1 last week. Now, today, for whatever reason,...
View ArticlePurple Screen Of Death - Exception 14
Greetings, One of our ESXi hosts crashed recently with Exception 14. The server is a Dell PowerEdge R520 with a PERC H710p RAID controller (originally it had a PERC H310, but we replaced it with the...
View ArticleWorkstation 9 not recognizing PCI-E NIC
Hi Folks, I've been searching the web but can't seem to find any solutions to my problem. Host OS: Ubuntu 12.04vmWare: Workstation 9 guest OS: Ubuntu 12.04 My pc has:*2 on board nic's*1 WLAN PCI-E...
View ArticleNetApp FAS2240 vs Dell MD3620i
We have a tough decision on our hands, and I'm looking for some serious real-world experience to (hopefully) help us make a purchasing decision. Here's a very brief overview of our environment for...
View ArticleIsolated VM hosts on ESXi 5.0
Hello everyone, I'm totally new on esxi and i have my own lab for tests and eventually get my vmware's certification. I'm using "VMware The Official VCP5 Certification Guide" for my studies my actual...
View ArticleInstall Virtual Machine onto USB 3.0 external drive?
I've got an Intel iMac running OS X Lion, and the main hard drive is full. I'm using VMWare Fusion 5, and I want to install a virtual machine for Mac OS X 10.5 server onto a Western Digital USB 3.0...
View ArticleThe VMware Workstation Server service terminated with service-specific error...
Hi, when I try to Enable Sharing in Workstation 8 RTM | Edit | Preferences | Shared VMs, I get an error Failed to configure Workstation Server. Checking the Event log, I have found they try to start...
View ArticleLatency / response time needed for SQL server
What type of latency / response time do I need to be able to expect from my storage system to be safe for SQL Server VMs? <10 ms average?
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 ArticleMoving from SAN to pure NFS
Has anyone successfully moved their production environment from FC SAN to pure NFS? If so, how did you guarantee that performance requirements were met? How did you insure that your physical...
View Article/var/log/boot.gz
I'm assuming that this file is created at bootup and then gzip'd for archival purposes. So, question: - Is this file overwritten at every boot or does it get archived/moved/saved for historical...
View Article50% cpu usage after stopping VMs and missing VMNet0 problems
Lately I've been having intermittent problems with VMware Workstation. I'm on version 7.1.6 and I know that's severely dated but that's all I'm able to work with since I use VMware Workstation for...
View ArticleAdd a Metadata Filter to a vco Query
Add a Metadata Filter to a VCO Query - how to use vco vcfilter ?? If there is a way I need the syntax to be able to use the below call.I have to make a search based on key and value. vcd rest...
View ArticleConfiguring uplinks with 4 pnics
I have 4 pnics. I'm looking to use 2 for management, vmotion, ft and 2 for production traffic. Should I use any kind of link aggregation? Should I set up my uplinks in active / standby configuration?
View Article[JIRA] (HHQ-5805) Exchange 2007 Web service's availability is always grey
Maya Anderson created HHQ-5805:- Summary: Exchange 2007 Web service's availability is always grey Key: HHQ-5805 URL:...
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