Delete vCloud Director related Custom Attribute on a VM
Hello Following Tomas Fojta's blog postHow to Export Running VM from vCloud Director – Tom Fojta's Blog I'm looking for a way to automate step 4: Remove vCloud Director related Custom Attribute on a...
View Articleviocli inventory-admin and admin user in default domain
I'm trying to use the "viocli inventory-admin show-instances" command, but after the password it fails with: "viocli operation failed: Unable to authorize with keystone: The request you have made...
View ArticlevCenter Events are not getting generated from last 15 days.
Hi, I am unable to see any "events" on vcenter and Host since last 15 days, I can see the "tasks" details but not able to see event generated on host as well as on vCenter.Please Assist. ESXi version:...
View ArticleDirectFlex with Office 2013 & 2016
We have bothOffice 2013& Office 2016 setup in Microsoft APP-V, and would like to use UEM for the configurations.If we configure DirectFlex, using the app.exe name, not full path (default method) it...
View ArticleMixing 1U and 2U Servers in the Same Rack
Working on a design for VCF using Dell Ready Nodes. What I would like to do in make the first 4 servers in each rack R630s for the management domain and the rest R730xds for the server workloads. My...
View Articlewhy would we need to configure VLAN in port group?
I'm studying for Foundation examas far as i know, you configure port group on a standard switch, and all VM in standard switch can communicate with each other , why would i need to confute VLAN in VM...
View ArticleDoes VMWare Tools or OpenVMTools provide a graphics driver in a Linux Guest
Hi, I'm moving from VirtualBox, and am evaluating VMWare Workstation and Player. My host is Windows 10 on a high spec machine that meets all the specification requirements, and my clients are Linux...
View ArticleHardware Version Upgrade
I am looking for a script to schedule hardware version upgrades and will upgrade regardless if I reboot the VM from the vSphere console or the guest OS reboots on its own. Any suggestions?
View Articlenoob port group question
Hi fellas, I has just installed a esxi 6.5 on an old box.and vm centos 7 was also installed.something wrong happened.inside the vm, it shows three different mac for different interfaces, same also on...
View ArticleTag multiple VM's
Hi,I'm trying to tag multiple VM's in a large environment (thousands).I'm hoping that I can read the contents of a csv and use PowerCLI to do the Tagging cvs format would...
View Articleget vCenter VM from vCAC VM
I couldn't find an action for this and it doesn't seem to be a property of the vCAC vm. It sure would be nice if it were. I snagged this code from one of the workflows in the vCAC plugin that does...
View ArticleHow to reconfigure open-vm-tools after kernel update (Ubuntu 16.04 guest)
After updating my Ubuntu 16.04 VMware guest including some kernel update, VMware tells me to update VMware Tools. open-vm-tools and open-vm-tool-desktop were already installed during VMware's Easy...
View ArticlePower state change messages recorded every day in vlcoud
Power state change messages recorded every day in vlcoud We are running vCloud 8.1 in multiple sites. I've noticed recently that it seems in all of the vapps in the event section under logs, each VM at...
View ArticleESXi 5.5 Not Utilizing Processor Power States
Calling for some help. I've setup and old chassis to be an ESXi5.5 box for some misc home needs. At the moment 2VM's are running - a pfsense gateway and a Linux NVR for my security Cameras. At present...
View ArticleGenerate the datastore report using powercli script send the report through...
Hi Team, Could you please assist on this request. Generate the datastore report using powercli script send the report through email every 4 hours with below condition. 1) datastore above 90% should...
View Articlepowershell script that can pull NFS datastore info mounted from VC host
Hello! I would like to ask assistance to create a powershell script that can pull the following multipleNFS datastore1, datastore2, mounted to multiple ESXi v5/v6 Host in a VCenter and the possibility...
View ArticleESXi standalone Host - Auto VM start/stop
Hello, Can a Network outage cause a ESXi Host to autostart VM's - Act almost as if it has had a power outage? Kind regards, Kyle Jones
View ArticleX710 SR-IOV on ubuntu guest on ESXI v5.5
HiI am using X710 Intel NIC cards on HP host with SR-IOV enabled. I am using DPDK igb-uio drivers on a Ubuntu VM on ESXI v5.5. The VF driver on Guest fails to initialize, some times fails with below...
View ArticleWindows 10 Creators update - Activation problem?
I recently updated to Windows 10 Creators Edition on a Bootcamp partition which, before the update, worked fine, both natively and with Fusion 8.5.8 as a virtual machine. After updating to Windows 10...
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VCSA 6.5 - overall health Status unknown
Hello community When I check the summary tab in the webgui of my VCSA 6.5 then under overall health it says unknown. Under Health Messages "unable to get information on available updates" is reported:...
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