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vSphere shared storage
My home server recently crashed and my work put me through a week long vSphere class(and gave me the licenses and such to get familiar with ), so I'm putting it all together now. Of course I find...
View ArticleChild VMs time zone changed automatically with local machine time zone
Hi Team,we have configured CST time zone on Parent VMs & but on child VMs/Guest VMs time zone automatically changed to Local machine timin i.e IST. Please let us know,we want to configured the CST...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Authentication Required
Hi All Strange issue here trying to log in the ESXi 5.1 host to change the IP address. It can preinstalled from Dell on our new server. I login via the DRAC no issue and launch the console no issue....
View ArticleDefault webpass username - vcloud usage meter 3.1
In short, I forgot the default webpass username... I know I can reset the password... I enabled LDAP integration and that's working fine...
View ArticleHBA Details Serial Numbers
Greetings, We have a complex VMware Environment with several vCenter Servers and around thousand ESXi Hosts. For validating physical mutli paths between the Storage and the Server, we would like to get...
View ArticleFlickering screen using Fusion 5.0.3 on latest 2013 (Haswell) MacBook Air
Hi all, I just got one of the new Haswell-based MacBook Airs and have installed the latest Fusion (5.0.3) on it to run Windows 8 (x86). It installed fine but now I get a large dark area flickering on...
View ArticleP2V of Centos Server fails with key can't be retrieved
Hi,I'm running Converter Standalone version 5.1.0 and am attempting to P2V a physical Centos 5.3 server to my vSphere 5.1 environment. When the conversion job kicks-off, the helper VM is created, it...
View ArticleESXi 4.0 - configuring storage - I've made a mistake
I've made a mistake; but I'm too much of a novice to understand where. Can I please get some direction? I've built a ESX4.0 box on some old hardware, it has quite large disks, the array ended up being...
View ArticlePort Forwarding From the ESXi host to VM?
So is this possible, and if it is how can I do it or does any version of vSphere allow this? I need to have a port forwarded to the Host ESXi server and from there forwarded to a VM. [Incoming...
View ArticleCentOS6.4 のOVAテンプレートのデプロイに失敗する。
新規に仮想マシンを作成し、CentOS6.4をインストール、最新までOSアップデートを実行後vmware toolsをインストールして、OVFテンプレートとしてエクスポートし、そのOVFテンプレートをデプロイしようとすると、「OVF パッケージのデプロイに失敗しました：タスクは、ユーザーによってキャンセルされました。」のメッセージととともにデプロイに失敗します。vmware...
View ArticleThinDirect incase of javaScripts
Hi, Infrastructure at our customer site was being upgraded to WIN7 and IE9 and one of our web applications are not supported on IE9 so we had to make use of VmWare Thin App solution to let users use...
View ArticleWindows 7 - occasionally freezes, even switch back to MacOS isn't possible
Hi, we're using VMWare Fusion 5 on 4 brandnew iMac (late 2012) with fusiondrive (8GB RAM, 3TB fusiondrive). On each of these iMac's we've installed one Windows 7 VM (64Bit, 2 CPU, 3 GB RAM, 120GB...
View ArticleHow do I edit files in the /opt directory and keep after reboot?
I figured out how to edit them, but the changes disappear after immediate reboot. I read this other post about using the autobackup.sh script, but that was for '/etc' and not '/opt' directory. The...
View ArticlevSphere CLI: Error: Unknown Command
This could be as simple as me just missing something, but since I don't use the CLI very much at all, I thought I would just ask. I can connect to the CLI, but no matter what command I use the host...
View ArticleVMWare doesn't start after kernel update
Hello, I've just updated my kernel to 3.10.0-997-generic. After that VMWare Player doesn't start anymore.I've tried to run patches and different solutions I found in google, but it didn't worked yet....
View ArticleHardware monitoring service on this host is not responding or not available
This is the error I get when selecting the Hardware Status tab on any of our vSphere servers in vCenter. The servers were upgraded from ESX 3.5 update 4 and the hardware status was working before the...
View ArticleHow to connect client to host
I've run into some trouble. I have Workstation 9 and I created a Win7 client, using 8GB of RAM, 2 CPU's with 2 cores, 60GB disk and installed Win7 64 Ultimate. I normally use VirtualBox and after this...
View Articleesxi 5.1 install - SD card big enough? - RAID5 config correct?
Hello,I'm hoping a noob can get a little guidance here.. ;-) I ordered a t420 from Dell that had a esxi 5.1 image placed on an embeded SD module.I think I may have had them do too small of a module...
View ArticleNimble Storage
I'm thinking of investing in Nimble Storage to replace our current FC SAN infrastructure. It is does some pretty clever stuff with SSD and snapshots for backup ...however they are a relatively new...
View ArticleP2V of Win2K3 Server which is part of windows NLB
Hi All, today i have requirement to P2V windows 2k3 server which is part of Windows NLB(2node). post P2V vm will be added to existing windows NLB Cluster and it will be 3 node cluster. please help will...
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