Identify Storage Box: ESX 3.X
Hello All, I have been asked to provide the details of the LUN's provided to the ESX hosts. I need to know which Storage box the LUN's are assiged from...like, 3PAR, HP XP24000 etc... Is it possible...
View ArticleUsing vmnet-sniffer as a non-root user
Is it possible to use the vmnet-sniffer without being root? I would like to be able to use vmnet-sniffer without being root, and I was wondering if it would be possible to configure this without...
View ArticlevSphere HA virtual machine failover failed alarms
We are seeing several alarms being triggered for vSphere HA virtual machine failover failed on two of our clusters.We believe that the alarms are false positives and don't want our envirnoment clutter...
View ArticlevSphere Replication - VM with Snapshot
Hello, I've been reading the documentation on SRM 5 with vSphere Replication and there is a statement that I am not clear on.http://www.vmware.com/pdf/srm_admin_5_0.pdfTop of page 60: "vSphere...
View ArticleLooking for some latency comparisons
Hello, We have a New Dell EQL PS6100xv, 2x Dell force10 s25n switches stacked and A Dell R610 ESXi5 host. All of the settings have been configured according to the Dell best practices. One thing that...
View ArticleReconfigure_vm call to mount hard drives to multiple vms?
Hey Guys, (posted in sdk but no replies) So one of our programmers told me that using the reconfigure_vm call he is able to add a hard disk of a powered on virtual machine to another virtual machine...
View ArticlePersistant Virtual Machines with Disposable Disks
I am looking to create 800 VMs using VMware View 5.1, all VMs are both dedicated and Full Virtual Machines (using VMware Terminology). All 800 OS VMDKs will be on SAS/SAN storage; in addition I would...
View ArticleDoes the underlying infrastructure really matter?
Consider the following scenario: A file processing application suite currently running on non-cloud friendly IBM mid-range servers and AIX(Unix) OS. The application can be ported to x86/x64 platforms...
View ArticleConvert physical machine for use in ESXi 4.1 environment
Alrighty, so I have a physical machine that I want to convert for use in my vSphere enviroment (apologies if I misuse a term here). I used Converter 5 to convert it to a Workstation 8 VM which I stored...
View ArticleCan't copy text from Ubuntu 12.04 guest to Windows7 host
Hi, I've got Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit) running as a guest under VMWare 8.0.4 build-744019. The host is Windows7 sp1 (64-bit).I can copy text from Ubuntu into Windows, but not back. VMWare tools is...
View ArticleCitrix applications freezing while in Unity mode in Fusion 4
So lets begin, I have a Mac OS X 10.7 running a Windows 7 x64 virtual machine on VMWare Fusion 4 -I use Citrix applications from the Windows VM in unity mode, the applications open up and run normally...
View ArticleDoes not support Log in as current user
Howdy I am receiving the following error when attempting to connect to my connection server with the "Login as current user" check box Checked....
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VM Feezes for Minutes at a Time
Hello, I have an issue with a VM that keeps freezing for anything between 2 minutes to 20 minutes. It seems to be happening at random times. When I check the performance for that time I see everything...
View ArticleGuest froze host
I used to have a physical Ubuntu server that served as a SAN for our ESXi hosts. Every once in a while something would go haywire and the server would freeze up. I could not even get the console to...
View ArticleDisk compacting fails
Trying t ocompact a Windows 8 RP VM using the disk compacting utilies f ails with the error message below Using WS Beta Windows version running on Windows 8 CP "One of the parameters supplied is...
View ArticleOrphaned vShield App Firewall
I was using vShield App on a single ESX host for a while but have since found a replacement product to use until the next release of vShield Edge. I uninstalled the vShield App as instructed but it...
View ArticleWindows 7 GUEST IP address conflict
Windows 7 32 bit host, 2 physical NICs - 1 wired and 1 wireless. I used vmnetcfg tool to create 2 VMNETs, one each to each physical adapter. WIRED adapter goes to company LAN, WIRELESS connects to a...
View ArticleESXi mounting NFS from Sun Unified Storage 7110: Uncle
Hey Everybody, Our little Sun Unified Storage 7110 box has beaten me to a pulp. For the life of me, I cannot get get ESXi (vSphere 5 U1) to mount the single NFS share being presented by the 7110 box. I...
View ArticleError with VMware View Composer linked clones
hi vmware community i want to open a case, but MyVMware is currently down :-) I have a strange issue at a customers site. We are using VMware View 5.0.0 with VMware ComposerSince today the deployment...
View Articlevicfg-hostops question
Hi All, I just got through the installation of vCLI and perl SDK. I installed all this in my vCenter SUSE VM it self. The vCenter is bootstrapped into the cluster. I am trying to reboot a host in...
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