VMware SRM Protected VMs Count
VMware PowerCLI doesn’t have any SRM specific cmdlets so we have written this script in Python to capture following details and export them in a Excel File. Number of Protected VMsProtected VM...
View ArticleEMC Recover Point Direct Access Test
We came across issue with SRM Test Failover with EMC Recover Point where the VMs became inaccessible due to lack of Image Access space in Journal Volumes. They had followed EMC Best Practices of having...
View ArticleBackup/Restore Distributed Switch Configuration In vSphere 5.1
VMware introduced this feature in vSphere 5.1 where it allows backup of the distributed switch Following are the observations while performing the test Observations This is only possible from web...
View ArticleESXi Host Migration from 1 vCenter to Another
Last week I had to migrate ESXi Host from 1 vCenter to Another. Following are the reason whyWe had vCenter Linux Appliance which has limitation of 5 Hosts and 50 VMs (Don’t ask the reason why we did...
View ArticleVirtual Machine USB CDROM Operating System Not Found
I have ESXi 5.1 update 1 installed on a Dell server. I login via the vSphere client no problem, can configure etc. Problem: I put a windows CD into my CD rom, I try boot the VM with normal/custom (I...
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ESXi 5.1 Update 1 crashing randomly with purple screen #PF Exception 14
Hi, We are having occasional crashes on our VMware ESXi 5.1 Update 1 hosts. The host will crash and then all vm's are powered up on the surviving hosts The purple screen of death displays the...
View ArticlePublic/Private IP addresses
Hello, I am trying to setup the VCL application. On one configuration page, it asks for public & private IP addresses. On my home network, I always have the management network as the private....
View ArticleEsxi update
am running Esxi 5.0.0 515841 i have update the Esxi using v center update manager now is showing Esxi 5.0.0 1117897 i think it's 5.0.0.0 u2 may bemy question is why it was not updated to 5.1 u1...
View ArticleCan't add RDM disk to VM with CLI
Hi,I want to make some automation on my VSphere environment. In order to to have the ability to to add RDM disk to VM with CLI (I am not familiar with CLI), I used Onyx to intercept VSpehre Client GUI...
View ArticleSetting IO Limits
Hi all I'm putting together a script to automatically set disk IO limits based on what datastore they are in and how big the disk is. I have a CSV file listing each datastore and how many IOPs per GB...
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Equallogic SAN out of resources for iscsi
I just started setting up our 4 hosts for iscsi multipathing a couple of days ago. We have 3 nics on each host for iscsi. First 2 hosts did great. Today I was working on the 3rd host and did the hba...
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sound card passthrough and use in Win7 how?
by the way: the Lynx Studio AES16e works good in my desktop PC (just Windows 7 not VM)1. So I tried to run it on server with installed VMware ESXi 5.1 U1. Of course in VShereClient I see just unknown...
View ArticleIssue with combo of VMWare Workstation, .vhd virtual drives, and 4K sector...
All, I am suspecting something wrong with some of my virtual machines. I have been using these VMs for some time, and I'm seeing some odd behavior recently. I am seeing lots of corruption in the (.vhd...
View ArticleException 0xc0000005 (access violation) connecting USB Device; VM at My...
Hi, Running VMware Workstation 9.0.2 on Windows 7 64bit. Created a Windows 7 64bit VM at My Computer in VMware Workstation i'm able to connect an USB Device to it and it is recognized inside the VM....
View ArticleAfter recreating a Windows 2008r2 guest the vmxnet3 driver will not install
I had to move an existing guest to a new datastore and did this by removing the guest from the inventory, moving the files and was going to add it to the inventory when I realised the vmx file had...
View Article質問 SNMPTrapの送信元はvCenter? ESXi?
初心者で申し訳ございません。 前任者が構築したvCenter5.1 配下にESXi 5.1 サーバが50台程度のシステムがあり既に運用中です。 障害監視を対応することになったのでSNMPの受信者設定とアラームの設定をvCenterに行いました。 ホストのCPU使用率 ホストのメモリ使用率...
View ArticleVSAD Offline
Im in a world of hurt! I just attempted to place my VSA-Front End and VM Network and Management network on 1GB from 100MB. This failed and has knocked out my VSAD-0 and VSAD-1 datastores and cluster....
View ArticleAnyone have experience with BESR image to vmware P2V
I have successfully built the C# sample, but now I need to make modifications to the code so that it will work with our current environment which uses Symantec BESR images (.sv2i). So firstly I would...
View ArticleHow to restart a suspended virtual machine?
I tried to update Fusion 4.0 to 4.1; after the update failed I could not restart Fusion. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Fusion 4.0. After reinstalling Fusion 4.0, I am able to see the suspended...
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