Cannot delete vDC with shared Org Network
Hello, it is not possible to delete an vDC as long as as org Networks do exist. That makes sense, but is problematic if the network is shared between vDCs.If the network is beeing deleted it gets...
View ArticleNetwork issues with VMWare environment
I am seeing some weird networking issues within our VMware environment. WE currently have 3 ESX hosts running Vsphere 5.1 For example. I have 2 servers that are on the same ESX host and on the same...
View ArticleVirtual machines are not recomposed as scheduled when a pool is set to...
When a recompose of a desktop pool is performed, and the pool is set to refresh immediately, desktops with logged on users will not recompose. This is described in the following knowledgebase...
View Articlei/o errors on NetApp NFS datastore
Hi All, We have a NetApp with two NFS datastores acting as the SAN for our 5 ESXi servers (all running ESXi, 5.0.0, 1117897). We are using View 5.2.0 build-987719 . We are using linked clone Windows 7...
View ArticleHow to find Base/original disk of VM which is running from snapshot?
in our backup solution..client VM's snapshot will be taken and VM's base disk will be attached to backup proxy nodes. After backup completes VM's base disk will be detached from backup proxy nodes..but...
View ArticleDisable Snapshots For Individual VMs?
Hello Everyone, Is it possible to disable snapshot support for individual VMs, perhaps via an advanced setting for it? Or is the closest solution to put all its virtual disks in independent mode?...
View ArticleWrite Speed to USB Device Server slow
Hello, to get more speed when using USB devices i got a silex SX-3000GB USB device server for my Windows 8 VM on View 5.2 and ESXi 5.1U1. When reading from a USB harddisk i got 8 MB/s, this is o.k. My...
View ArticleBuilding a Thin Client using Windows Thin PC
Hey Everyone, I just did a write up on how to build a View Thin Client on a system running Windows Thin PC. Check it out and let me know what you think. We have been using this solution at my company...
View ArticleCant connect to https://vcenter/sdk/vimService
Trying to run Dell's dpack by connecting to our vcenter server. I add our vcenter URL and after trying to connect I receive: "Failed to connect with the VMware VCenter Server...
View ArticleCannot install VMWare Horizon View on Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit
I am running Ubuntu 13.04 (64-bit). I am trying to install the VMWare Horizon View client so I can connect to my work VDI. At work, I also have Ubuntu 13.04 but it is 32-bit. I have the View client...
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USB3 support on VMware player
Hi, I use VMware player to run a virtual machine and noticed recently that if the external HDD that the virtual machine resides on is plugged into is USB3 while it will boot and run it will not pick up...
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Use Management SDK to configure VDS uplinkTeamPolicy.uplinkPortOrder
I have an ESX 5.0 U2 Cluster intended for hosting Internet-facing VMs. The hosts are configured with a pair of uplinks trunked to internal "management" VLANs and another pair of uplinks trunked to...
View ArticleESXi server sizing for HA
Hi, How ESXi server sizing can be calculated for HA ,We have 2 ESXi servers with 20 VMs .i need to implement HA and i am planning to add one more ESXi server .what could be ideally the HA calculation ....
View ArticleVixDiskLib_Open fails in windows 32bit architecture
Hi, In windows 32 bit architecture my application is crashing while calling VixDiskLib_Open. The code is working properly in windows 64bit architecture. I have tried in two methods which are given...
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Hosts Network issue with vDS that has no adapters
All, I have a home lab that I'm trying to setup and it seems to be giving me a little issues with the vDS and the two Hosts I have in the cluster. I have vCenter 5.0 with two ESXi hosts that has four...
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Efficient way to use multiple VMs?
I'm using vmware workstation 7.x. I'm wondering what's the most efficient way of using 5-6 VMs at the same time. Do I have to clone them? and if so, how does that work?I'm on a Win7 32 bit machine with...
View Articlehow to get the dns name of vm ?
i need a perl api script to get the dns name of vm from vshere webclient ..
View ArticlevSphere console error (not fully visible)
I have been using esxi 4.0 and 4.1 for several years. Sometimes I'm having problems when opening consoles within the vSphere client. See screenshot attached. The desktop of the vmware machine is only...
View ArticleHow to automate drag and drop VM to a folder?
As we can easily drag and drop a VM from one VM folder to another VM folder in VMs and Templates view of vSphere Client, how can this be automated using vCloud API? I looked many places, but it was...
View ArticleHow do I reset the VCenter password or remove it so I can rebuild?
I am new to the vmware community. I am not sure how to find this information, so maybe someone can help me. I inherited an ESX 5.1 environment. There are two Hosts and there is a VCenter server set...
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