What is the best wat to copy a vm?
I want to copy a vm to a new host. i have seen Veeam , WinSCP but wondered if it there was a better way to copy the vm faster . Would it help if a PC was on the same IP address listing ?I have tried...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 losing vmx file - vCenter?
A few days ago I rebooted on of our more important virtual machines to increase RAM size. But after shutting down I was unable to edit the VM, cryptic error message "File not found" (without telling me...
View ArticleHas Anyone Virtualized Coins??
Hi, Has anyone virtualized Coins (HR/Payroll) onto an ESXi 5 host using VMs running Red Hat?? For those not familiar with Coins, it uses a ProgressDB and normally a Unix host. We've been advised by...
View ArticleUsing VMWare-Mount on to mount snapshot VMDK on another PC
Hi I'm using vmware-mount (v5.0) to try and mount a snaphot of a VM linux server that is having issues, and I need to explore the snapshot to get some data from it.I have copied the VMDK file I want to...
View ArticleClone or Template VM only boots PXE
HI I am running VSphere 5.1Everytime I create a vm clone or create a vm from a template the vm does not boot and gets stuck on the PXE boot screen. I put the hard disk at startup that does not help....
View ArticleWill disconnecting and reconnecting the Host change scheduled Tasks
If disconnecting the server is a mandatory step, then is there anyway to preserve the scheduled tasks associated with the ESXi hosts? I have multiple scheduled clone tasks that I use for backups -...
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Upgrading ML350 G6 to ESXi 5.1 and seeing 'Warning' on Smart Array p410i...
I always have my installs on external USB thumb drives, just in case the install fails and I need to get the system back up ASAP. Anyways, I popped in a fresh USB thumb drive, installed 5.1 and...
View Article5.1 ESXi standaard
I installed a new 5.1 ESXi and after that I created a new resource pool I installed a server 2008 r2 on that pool which has a ad, DHCP and DNS installed.If I want to use the my laptop I have to...
View Articleunable to install vmware tools
Upgrade and Install VM Tools not working.Error: Unable to install Vmware Tools. An error occurred while trying to access image.
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ESXi 5.0 wwwn's are changed
I have installed ESXi 5.0 on an IBM Blade HS 21 XM (type 7995) using the boot on SAn option. The boot disk (size 3 GB)for the ESXi 5.0 I have created on IBM disk system DS 3400 with fiber channel...
View ArticleESXi 5.0 - Clear SEL without vCenter
Hi there, I keep getting warning messages with CIM as below. And this is a problem because we use a python script for hardware monitoring. WARNING : IPMI SEL - Server: HP ProLiant ML350p Gen8...
View ArticleMigration Path from 3.5 to 5.0
We have two hosts running esx 3.5 with vCenter 3.5 and we want to migrate to vCenter 5.0 with two brand new 5.0 ESX hosts. What is the correct migration path to make this work? Is it possible to have...
View Articlehealth check vmware install
i have health check setup exe but i dont know how to install and configuration it. any idea or document / video
View ArticleMonitoring Disk iops
§READs/s + WRITEs/s = IOPS my storage iops is good or bad ? what is ibm ds 3512 iops value . i didnt find any iops about ibm ds 3512 raid 5i want to check iops value about my system ''IBM DS3512...
View ArticlevSphere Client for Server 2012
I have installed Windows Server 2012 on my laptop and tried to install the vSphere client (VMware-viclient-all-5.0.0-623373) but it comes up with "This product can only be installed on Windows XP SP2...
View ArticlevSphere Web Client and Mac OS X
Hmm... with the release of 5.1, they seem to be encouraging everybody to move to the web client. But it seems that Mac OS X is still not supported. What's the plan to support Mac OS X? I really...
View ArticleDaylight Savings settings on the Esxi Host
Schedule task are not running on their schedule times since Day light savings time.
View ArticleVcenter database Shrinkage
vCenter Server Database is 40 GB is size and experiencing slowness with other databases on that SQL server. We have 32 ESX hosts in our environment.
View ArticleiSCSI configuration with broadcom hba esxi 5.1
Could someone confirm I have set this server up in a recommended way for ISCSI speed and resiliance? 1.x ESXI 5.1 / vCenter 5.11 x Equalogic SAN1 x Poweredge R510 with a broadcom 5709 DUAL PORT2 x...
View ArticleThe vsphere web client cannot connect to the vcenter single sign on server,...
After upgrading to 5.1, I have been running into this error a lot. For some reason, the SSO service seems to stop working after about a week and requires a reboot to get it back online. Does anyone...
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