Insufficient disk space on datastore
Hi all, I am facing a strange problem when I resize a VMDK. When I trying to increase the size of VMDK of a runing VM, it got a error dialog Insufficient disk space on datastore "". I have checked the...
View ArticleDurable client, reconnect and detecting interest
Hi, Given the following scenario:1. Durable client2. Server side register interest3. Durable client lost connectivity for more than the durable-client-timeout setting4. Connectivity is restored and...
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Not able to type inside of the VM console through Workstation
Hello, I have a pretty descent Workstation with enough RAM and Hard Disks. I have three Domain Controllers running and I am able to click inside and type throught the VM Console inside Worksation. And...
View ArticleHow to determine if xcopy is being utilized for storage vmotions
My array is VAAI and xcopy capable. Is there a way to look back at storage vmotions that happened during a given day, and confirm that in fact xcopy was utilized to allow the array to do the copying...
View Articlevxlan - preparation not working / vmknic not created
Hello, i´m trying to get vxlan working within a vcloud director 5.1 environment.Within vshield manager i configured the sgement id and in the next step i tryto create the vxlan under connectivity....
View ArticleRequirements for VSA
I am buying two Dell 720xd servers with VMWare Essentials Plus Bundle and want to setup Virtual Storage Appliance with Raid 1. Can someone please tell me how to set it up and what connection is needed...
View ArticleSerial port emulation
I have a windows xp box that I want to convert into a vm instance, a program that runs on the box requires a serial port to connect a dongle to communicate with the program so that it detects whether...
View ArticlevCenter, SRM and Multiple Customers
Is it possible for muliple different Customers to have the ability to use SRM or other forms of replication such as Evault CDR to a single vCenter Server?Would this be secure? Or would I need a vCenter...
View ArticleNot able to clone from PowerCLI
Hi All , I have a Vcenter Setup and having one ESXi host . When i am trying to clone a VM residing in the ESXi via Powercli , its giving error not able to find storage datastore1 . Below is the command...
View ArticleHealth Status Not Showing Information
We have an ESXi 4.1 host (HP ProLiant DL180 G6) that is not connected to a vCenter.When we go to Configuration -> Health Status, no sensors or monitoring show up there. We confirmed with HP that...
View ArticleVMware tools slow to install and kills CPU.
I have been running esx since 3.02 and have recently upgraded from 4.1 to 5.1. When I went to upgrade the vmware tools some vm's, 2003 and maybe a few 2008 windows servers seem to really drag and take...
View ArticleDell Wyse P25 Zero client
Does anyone know if I can run Redhat 5 on a Dell Wyse Zero client? Assuming vmware view is the software managing the redhat image. This is not a thin client and I do not believe the view client gets...
View ArticleInstall vCloud director
hii want to deploy vCloud Director but i need VMware Distrubed Switch and DRS licences avalaible by vSphere Entreprise Plus , there is a verssion of vSphere Entreprise Plus licence freeThanks
View ArticleWinPE 4.0 + VMWare Workstation - Hangs "Windows is loading files" booting...
I've been trying to boot into WinPE 4.0 on workstation 8 but it hangs on anything older than Windows 8. I've tried about 20 different machines on 5 different hosts. Only my Win8 (UEFI and BIOS) guests...
View ArticlevMotioning SRM protected hosts
Hi All, We have just installed SRM on our enviroment and I am trying to test recovery plans at the moment. It would be a great help if anyone could answer the below: Our enviroment is 2 esxi5.1 hosts...
View ArticleDNS instead of NETBIOS
Hi. How can we use DNS FQDN instead of NETBIOS names when deploying patches, running scripts etc? Because vCenter Protect is using the NETBIOS machine name we receive the following error:Error: 201 -...
View ArticleLogin to VC 5 without AD authentication
Hi All, I have ESXi5.1 hosts and 5.1b VC. If my DC is down then I am not longer able to login to VC via VI Client.I have installed SSO - Inventory Service and then VC. What changes do I need to make so...
View Articlevcenter server password recovery?
hey guys,i deployed a 3 vmhost with network storage about 3 weeks ago. I installed the vcenter server appliance and everything worked fine.Today i'm not able to log into the vcenter server at all... it...
View ArticleSupported guest OS View
I am assessing VMware's capabilities in providing a zero desktop (Wyse) solution to display multiple Linux RHEL 5 workstations to users by deploying View managed (Connection Manager I really mean)...
View ArticleWill 5.5 beta sdk will be compatible with 5.1 web client ?
Hi there, We are exploring the options for vsphere web clinet plugin. We are using 5.1 sdk for our plugin currently. Now we keep hearing many new features coming with 5.5 Sdk. So we plan to switch to...
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