Switches - best bang for the buck?
We have 2 Dell 5424 switches on our vsphere 5.0 setup. They're limited to 9000 mtu for jumbo frames and I'd like to find a model that can handle up to 9216. The Dell 6xxx series starts at $1770. Can...
View ArticleSoftware re-activation when moving VMs
Hello, I've got a question about moving VMs to different VMhosts. Windows normally detects processor changes and makes you re-activate their software when it detects a change in processor. There are...
View ArticlevMotion from ESXi 5.0 to 5.1 U1 stalls at 65% but eventually completes
We recently upgrade a few hosts in one of our cluster from ESXi 5.0 build 702118 (Dell R710) to ESXi 5.1 U1 build 1117900 (Dell R720) and we're noticing that during vMotion operations (maintenance mode...
View ArticleESXi 5.0 random reboot
I have an ESXi 5.0 host that will randomly reboot. Its on a Win 2008 R2 server and is running two virtual machines with Win 7 OS. Has anyone else had this problem? Can you point me in the right...
View ArticleScript for 5.1
Hi everyone.I tried to find the modified script that works for version 5.1 but I wasn't able to find itCan anyone be so kind to post a link or to explain how to modify the script to make it suitable to...
View ArticleVMWare 5.0.3 has conflicts with IE 8 & 9
I had been running VMware 4 series with Window 7 and never had a problem with IE 8 or 9. One of my clients web site where I upload work only works in IE. Lucky for me that all of my other clients...
View ArticleChanging the ip of a vCenter server while keeping the View connection server...
I have a customer that needs to change the subnet that their vCenter server resides on but not the View connection server. How can I go about that without breaking their view environment? This is a...
View ArticleHow dose a external organisation administrator connect to their Org within...
Hello, I've been gathering information for a the requirements of vCloud Director, I have been informed as an vCloud administrator we would create organisation for each customer.. I would like to allow...
View ArticleVSA 5.1 installation issue
Setting up VSA in my infrastructure.Greenfield Installation.I have 9 ESXi (5.1) servers and am creating 3 clusters of 3 servers each.I was able to create the first cluster no problem at all.In trying...
View ArticleConsole proxy health check with F5
I'm trying to setup console proxy load balancing with F5 BigIP and when doing health check on the console according to the documentation, the pool says it's offline.From what I understand the F5...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 / CX4-120 / Software iSCSI Multipathing?
I have a host connected via iSCSI to a EMC CX4-120.Port 0 of each SP is connected to subnet 10.1.66.0/24.Port 1 of each SP is connected to subnet 10.1.67.0/24Port 0 of the host's NIC is connected to...
View ArticleIs an ESX 5.1 Windows guest able to burn cd/dvd?
I'm guessing I already know the answer to this, but I have a DVD burner in my host machine, and was hoping I might be able to access it to burn a disc from a Windows guest. So I set configured the...
View ArticleDatabase Choice for vCenter Server 5 Install on Windows Server 2003
Hi to all.We have a small assisted living healthcare environment with about a dozen sites/servers.One server has 3 VMw4 vms on it.We received two new servers each with ESXi 5 installed. They will host...
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Adding multiple RDMs to a VM
Hello community...we're doing a really fun virtual SQL cluster project, running on ESXi 5.0. Without getting too much into the design detail, I'm looking to try to script adding a whole slew (45ish) of...
View ArticleHyperVNotsupportedFault Error
Hi, trying to conver a VM from Hyper-V 2012, I'm getting the error HyperVNotsupportedFault when tryng to connect to Hyper-V with Converter 5.1.0 1087880 On Hyper-V 2012:- disabled firewall- sucessfully...
View ArticlevSGA NVIDIATesla M2070-Q not working with vsphere 5.1
We are having problems getting our NVIDIATesla M2070-Q working with vsphere 5.1 if we set a vm to hardware graphics it gets stuck at 95% starting upwe have rebooted multiple time to no avail, and we...
View ArticleError: Unable to connect to the Converter helper server on the destination...
I keep getting this error and i have checked all the steps with the helper VM and it gets stuck at 1% then errors after about three hours this is with a static IP for the helper address. I will attach...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 Web Client – where is Update Manager?
I am running vCenter Server 5.1 build # 947673. This is a small virtual structure with less than 10 VMs. The web client software is installed on the same VM as vCenter Server. I installed Update...
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vRAM licensing capacity alert
Hi I'm having this alert in vCenter saying "License capacity monitoring" that won't go away. When I check the Licensing report it shows that my Purchased capacity is 0.02GB vRAM?We are running both...
View ArticleWindows 8 Easy Install no valid image found
I never install a guest OS using Easy install any more but was curious to see what happened if I did do this dumb thing. So I choose Easy install of Windows 8 and enter my serial and userid,...
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