Timeout 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 ArticleESXi 5.1.0 Fresh Install - logs are stored on non-persistent storage
I just did a fresh install of ESXi 5.1.0 on a new dell server and I get the following error message prior to seeing 'Welcome to VMware ESi 5.1.0 Installation' message:'Logs are stored on non-persistent...
View ArticlePatch ESXi
Hi Guys, I have an ESXi 5 servers and I wan start patching them, I am new to patching esxi. Is there any best practise out there? Thx
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2 different sets of network in 1 vCentre
hi all, sorry if i am asking a repeated question i have tried searching around in the forums but can't find what i am looking for. need advise with the following: I have 3 x ESXi serverswhich is...
View ArticleBoth Network labels showup in summary tab of VM
I changed the port group of a vm from XYZ to ABC. Everything is working fine, server is pingable. But in the summary tab I see both XYZ portgroup and ABC port group. Network port group in...
View ArticleDisadvantage of using two datastore on single VM
Hi, I wnat to create VM with two datastore , vdisk1 in datstore01 and vdisk2 in datatstore02. I know i can specify a different datastore for vdisks, but is it recommended to place different vdisks in...
View ArticleIOMeter VMFS and Alignment
I’m doing some tests with IO meter in a vsphere 5 environment. If using IO meter in a Windows VM against a non-formatted disk (raw format in windows but as an vmdk on a vmfs volume), will there be...
View ArticlevCenter Server Service Won't Start
Our vCenter server service won't start. The vpxd log contains the following info; 2013-04-23T09:25:46.263-04:00 [03640 info '[SSO][SsoFactory_CreateFacade]'] Solution user set to:...
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Get-VIObjectByVIView broken?
The documentation leads me to believe piping the view object or passing it via the -viview parameter should work. Am I missing somethng or is this broken?
View ArticleIs bridged networking possible via a NIC not bound to TCP/IP on a Linux host?
I have this setup working in VMware WS running on Windows hosts. The NIC is installed but nothing except Vmware Bridge Protocol is bound to this NIC. This NIC is bridged to a Virtual Adapter. Any guest...
View ArticlePrivate vSwitch for a vApp
I am trying to create a vApp that will contain multiple VMs. In my current prototype, I have 2 VMs. The first VM has a single network interface that is configured with a static IP address on a vSwitch...
View ArticleMoving 100+ VMs between Intel and AMD Clusters
And here I thought this was an easy one. Objective:1) Move 100+ VMs from one Cluster to another2) Change network the guest is using3) Move needs to be fast Prerequisites:1) Ensure LUNs from old Cluster...
View ArticleReport or listing on all host and clusters with alarm actions disabled
Having a persistent problem with teammembers forgetting to re-enable alarm actions at the host and cluster level. Anyone know of script that will list or report all hosts and clusters with alarm...
View ArticleError running Get-Task Cmdlet first time against Virtual Center
I was wondering if anyone had seen this error before when running Get-Task for the first time? Get-Task : 10/07/2012 16:58:41 Get-Task An item with the same key has already been added.At...
View Articleovftool terminating before starting the deployment of the ova
Hi Guys, I want to get some feed back about the below stack trace after setting the --X:logfile and loglevel 2013-04-29T04:47:37.841-07:00 [02188 verbose 'Default'] [SSL_DB] Using C:\Documents and...
View ArticleUpgrading to Essentials Plus
So we got the money to do the upgrade. The new keys were sent and I assigned them to the hosts and the Vcenter server. I was under the impression that there was no upgrade to the software as it just...
View ArticleChange from Foundation to Enterprise not working
Hi All,I tried to change the license for vCOPS from Foundation to an eval license of Enterprise (standalone). I'm able to change it in the licensing area, but even after I restart the vSphere client...
View ArticleChecking /etc for files that have been modified
In a typical 'NIX environment, if I wanted to find any file modified in the last 3 days, I'd use: find /etc -mtime 3 Does anyone know if the find command on ESXi5.0 supports this find "option"? Thx in...
View ArticlevSphere upgrade: VM tools/hw and VMFS
Hello all, Just have a quick question (hopefully). We've gone through the process of upgrading our Mgmt servers (vcenter, update manger, SRM) to 5.1. We have also already upgraded all of our ESX...
View Article/var/log/boot.gz
I'm assuming that this file is created at bootup and then gzip'd for archival purposes. So, question: - Is this file overwritten at every boot or does it get archived/moved/saved for historical...
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