In VDP How does the data get to the VDP Appliance when External Proxy is...
Even when the VDP appliance VM and the External Proxy VM and the source VM are all on the same host, then (using the Hot-Add protocol) the snapshot datastore of the source VM gets mounted to the...
View ArticlePowercli script to get DVS status, Connected State, Powerstate and...
For various reasons I have inherited a mixed VSphere 4 and vSphere 5.1 estate with PowerCli 5.1 Release 2As part of our daily checks, due to the departure of our VM Admin, I have been asked to create a...
View ArticleOverwrote a VMDK with the cp command.
Pretty much as the title says, I have tried using the vmfs-tools package on a USB bootable Ubuntu install, but the version of VMFS is too high for it to mount the partition. I currently have it passed...
View ArticleUnsupported value '16' for element 'VirtualQuantity'
Hello,I am unable to get a 16 cores vCPU created using ovftool. I am manually creating the OVF file and have specified the following:<rasd:VirtualQuantity>16</rasd:VirtualQuantity>However,...
View ArticleVersion 14.1.2 - unsupported CPU detected on a Dell Precision 5820
Guys,We have some brand new Dell Precision 5820's that we're trying to load 14.1.2 on but we keep getting this error. Our host OS is RHEL 7.5.Is there a workaround? Thanks
View ArticleVmware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vmx)
Hello, I have a server with 9 virtual machines. inexplicably some of them, in moments, applications or others stop working. on the server I get the error vmware workstation has stopped working. I am...
View ArticlevROPS API, cpu|demand vs cpu|demand|object.demand
Hi all, I am trying to query vROPS for Average CPU demand over the last week using:...
View ArticleMouse performance in Horizon 7.x using 4K panels
Hi, I've been working with Horizon virtualisation for a while now and over the past few months more and more clients we work with are looking into 4K panels. I notice that using mid-range resolutions...
View ArticleThe initiator could not establish a network connection to the target
Whenever I rescan iscsi hba, I keep getting this message in the events tab Login to iSCSI target iqn...... on vmhba40@vmk2 failed. The iscsi initiator could not establish a network connection to the...
View ArticleHow VRA determined a vm is expired?
I am plan to create a acript to collect vm that will expired in this week and sent email top support team., but I can not find lease day if the vm modify the lease in lifecycle. I have been struggking...
View ArticleThe ramdisk 'tmp' is full.
Hi I'm getting repeated error messages "The ramdisk 'tmp' is full..." on an HP ESXi, 6.5.0, 5310538In the /tmp folder I had a very large ql_ima.log which I deleted with the rm command.If I do a vdf -h...
View Articlemouse pointer white in applications, (windows 7) more details in body
vsphere 6.5horizon 7.5vmtools 10279 we were on horizon 5.4 and mouse pointer was fine, now it's white while in application such as office 2013, notepad, wordpad, adobe, basically everything mouse...
View ArticlevSphere5.1からvSphere6への移行に必要な調査について
社内のvSphere 5.1環境を6.0 U3aへ移行するため、調査をしていますが質問させてください。 ■現在の環境vCenter 5.1b(Windows Server 2008R2の物理サーバーにOracle11gを外部DBとして構築)ESXi 5.1 Update2 Build 1612806(４台のクラスタが一基、２台のクラスタが一基、ノンクラスタが４台)Data Protection...
View ArticleUnable to use VM after datastore got full
Hello, today one of my datastores went full and I got a message like this'There is no more space for virtual disk xxxx.vmdk. You might be able to continue this session by freeing disk space on the...
View ArticleBackup DS3DB0 with error log: DS3 Table and Column count failed.
Hi All, This error troubled me for a while. I was following VMmark User Guide's section [Back Up the DVD Store 3 Database] to backup ds3db0. However, when i use the backup ds3dbvmdk(250GB...
View ArticleESXi 5.5 to 6.0 U3 - can't find the datastore with ESXi installation
Hello, I have a DL380 G6 with ESXi 5.5 and I want to upgrade it to 6.0 U3. But the ESXi installer can't find Datastore1 (here is the ESXi installation). All other Datastores can be found. And the other...
View Article2V0-622 Retake
I have to retake the 2V0-622. I used MeasureUp, and though it helped in the learning process, I don't think any of it was used for this test battery. I don't think I could have studied more, but the...
View ArticlevSphere SDK that tells if vCenter supports a particular ESXi version
Hi, Is there a vSphere SDK that will tell if a particular ESXi version is supported by the vCenter server. I want to validate this before I start a host upgrade. Thanks in advance,Litty Preeth
View ArticleFTT=0 and RAID=1
vSAN 6.54 Node ClusterEach node has 1 SSD and 2 Capacity diskFTT=0RAID=1 Had a disk failure in node 4, Did we lose data? or with RAID=1 we have the mirred it to another host? Please help.
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