esxtop and client performance chart discrepancy for receive packets dropped
I am having difficulty analyzing the various data I receive at the host level, versus within the vSphere client. I need this to determine if a change I made to a VM is fixing a specific problem, as...
View Articlevm clone scipt error
Trying to use a script to clone existing vms to a new data store, but get following. error. see attched script. Please point me in the right direction + Add-PSSnapin <<<<...
View ArticleFT-Record/Replay functionality is not supported by this virtual machine...
I ran across a bug recently when I created a VM with the latest versions of ESXi 5.1.0-838463, Client ver 5.1.0-860230, vCenter ver 5.1.0-880146. If you create a VM for a Windows 2012 Server OS for...
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Esxi 5.1 pci passthrough broken
I got a purple screen when I start up a vm with a pci device With Esxi5 was working fine. I tested it with 2 vm on different hosts ( but same hardware) i7 2600 32gb mb: dq67sw What can I try
View ArticleSample Question - Need help
Here is a sample test question I have tried to find a good way to figure out the answer but have not been able to. I am missing something. Q. # of IOPS to limit disk throughput to 20 MBps if...
View ArticleQuestion with setting up servers
Hey guys hopefully one of you could help me out here. Now I set up a server for another office using the esxi 5.1 host, got the 3 vm's loaded on the server itself and was updating it. Another person...
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SRM 5.1/V7000 with SRA 2.1.0.x fails during 'testFailover'.
Current scenario:SRM and vCenter versions 5.1 (in both sites)ESXi versions 5.1 (all hosts)Storage: IBM Storwize V7000 with 7.1.0.1 code level (both sites)SRA Configuration: 'non pre-configured'...
View ArticlevCOPS Licensing question
Hi all, IvCOPS5.7.When I addthe firstvCenter(other than the onewhere thevApp), the licenseseemsyou canonly enteron the vCenterregistered.If I adda secondvCenter,howeverI will have tore-enterthe license...
View ArticleControlling Connections to VMFS Volumes
Hello Group, The issue I am trying to overcome is the following. We have 700 VM's across 7 Equallogic arrays in two pools with 70+ in-guest iSCSI connections. We would like to convert these guest based...
View ArticleChance to Win VMware Backup Software Free for 1 Year
Throughout the summer of 2013 you can win a chance to receive VMware backup software free for 1 year just by clicking here and downloading a free trial.
View ArticleWorkstation 9.0.2 Ubuntu Host Unity Mode Taskbar
I'm running VMWare Workstation 9.0.2 installed on Ubuntu 13.04, with Windows 8 Professional guest. Applications running on the Windows 8 VM do not show up in the Ubuntu host taskbar as expected....
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CreateCustomizationSpec
I am trying to automate VM deployment. I was looking at Windows VMs and using the PowerCli OSCustomization cmdlets but got stuck with the 2 NICs and having to put a default gateway on both NICs. I then...
View ArticleHelp/Suggestions with setup
Hi, I'm new to the community and as well as with VMWare. I'm now supporting the VMWare ESX 4.1.0 in the company using Dell PowerEdge R710 with 8x2.4Ghz CPU, 24GB ram and 4TB HDD. The server runs the...
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Need some Major Help Here
I am currently running ESXI 5.1 on a brand new Shuttle XPC machine that has an Intel i5 cpu, 32GB Ram and 1TB HDD. I have installed vSphere Client 5.1 on my client machine desktop and have created my...
View ArticleLinux kernel panic after moving Datastore Location
Hello, We have a single ESXi 5.1 host with several VM's running. One of these is a Linux RHEL 5 64-bit VM (PeopleSoft 9.2 Demo Server).We are in the process of moving all the datastores from our EMC...
View ArticlevMotion between 2 hosts
Hi I have 2 hosts in my vmware farm has the same hardware as followHP Proliant DL 585 G5Model: 16 CPUs x2.31 GHzProcessor Type: Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8356====for example host01 and...
View ArticleMore IDE Drives than standard bios has (0:0 0:1 - 1:0 1:1) ?
Needing More IDE Drives than standard bios (0:0 0:1 - 1:0 1:1) has. Though I guess won't be able to add any since what the has bios has is what we get. Though post this in case there is a way or if...
View ArticleAutocad 2008 and Fusion 5
I am getting some bad behaviors in Autocad 2008 with the mouse and windows 7. It will jump a huge distance while in a command. Also the mouse will vanish and I have to minimize the program then...
View ArticleLDAP Import in vApp Custom-UI
We are having major issues get ldap with ssl to work with the 5.7 vApp. It appears we're importing the root CA successfully, but we're still getting handshake error when we try to import users with...
View ArticleBest Configuration for 4 x 1Gb Physical NICs
I have some servers with 4 physical NICs (can't add any unfortunately). This is ESXi 5.1 with Enterprise Plus. Tr affic load is very light with less than 20 servers on two hosts. Storage is...
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