SVMotion Failing
I am trying to svmotion just one disk and am getting "A general system error occurred: Failed to start disk migrations." It's not for all VM's though. Any thoughts on why this would be?
View ArticleVMware View Agent 5.2.0 PCoIP over WAN fails
I recently performed an in-place upgrade of VMware View 4.6 to VMware Horizon View 5.2. After upgrading the View 4.6.0 agent in my parent virtual machines to the View 5.2.0 agent and rebuilding the...
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Get all VMs with "vmware-vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms"
hello! I have following problem.I have a shell-script and want to get all IDs and Names of virtual machines: for i in `vmware-vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms | sed '1d' | awk '{print $1":"$2}'` all is fine,...
View ArticleChanging iSCSI IP on the fly?
Hello,I just ran into an interesting, all be it frustrating issue. One of the two IPs that I use for my iSCSI configuration was "borrowed". I am currently running ESXi 4.1 Update 2+. The iSCSI...
View ArticleVirtual BIOS and boot order
I recently decided to expand the virtual drive for a Linux VM running in VMPlayer in Windows 7. The last step is to modify partitions using a 3rd party software: GParted. In principle, GParted should...
View ArticleEnabling fast-provisioning on OVDC breaks VAAI based fast-provisioning
I have an array that supports VAAI file based cloning. The vCloud settings do not seem to match up with the expected behavior. Here is what I am experiencing: Setup 1: VAAI for...
View ArticleCannot access SSL site after recompose
We are currently running 5.1 View and everytime I do a recompose, we cannot access any secure sites. It just says "Page Cannot Be Displayed". If the user logs off and back on, they can access the site....
View Articlewhat NIC(s) does VDR v2 use to move data?
Hi all, We use VDR version 2 and I was wondering what NIC does it use to pull the snapshot data? My guess is all that traffic stays on the iSCSI NIC since it is pulling the info from the VMDK file and...
View ArticleUSB Printer
When my users connect to there linked clones the USB printer connect to there physical machine shows up as an unspecified device in the VDI. In my test environment running off the same image with a...
View ArticleVM hardware report
I have a script that generates a report of the VM tools and hardware using Get-View. I want to add the cluster to the report, if it exists. Best way to do this? $result= @()...
View ArticleCan a guest find out its own virtual hardware version?
Is it possible for a guest to figure out its own virtual hardware version from within the guest OS?
View ArticleUpgrading from vCenter 5.0 to 5.1 and receive installation failed error
I am attempting to install vCenter 5.1 on my current vCenter 5.0I currently am using SQL Express as the database. I have tried simple install and single sing on separately with same result.I have...
View ArticleHight Network Latency from VM!
Hi, I'm noob to VMWare configuration and don't know why I'm getting 1.4ms to ping a physical server in the same network. I've a R620 with VMware 5.1 ESX. in there we have 5 VMs all Linux with 2 cores...
View ArticleHOWTO+Run local bash script from WITHIN the vCenter Orchestrator Workflows
Hello, I just started learning vCO workflow development. I'm stuck on how to Run my local bash script from within the Orchestrator Workflows. My bash script is located in the vCO server (e.g....
View ArticleRemove Emulex OneConnect iSCSI adapters
While we use Emulex OneConnect 10g adapters throughout our environment for 10 Gbe, we have no iSCSI (we're all FC). However, on a single host, somebody went and set up a pair of OneConnect iSCSI...
View ArticleVADP Recovery Issues for SRM Protected VM
We get the following error when trying to recover a VADP image level backup for a virtual machine which has been protected using SRM: Invalid or unsupported virtual machine configuration.vSphere...
View ArticlevCAC to vCO to VCM (or) vCAC to VCM? Best practice?
Hello folks, Its been documented and said that vCAC integrates well with vCO out of the box. But from a overall solution point of view, does vCO integrates with VCM/vCOPS and then have vCAC integrated...
View Articlehelp getting this script to email a report out of results of NTP time
Hi can anybody help me to get this script to check on host ntp time and send an email of the results . at the moment it doesn't have any thing in the results as i think the time is correct on all the...
View ArticlevCenter 5.0 SSL Certificates
Hi, Really weird problem but im trying to get SSL certs working on a vCenter 5.0 implementation with Entrust generated certs. When I run the Managed Object Browser after replacing the certificates and...
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