Re: ESXi 5 Insufficient disk space on datastore
You wont be able to shrink the disk again in situ. Whats happening is that when you try to power on the VM, its trying to create a 12GB backing file for your memory. You can: 1) Storage vMotion this or...
View ArticleRe: Issues with powercli script to create/delete snapshots
From the error messages it looks as if you haven't loaded the PowerCLI snapin.Was that run from the PowerCLI prompt ?Try loading the PowerCLI snapin like thisAdd-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.CoreNote...
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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 Articleusing an input file
For most of the scripts I have created I have done: $vmlist="blah","blah1","blah2" <--- would like file located for example in c:\tmp\inputfile foreach ($vm in $vmlist) { Get-VM $vm |...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5 Insufficient disk space on datastore
" Storage vMotion this or some other VM to a different datastore, freeing up space" If this is my best option, can you give me some guidance. I've never worked with VMware and have no idea how to do...
View ArticleRe: using an input file
Hello, drivera01- You can use something like Get-Content or Import-Csv to take input from a file. Since you are just doing a list of names, you could make an input file that has one VM name per line,...
View ArticleThinApp "APPCRASH" issue. Our internal Lab product's ThinApp fails on Windows...
We have our internal products and we are working on to make them as ThinApp. One of our product is compatible with Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 2008R2 (compatible with all windows x86 and x64 OS)....
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Re: ESXi 5.1 - ScsiDeviceIO: 6356 Could not detect setting for sitpua for...
Buddy, you are in luck but I actually had the EXACT same problem on my HP Proliant DL380 G6 a few weeks ago and I also Googled around but no one actually had a solution, so I did the HARD work for you....
View ArticleRe: Issues with powercli script to create/delete snapshots
That was run from the PowerCLi prompt PowerCLI C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI> C:\Users\Jukas\Desktop\Hourly.ps1Working with multiple default servers? Select [Y]...
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Re: ESXi 5.x on new Apple Mac Mini 6,2 Late 2012 *NOT* working
Well, removing the IR Receiver and the Bluetooth devices from the OS X VM did not help. I timed how long it took from the OS X VM to go from 95% to 100%. It took 6 min 34 seconds. Then, about 40...
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Re: ESXi 5.1 - ScsiDeviceIO: 6356 Could not detect setting for sitpua for...
Thanks for the quick reply. I did not do the exact same thing, but I had changed RAID configurations while setting up two machines and I had moved around some disks so this was applicable. Yep,...
View ArticleDead zone in screenset HTML
Hi all, Just wondering what the 'dead zone' area at the bottom of the HTML in screensets is used for and if any issues may arise if I remove parts of it.The reason I ask is that I`ve come accross an...
View ArticleVMware vSphere Update Manager had an unknown error. Check the events and log...
Hi! Recently updated vCenter from 5.0 to 5.1.Previosly UpdateManager was installed on the same machine with vCenter. With update i've moved it to another machine. Scan entity<hostname>VMware...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.1 host with no local storage - how to install Dell Multipathing...
Thanks for your welcome and reply. I do have SAN storage available in production, however since I am performing a clean installation of ESXi 5.1 I am going to lose connectivity to the SAN as host...
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Re: ESXi 5 Insufficient disk space on datastore
as mentioned by Matt, if you cannot affort the downtime Storage vmotion is the best option, for that use the steps below, but you should have proper license 1- cretae a new datastore,2- right click the...
View ArticleManagement Network
I understand it is best practice to have Management network on its own subnet/VLAN. In a small environment - 3 hosts (8-10 VMS), do you think it would impact performance much to ahve it on same subnet...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 Call "UserDirectory.RetrieveUserGroups" for object...
Hi! Recently updated vCenter from 5.0 to 5.1 Now, i cannot add local server users.vCenter OS - Windows Server 2008 R2 ENG in domain enviroment.Domain permissions works fine. vCenter started with local...
View ArticlevCloud endpoint configuration
Hi All, I believe there is no agent required for vCloud director and VCO. I've added a vCloud endpoint and when I run data collection it gives error. Workflow "vCloudEndpointDataCollection" failed...
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Increasing a virtualized esxi vmfs5 local partition
Hey guys, first post here and probably not the last.... I'm building a virtualized lab on my laptop to study for my VCP 5.1 certification and I ran into a little problem here.. I have 2 ESXi hosts...
View ArticleRe: Management Network
its not full about the performance, its a secutiry perspective also.it is good and recommended to at least use a vlan for the managment traffic.if you share with the vm traffic also no issue...for...
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