Disk (ms) Latency
I am currently in a View 5.0.0 environment that currently has about 160 to 180 users logging in per day. We are basically an 8 - 5pm shop. (County government). I am having an issue with a Performance...
View ArticleUpgrading to vCenter Server 5 with a View 4.6 server on a ESXi 4.1 host
We have all ESX and ESXi 4.1 hosts and just got a new ESXi 5 host. Now we need to upgrade vCetner server to version 5 to be able to manage the new host. I know vCenter 5 will manage 4.1 hosts but is...
View ArticleMigrating between datacenters in the same virtual center.
Hi there, We are attempting to migrate between hosts that are in different datacenters. Both datacenters are in the same Virtual Center. We could do this in the past, presumably before upgrading...
View ArticleMigration Assistant: Migrating Physical Lion instance to virtual Lion instance
I've tried a couple times to migrate a physical Lion (10.7.4) instance to a virtual Lion (10.7.4) instance and both times the migration process has hung. I'm using Fusion v4.1.3 on a Lion 10.7.4 host....
View ArticleESXi 5 U1 with Broadcom 5719 QP on Dell R620 (Missing)
Just can't get this card recognized and neither can my Dell support guy yet. This is a brand new R620 with a Broadcom 5720 QP onboard which works fine and a Broadcom 5719 QP PCIE card which doesn't...
View ArticleI/O MMU virtualization and Graphic Passthrough
Hi, I don't know if it's the right place to ask (please redirect me if that's the case), but I've been looking at every Workstation versions (and tech previews) thoses last few years in hope of support...
View ArticleHP DP + VMware, не работает метод SAN
Здравствуйте!Извиняюсь если тема обсуждалась, в поиске не нашел.Столкнулись с такой ситуацией: конфигурируем виртуальную машину из DP GUI, где явно выставляем метод записи SAN. При старте сессии бэкапа...
View ArticleIPMI/iLO configuration for BX600 Fujitsu
Hello I have a a few ESI5 running all well. I am trying to setup the IPMI/iLO and I am getting a little confused. I have looked online and I am sure I missing something simple. I can access Fujitsu...
View Articlecron
I ran into a situation where it would be usefull to run esxtop in batch mode via cron. What I found is that the cron job never starts until after the cron daemon is restarted. After it is restarted, it...
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High CPU usage for Xorg on the host machine
Hi, I'm running Workstation 8.0.4 on Fedora Core 16 with Nvidia Drivers from Rpmfusion (at least versions 290.10-2, 295-59-1, event tried 304.37-1). System is fully updated most of the time.My main...
View ArticleESXi host displays wrong model type
Does anyone know where the System summary information on ESXi hosts is generated from? I have 4 x3650 M3 servers in a cluster, all running ESXi 5 U1 however one of the servers is displaying its model...
View ArticleCan I migrate my MacBook Pro account to a Lion guest?
I'm running Fusion 4.1.3 on my Mac Pro running 10.6.8. Since I'm about to upgrade my MacBook Pro from Lion to Mountain Lion, I thought it would be handy to have a Lion system available for occasional...
View ArticleCentos 6.0 GUI doesn't work
I installed Centos 6.0 (minimal installation) in vmware and all of the gui componets for Centos in order to start the x-window.But when I tried to run startx this is the error message I got.Please...
View ArticlePANIC bora/vmkernel/main/dlmalloc.c:4757-Usage error in dlmalloc
Getting error asPANIC bora/vmkernel/main/dlmalloc.c:4757-Usage error in dlmalloc on my esx host.
View ArticleKernel panic - Failed at vmkdrivers/src_9/vmklinux_9/vmware/linux_scsi.c:2221...
Hi, Every couple of days one of our servers crashes with the message attached. The error below always appears and the KB doesn't have anything on it. Failed at...
View ArticleList all the VMs with more than 2 Virtual disks
Hello.I want to list all the VMs in a vCenter Datacenter which has got more than 2 Virtual disks. Here is the flow I am trying to work on: 1. Get the Datacenter View2. Get the Cluster view with...
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In Version 4 and 5, pc-settings in 'Metro' are messed up.
Hi, unfortunatly some setting screens in 'metro' are really messed up in vmware fusion version 4 and 5. Does anybody know how to fix this? Hoped version 5 would get rid of this, but still same effect...
View ArticleHowto retrieve socket/core info per VM
How can I retrieve per VM number of virtual sockets Number of cores per socket total number of cores as in Virtual Machine Properties
View ArticleAiutino per scelta raid per un datastore...
ciao, ho 5 dischi SATA2 da 2TB dentro uno storage (emc AX4). Finora ne avevamo fatto un RAID group in RAID 5 usando tutti 5 dischi. Le prestazioni sono molto deludenti, tanto da rendere lo spazio...
View ArticlePowerCLI question
Hello, I am looking to get the following information using PowerCLI 4.1 at the datacenter level (Vsphere 4) 1. Total available and used CPU2. Total available and used RAM3. The date when the VM was...
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