VM Workstation 9 Very Slow on Dell M4700
I have a new Dell Precision M4700 with I-7-3940XM processor, 32GB RAM , 250GB SSD and 1TB SATA drives running Windows 7 64bit and am trying to run Windows server 2K8 VMs in VM Workstation 9. After the...
View ArticleNo data displayed in charts on scheduled reports
We have a number of reports which have charts displayed on them that work fine in Infra 8. We are currently finishing off our testing of upgrading to VSM9.1.2. However, we have found a problem with...
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 Articlehow to migrate vm's from XCP to vSphere
Hi,My predecessor chose to use xen cloud platform for our production virtual environment. I want to migrate to vSphere for a variety of reasons...mostly support reasons, but also because I don't have...
View ArticleFile sharing on Player betw host and guest doesn't work on Ubuntu 13.04
Hello, I am using a VMware Player on 64 bit Windows 7 to run Ubuntu 13.04, and I installed VMware tools to enable (among other things) file sharing between host and guest. However, file sharing does...
View ArticleAssistance needed enabling nested vSphere 5.0 U2 FT on Sandy bridge Xeon server
After three or four days of trying to get FT working in a nested vSphere 5.0 VM, I am reaching out to the community for assistance. My efforts to enable FT on my nested vSphere VMs has moved from...
View ArticleHA Failover
What is the easiest way to find out what server moved off of a host and were powered back on another host after an HA failover due to loss of a host?
View ArticleError downloading script
I am not sure if it's down for modification since GA guide is out or the link is corrupted, but I cannot download the vmwarevSphereSecurityHardeningReportCheck.pl script for some reason.
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.vmdk size doesn't match Disk size setting in Settings
Windows gave me a "drive space low" error today so I went to add some space to the virtual disk but noticed an odd discrepancy... Looking at the size of the actual .vmdk file, it's only 49.29 GB. When...
View ArticleView Security Server failing PCI scan
We are having our external IP addresses scanned and we have gotten dinged for a PCI vulnerability. The vulnerabity is BEAST (Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS) Vulnerability and I know how to remediate...
View ArticleRenaming the Hard Disk in VM Settings?
Is it possible to rename the "name" of the virtual hard disks in the VM Guest Settings? For example, when you add virtual hard disks, VMware defaults to something like:Hard Disk 1Hard Disk 2Hard Disk 3...
View ArticleNFS Multipathing within ESXi? Possible?
Hi community I set up a redundant storage system (active-active) and did not find any information about NFS multipathing within ESXi. Is that possible? I only read about Multipathing with iSCSI,...
View Articlecan´t vcac roll out vapps with vshield ?
hey guys, i am just wondering if vcac can´t handle vapps with vshields !? Tried to configure everything to handle it, but without success. The vapps are being rolled out, but only the vapps without the...
View ArticleClone a cloud VM into the same vApp?
I would like to clone a VM inside a vApp to create another instance of it in that same vApp. I have tried this with Import-CIVApp: $targetVapp = Get-CIVApp MyVapp$sourceVM = (Get-CIVM -VApp...
View ArticleVDP Proxy errors
Has anyone encountered this error before:vdp: Failed to initiate a backup or restore for a virtual machine because no proxy was found to service the virtual machine A new update to vdp came out last...
View ArticleQuestion: Installing RHEL 6.4 on ESXi host, but throwing Partition Error
Trying to install RHEL 6.4 in an ESXi host, but during the installation process I get a partition error‘Could not allocate requested partitions: Not enough space for LVM request’ (see attachment...
View ArticleSetting/changing custom fields during VM cloning operations
The following is with regards to using the vSphere SDK or VIJAVA SDK and programmatically performing the operation via a Java program. I know how to set/get/delete custom fields in a VM once the VM...
View ArticleThoughts on Acronis Backup & Recovery solution for VMware
Hello, I am just trying to get thoughts on this solution. We have implemented it. But damnn...CPU spikes on 100% and disk latencies I called Acronis, and they said is normal. Any insights from you guys..?
View ArticleThe VCD entity network .. specified for VM .. does not exist.
Hi everyone, Using VCD 1.5, initiating a VApp from a Template works fine for me. Adding a VM to an existing empty VApp was a next task, but I tried to recompose the VApp with no success. I used the...
View ArticleCould not look up host [username]. Proper password, but will not convert
Hey all. I know I am using proper syntax, but it seems like there's a missing service running on my esx cluster. I am able to log in with vSphere, but cannot use ovftool to export a stopped server in...
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