Vcenter Appliance and VDDK
I am very new to Vmware and I am slightly confused. I am running Sep Sesam for our backups and need to install the VDDK plugin in order to backup our Virtual servers. We are using the Vcenter...
View ArticlePCoIP Dual Monitor resolution issues
Hello, i'm facing an issues with every VMware View Client that use PCoIP.We are using dual monitor thinclients (HP T510) to connect to various pools of Windows XP SP3 virtual machines running VMware...
View ArticleVM Nic Sleeping
VMWare 5VM - Windows 2008 R2 64bitNetwork Adapter - VMXNET 3 We just set up a new server a few weeks ago. For some reasone the NIC seems to be going to sleep, we can't ping, attach to the server, or...
View ArticleSQL Server 2012 Downgrade to 2008 Licensing
We're moving vCenter 5.0 from a test VM to a purpose built one with vC 5.1, and intend to use SQL Server 2008, but have to buy 2012 (ker-ching!) and use the downgrade rights and so I assume we...
View Articlewrite excel report with charts from powercli for multiple vcenters
Supports vsphere 4.1 & 5.1 with Excel 2010. Was just a bit of fun to get my head into powercli and trying to use the get-view as much as possible to speed things up.I look after eight environments...
View ArticleAlternative to VDP or what’s good for backup?
Does anyone have any recommendations for a backup alternative to VDP? I tried deploying the VDP appliance on our HA cluster and even VMWare doesn’t know what’s wrong. DNS is resolving on the VDP, the...
View ArticlevShield Edge ipsec tunnel failover
Hi, Does vShield Edge support alternate IPs for VPN links. E.G. I have an Edge device with a VPN link to a "local" firewall that has two WAN interfaces, primary and failover. The tunnel is currently...
View ArticleGetting an aggregate storage utilization totals from vCOPS
How can I use vCOPS to show me the total storage utilization from vCOPS? I need to get a summary of the total iOPS for all VMs in the environment. (Ideally, also the total storage throughput of all...
View ArticleHypericHQ auto-detecting ERS Apache web-server instance
Hi all, I have Hyperic server/agent installed on Linux and detecting my Tomcat (7.0.35)instance running under a tcServer 2.8.2 deployment. However, Hyperic does not seem to be able to auto-detect the...
View ArticleUpgrading vCOPS and retaining history
I need to upgrade both my vCOPS from 5.0 to 5.7. In addition, I'm migrating all my VMs from an old 4.x to a new vCenter server 5.1 environment. Is it possible for me to get vCOPS 5.7 running and...
View ArticleImport/Export functionality for image composer items
Hi Is it possible to export&import app layers? We would like to offer a service like:- Package apps with Mirage- Export- Import apps to the customers mirage installation- Fill-in the customer app...
View ArticleDRS Groups interaction
Hello, I would like to get lists of the VMs being in DRS Groups (ESXi 5.0). Does anybody have already written something to get that kind of information? Thank you,
View Articlepass-through modem?
Is it possible to connect an external modem to an esxi5i host, and pass that modem through to a virtual machine?
View ArticleStorage vMotion - Leftover vmdk file
I am in the process of migrating all of our servers to a new datastore and have been doing online storage vMotions from the old datastores to the new. A majority of the servers have gone off without a...
View ArticleVCenter Server virtuelle Maschine -- HDD Verkleinerung
Hallo, wir setzen VMWare vCenter Server 4. Insgesamt sind vier virtuelle Maschinen installiert. Auf der 4. virtuellen Maschine ist der VCenter Server installiert.Die Partitionen wurden allerdings zu...
View ArticleUnable to run reports after 4 days of dashnoard uploads
Hi,Last time I used CP was probably back in 2011. I've created a new project last week below my company and have sucessfully registered the dashboard. I can see the last connection was successful each...
View Articlereceiving error message when trying to migrate pc
hello all I have just started using vmware and i wanted to migrate my windows 7 64bit system to my mac. i seem to get an error message and cant seem to get any further. has anyone else had a problem...
View ArticleI can Install Vmware Vsphere on a new server with 4.7 TB Lun disk
Hi. Recently I get a new server, Dell R710, this server have six disks with 1 TB each, I configured a Raid 5 with the 6 disk, now when I try to install ESX 4.1, I see the controller card with 4.7 TB...
View ArticleVSM 8.0 how to make it work with Internet Explorer 9
Anyone was able to use VSM 8.0 system with Internet Explorer 9. Support says VSM has internet explorer 9 supportability starting from VSM9.0 RP8. Is there any solution available for this in V8 system.
View ArticleVM Memory vs Physical
Ok. So I have this argument on going with vendor of a certain network appliance. The vendor claims their product requires 8GB on a physical server, and 8GB on a virtual. Subsequent network stress...
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