Tip: Hiding Fullscreen Toolbar in VMWare Player 5 (Windows)
Hello, Thought this tip would be useful for some people. I ran into lots articles detailing instructions for hiding the toolbar in VMWare Player 5 in Windows. Usually they were along the lines of:...
View Articlehow do i determine Pool "User Asignment" with PowerCli get-pool command.
Which of the fields of get-pool command result is equivalent to the Pools "User Assignment" column in the View Admin page?
View ArticleGet children folder
Hello, I'm a new powercli user and i need get the children of a given folder in a particular datacenter. For example: get-datacenter $datacenter | get-folder - location $folder How do i do it?
View Articlevmnic2 and vmnic2b?
Hello! I've installed a Chelsio T320, dual 10gb nic and the vmware signed vib, everything went well. But, ESXi(5.1.0), only lets me use one of the two ports. It shows both under network...
View ArticleConverting a ridiculously large server
So here's the scenario: We have a VM sitting on an ESXi 4.1 farm that has 5 2TB RDMs attached. We are migrating off of our current SAN to a new EMC SAN. For the rest of our VMs we are doing vmotions...
View ArticleHow to configure ESXi 5.1 to shutdown using an APC SmartUPS
HelloI understand that DOC-9531 is depreciated and was for ESXi 3.5 but has this method of shutting down ESX Hosts been replaced with something? What is the best practice mentod for shutting down ESXi...
View ArticleVMWare Server - Ubuntu Guest - network bottleneck
For some time I have been struggling with the throughput of an application I have running in a Ubuntu VM in VMware Server 2 (hosted on Windows Server 2003). The application uses datasources on the...
View ArticleTimeout Error While Creating Provider vDC on new vCloud Director Install
I created my vCloud environment, following the "evaluation cloud" directions as outlined in the "VMW-cCloud-Director1_5-EvalGuide.pdf" doc. Everything seemed to have been moving smoothly until I...
View Articlevm credentials for vDC appliance 5.1.x
So, I can find plenty of documentation of the credentials that can get you into the console of the appliance for 1.5, like: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/01/26/vcloud-director-appliance-password/...
View Articlevcenter storage monitoring service fails
Hello,I am hoping someone can help me out. We upgrade to vcenter 5.0 update 2 and now the storage monitoring service fails to initialize. I have done all of the KB tips in the KB's surronding this...
View ArticleState error (9): Failed to relocate disposable (waited 0 seconds)
I am getting this error on several Vm's in the VIEW 5 environment. I read the following KB from VMware and did exactly what it says and it seemed to help for a while but the error is back. Weird...
View ArticleNo USB Device in web client?
I connected to an ESXi 5.1 Server from the standard vSphere Client. I created a vCenter 5.1 VM. At the top of the Windows VM on the vSphere client, there are small icons to connect a CD/DVD, Floppy,...
View ArticleVM tools stand alone installer
Hii'm trying to run the standalone vmtools installer inside a vmimage and when i double click in it i see soe activity but nothing else after. any idea what to do ? i ran the exe cause trying to...
View ArticleStrange behaviour of virtual machines taking all dhcp range free addresses...
Hi to all, It happens to me a very strange thing on 2 esx servers (free edition) 5.1 version. On this servers there are a 2008 windows sever and a 2003 windows server. In the structure there'a a...
View ArticleScript to show amount of free space not zeroed out
We are running our enviornment on a storage array that supports zero detect thin provisioning (3Par). I am trying to find out which VM's and VMFS volumes have the most unused space that has not been...
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Workstation 9 VMDK file corruption in Windows 8 Storage Spaces
There is a related thread on this topic that seems to have died out so I am starting a new one I experiencing extremely frequent .vmdk disk file issues when running VMWare Workstation 9 VMs from...
View ArticleUsing VMware Tools GUI to disable time synchronization with host
What is the quickest way for a Windows Server VM being provisioned with VMware Tools installed, to insure that time synchronization does NOT occur with the host? These articles discuss using registry...
View ArticleCombine multiple get statement
This question is probably answered numerous times but I have a hard time figuring the answer, so here it is. Often time I need to combine multiple get statements into the output, for exmaple,...
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The file system where disk resides is full
Hi everyone, From past couple of days, im getting this error -" The operation on the file D:\ECC 6 VM Ware\Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmdk failed (There is not enough space on the...
View ArticleJoin hosts to active directory using PowerCLI
How can I join a group of hosts to Active Directory using PowerCLI? Thanks
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