ideas on how to generate a random password in vCO
I need to generate a random password in a vCO workflow.I'm thinking of calling an ssh on a host and run pwgen there but it seems like a dirty way of doing it.Is there any simpler method of generating...
View ArticleHow do I create mutiple admin accounts on vMA?
Dear Friends, As we all known, the vMA has only two built-in account vi-admin and vi-user. In our farm there are serveral Esxi engineer, I want them login with their ow IDs on vMA. Can anyone guide me...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 slow on ESXi 5.1U1
Dear board, recently I installed four Windows Server 2012-VMs on my ESXi. It's a HP DL380G7 (Xeon E5645, 144GB RAM, HP P410i-Controller with 8 HP-SAS 500GB in RAID6). All four VMs have a very poor...
View ArticleProblem with Data Protection after upgrade to vCenter 5.1.0 build 1064983
Hi all, After upgrade vCenter to version 5.1U1 (released on 04/25/2013) and Data Protection to version 5.1.10.32, Data Protection is disappeared in Web Client web page.I also got the warning message...
View ArticleIBM V7000 SRA with SRM 5.1
There is a conversation going on in another thread(http://communities.vmware.com/message/2227065#2227065) - but it is an old thread and started off with different versions of everything. I'm going to...
View ArticleHow to figure it out the USB path
I add an iphone to the Mac Mini and assign it to the guest OS. I saw: usb.autoConnect.device0 = "path:10/1/1/2/4/3 autoclean:0" in the *.vmx file. I plugin in a second iphone to the device, it will...
View ArticleCan't up broadcom NIC
HI all, This is my first post on this forum seeking help. I inherited a pair of ESXi 5 update 1 on a Cisco C460 M2 servers. The system comes with 4 on board network interfaces. Two of them are...
View ArticleHeartbeat replica question
Hi, I am considering installing heartbeat 6.5 U1 to protect vcenter 5.1 U1.I have separate SSO server, Separate SQL server and a Separate vCenter server.Do you need to have to a secondary VM for each...
View ArticleAdded a linked vcenter but unsure on how to migrate my VM's to it...
Right, so I have a vcenter server already (windows based) and have just added another vcenter server and joined them in linked mode. However im confused on the best migration path to take to get some...
View ArticlevCO Appliance 5.1.1 Cannot Import Configuration Element from 5.1.0
Hi all, Trying to do an upgrade on my appliance from 5.1.0 to 5.1.1, I have taken backups of the appliance configuration, all workflows and configuration elements. I shut down the 5.1.0 appliance and...
View ArticleCitrix Desktop machines unavailable on VCenter 5.1
Hello Experts, We are doing Citrix VDI Testing on Cisco UCS Blade. We are going to find out the performance and scalability of the UCS Blade using Vmware 5.1 as the Hypervisor, and Citrix for...
View ArticleAlarm 'Network uplink redundancy lost': an SNMP trap for entity "ESXI Server...
Hello Everybody, I have 8 server cluster (esxi 5.1) which I manage by vcenter 5.1. If I click on any esxi host in vcenter and go to Tasks & Events Tab, I can see the following 2 alerts continously...
View ArticleProblems with hardware monitoring with HP/Dell servers and latest ESXi builds
Hey guys, I'm having problems recently with the hardware monitoring tab on vCenter with both HP and Dell server since the 5.1 build 799xxx onwards. I'm now testing 1065491 and I can't get hardware...
View ArticleGuests without vShield Driver or Thin Agent Enabled
Hi All, Can anyone help with reporting on guests without the VMware Tools vShield Driver / Thin Agent Enabled ?
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VMWare not responding to ping after management network problems
Hi everyone Last week a strange thing happened.We have a 3Node ESXi cluster, with a lot of virtual machine on itFor an uknown reason, one of the node had a problem on the management network (suddenly...
View Articlevmware 5.1
Can you please provide more information on the factor in vCloud Networking and Security – it is the replacement forvShield in vmware 5
View ArticleChanging VMware infrastructure from 4.x to 5.x
Hi, I have Six HP ProLiant DL585 G5 server in VMware environment with VMware ESX 4.1.0 build-988178. And additional to that I have purchased 2 New server of same hardware having ESXi 5.xNow I am...
View ArticleConsiglio per DR di Vcenter 5.1
Ciao a tutti,stiamo per creare un'infrastruttura Vmware tra due nodi fisici HP dl385p gen8 con 64 gb. Abbiamo acquistato il "Standard Acceleration Kit" e gestiremo il tutto con Vcenter Server...
View ArticleVmware 9.0.x on Linux-3.10.0 patches?
Is there a patch for running vmware 9.0.1 or 9.0.2 on Linux-3.10.0-rc1 or Linux-3.9.0 (after May 02). Git pull after May 02 changes the procfs interface and vmnet no longer compiles. Any help or...
View ArticleHypervisor上の書き込みキャッシュの有無について
お世話になります。 ESX/ESXiのHypervisor上には書き込みキャッシュのようなものは存在するのでしょうか？ 例えば、ゲストOSからディスクへ書き込み要求があった場合、ハードウェア上のコントローラーに書き込みが完了した時点でゲストOSに完了通知をするのか、それともHypervisor上にキャッシュのようなものがあり、キャッシュに書き終わった時点で完了としているのでしょうか。...
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