Routing the traffic through a Hairpinned VM
Hi,In my vSphere environment, I have an ESXi host with several virtual machines residing on top. I have achieved the hairpinning functionality by going through the following steps:1) I created a...
View ArticleHow Application-consistent quiescing can be enabled for Windows Server...
Hi, I am using Netbackup 7.1 to backup my VMs. I am not able to backup some of the Windows Server 2008/(R2) VMs in my environment with quiescent enabled. All those victims are running in ESX4 hosts. My...
View ArticleUnable to access Esxi via vSphere client, ssh, cli and tech support mode
Hy everybody, After installing a vSphere server essentials plus 4 on a new physical server we are unable to add the host to vSphere or to access it via ssh, CLI or tech support mode. VMWare ESXi 4.1.0...
View ArticleLooking for Disk Configuration Suggestions
I'm an spec'ing a new Dell server running ESXi 5 (free) to host SBS 2011, a terminal server, and at least one 'special function PC.' The SBS machine supports approximately 20 users, and in addition to...
View ArticleCOM Factory issue in Sage 50 Accounts 2012 ThinApp
Hi everybody, I have created a Sage 50 Accounts 2012 ThinApp and it is working almost just fine. All the primary functions seem to be operational and it is running in a production environment. Now I've...
View ArticleVM View 5.0 - 404 - Http Error
Hello, My Win7 64bit laptop started to display the following message when I tried to click the connect button on my View client:"The view connection server connection failed. A http error occured....
View ArticlevSphere with 10Gb
We are going to set up two vSphere servers for a new project, and we are getting 10Gb network into our environment for the first time. Now it comes with questions how I can set up the vSphere servers...
View ArticleSRM Test Recovery Plan Question
I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to customize the behavior of SRM/SRA. My scenario is I have a 3PAR T800 at my prod and DR sites replicating. When I try to run a test recovery plan and I tell...
View ArticleForce Initialization Wizard to Run again
Long story short, I messed up my vCenter Server database and I made a new one. I had a LabManager machine connected to the vCenter Server machine. Now users can't login to labmanager to access the VMs....
View ArticleError when running some reports
When I run any of the 3 reports: Virtual Machine Capacity Overview Report, Host Utilization Report & Configured Host Capacity Report, I get an error. It errors against everything, from world...
View ArticleWhat should the MAC of vmk0(management) be?
Should it match one of the underlying physical uplink adapters or sit within the VMware range (00:50:56)? I have checked across 30+ hosts in the environments I have here and can see a small number of...
View ArticleESXi 5 Free License and vCenter
Hi guys, We purchased some licenses for vCenter and vSphere Enterprise for our new virtual environment. But we have a few machines with free ESXi 5 installed. The question is: Is it possible to manage...
View ArticlevCenter 5.0 U1a AgentUpgradeChecker Error
Hi there, we operate two idependent 2-node ESXi HA clusters here, and I upgraded one of the vCenter servers to 5.0 U1a earlier this week. The hosts assigned to this vCenter both are 5.0.0 469512. In...
View ArticleBSOD when starting RH5 64bit VM
BSOD occurs when starting an RH% 64bit VM. No other VMs in use Platform : WIndows 2008 R2 VM Support zip with mini-dump supplied
View ArticleShutdown Script ESXI 5.0
hi . im using the Ghetto shutdown script, to shut shutdown my ESXI 4.1 U2 hypervisors. if a power failure occur i want to upgrade to Vsphere 5.0, but i still want to be able to shutdown my Hypervisors....
View ArticleShared storage on Vmware workstation
Dear Experts I want to test Linux HA Cluster on Vmware workstation with 2 virtual linux guests.Then I need to create a shared storage to share with both guests. Please guide me how to do that...
View ArticleUnable to access Esxi via vSphere client, ssh, cli and tech support mode
Hi everybody, After installing a vSphere server essentials plus 4 on a new physical server we are unable to add the host to vSphere or to access it via ssh, CLI or tech support mode. VMWare ESXi 4.1.0...
View ArticleSvmotion fails . The virtual machine must be powered-on.
freshly installed and updated esxi, I have migrated a machine from the UI ok, but when I try and use svmotion to move a powered off machine :- vi-admin@localhost:~> svmotion --datacenter VM01...
View ArticleCannont Publish - Project Needs Rebuilding
I cannot publish any of my projects -- I get an error: "Project Audacity-#0.1229 needs rebuilding before it can be published." The Projects page shows captured projects in a 'Staged' status, but the...
View ArticleUnable to launch VMware Player 4 on Fedora 17
I'm running Fedora 17 with no patches. I ran the install from VMware-Player-4.0.4-744019.x86_64.bundle, and it seemed to install just fine. I even installed gcc and kernel-devel-tools ahead of time....
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