Set NTP Server information using powerCLI
How can I set NTP server settings on a group of ESXi hosts using powerCLI? I want to set my primary and secondary NTP server names, and configure them all to have the NTP server service start with the...
View ArticlevSphere Enterprise Plus -> vCloud Enterprise Licensing Question
My company took advantage of the vCloud Suite upgrade pricing last December to assist in a DR project. With vCloud I am implementing three new Cisco ESXi hosts that will utilize the new vCloud...
View ArticleUsing a compute-block model
What does it mean to use a "compute-block" model to design your infrastructure? Is it: -Standardizing the size of VMs to use only certain standard specfications of number of cpus, amount of ram, and...
View ArticleShow active directory authentication information with PowerCLI
How can I get a list of all hosts that are NOT using active directory for local authentication in environment using powerCLI?
View ArticlevCenter Operations Manager Standard with vCenter Server Appliance
Hi-Trying to figure out if I can install vcenter operations manager if I only have a vCenter Server Appliance installed (Dont have windows version of vcenter Server) I am running VSphere 5.1,...
View ArticleEnable hyperthreading for virtualized Oracle 11gR2 database (OEL57)?
We are virtualizing our Oracle 11gR2 databases (running on OEL57 64-bit) on Vmware 5.1. I've read information at various locations that hyperthreading is not recommended for Oracle 11g database. One...
View ArticleTraffic Load on management ports
Can someone tell me what traffic runs on the management port? I am installing vsphere 5.1 with 3 hosts, vmotion, and iscsi disk san.I plan to segregate the management traffic on a closed 1 Gb network...
View ArticleLSI MegaRaid SAS 9240-4i prevents vSphere from booting
Hello everyone I am new here, so I am sorry if this thread is misplaced. I just picked the section that seemed the most storagehardware related to me. This is going to be a long one, but I try to...
View ArticleIs it possible to restart course after time is expired
I spend time slowly with a perf related course, time is expired when I didn't finish it all. Is it possible to restart it some time after then?
View ArticleErrore nella creazione di uno snapshot
Ciao a tutti,ho un problema su esx 4.1 nella creazione di uno snapshot, questo problema si presenta su duu vm mentre sulle altre tre non si verifica.Nel dettaglio quando provo a crare uno snapshot...
View ArticleVMware ESXi Version 5.0.0 Build 1024429 patched with ESXi-5.1.0-799733-standard
Hi, Please help me understand. The goal is to update to ESXi 5.1.0 to get support for the latest and the greatest (for example Mac OSX 10.8) VMware ESXi Version 5.0.0 Build 1024429 was patched /...
View ArticlevSphere V5.1 networking with HP
I'm installing vSphere 5.1 essentials plus on a pair of HP DL380G8's - each has 12 NICS. This might be overkill! I've a pair of HP 2910al switches that will be used exclusively for this project. I...
View Articleadding an additonal disk
So I currently have a script that has the followning variables $HDD1 = "20" $HDD2 = "0" here is a snipit of the code from my script. $HDD1 and $HDD2 are in addition to the vmdks based off the...
View ArticleCreate new guest OS with static ip adres ESXi
Hi,I would like to create guest os(example Ubuntu,Windows) with static adres, without log in to virtual os and changing network configuration.Perhaps some templates where I can put value = "ip...
View ArticleVMs not getting IP from DHCP
Hello! I'm just switching from Xenserver to ESXi. Created a couple of VMs and neither of them gets an IP from our DHCP server (DHCP server is a physical PC), and instead they get some 192.168.x.y...
View ArticleChanging vCloud Director Service Folder
Hello, We are using 1.5.2 version of vCloud Director. I want to change the Service Folder which is the default main folder created in vCenter for vCloud Director. Is it possible? Thank you.
View ArticleView HTML Blast, There is no available gateway for the display protocol
I'm playing around with the new HTML client for Horizon View - but when i connect externally (from Internet) i get this error when I click on my desktop:Unable to connect to desktop: There is no...
View Articlevmware view,PCoIP, and zero clients running Redhat 5.8
We currently have 60 machines running RHEL 5.8 we wish to virtualize, we have an existing vcenter server running some RHEL 5.8 workstations now. We would like to use zero clients (PCoIP), nvidia's grid...
View ArticleHA Failover
What is the easiest way to find out what server moved off of a host and were powered back on another host after an HA failover due to loss of a host?
View Articlevpxuser login failed
Part way into a vCenter 5.1 clean instal into SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard on a W2K8 R2 VM. All gone ok with SSO but vCenter itself fails with the ODBC connection. It was working so don't know if I've...
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