vCenter 5.1 Upgrade
How to upgrade vCenter5.1 to vCenter 5.1 update 1a....Is there any specific steps required to do that.
View ArticleESXi 5.0 and MSCS (Microsoft Failover Clustering) on iSCSI SAN
I have spent the past week trying to get my test lab up and running to do a proof of concept for MSCS (Microsoft Failover Clustering) on an iSCSI SAN. However I have hit a brick wall and desperately...
View ArticleAccessing Hands-on Labs
How long does it usually take to get access after you have signed up for the Hands-On Labs ?
View ArticleUnable to start the UI on ESXi5
Hi Everybody, This is Sankar From India. We have installed VMware ESXi 5 on Dell Poweredge 820. I am unable to open the UI and its showing 503 error.I have enabled the ssh and shell access.I didn't...
View ArticleNested ESXi 5.1 Duplicate ICMP Response
Hello, My infrastructure of nested ESXi 5.1 is as below and everything is working fine.(vMotion, HA/DRS, iSCSI/NFS connect to physical storage and so on)But there's a strange problem between x1 pESXi...
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VDP Fails with Error E10052 - Seems VMs freeze while VDP backs up.
Hello Everyone, So, I'm working with VDP and trying to backup 7 vms. I don't have this issue at any other client of ours. I have a client that the VDP runs at the default time set and fails to...
View ArticleUsed storage mucho mas grande que el espacio realmente usado
Hola, Lo primero, soy nuevo por aquí así que hola a todo el mundo. Vereis tengo una máquina creada (disco duro Thin) cuyo "provisioned storage" es de 106 GB. El "Used storage" es de 102 GB. Sin embargo...
View ArticleCan't Deploy Configuration
After following this KB article, I can't deploy configurations anymore. Here's the error message I'm getting: vCenter Lab Manager could not find any resource pools or hosts to deploy these virtual...
View ArticleWindows 98 - unidentified device drivers
Hello, I am trying to configure WMware to work with Windows 98se. Everything works fine but two single things - the device drivers for the ethernet controller and another device are marked with a...
View ArticlePort Group and vLAN naming convention
What is the best naming convention for port groups on vSwitches? Should this naming convention match how vlans are named on physical switches and how important is that?
View ArticleNeed to start VMware vCloud as Provider
I have a task to built Public vCloud for a company, I have the Hardware and Storage, I need some more details on which Product to use, I need to know is "VMware vCloud Director 1.5" and "VMware vCloud...
View ArticleUnable to connect to ESX 4.1 Host
Bare with me. I have some experience using VMWARE but less on the hardware side of things. Someone else setup our environment so I am learning as I go here. I have a Dell blade chassis with 4...
View ArticleVeeam re-ip and replication to LAN
HiHave the latest Veeam, Version, replicated a VM From the LAN to the DMZ as a test, wanted to test the re-ip and performance.It was the first time, so the whole VM having size 40GB was replicated to...
View Article[JIRA] (HHQ-5648) Deleting 50 Platforms in Scale Environment throws NPE error...
Nipuna Bhayani created HHQ-5648:- Summary: Deleting 50 Platforms in Scale Environment throws NPE error in server log Key: HHQ-5648 URL:...
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vCO Port Issue when connecting to vCenter
Hi all, I'm having an issue that I'm hoping is readily resolvable. I'm fairly sure I know what the issue is, just not how to correct it. When I set up vCO to connect to vCenter I receive the error...
View ArticleIs it possible to "mask" the CPUID in Workstation?
Basically what I want to do is to be able to "mask" the CPUID in a VM for testing purposes. For example be able to make the software think it's running on an Intel CPU on an AMD host machine. I've...
View ArticlevCenter Syslog Collector Max retention conifig
Does anyone have any information on the max retention of size and number of of files for teh vCenter Syslog collector. I have been experimenting and it appears the most I have been able to configure...
View ArticleHow can i sort VM's by high i/o in vSphere ?
Hi, I have an ESXi cluster running several hundred VM's - i'm keen to establish which VM's are generating the highest level of storage i/o Is this possible through vSphere - so they can be ranked to...
View Articlevmrun insufficient permissions
hello everyonewhen i try to start a vm using the following commandvmrun -t esx -h https://myserver.com/sdk -u domain\user -p ******* start "[datastore1-mydata] vmname/vmname.vmx"i get an error message...
View ArticleApplication virtualization question
Hi guys, I have several servers that have multiple applications hosted on them. From what I understand I can virtualize the entire server with VM converter, but is there a way to virtualize one app at...
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