Re: ESXi 5.x on new Apple Mac Mini 6,2 Late 2012 *NOT* working
Darius, Are you interested in identifying what crashed ESXi when the OS X VM tried to connect to the Bluetooth keyboard using the built-in Bluetooth adapter passed to the OS X VM via Direct Path I/O?...
View ArticleRe: Hands on Labs Community Scale Testing – Thursday Feb 7th 2:00 – 4:00 PM PST
Hadricus, Thanks for all your feedback,, BTW Excellent point,, wrt to the twitter and link,,,its been on our list to do's and now that you mention it,,,not having the link defeats the idea,, we will be...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 host with no local storage - how to install Dell Multipathing...
We are looking at upgrading our production ESXi 4.1 hosts with a clean install of ESXi 5.1. These hosts have no local storage. Whilst testing an installation in our lab on a host that does have local...
View ArticleRe: How to install Mac Drivers into vmware?
You cannot install the drivers for the Host's GPU in the Guest OS since the Guest OS does not directly see it. So if the OS can't see the device then installing drivers for a device the OS can't see...
View ArticleRe: Support Assistant, Can't register plugin, Unexpected end of file from server
Hi vijay, Nope a haven't any authorization on my "squid" proxy. error:awaiting response... 401 UnauthorizedIt's because on resourcehttps://supportassistant.vmware.com/Authorization is necessary
View ArticleRe: ESXi server Bios upgrade
You won't be able to do this from within ESXi. Check out http://communities.vmware.com/people/vmroyale/blog/2010/12/29/how-to-install-vendor-updates-on-server-hardware-running-esxi for a set of...
View ArticleRe: How to backup the vms in vCloud
I'd like to offer backups to clients VM's in vCloud director. Currently the way I'm doing it is presenting iSCSI lun directly to the VM's and using that disk to use programs like backup assist. Can...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.1 host with no local storage - how to install Dell Multipathing...
Hello and welcome to the communities. You can specify the full path to the vmfs volume and mem.zip file, and use SAN storage - assuming that SAN storage is available in production.
View ArticleRe: Unable to boot to LiveCD with CentOS6/Workstation7
Geez. "Connect at power on" wasn't checked. I feel dumb now. BUT THANKS! That did the trick.
View ArticleRe: NIC Vsphere 5.1
Can you get into the DCUI on the console of the server, or is it freezing prior to that? What Dell system do you have, and is it listed in the VMware HCL? That NIC doesn't appear to be.
View ArticleRe: Multiple Nics over one vSwitch (no TF)
Hello and welcome to the communities. Can you post a diagram or screenshot of your current networking setup?
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.x on new Apple Mac Mini 6,2 Late 2012 *NOT* working
Darius, After I reset the ESXi by hard power down of the Mac Mini, the ESXi host came back up, and all the VMs that were set to auto power up started fine. However, when I powered up the OS X VM, it...
View ArticleRe: Veeam replication
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View ArticleRe: problems with new install of vCloud Director 5.1
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View ArticleRe: Interplay between Expandable Reservation and Limit
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View ArticleRe: VMplayer wont start complaining on 2.6.39-300.26.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
Hi, After a lot of research i have changed the component from "default=1" to "defaut=0" to load kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-279.22.1.el6.x86_64. Restarted the server and VMware player was started. But once...
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Re: Datastore Space Utilization - 'Other' File Types
Hello, I have the same problem."Other" files increases very fast. Yesterday I migrated some VM's from storage to free space, but this night "other" files fill all the available space.My storage is...
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...
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