software installations going to other users as well
Some strange behavior I'm wondering of anybody else has seen... I wouk for a large company that has a web application for installing desktop applications (an app store). I manage a vCloud Director 1.5...
View ArticleWindows server reboots after P2V
After completeing a p2v of a Windows 2003 Enterprise server if you do not logon to the server it will reboot after about 30 seconds, If you logon to the server it does not reboot as long as you stay...
View ArticleLoad balancer with View 5.1
Hey all, I've got a question about getting our load balancer up and running in our View 5.1 environment. I've followed KB article 2020913 to get our view servers up and running with SSL certificates....
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ESXi 5.1 – MegaRAID SAS Alert
Last week I replaced a HBA in a Dell PowerEdge R710. After the card was replaced I opened a KVM session and watched the successful boot process. All good.My colleague began flipping through the various...
View Articlecant copy/paste from guest to host
i was searching trying to solve this problem but nothing, the problem is that i cant copy any file from the guest and paste in the host. I try to uninstall the vmware tools and install it again and...
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Practice iSCSI by Building a Nested vSphere Lab.
Note: This post attempts to provide information to those looking to build a simple, nested vSphere lab who may require some basic examples of iSCSI configuration. The examples are intended to be as...
View ArticleSystem Settings in Base Layer
Hello, I'm trying to create a Base Layer which- has Mozilla Firefox and IE with a proxy configured in it.- open the .zip files with 7-zip by default. The default policies (Upload policy, Base Layer...
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vSphere Private VLANs - Dev Environment Use Case
In a previous post on my blog I wrote about the experience of cloning an entire virtual infrastructure by leveraging NetApp FlexClone. Once that was complete I began planning the design of the new...
View ArticleJNLP loads Sigar native libs via file: but not http:
I have an app that is using jnlp as the launcher. It uses the Sigar libraries which require dynamically loaded native libraries for platform specific code.For purposes of debugging this I have two JNLP...
View Articleverification of vShield Manager to vCenter registration
I'm installing the vShield Manager appliance into my "evaluation" vSphere/vCloud environment. Working from the vShield Quickstart document [1], the vCenter configuration section says to verify the...
View ArticlePossible to add updates to ISO files?
We are using the IBM ESXi 5 customized Image whic his suppleid only as an ISO file, I would like to update it to the latest build of ESX but I can't work out if its possible to actually modify the .ISO...
View Articleunderstanding capacity remaining for disk space
Hi all,I am wondering how disk space capacity is calcultated in vC OPS5.7. I have a cluster with 4 datastores on a SAN / 40 VMs :4.2 To disk space available (Capacity Risk Details view)3.2 To disk...
View ArticleHypericHQ auto-detecting ERS Apache web-server instance
Hi all, I have Hyperic server/agent installed on Linux and detecting my Tomcat (7.0.35)instance running under a tcServer 2.8.2 deployment. However, Hyperic does not seem to be able to auto-detect the...
View ArticleIssue when adding an ESXi 5.1 to VCenter 5.1
Hello everyone,I am trying to install some ESXi 5.1 servers, and adding them to a VCenter Server 5.1, but I am having some issues doing so. These are the steps I followed:- I installed from scratch an...
View ArticleVirtual JRE's IE10
Has anyone tried to use a virtual JRE (1.6.0_xx and 1.7.0_xx) that worked correctly on Windows 7 and IE8 on Windows 7 and IE10? I tried a few of the virtual JRE's i have packaged and deployed on IE10...
View ArticleFailure to mount vm image of "Mac OS X Lion"
Recently I installed vmware workstation 8, and also I get a vmware image of "Mac OS X Lion".10.7.2 But when open the vmware image and power on the virtual machine, the vm screen just shown an apple...
View ArticleSetting up server
Hi VMware family, I'm having some problems. I'm trying to set up a Windows Server 2003 (yes I know it's old, outdated and blah, but it's all my company will allow me to have so I have to work with it,...
View ArticleFT CPU Limitation
Hi There, I'm new to VMware so here's a silly question. As I understand it there is a limitation of 1 on the number of vCPUs a VM can have when using FT. Firstly, is this limitation only for FT or is...
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VMware design - SRM, vMotion and redundancy
Greetings VMware geeks, I am currently consulting a company with VMware, and i've met some .. uncertaints on my way, and i would like to hear if the community has any advice The current setup is as...
View ArticleTemplate to deploy VM
Hi, We have a rquirement to deploy VM's with Page on its dedicated volume. I have amended template and moved PageFile to P:\ drive and removed Paging on C:\ Drive. Convert VM to template and deploy...
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