Re: How do you set the location?
The ESXi host uses UTC+0 (Greenwich Time). What's basically missing - at least in my opinion - is a VM setting for the time zone to allow the VM to boot with the correct "BIOS" time, before the guest...
View ArticleRe: vCloud Director 5.1 Boot to ISO after OS is installed?
If you open a console session, then reboot the guest, you can hit Escape to bring up the boot menu, and select CD-ROM.The time window is < 1 second, so it's easy to miss.
View ArticleRe: vSwitch - Unicast - MS NLB
MKguy wrote: I don't know about HP-switches or whether they do support IGMP-snooping out of the box already, Almost all HP switches supports IGMP snooping, but none as I know by default, i.e. it has to...
View ArticleRe: Resize VM disk and hot add disk in vCloud director?
Under vCD 5.1.1, you can extend the size of existing disks. Hot adding disks is also possible.I assume there's also a way to do this via the API.
View ArticleRe: Vsphere Performance Data for View Assigned VM
Thanks, I wanted to check before possibly wasting a lot of time looking into it to only find out it was a View issue.
View ArticleRe: Vsphere Performance Data for View Assigned VM
No problem. I would try to narrow the scope down by seeing if other VMs are affected and if it's a host issue or a global vCenter issue. You could then work your way into making sure the roll up jobs...
View ArticleRe: vMA, vifs and cron
When you run that command/script manually from the vMA, do you do in the vifathpass authenticated context? Seems like you don't pass the login info of your host to the vifs command.Is "vifs -g...
View ArticleRe: vCloud director 5.1 Organizations issue
Under vCD 5.1.1 (5.1 also?), creating a new provider VDC will also automatically create a VXLAN network pool.If you don't have VXLAN configured, you'll get an error - that's the "Ensure the...
View ArticleRe: SSO HELL
Have a read of the fine set of articles on http://longwhiteclouds.com all about how to set up certificates and SSO
View ArticleRe: Problem setting NAT client to a fixed address
OK, now I'm even more baffled because this morning it's working correctly. The only thing different from yesterday is that I shut down my computer at the end of the work day and when I turned it on...
View ArticleRe: creating an OrgVdcNetwork with orgAdmin role
I am using 5.1, and the issue persists; is the above the only workaround? Is this still planned to be resolved? I would also love to see this functionality in the Vdc helper. Thanks! P.S. Following...
View ArticleRe: Can't install win 95
Yes, I had already configured both the virtual CD-ROM and Floppy drives to link to the respective image files paths, if this is what you mean by "boot".Up to now, as already mentioned, I have been...
View ArticleRe: RDM on multiple guest machines with vMotion
I am confused, how exactly do you expect to share a RDM across serveral Guest. the locking mechanism will prevent the 2nd and subsequent VMs from using it. think if this from the perspective of a...
View ArticleRe: again PSOD on ESXi 5.0
Hello and welcome to the communities. If you aren't in production yet, I would get to the latest patch release available and see if that helps resolve this issue.
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again PSOD on ESXi 5.0
I have ESXi server (not production yet).Two days ago, the server again stopped with a PSOD with a message saying:After rebooting the server started with no problems, but the server stopped with a PSOD...
View ArticleVM Portability, XenDesktop and Snapshots
Our VDI VMs are all dedicated and Windows 7. I've noticed that each VM has a snapshot called "Do Not Delete - Critical", I understand that is required as we use MCS with Citrix XenDesktop and the...
View ArticleRe: No special characters with unity
Hello Ernst,my name is also Ernst. I experience the same problems with the same host and guest. Sometimes I also cannot move the windows in Unity mode. Ernst
View ArticleRe: Creating the DSN needed to connect vCenter 5.1 to SQL Server
Great thanks for the info. However regarding ODBC connections: in the VMware Installation Guide it says this on page 253...
View ArticleRe: Improving ESX's NFS performance when using FreeBSD, ZFS
I successfully solved same problem just tuned ZFS (disable sync).Try out this link http://www.myitnotes.info/doku.php?id=en:jobs:freebsd_zfs_nfs_for_vmware
View ArticleRe: Can't install win 95
Once you are on the C:\> prompt, check the virtual machine's settings and ensure the floppy is "Connected". If not, ensure the floppy points to your floppy image and connect it and then use...
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