Using a vSphere Storage Appliance at a remote site
I'm considering vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) at a remote site. The remote site has two hosts and no vCenter Server. To use VSA, I would need to connect my two hosts to a vCenter Server over a wan...
View ArticleEmulex - Multichannel NIC question.
Hi All I'm in the process of setting up new ESXi blade servers with a dual port 10Gb Emulex card capable of multichannel (effectively making 8 virtual NICS). Now when I enable multi-channel 8 vNICS...
View Articleplanned power outage: shut down all hosts in a VSA cluster
i have a vsa cluster environment with 2 esxi hosts. a recent unplanned power outage has corrupted vsa cluster as vcenter is treating one of vsa as a vm instead of storage. i had a consultant coming in...
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Access Esxi VM from Player
Hello, I have spent hours trying to figure out my problem, I am about to give up and try something else but thought I would throw this out there. Host is windows 7I have Esxi installed on a VMplayerI...
View ArticleNvidia Quadro
I assume that many of you with exictement have read through all news in vSphere 5.1 What cought my eye in View point of view was this: "Improved 3D Graphics Support– (View Only) – hardware...
View ArticleSlow iSCSI Performance - Nimble Storage CS220
Hi! I have a new environment setup. 2x HP DL560 G8's with 2 8-core Xeons and 128GB of RAM, I have 4 NIC ports dedicated to iSCSI traffic, they are connected to Brocade enterprise class 1GBe switches....
View ArticleGetting IP assignment of an External Network
Hi, as said above, I want wo query the IP assignment of organisation for a given external network. As a goal I want to know, which number of external IPs (of a certain external network) is assigned to...
View ArticleWhy is VMNAT.EXE eating up my cpu?
I have VMwarePlayer 5.0.2 installed on Win 7 SP1, fully updated. I have a Linux Mint KDE 13 (now 14, see below) installed as a guest O/S. I see the following behaviour: after a period of browsing...
View ArticleIs it possible to run Mac OS X guests in ESXi nested?
Is it possible to run Mac OS X guests in ESXi that is running not on bare metal (like Apple XServe), but rather as a guest in VMware Fusion that is running on a MacMini computer? After all the physical...
View ArticleVMware 5.0.3 hanging on OSX 10.8.3 - MacBook Retina mid 2012 8GB Ram (SSD)
Is anyone experiencing hangs on VMware 5.0.3 ? I was originally on OSX 10.8.2, VMware 5.0.1 (I could not use 5.0.2 because VMware crashed due to the Apple video update.) I started my Mac this morning,...
View ArticleRenaming vApp in vCO scripts
Hello there, I am having the toughest time with what I thought would be an easy problem. My current liens of code are as follows: vApp =...
View ArticleCopy .iso file to ESXi server datastore
I have a fresh install of ESXi 3.5U2. I need to copy a windows install cd image (.iso) to the server now in order to create a new VM and boot from it. I use winscp in ESX 3.0.2 but I understand ssh...
View ArticleUnable to load help files in vsphere web client 5.1
Hello I am unable to load html help files from my vsphere web client extension. I have verified that my html files are under he following structure inside my war file.docs/<locale>/abc.html When...
View ArticleMounting NAS device onto ESXi 5.1 host/copy VMs
Hi, I want to do two general things: 1. NFS-mount a newly purchased (and formatted) NAS backup device (ex. IP 192.168.1.10) onto an ESXi 5.1 host (ex IP 192.168.1.5).2. Copy powered-down VMs (by host...
View ArticlevMotion esx 4.0 to ESXi 5.1
hi guys I have a customer with a pretty old deployment.... vCenter 4.0 and ESX 4.0.We are going to upgrade to 5.1. I will be installing a vCenter 5.1 in new server which will have ESXi 5.1so I will be...
View ArticleExternal Access View and Workspace
Have a question on external access with Horizon View and Horizon Workspace, thought i would ask it here as there seems to be more activity. We would like users to be able to access Horizon View...
View ArticleVDP backup redhat enterprise 5 issue
I met one strange issue about using VDP to backup one redhat enterprise 5 server. The backup successfully. But during backup period, our monitor system found this redhat not able to reach for several...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 no network issue
I hope that someone can helo me with this issue:I installed ESXi 5.1 on a Dell R410 serverI am able to use the management networkThe status of the network adapter connected to the vsvitch is "networks:...
View ArticleThinApp Acrobat can't see my scanner
Does anyone know what to do if ThinApp applications can access USB devices? I have thinapped Acrobat XI without any issue. I installed the scanner driver natively on the host machine and virtual...
View ArticleVCM Compliance Toolkit - ESX hardening guides
I want check configuration drift on my hosts in VCM based on the ESX Hardening Guides. Where do I find that or how do I deploy it? I've heard something about a 'Compliance Toolkit'? Very hard...
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