Re: VMware ESXi 5 - vCPU limitations
Did you already try to power on the VM?Regarding your setup. It's hard to give you an advice without knowing the exact requirements. I'd probably look more into 2 powerful hosts with multiple CPUs and...
View ArticleVDR to VDP Migration and vCenter 5.0
hi guys I have vCenter 5.0 and VDR 2.0 and I want to install VDP. Since VDP needs vCenter 5.1 I want to install a new vCenter Appliance 5.1 and delete the 5.0 So I have some doubts about this migration...
View ArticleRe: Cannot ping VCenter Server and Security issues
On the VCenter machine, open an elevated command prompt and type in "netsh advfirewall set allp state off" without the quotes and hit enter This will disable the Windows Firewall and should allow you...
View ArticleRe: suspend VM
Hi weinstein5, Nice explanation, so you mean guest OS cannot know the suspend is triggered? in our guest OS, I plan to do some operations when suspend is triggered. If there is a way for guest OS to...
View ArticleRe: ESXi rescan datastore after reboot
ESXi 5.1 - and these are iSCSI LUNS. The interesting thing is I can use the UI or Powershell to do a rescan and everything works. I am using a custom image from Dell though.
View ArticleRe: Upgrage 4.1 to 5.1
The upgrade should work fine and no manual patches need to be done prior to the upgrade Below are the best practices VMware KB: Installing or upgrading to ESXi 5.1 best practices
View ArticleRe: CD ROM DRIVE
Thank you. Do you know if there is any documentation out there stating cd rom drive will not work via pcoip protocol.
View ArticleRe: Restoring VMs after Building new RAID Array
Veeam also offers a free version "VeeamZIP" which works gret too, but just offers less options like scheduling backups, ...I wouldn't worry about the configuration. Assuming you did not configure too...
View ArticleRe: vmfs space missing
The "other" basically means that the files are being used by a non VMware source - usually storage side snapshots etc or a hidden volume that backup software (VEEAM/Net Backup) use for backing up VM's.
View ArticleRe: Flickering screen using Fusion 5.0.3 on latest 2013 (Haswell) MacBook Air
I'm running Fusion Version 4.1.4 (900582) and have added the additional line to the vmx file as Brian suggested but to no avail. Is the mks.vsync parameter supported on my version of Fusion or am I...
View ArticleRe: suspend VM
You should be able to script that will execute a commend within the vm and then initiate the suspend - you might post a question in the automation tools section of VMTN
View ArticleRe: View Planner 2.1.0.0 511034 view 5.2
Hi Banit yes I can ping no problem by name and ip.
View ArticleRe: vCenter 5.1 rejecting ESXi 4.1 hosts
Hi TreefrogInc, See if this helps? VMware KB: After performing a maintenance upgrade on vCenter Server 4.x, if you upgrade to vCenter Server 5.x, ESX/E… Regardsa
View ArticleRe: ESXi rescan datastore after reboot
Just a thought: Do you have spanning tree enabled on the physical switch's iSCSI ports? André
View ArticleRe: SRM 5.1.1 strange behavior
@Philippe:The thing is there is no mention of the vCenter server in the extension.xml file...Maybe because the plug-in is not installed so there is no link between vcenter and srm server yet...The...
View ArticleRe: View Planner 2.1.0.0 511034 view 5.2
Then, View Planner agent service was not running in View connection server and make sure that firewall is disabled as well.
View ArticleRe: OS X 10.9 Mavericks as host ...
I tested the Preview two and it's still the same issue.Was expected, but just to confirmed
View ArticleRe: ESXi rescan datastore after reboot
Yes, spanning tree is enabled. But here is the deal: I have two 10G ports that I run VDS's off of over a Cisco 1000v. (Every host that I have is set up that way.)
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