vcops 5 - re registering vCenter
Hi all, I currently have a ticket open with VMware, but thought I would ask here to see if anyone has seen it before. During the upgrade to vCenter 5.1 it failed and "rolled back" ie uninstalled...
View ArticleInstalling printer
I am attempting to reinstall a Canon iP4920 printer in Windows XP running in VMWare Fusion 5.0.3. I have uninstlled the printer, attempted to reinstall and for some reason, the installation stops...
View ArticleInsufficient disk space on datastore
Hi all, I am facing a strange problem when I resize a VMDK. When I trying to increase the size of VMDK of a runing VM, it got a error dialog Insufficient disk space on datastore "". I have checked the...
View ArticleDurable client, reconnect and detecting interest
Hi, Given the following scenario:1. Durable client2. Server side register interest3. Durable client lost connectivity for more than the durable-client-timeout setting4. Connectivity is restored and...
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Not able to type inside of the VM console through Workstation
Hello, I have a pretty descent Workstation with enough RAM and Hard Disks. I have three Domain Controllers running and I am able to click inside and type throught the VM Console inside Worksation. And...
View ArticleHow to determine if xcopy is being utilized for storage vmotions
My array is VAAI and xcopy capable. Is there a way to look back at storage vmotions that happened during a given day, and confirm that in fact xcopy was utilized to allow the array to do the copying...
View Articlevxlan - preparation not working / vmknic not created
Hello, i´m trying to get vxlan working within a vcloud director 5.1 environment.Within vshield manager i configured the sgement id and in the next step i tryto create the vxlan under connectivity....
View ArticleSerial port emulation
I have a windows xp box that I want to convert into a vm instance, a program that runs on the box requires a serial port to connect a dongle to communicate with the program so that it detects whether...
View ArticleMethod to view XML created for method calls?
Does anyone know of a way to log the XML in/out (out is what I really need) when using the .NET SDK? I would like to see the Rest messages being sent on a few requests as it would really help with...
View ArticleRequirements for VSA
I am buying two Dell 720xd servers with VMWare Essentials Plus Bundle and want to setup Virtual Storage Appliance with Raid 1. Can someone please tell me how to set it up and what connection is needed...
View ArticleFinding RDM
hiI wanna to know how can I find ROW DISK MAPs (RDMs) that attached to my VMs in Vcenter via command line or scriptting . I have more 400 vm that most of them have more than 2 attached RDM Disks .
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 VM showing 7 CPUs in Device Manager.
Hi, I have 1 windows 2K8 R2 Std VM in our ESX infrastructure, when I right click the task manager it is showing 4 vCPU's but at the same time when I checked the device manager of the VM it is showing 7...
View Articlechange host password via vcenter or cli
hi I have around 15 ESXi 5.0 and 10 ESX4.1 hosts , is there any way to change all Hosts local password via vCenter or vmware power CLI !!??
View ArticleWinPE 4.0 + VMWare Workstation - Hangs "Windows is loading files" booting...
I've been trying to boot into WinPE 4.0 on workstation 8 but it hangs on anything older than Windows 8. I've tried about 20 different machines on 5 different hosts. Only my Win8 (UEFI and BIOS) guests...
View ArticlevMotioning SRM protected hosts
Hi All, We have just installed SRM on our enviroment and I am trying to test recovery plans at the moment. It would be a great help if anyone could answer the below: Our enviroment is 2 esxi5.1 hosts...
View ArticleDNS instead of NETBIOS
Hi. How can we use DNS FQDN instead of NETBIOS names when deploying patches, running scripts etc? Because vCenter Protect is using the NETBIOS machine name we receive the following error:Error: 201 -...
View ArticleLogin to VC 5 without AD authentication
Hi All, I have ESXi5.1 hosts and 5.1b VC. If my DC is down then I am not longer able to login to VC via VI Client.I have installed SSO - Inventory Service and then VC. What changes do I need to make so...
View Articlevcenter server password recovery?
hey guys,i deployed a 3 vmhost with network storage about 3 weeks ago. I installed the vcenter server appliance and everything worked fine.Today i'm not able to log into the vcenter server at all... it...
View ArticleSupported guest OS View
I am assessing VMware's capabilities in providing a zero desktop (Wyse) solution to display multiple Linux RHEL 5 workstations to users by deploying View managed (Connection Manager I really mean)...
View ArticleWill 5.5 beta sdk will be compatible with 5.1 web client ?
Hi there, We are exploring the options for vsphere web clinet plugin. We are using 5.1 sdk for our plugin currently. Now we keep hearing many new features coming with 5.5 Sdk. So we plan to switch to...
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