Isolating Backup Traffic
I'm using Image level backup with both Veeam and Avamar on vSphere 5.1. When the backup software access an ESXi host to backup all of its vmdks, we are wanting to make sure that traffic is not sent out...
View Articledirect attached storage: interfaces not detected in vSphere Client
Hello,I am having trouble getting my ESXi boxes to see a PowerVault MD3200 Direct Attached Storage array. This does not appear to be a very common setup, as I have had a difficult time finding...
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Unable to select VMware Infrastructure Server
Hi, I'm trying to convert a Ubuntu 12.04 VM to a VMware Workstation VM using the Standalone Converter on the same Windows 7 64bit machine. TheSource type for the VM is a 'Powered On Machine' with a...
View ArticleLoad Based Teaming to Netapp filer with multiple vifs
Good day everyone! We are deploying vSphere 5 for our view environment, and are running into issues. We used to use fast etherchannel for active/active load balancing, but now are switching to vDS...
View ArticleStrange Issue: Can't deploy new VM unless I select a different name
Ok, two days, two different hosts (ESXi 4.1 u2), two different administrators trying to create a virtual machine. They provision the VM with no problems, point it to a kickstart server to load it with...
View ArticleVmware error with storage vMotion failing at 14%, Error 0xbad010b
I've never had an issue with vMotion before, but for some reason I can't change hosts on my VM's. They all have Vmware tools, up to date, and everything is green with them. I have 3 hosts in the...
View ArticleHow to set up web session timeout
I need to set up a timeout for the appliance user sessions. I triedVAMI_AUTHENTICATION_TIMEOUT=1; export in VAMI_AUTHENTICATION_TIMEOUT /etc/bash.bashrc, but the users are not logged out from the...
View Articleunable to install VMwareTools.
I got this error when trying to install vmware tools ona 2008r2 vm. Unable to install VMware Tools. An error occurred while trying to access image file "/usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/windows.iso" needed...
View ArticleCloning server 2012 Domain Controller
HI Group, I am trying clone our prod 2012 Domain Controller so that we can use it in our Test Lab which is isolated from productionWe tried to clone the DC , copy VM to Lab network, started the VM but...
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Multi-display reverts to single after unlocking Win7 client
Had an issue today. Left Workstation running in multi-monitor mode across 3 displays. Came back after the client (Windows 7 64-bit) had locked the screen due to inactivity. When I entered my...
View ArticleAdding OWA as a web application to Horizon Workspace
We have setup horizon workspace and have most of it configured.The one thing we would like to do is add Outlook Web Access as a web application but finding it difficult to find information on what we...
View ArticleUnable to open file"/...../Windows XP Professional.vmdk: The system cannot...
OS X 10.8.4Windows XPFusion 4.1.4 (900582) Noob here. I started running a Sugarsync backup of the files on my computer and now my VMware for XP won't work. My other VMware for Windows 7 does work for...
View ArticleReverted to a snapshot and it reappeared and kept growing
Hi all I couple of weeks back I did some work on one of our servers, a win server 2003 running exchange 2003. Before this I took a snapshot. The work did work out so I reverted. about a week later the...
View ArticlevShield Manager is not registered with the VC x.x.x.x
Hi, running in to a weird problem with a new vCD (latest) install. When trying to add the first vCenter and vSM to the vCD instance, the vCenter will add correctly, but the vSM fails with the error...
View ArticleDoes vCenter Server Heartbeat (WAN) requires SRM
Hi, Does WAN deployment method of vCSHB require Site Recovery Manager or vice versa? Thanks!
View ArticlevCenter server heartbeat log
Hi, I am checking the logs under: C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat\tomcat\hblog I am seeing the following errors:...[2013-08-07 23:46:20,000]...
View ArticleVDI DR Licensing
Hi All, How does the View licensing works with the following DR approach as per below, Can we re-use the license or purchase it separately given the desktops will be powered off. Duplicate sites with...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 host loses default gateway
I have an ESXi host with one pNIC and two vSwitches. The "outside" vSwitch is connected to the pNIC and pulls DHCP for it's VMkernel port, and the other is for an internal LAN for VMs and has a static...
View ArticleOff-site backup with VDP?
So currently we have vSphere Essentials Plus, with 3 ESXi 5.1 host machines, a dedicated vCenter Server and a ReadyNAS 3200. I'm using VMware Data Protection to do backups of each of the VMs each day,...
View ArticlevCenter Inventory Services
Hi, I want to install the Inventory Services, but when I enter the password for admin@system-domain, I receive this message: The user hasn't got enough privileges to perform administrative actions....
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