Restart Physical vCenter 5.0 Server after power supply termination
Dear all, We are using a Physical vCener 5.0 server, with 3 ESXi servers and a EQL iSCSI SAN. Our vSphere SQL database is located in a VM. Last Sun, as the power supply of our floor need terminate for...
View ArticleESXi 5.1U1 upgrade failure - OSError: [Errno 39] Directory not empty
Hello all- just attempted to update my ESXi server from 5.1 799733 to 5.1U1 1065491. During the upgrade the process hangs at 24% completion with the error message as above:OSError: [Errno 39]...
View ArticleWhy only 4 vmotions with 10 GbE?
I have a very curious situation...at one time, I am sure I was getting 8 live vmotions at a time when I would put a host in maintenance mode. Now I am only getting 4!We 4 H- BL 680c G7 blades...
View ArticleBrining a call out of suspension.
Hello everyone – I am currently after a existing solution or a workaround for brining a call out of suspension from an incoming email ? I have gone throug vsm-91-email-user-guide and found it of a...
View ArticleSLA Agreement Selection Priority: Is there any way of adding to the list of...
I’m not sure if I’m missing something obvious here, or we’re just trying to do something that isn’t possible, but here is our scenario: Our call centre staff take a call from an external customer....
View ArticleUsage meter not recording after vCentre upgrade to 5.1
We upgraded our vCenter servers to 5.1 and since then the usage meter (v3.0.2) has been unable to login. Message is: "A collection from x.x.x.x, begun at 2013-05-06 12:05:01, failed at 2013-05-06...
View ArticlevMotion stalls at 83% then times out
Two strange occurrences on a Sunday evening...I am never doing maintenance on a Sunday evening again...We have a cluster of 4 - HP BL 680c G7 blades. I am attempting to put hosts in maintenance mode...
View ArticleExporting VMWare Fusion Guest for Upload to Amazon EC2
I understand the basic steps in Amazon's [VMWare to EC2] guide, except for one problem : how do I convert my .vmwarevm to a .VMDK file? [Amazon's VMWare to EC2]:Using the Command Line Tools to Import...
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ESXi 5.1 and Importing a Fusion VM
I am in the process of moving several VMs created in VMWare Fusion 5 into ESXi 5.1, which I just installed on a Mac Mini Server. I am able to connect just fine via the Windows application installed on...
View ArticleAdd/update a license key with powercli script - standalone host
Does anyone know how to add/update a license key with powercli script. I can do it OK with LicenseAssignmentManager when connected to vcenter server, but i can't do it when assigning a free license...
View Articleesxcli - module parameters in kickstart script do not apply
I am deploying about a dozen ESXi servers using a kickstart script. I am attempting to set one of the parameters for the qla2xxx driver, in the firstboot section of the script, as follows: FirstBoot...
View Articlerunning web access service in vCLI
HiI need to run web access service for my ESXi 5.1 . I have downloaded and installed the VCLI as instructed in the link.now I have vCLI installed and I can access its command interface from start menu....
View Articlevmware player dependency on hal, policykit, consolekit
Is there going to be a new version of vmware player which does not have dependencies on these deprecated or dropped packages? It seems that vmware player will not run on some modern linux...
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Looking for a best practices guide: complete cluster replacement
Hi, I've been tasked with commencing the complete replacement of our current ESXi 5.0 U2 hardware environment with a new cluster of servers running 5.1. Here are the basics: Currently HP Blade Server...
View ArticleSetup Windows 2008 R2 DHCP on virtual Network
Hello everyone, here is my question: I have a laptop with Windows 7 installed. Inside the laptop, I installed VMWare Workstation 6.5. Inside the VMWare, I installed 2 client PCs, Windows XP and Windows...
View ArticleKernel mode debugging using TCP?
Is it possible to debug ESX driver using TCP via workbench? If so, then how?
View Article5.1 upgrade question
I am starting to plan an upgrade from Vcenter 5.0 to 5.1 update 1. I have reviewed the Upgrade guide and many forum posts and still have questions.I currently use the local Administrator account to run...
View ArticleInstall Vmware Tools after creating VMs
hi guys I have this Power CLI code I think I got it from here or from a blog any way. This script creates VMs and I want to know if there is a way to after creating the VM is there a way to install...
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Migration 5.1.1 High Cpu
Since migrating to a newly built cluster running ESXi 5.1 build 838463 and View 5.1.1 build-799444 we experience high cpu utilization on the esx side. It appears to be related to PCoIP because if I...
View ArticlevMA installed, servers added, vifptarget command not found
I was able to successfully install the vMA appliance and update it, then added servers to it (2 hosts and the VMware vCenter Server appliance). I ran the 'vifp listservers' command and it successfully...
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