Licensing problem adding host to vCenter trial
I am evaluating vmware as a virtualization option in our datacenter. I have ESXi 5.1.0 installed on a host, and I deployed the vCenter trial appliance 5.1.0 on a second server. When I try and add the...
View ArticleRemove guest alert from vC OPS
Hi,My vcops-vsphere alert dashboard is fullfilled by alerts like "Guest filesystem out of space". Guest OS alerts are for sysadmin, who are using another monitoring tools, so I would like to get rid of...
View Articlevicfg-hostops clarification
I need further explanation on what exactly vicfg-hostops --operation shutdown --force does. All I've been able to gather is what I've read in the documentation "if the host is not in maintenance mode,...
View ArticleVMWare Service Manager 8 schedule reports and manual login
Hi I am curently using Infraenterprise 8 and have 2 questions.1. Question in regards to Reports.I have created several reports in infra ver 8. All these reports have been scheduled to run and have...
View ArticleReclaimable waste
So I'm coming from vKernel, where the right sizer takes into account peaks when giving recommendations on removing/adding resources. According to the configuration on oversized VM's, it's only looking...
View ArticlevDP - Sick of being a beta tester
I am really tired of VMWare releasing half-finished software and expecting end users to be beta testers. First it was SSO (what a disaster that was/is), and now vDP - what is going on with this...
View ArticlePolling Interval too long for ATS_File_Op test makes vmware test suite to...
I was running ATS_File_Op test on my storage array. Approximate time to complete Create-Delete test was 66 seconds. Time difference between with and without Hardware Acceleration was always around...
View Articleunknown internal error - when finishing wizard
I have no idea where have I write my previous post, so I'm creating one more. I have unknown internal error during conversion - when it tries to start.Windows 2003 SBS x32 conversion to vCenter Server...
View ArticleVeeam and NFS
Hello, Trying to get some more understanding of the architecture. I did some reading on the Veeam site but still a little vague. I have used NFS years ago with a linux machine attached to the share....
View ArticleThe page you were looking for is not available. You may need to contact your...
I'm at a loss. I've set up a root CA to sign all my Horizon Workspace servers, SAML is in the green, and after loads of reading a troubleshooting also synced time on all of my ESXi hosts and guests....
View ArticleВозможно ли дать название бэкапу?
Возможно ли дать название или написать комент к бэкапу сделанному с помощью vdr, названия в виде даты и времени создания не информативны.
View ArticleWhat version of VCOPS do you think I need?
First of all we’re a rather small installation. vSphere Standard, though I expect that to be bumped to Ent or Ent Plus by the end of the year.1 Bladecenter with 4x blades for our ESXi hosts4x ESXi...
View ArticlevCenter SSO Service is stuck on old vCenter SSL Cert
Hi All,vCenter 5.1 (Windows VM)vCenter Server, SSO, and the Inventory Service are all installed in separate VM's. I have been fighting with this for a while now. Our vCenter Server SSL certificate...
View ArticleError in mapping prefixes; Waiting for prefixes map to be fetched from View...
Just wondering if anyone has seen this error and how I might fix it. I can run local workloads just fine, but Remote or Passive workloads do not start. It gets as far as "Waiting for VMs to settle..."...
View ArticleESXi back-up and restores
Again, I'm new to VMware and I've recently installed ESXi on a server and currently have one virtual machine up and running on it. What tool/tools should I use to handle back and restores of this...
View ArticleFusion 5 Bootcamp Boot when Windows Installed as EFI
Hi All, I was wondering if anyone had any keen insight on whether we can get Fusion 5 to recognise a windows bootcamp installation that is using EFI instead of BIOS emulation? Currently trying to boot...
View ArticlesetMetadataStringEntry
On this article by Chris: http://www.vcoteam.info/learn-vco/code-snippets-using-vcloud-director-object-metadata.htmlMetadata is created as read/write by users. Is there a way to set the data added to...
View ArticleSanity Check: Hardware compatibility: vMotion/CPU/EVC etc
Hi allWe currently have a DRS cluster with 6 Dell Poweredge R610 hosts with either Intel Xeon 5540 or 5530 CPUs which according to this KB article (http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1991) are in the Group D for...
View ArticleVMware Performance Analyzer
We've been seeing some drops in performance of our two hosts over the past month and I was wondering if there were any products out there, or maybe something built within VMware, that analyzes the...
View Articlecpu AND ram usage supermetric
Hi all, I'm using vcops 5.7I need an alarm when cpu&ram usage are both < 40% for a week on a host system. I think a supermetric can help me, but I don' t know how.I think something like this: if...
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