Storage profiles per harddisk
Hello all, We have a business user who would like to seperate OS disks (put them on SATA) and DB disks on SAS. Now I would rather not manage all these relationships by hand; however, I do see that...
View ArticleHow to change Authentication > NIS Server Settings and retain Vsphere client...
Hello all, As title, says we'd like to point our Vcenter Server Appliance to a new NIS domain, while keeping the user permissions the same as they currently are found on each of the different hosts...
View ArticleHow does the initial SSO identity source browse the Active Directory Tree
I understand that the orginal identity source is automatically configured to use "Authentication type" reuse session. When I add additional identity sources it seems I need to use password. Just trying...
View ArticleFiltering items from tasks & events
We use orion software for all of our monitoring, and orion logs into the hosts every 5 mins. This fillts up all of the events section making it unusable. So I am wondering is there a way that I can...
View ArticleVmWare workstation 9 doesn't prereserve host memory for VM
I just upgraded to version 9.02. My PC has 16 GB of memory. It is 64-bit Win7. I set Preferences to "fit all VM memory in to reserved host RAM", and allow it to use up to 13 GB. When I start the VM...
View Articlemoving VM in Datastore browser brakes the config.
Hi, Using ESXi 5.1 (build 1021289) in my lab(no vCenter server). Havdatastore is local. Have a VM Vyatta in root of datastore with 2 NICs - eth0 and eth1. When moving VM via datastore browser to the...
View ArticleUI failure/The session is not authenticated
We encountered an issue recently where our UI workflow stopped working. It was designed to display a list of Clusters that correspond to a Datacenter for user selection. After looking thru the various...
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Install VMware-workstation-full-8.0.4-744019.exe silently
Hi,I am trying to install VMware-workstation-full-8.0.4-744019.exe silently with Custom installation with checking the feature "Enhanced Keyboard Utility". I am not able to make the installation...
View ArticleError message when running script
Getting the following error message when running the script from vMA version 5.1.0.0 build 782391. "Can't call method "storageSystem" on an undefined value at...
View ArticleTroubleshooting Software iSCSI performance
Hello,We are experiencing difficulties with our View infrastructure: users suffers from slow response times.The central issue seems to be disk performance, basically file copies/transfers can't exceed...
View ArticleESXi flash drive failed, how to retrieve previous setting files from it?
I have was running ESXi 5.0 off a Sandisk Cruzer 1GB USB flash drive but the system started acting weird (slow) so I rebooted it, when it came up the server couldn't boot from it so it appears some...
View ArticleScsi address and null field issues when adding drives
I have got a spreasheet and it requires up to 6 drives to be added to a list of VMs.vmname, hdd1, hdd2, hdd3, hdd4, hdd5, hdd6. I then want to run another command if hdd2 exists lets say its to return...
View ArticleChecking PCoIP secure gateway on VCS breaks view
I am trying to get my VCS 5.1 to work with a new view security server that I have setup. I was running view on a secuirty server with a self-signed certificate but I bought a ligit cert and added it...
View Articlevcloud director host user vslauser@logged out
Hello, I am using Vcloud 5.1.1 with Vcenter and ESX 5.1.0. I am continually seeing this info message on my ESX Events User vslauser@172.19.179.108 logged in asUser vslauser@172.19.179.108 logged in as...
View ArticleRenaming vApp in vCO scripts
Hello there, I am having the toughest time with what I thought would be an easy problem. My current liens of code are as follows: vApp =...
View ArticleImporting from Parallels
I want to try VMware Fusion to see if it addresses an issue I have with an app under Parallels but I have a concern. In some reading it looks like the Parallels image is rendered unusable to go back to...
View ArticleDR Scenarios
Can some one help me with DR scenarios when SQLServer will fail and how we will recover that.
View ArticlevCenter Service Status and Hardware Status plugin errors in vSphere 5.1 -...
When I tried to enable the VUM for vSphere 5.1 (another issue I'll address in a different thread but if anyone has information on that, by all means chime in here), I also noticed there were 2 other...
View Articlesame storage disk is showing up as GPT and MBR
hi we have 2 ESX server farms and recently storage team mapped 2 LUNs which were already mapped to ServerFarm1 to ServerFarm2 as well.On ServerFarm1 they were directly mapped to VM and data stores...
View ArticleVMWare Workstation 9.0.2 painfully slow
I am attempting to run a virtual machine of a Windows Server 2003 image using the latest version of VMWare Workstation. When I power on the vm it boots up fairly quickly and I am at the login screen...
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