Is SQLIO accurate when run inside a VM?
I'm wondering if there are issues with timing accuracy since there's no direct access to the system's hardware timer. Any thoughts?
View ArticleSharing secondary disk between Linux and Windows Guests
Hi Guys, I have a requirement to have a Windows guest and Linux guest share the same disk (formated as NTFS) and both systems need full access to the shared file system. From what i have read this is...
View ArticleFast VP + Vmware
Hi there, I'm new here, and I´m new to all this VM stuff, storage, san, etc etc... and I got some questions about VMware and FAST VP. As far as I know I have to move a VM to a LUN on the FAST VP pool,...
View ArticleUpgrade to vCenter 5.1 Update 1?
hi guysI want to upgrade to vCenter Appliance 5.1 U1, checking the vmware site to get the download I see thisVMware-vCenter-Server-Appliance-5.1.0.10000-1065184-updaterepo.isoComment says: VMware...
View ArticleSeveral important questions regarding SIOC / Storage IO Control
So I've read many articles, blog posts and even watched the VMworld 2010 session regarding SIOC, but I still have some important questions I would like to verify before I go ahead and implement this...
View ArticleSQL 2012 Application Consistent Snaps?
So now that 5.1U1 supports SQL 2012 can vmtools effectively quicese SQL 2012 for an application consistent snapshot?
View ArticleHBA Failure Behavior
We have single dual port HBAs in our hosts.. each port goes to a sep SAN controller.. but I am curious how a host handles VMs if the HBA itself was to fail?
View ArticleHype ric server is not able to start
Hi All, I have installed open-source postgresql 9.1 database and after that i have installed Hyperic Server 4.6 but while starting HQ server i am unable to start it ERROR [WrapperStartStopAppMain]...
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ESX 4.1, IBM BladeCenter (Nortel / BNT Switches) in blocking state
Hello, I am trying to resolve an issue I uncovered related to networking and our vSphere environment... I have an IBM BladeCenter H with 3 HS22 servers running ESX 4.1. I have Nortel (BNT) Layer 2/3 GB...
View ArticleVLAN Appearing/Disappearing in vSwitch Properties
We're running vSphere 5.1 where I had one of our network guys create a new VLAN for us to be used as a private connection for a cluster heartbeat between 2 VMs. On a couple ESX hosts, I added the port...
View Articlemodule-updater crashes silently on Debian "Jessie"
On a 64-bit 3.9-0 kernel, running Debian Sid, KDE desktop, VMware Player 5.0.2 build 1031769, patched with the vmware9.k3.8rc4.patch builds all the modules perfectly. On the same hardware (and a...
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Unable to remove NIC from Virtual Machine in Web Client and vSphere
ESX 5.1 (Web Client, Cluster, Host, and vDS) I have a Virtual machine that has 3 NICs associated to it. I only want 2 (Nic 1 and Nic3). In VM Hardware, I remove Network Adapter 2.The Edit window shows...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Resources
Hello Everyone, I had a question about resources. I've installed ESX & ESXi a few times. I have also installed 5.0 once. BUt, I have never installed ESXi5 in a clustered enviornment. I am...
View ArticleI need to create script that locates one or more VMs depending on a number of...
Can anyone tell me the correct way of referencing the following objects in vCli scripts:vms on host, ipaddresses of vms, mac addresses of vms, cdrom (to see if is connected), cd rom to see if is iso,...
View Articlehttps://localhost/sdk/webService error running vicfg-snmp.pl RCLI
When ever I run (from windows) vicfg-snmp.pl --host 172.1.2.3 -s I get this error Error connecting to server at 'https://localhost/sdk/webService': Perhaps host is not a vCenter or ESX server
View ArticleHow to install windows 8 64 bit bundle
I can't find install guide for 64Bit bundle. 7-Zip won't open it. How to proceed?
View Articleerror 29148 sts configuration error
No matter i used remote sqlserver 2008 or local sqlserver . i cannot install SSO In vm9 i have two mechines one is AD another is VC LOG :
View ArticlevCenter Service Status and Hardware Status plugin errors in vSphere 5.1 -...
When I tried to enable the VUM for vSphere 5.1 (another issue I'll address in a different thread but if anyone has information on that, by all means chime in here), I also noticed there were 2 other...
View ArticleVirtual Center service won't start - 404 Not Found
Hello, I've not seen this one before so I'm hoping someone else has as I can't find anything on Google. The VirtualCenter Server service on our vCenter is refusing to start. I've tried a couple of...
View ArticleTape paths are not visible.
Dear Team, I had issue with Tape library. Initially we had the tape library present on ESX server's, Even we had taken backup so many time's. Recently we upgraded ESX4.0 to ESX4.1. After...
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