MS Clustering with SAN - moving from iSCSI
Hey, I have been very fortunate in that my company has replaced their old EMC SAN with a new one and I get the old one for my VMware lab :-) sweet... so I am moving all my lab VMs to fibre storage. In...
View Articlemap volumes of storage device in vcenter using vi java
I want to map the volumes created on a storage device to the ones available in vcenter.I have tried the following method: String lunName = "iqn.2005-06.com.acme:h3471.qac113778900.id3";ScsiLun lun =...
View ArticleHelp with permissions to monitor Vsphere
Hi, I need to create a user to monitor the hardware status of a Vsphere 5.0 server via SNMP.I dont wanna to create a user with administrative privileges. Is it possible? How can I config this ? Which...
View ArticleUEFI SecureBoot with ESX 5 VMs?
Hi, Any help appreciated on this - does anyone know if it is possible to boot with Secure Boot with Windows 8 ESXi Virtual Machines? There doesn't appear to be any Secure Boot options in VMware's...
View Articleesxi 4.1 export to OVF - disk space?
Hi, I want to do a export of multiple machines. However I am concerned about how much disk space it will take on local storage. If I have a virtual disk that is configured in VMWare as 50GB will it...
View ArticleE1000E
I want to know when e1000e network adapter is available. is this type is specfic to the type of operating system that we are installing in the virtual machine.
View ArticleFestplatten müssen konsolidiert werden / zu wenig Speicherplatz?
Hallo zusammen, ich verwende den ESXi 5.1.0, 799733 und stehe nun vor dem Problem, dass bei einer VM alte Snapshots gefunden wurden.Diese Snapshots sind ca. 90 GB und 279 GB groß (siehe Screenshot) und...
View ArticleDirectly use of Hard Drive in a Guest OS ?
I've just added a hard drive to my server on which i am trying things with ESXi, but I wish to try the performance difference using direct access to the disk, as i would in normal - not virtualised...
View ArticleIncorrect Last RUN time - DRS
Hi , we are getting an incorrect date ( Last year date and time ) and time for DRS Last run time. This happens only in the webclient . But the activity log displays correct date and time . Did...
View ArticleESXi 5 login screen flashes by
hellowhen trying to access theESXi 5 console through ILO4 on HP dl380 G8, when i press F2 the login screen flashes by in less than a second and i cant log in.. i have tried reboot the esx server adn...
View ArticleRemote Office Setups
I have a remote overseas office that needs a server infrastructure. I was going to put a small VNX in place with 3 rack mount servers. I really don't want to put a SAN over there since there are no...
View ArticlevSphere 5 Port Groups
Simple question regarding port groups. Should you use Dynamic or Static bindings? As a rule, which is the best option? Is there a reason why you would choose one over the other?
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Are these numbers unusually high?
I was looking at Inventory>Networking in the vSphere client when I noticed these numbers for a problem client. Is this a cause for concern? And how would I go about tracking down what's happening?...
View ArticleHP UPS - graceful shutdown
I know that graceful shutdown of VMs and ESXi during a power loss is possible with an APC UPS. Is it possible with an HP UPS?
View ArticleMultiple same size hard drives in VM
Have a VM with multiple hard disks with the same size configure. Want to increase one of the drives but cannot tell which one to increase as the disk space sizing in Windows server 2008 doesn't match...
View ArticleRSA Authentication on per cluster basis?
Question for you guys out there. If I have multiple clusters (lets say 3 clusters with 2 hosts in each cluster) and the clusters are managed via a vCenter Server, can 2 factor RSA authentication be...
View Article5.1 - VMware Tools from Patch ESXi510-201212402-BG not detecting as needed
We recently upgraded to vSphere 5.1 and updated the VMware Tools with the included package, build 782409, on all of our Windows guests. We were plagued with the Event Viewer spew "Error in the RPC...
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ESXi 5.1 - ScsiDeviceIO: 6356 Could not detect setting for sitpua for device...
So I Googled this and it seems there is very little information out there, but I am hoping someone out there might have the answer because most people just say "check the HCL list" or "update your...
View ArticleESXi 5 Insufficient disk space on datastore
Hi, I need some help with a VMware issue. I ws trying to expand a drive in VMware by going to the Server - Edit Virtual Machine Settings - Hard Disk 2. Then under Provisioned Size, changed it from 600...
View ArticleVMware Converter 5.01 scripting
I would like to automate the deployment of some converter images for virtual machines. I have 4 base images and they need to be converter to the ESXi host datastore, every image has to be deployed to 6...
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