NDG claims schools with VMWare VMAP subscription may use those licenses to...
My school is currently a subscriber of VMWare VMAP that allows me to teach VSphere. That is great and the classes are a huge success.Another instructor has contracted with NDG to install their NETLAB+...
View ArticleVmware Tools Installation Fails
Host Windows 8Guest Debian Sid VMware Tools fails (as it does in VMWare 9) with following error message: Creating a new initrd boot image for the kernel.update-initramfs: Generating...
View ArticleVMware Fusion / Windows 8 / Shared Folders / System Hang
Running Fusion 5.0.3 with a Windows 8 Pro -64 bit guest VM. When shared folders are enabled, and ONLY when shared folders are enabled, the system periodically hangs/freezes/beachballs whatever you...
View ArticleBroadcom 57712 2x10GbE n'apparait pas en HBA iSCSI
Bonjour, Je viens d'installer dans un IBM x3650 m3 VMWare vSphere 5.1 (ISO d'origine VMWare, avec les dernières mises à jour et tutti quanti) équipé de deux Broadcom 57712 double port 10GbE, d'origine...
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How to troubleshoot intermittent network problems with guest in ESXi 5?
We are having a problem with a guest dropping network connection intermittently, an i was wondering how to troubleshoot the network issues with the virtual network cards. Our system is a PowerEdge 2950...
View ArticleRe: vC Ops 5.7 Performance Issue
Hello Guys, We are having the performance issues with vC Ops after upgrade from 5.6 to 5.7. Ours is huge environment and we are monitoring 3000 vm's with one instance of vC Ops. The problem is when we...
View ArticleCan not register VDP to vcenter
Hallo, i try to register the vdp to vcenter 5.1. I use the embedde SSO. The settings seems to be OK. But after the connection test, i get an error message box without text. If i change the settings to...
View ArticleUpgrading local hard disks in ESXi
Hi, I have a DL380 I am about to install ESXi 5 (with no VCentre) on and I am planning to install to USB flash drive and use the local disks for the VMFS store. One of the main reasons for this is that...
View ArticleWith virtualHW.version = "10" I would expect larger vmdks
I thought one of the new features of virtualHW.version = "10" would be the removed 2TB size limitation for vmdks.Will this be added in the release version ? I noticed that using vmdks larger than 2 GB...
View ArticleSnapshot report on how often
I was wondering if there was a way to query vcenter with a powershell script to get a report on how often snapshots are taken and how often snapshots are reverted. Thanks
View ArticlePDX serialization and BigDecimal types
How do I deal with PDX and BigDecimal types? I have a class called "Product" with a "price" value in BigDecimal. But PDX doesn't have a "writeBigDecimal" method (And I can't find examples on...
View ArticlevExpert: Leandro Ariel Leonhardt
This document is a detail page for the VMware vExpert Directory.Expert InformationNameLeandro Ariel LeonhardtLocationValenciaSpainShort DescriptionIT professional, Virtualization engineer | blog owner...
View ArticleFind Host from VM
Seems I have several lost sheep. Is there a way with PowerCLI (or any other way) to get host information from a VM? I found out my client has several independent VM Hosts not in vCenter. They also...
View Articlevc 5.1 thin migrate uses thick!
I've stood up a new 5.1 ua1 VC VM on windows for our dev VI. The VI has some local storage along with an NFS datastore. I have stood up a new 5.1 Data Protection Appliance using thin provisioned disks...
View ArticleEvent: Device Performance has deteriorated. I/O Latency increased
Hi, Since upgrading to vSphere 5 I have noticed the following errore in our Events: Device naa.60a980004335434f4334583057375634 performance has deteriorated. I/O latency increased from average value of...
View ArticlevExpert: Mikael Korsgaard Jensen
This document is a detail page for the VMware vExpert Directory.Expert InformationNameMikael Korsgaard JensenLocationHerningDenmarkShort DescriptionServer Manager in local Government 10 years with...
View ArticlePERC H310 Controller vSphere Support
Hello, I am running ESXi 5 Free and have 2 VMs running on this host. We have a PERC H310 Controller with two RAID 0 arrays, a 500GB mirror and a 2TB mirror. The 2TB mirror is degraded and I need to...
View ArticleError in Deploying VMs : Run failed due to failure of task (test_1.0,...
I've installed right version of java and agent boostrap. Anyone has idea?? Please help Logs are saying : May 31 2013 18:16:01.095 INFO [main] []...
View ArticleFailed insertion of statistics - vSphere 4.1.0
Hello,I have a problem, when viewing the "events" shown in my vCenter I get the following error "Stats insertion failed for entity XXXX due to ODBC error".I get this error for a bunch of my ESX's. I...
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