storage capacity reports issue
Hello, In our environment we intentionally leave 20% free space on all datastores to prevent any issues. All the VM’s are thick provisioned, but this 20% intentional overhead is causing our ‘time...
View ArticleControlling multiple VM's across multiple hosts?
Hi, Apologies for what is clearly going to be a newbish question as I've just started using PowerCLI yesterday. I have 6 Host servers with 10 VMs on each and each VM with a snapshot. I've created a...
View ArticleRe: HELP my keyboard doesn't work in my virtual machine!
I found this on the internet, hope it helps: VMware KB: Keyboard or mouse do not work in a hosted virtual machine And the reason why your Virtual Machine is taking forever to get to the boot screen in...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5 critical Issue
Hi, This will be helpful based on above data VMware KB: Network Connectivity Lost Due to Physical Link Down...
View ArticleRe: Upgrading ESX 3.5.0 build 110268 to ESXi 5.1 or latest
Option 1 will work - Option 2 will not work exposing the iSCSI SAN to the old hosts will not expose the FC datastores to the new hosts
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Low WAN speed
Hi, all, I've been using ESXi 5.1.0 (1065491) for a couple of months. I have three Windows Sever 2003 VMs on it. Light use on all. Only one physical NIC is being used on the host. The good: on the LAN...
View ArticleRe: Low WAN speed
Welcome to the Community - Do you have unused NIC ports on the ESXi host - if you do I would look at adding on of the unused ports to the virtual switch - connect it to your physical switch as a start -
View ArticleRe: VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) Defense schedule for 2013
I am waiting for the PEX On Tour 2014 schedule to decide about dates for a European VCDX Design Defense in the first half of 2014.
View ArticleRe: Low WAN speed
Thank you for quick reply. Yes, I have an unused Gbit NIC. So as a start, connect the unused NIC on the ESXi host to my network Gigabit switch? Will do right now. Edit: connect it to vSwitch0 ? (same...
View ArticleRe: HA Question
with a one host cluster, HA/DRS have no value. You'll need atleast two hosts to utilize HA. So, with a single host, then host goes down, so do the VMs. You can use the virtual machine...
View Articlehelp connecting usb device. Vmware fusion 5.0.3. osx 10.6.8
hello all I have a usb device specifically the alfa awus036nh that won't connect to fusion. i am running a backtrack vmware image on osx 10.6.8. First what i do is a click the usb button on the top...
View ArticleRe: Controlling multiple VM's across multiple hosts?
With the Connect-VIServer cmdlet you can connect to multiple vSphere servers.Only condition is that you can use the same credentials, or that SSO is implemented. When you switch to 'multiple' mode with...
View ArticleRe: New Equipment Rolling In... How to Move View environment??
Do I have to do anything in the View Administrator once all the desktops/replicas are moved to the new cluster with the new hosts?
View ArticleRe: Long time to Rescan Disks
Thanks for the responses and apologies for my delay in responding, the KB posted by compupartes resolved the issue.... Very much appreciated... Mike
View ArticlevclVApp.status, VclQueryResultAdminVAppRecord.status, and the vclQueryService...
I am attempting to use the query service to get a filtered list of vApps and I am seeing some weird results. The status attribute is of type number in the vApp object. The documentation for the...
View ArticleRe: Can I Do Seeding with ABR?
What I have done in the past to set up vSphere Replication (VR) is to copy the VM folder and contents to a USB drive, then go to the DR site and copy from the USB drive to a datastore at the DR site...
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Re: Low WAN speed
so, I went to vSwitch0 Properties, Network Adapters tab, Add..., chose the unused NIC and now it looks like this:is this what you meant? is there any sort of restart needed?
View ArticleRe: Can I Do Seeding with ABR?
Hi, Thanks I understand your seeding part. If you are sure that transferring data physically to other location by dumping in USB is faster, I think it should work. However I am not sure whether...
View ArticleRe: Upgrading ESX 3.5.0 build 110268 to ESXi 5.1 or latest
How about this one, a slight change which i've underlined on option number 2? The reason that I'm leaning towards option number 2 is that it's easier for me to do. Our new 5.1 hosts don't have hba's,...
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