vSMP (Massive SMP Across a Cluster)
Greetings all! Feel free to tell me I'm crazy if you like, but I need to build a supercomputer without actually, you know, building a supercomputer! We have an application that has sucked all the...
View ArticleRunning Things From 128 GB USB Flash Drive. Is this even possible?
I have VMware. I also have a flash drive that holds up to 128 GB. Is there a way I can keep the VMware file on the flash drive and then bring it to work, plug it in there, then run my entire day from...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Encryption Performance in VMware vSphere 6.5
VMware vSphere virtual machine encryption (VM encryption) is a feature introduced in vSphere 6.5 to enable the encryption of virtual machines. VM encryption provides security to VMDK data by encrypting...
View ArticleMoved VM in Constant Restart Loop
Moved a VM from a WS Player on Win7 machine to a WS Player Win10 machine. Took ownership on initial boot and then the VM goes into a constant restart loop. Gets to Windows is loading files, then...
View ArticleCan't export ova file
Hello,I Installed VMware Workstation 11 on Windows 7 64 bits, i tried to deploy my ova file, but when i start the exportation, the message below appears : "Export failed: Target already exists:...
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Failed to Pair Between Two Site - vSphere Replication Problem
Hi All, I'm quite new to VMWare technology, so I need some advices from you all guys. Currently, I'm trying to setup vSphere Replication in my office between main DC and DRC, the purpose is for SRM...
View ArticleCare & Feeding of HP-ESXi...
Hello, All: I've inherited a small collection of HP Proliant servers running a variety of ESXi versions... ESXi-6.0.0-20160302001-StandardESXi-6.0.0-20160302001-Standard...
View ArticleMoved VM contents from failing disk and now virtual hard drive not recognised...
Hello, I had a Fusion Virtual machine on a Mac OS encrypted DMG file on an external USB drive, (Windows XP professional, running on Fusion 8.1.1 - on Mac OS 10.9.5) and the disk started failing. The...
View ArticleFusion 8.5 on MacOS Sierra Crashing Often
After any of my Windows VM's boot up, they freeze more often than not and I get an error that Windows has stopped responding and needs rebooted. I sometimes have to reboot 3 times before it will...
View Articleupgrade esxi
I'm curious about a topic . I used Esxi 4 and then I upgraded Esxi 5 with esxi iso . now i want to install vcenter update manager then I want to do upgarde to esxi 6 with vcenter update manager . is it...
View ArticlevCenter 6.0 managing ESX 5.5 and 6 hosts
hi guys I would like to hear your opinions about this right now we want to migrate to 6.0 Vmware version but we found our cluster has some servers that won't support ESXi 6.0 and they have to stay in...
View ArticleESXi in SD card or standard hard disk
Most of the VSAN ready nodes are using SD card for the ESXi partition.From a VMware standpoint, would you recommend installing ESXi in an SD card? Can we instead ask the vendor to include 2 x 300GB...
View ArticleBasic REST Call to vROPs
Not sure where this post should go, but I'm trying to make a basic REST call to vROps and start with getting a token and can't. Here's my code: $mybody= @{ username ="admin" password = "my...
View Articlecan not get file sharing to work on Centos/RHEL 7..
hey everyone, i've used fusion to run centos since version 5. file sharing from the mac host has worked great. i've purchased the upgrade to fusion 8.5 because i couldn't get fusion 6 to share with...
View ArticleHow to paginate listview using objectCollectionTemplate
Hello, i am learning about vsphere client sdk and i want to create paging for a listview that extends objectCollectionTemplate but i have no ideas. Can you help me?
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503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint:
Error Message: 503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint: [class Vmacore::Http::LocalServiceSpec:0x000001d47454d440] _serverNamespace = /ui action = Allow _port = 5090) Hello guys good...
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Adding fields to this report
Given this awesome script from PowerCLI: Get every VM added to vCenter in the last 30 Days! - The Practical Administrator I modified it to output to a CSV, now I'd like to add fields for CPU, memory,...
View ArticlevROPS and Access Point 2.8
Testing Access Point 2.8 with View 7.0.2. In vrealize operations manager, I'm able to see stats on the security servers, but not the access point. The release notes for 2.8 of the access point state...
View ArticleSolution for "Already Used" state
Hi all There's been quite a few posts here recently about the "Already Used" state some VMs in Linked Clone pools can end up in. I think we've developed a solution. The problem appears to occur when a...
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On host reboot the VMs on VMware Integrated Opentack are in "Error" state
Hi All, One of the three hosts managing the VIO resource cluster, was rebooted.The VMs that were present in that host are currently in "Error" state and I am unable to start or stop the VMs.This issue...
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