Trying to import vSphere template into vCD: Cannot Import Template
When I try to import an existing WIN2K8R2 template from vSphere to vCD, it fails after the clone operation in vSphere. Where are the logs related to these types of imports? I am assuming this is a...
View ArticleFiltering items from tasks & events
We use orion software for all of our monitoring, and orion logs into the hosts every 5 mins. This fillts up all of the events section making it unusable. So I am wondering is there a way that I can...
View ArticleWindows 7 VM won't upgrade in 5.0.3
Hi, folks! I have an issue I could use some help with. We have a Win 7 vm that was originally created in VMWare Fusion 5.0.2. We upgraded a user's Macbook Pro (Mountain Lion 10.8.3) to Fusion 5.0.3....
View ArticleBuilding a Thin Client using Windows Thin PC
Hey Everyone, I just did a write up on how to build a View Thin Client on a system running Windows Thin PC. Check it out and let me know what you think. We have been using this solution at my company...
View ArticlePhysical RDM Adaptec RAID - cannot see more than 2 TB on VM guest
I am having a problem with a VM which I cannot get a 10.9 TB RAW storage to be seen from the guest. Here is the environment: -ESXi 5.1 - latest-Adaptec 5805 PCIe (passthrough to vm)-Windows 7 Ultimate...
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Passthough from ESXi to a real PC (not to a VM on EXSi)?
Hello, I have an ESXi 5.1 Host run with: ASUS Crosshair IV Formula, AMD 3 GHz Phenom II, 16GB RAM1 PCI video card for display the console config screen1 PCI video card to do passthrough /...
View ArticleUpgrading vCenter from 4.1 to 5.0
I am running in to a bit of a problem every time I tried to start the single signon server install on my server. The process doesn't get any further than the checking for upgrade. It can sit there for...
View ArticlevCloud Director LAB
How to set up home lab for CLOUD Computing. Whats the requirment?Whats the certification requirement to get vCloud Certification?
View ArticleGroups missing after upgrade to 5.1 from 5.0 Update01 b623860
I did my first upgrade to 5.1 yesterday on a test system and all that appears to be wrong is this situation. Anyone have any thoughts?
View ArticleService manager deleting call records
HI,We have noticed that some of the incidents that are logged on VSM have been deleted by the system. It appears that the RemoveCall stored procedure has deleted some incident records that had been...
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Issue with posted event related label in vShpere GUI.
Hi, I am using VIJAVA API to develop application. Using following program I tried to post vCenter event. On execution, I can see the event does get posted and is visible in vSphere Tasks and...
View ArticleAllocation or Utilization based cost model ?
Hello folks, In vCAC we have options to define cost values per VM, also there's no current integration set up with VMware Charge back product either. I was wondering if vCAC supports utilization based...
View ArticlePersona Manager - Multiple repo locations
Hi folks! We normally have roaming profiles for users who log into physical machines.The profile path is set within the users' AD account under the profile tab. There is a slight difference for each...
View Articlevcloud and vmotion
I am looking to use vcloud director 5.1 with vmotion. I am runnign vcenter 5.1.0 and ESXi 5.1.0 This is because I have a ESXi server that is disconnecting from Vcenter. When this happens, it seems to...
View ArticleExecute "vmware -l" on multiple hosts at once
Sorry if I posted this in the wrong place, but I looked for the right forum and I thought this was the closest to right that I could find. Recently I was asked to find the system version of esxi that...
View ArticleNew-SCSIController on specific Controller Number
I need to be able to create a new scsi controller on a specified controller number. I can create a new one but it just uses the next available number. There is not -controller parameter for...
View ArticleIBM V7000 SRA with SRM 5.1
There is a conversation going on in another thread(http://communities.vmware.com/message/2227065#2227065) - but it is an old thread and started off with different versions of everything. I'm going to...
View ArticleRescan doesn't show new LUNs on FC HBA...need to reboot?
On our ESX 4.1.0 boxes, we attached an unused FC HBA from each server to a new SAN and presented LUNS. The HBA's always did show up in vCenter, but I expected that after doing a "Rescan All" the new...
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vmware 4.1 and hooking up 2 different iscsi SAN units
I am stumped. Ive got a 4.1 enviroment that is using 2 SAN units 1 is a SATA SAN isolated on its own pswitch using iscsi on 10.10.10.1 all running over the software iscsi adapter...over 1gbe...
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