Upgrade/migrate from free to vCenter managed
So we have 2 of the free version esx hosts running 4.0. There are 2 virtual machines on each box stored on local storage. We will be spinning up a new 4.1 esx host that will be managed by our current...
View ArticleRe: Management interface failes after changing IP of vmotion vmkernel port
no problem - attached you will find the screenshot of the configuration. its a simple flat configuration without any vlans or anything else. management and vmotion is on the same subnet as the vm's...
View ArticleRe: ESXi v5.0 to v5.1 - Upgrade or Install - what and why?
Thank you for your prompt reply. And I will not need to make those changes and readd VMs to the inventory etc. on an upgrade, correct? Bob
View ArticleRe: Upgrade/migrate from free to vCenter managed
There are a couple of option how this can be done.restore the VM's from the most recent backupuse e.g. Veeam's FastSCP to copy the VM's over to the new host (in case the virtual disks are NOT thin...
View ArticleRe: ESXi v5.0 to v5.1 - Upgrade or Install - what and why?
Yes, with the upgrade option the settings will be migrated to the new version. André
View ArticleRe: ESXi v5.0 to v5.1 - Upgrade or Install - what and why?
Thank you. You've been very helpful. Cheers. Bob
View ArticleRe: Sporadic Black Screen Issue
Installing or updating Tools without then installing View Agent will often cause black screen problems. This is because the graphics driver can get downgraded by the Tools install or update. I can see...
View ArticleRe: Drive - Predictive Failure, Snapshots won't delete, cannot clone
You could certainly attach the base disks to the VM and delete the snapshots manually (technically no problem), but you would end up with the data of 08/2012 in this case I don't mind this for the...
View ArticleRe: Management interface failes after changing IP of vmotion vmkernel port
I still don't exactly understand what you are trying to do!? In your first post you mentioned that you wanted to have the vMotion network on a separate VLAN. Can you please explain how you plan to...
View ArticleHow do you collect vCenter Alarms?
Hi all: I need to collect vCenter alarms to determine if vCenter administrators have added necessary alarms. I've seen the powercli script that gets alarms and writes them to an output file. I'm...
View ArticleVery slow when opening the console for a guest on vSphere Client
I opend vSphere client and when I right click on the Guest Operating System and choose Open Console, it takes about 40 seconds for it to open up. Now if I just click on the guest and choose the tab for...
View ArticleRe: RecomposedVapp Task from api
you should post here: http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/developer/forums/vcloudapi This is the API specific forum for vCloud.
View Articleassign static ip pool through apis?
Hello, We are facing an issue with the static ip assignment from the network pool through api's..Although we are providing ip scope in the data we are still not able to get a static ip from the pool.....
View ArticleRe: Cannot create provider VDC
do you have any storage profiles created in vCenter at this time?
View ArticleRe: How to Migrate SQL Cluster from existing vSphere 4.x to vCD 5.x
RDMs are not supported. They are also not very 'cloud like' since they aren't easily movable. There is also no way to share a disk in vCloud Director, without cheating in an unsupported way. This...
View ArticleRecomposedVapp Task from api
When I create or delete from a Vapp. Task only says Recomposing Vapp. where do I get the link to the vm and if it was deleted or created? I do have blocking tasks.Recomposing VApp is a task at the...
View ArticleRe: RecomposedVapp Task from api
thanks moved: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/431708
View ArticleRe: Unable to run VM on 5.1
can your PC actually reach the public address defined for the Console Proxy? If you have access to the 'System vDC' make sure the public addresses are defined (Administration > Public Addresses)...
View ArticleRe: Drive - Predictive Failure, Snapshots won't delete, cannot clone
Shut down the VM, remove the virtual disk from the VM's settings (make note of the SCSI ID and do NOT select delete from disk) and save the settings. Then open the settings again and add an existing...
View ArticleRe: Error Logging Into Physical Workstation
Thanks for the reply. The agent has been reinstalled multiple times on the physical desktops in question. Their status shows as available from the View management console.
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