ESX 5.1 - Identifier doesnt match GUID
I have been auditing my storage from gues to SAN and I have found a GUID that doesnt not match any identifier and vice-versa. Its off slightly, 30d vs 30b. I have double checked it and everything else...
View Articleissues getting the VM to "notice" runtime changes I've made via the VIX API?
Hello there! I appear to have run into an interesting quirk in some automated testing I'm setting up using the VIX VM Perl API, and was wondering if anyone had seen anything similar and/or could offer...
View ArticleSAN Data Migration To New Storage Appliance
Hello All, We are getting ready to migrate to a new SAN storage appliance very soon. I have been considering several approaches to how I might migrate the VM data to the new LUNs in the least...
View ArticleWhat form of VMware should I use for my new server?
Hi all, I'm going to make the leap from Windows 2008 to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server as I did some recent testing and there really is a dramatic improvement in web server response times when hosting on a...
View ArticleWhat does each agent do? what is it mean for??
Hi Geeks, I once restarted the services in ESXi5 and it restarted a whole bunch of services. What are those meant for? can anyone help me understand it plz...
View Article0 bytes of system swap space is available
I just installed VMware Player and get this: VMware Player recommends 512 MB of system swap space for the set of currently running virtual machines. 0 bytes of system swap space is available. For...
View ArticleHow to configure/setup network on virtual servers?
We just purchased the license for vSphere with two processors. I'm going to setup at least three virtual servers on this host machine. Can someone point me to a step by step instruction on how to setup...
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No LUN available when trying to increase datastore size
I am trying to increase the size of my datastore. When looking at the properties of the datastore I can see that the current capacity is 738.29 GB and the local device has a 2.73TB capacity.(see image...
View Articleone LUN for one RAID array, or break it up?
We are just starting a modest virtualization project. We are an 11-person company with 8 real servers, most of which are old, none of which are very busy, although the one that is our Active Directory...
View ArticleVCAP-DTD
Looks like I manged to pass this beta exam according to Pearson Vue website. Took it back in 1/2/13. It was a crazy 3 weeks dealing with all the holidays, VCP-Cloud beta, VCAP-DTD beta and VCAP5-DCA...
View ArticlevCenter and update Manager
Hello all, I have Vcenter 5.1 running on a WIndows 2008 R2 server. Now when I log into Vcenter Web Client none of the VMHost machines show up. Am I missing something as to how to add the hosts? Also,...
View ArticleChanging the port for vsphere direct access to esxi 5.1
Hello All, I am looking to the change the default ports used by esxi 5.1 to accept vsphere connections. For 5.0 and older I used this link...
View ArticleVCAP5-DCD or VCAP5-DCA to inherit the VCP5-DCV?
HiI have taken the VMware official course and I am planning to get as many certifications as I can. I read on some web server that I can go directly to the VCAP5-DCD or VCAP5-DCA and if I pass one of...
View Articlevifptarget command not found
I just downloaded and setup the vMA vapp this week and while trying to get things setup I have added server using the vifp addserver command. I can list the 6 hosts that I have setup but I cannot use...
View ArticleError while powering on: Unable to open file that exists
This weekend a partition containing my VMWare virtual machines was accidently deleted by Acronis backup softwareI rebuilt the partition and re-assigned the same drive letter.I then restored the...
View ArticleAggiornamento Vmware 3i 3.5.0 u5
Ciao a tutti,mi sono trovato con questo host standalone... vorrei aggiornarlo a una versione piu recente 4.0 o 4.1 quale procedura è meglio utilizzare, ho provato tramite CLI ma mi da un errore in fase...
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VCAP-CIA Results
Sat the beta on Feburary 26th and had actually forgot about it until just getting the magical pass email in my mailbox. Actually got a pretty decent score for my standards, somehow did better than the...
View ArticleNeed some help getting started with cloning via customization specification
I am interested in extending the pre-created Workflow "CloneVM from properites". I do not want to have to specify the properties within orchestrator, but would like to use one of my named...
View ArticlevCenter in Linked mode access issues
I have 2 vCenter 5.1 servers in linked mode with no firewall between them, connected via layer 2 connectivity, in two different data centers. They are both a member of the same domain, with DC's in...
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Hyper-V to VMware
Case = Physical server with Hyper-V crashes. One important Small Business Server was running there as a guest. Bare metal restore (Windows Backup) is available on external disk... Is there a way to...
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