Getting Host Hardware Information through PowerCLI
Hello there, I have a list of information I would like to get from some of our hosts. I've tried pulling this through PowerGUI and the VMWare PowerPacks but I'm having an issue with the fact that it...
View ArticleRe: deleted virtual hard disk and the files .vmdk how I can recover that.
Hi, yes, I'm using a vmware sever in a host. deleted = in " Edit virtual machine settings " , I select the hard disk and press remove. but I stupid, and when the virtual machine ask me if I want to...
View ArticleRe: Unable to bind iscsi port. [force = 0]
Hi The problem was that one of my vmnics on each iscsi portgroup was in standby instead of unused. one needs to be in active mode and the other in unused and not standby. Thanks
View ArticleQuestions on 4.1 to 5.1 upgrade
I am about to try to upgrade my small (1 Virtual Center and 4 ESX hosts) vSphere 4.1 environment to 5.1. My virtual center database lives on a separate SQL Server 2008R2 server. My virtual center...
View Articlemoving iscsi vswitch to dvswitch
what is the best way to move my iscsi ports currently binded to the iscsi hba from a standard vswitch to a dvswitch? It will not let me move them without unbinding the vmkernel ports
View ArticleRe: vCloud Director Competition
Hi Andreas, Thanks for the info. I think we would also have inclination towards vCD but may evaluate a few options for the Orchestration piece as there is a lot of competition there and some may bring...
View ArticleRe: Kickstart Troubleshooting - Static IP - ESXi 5
When you pass those parameters in via the isolinux.cfg file, they end up in /var/log/esxi_install.log as unknown parameters - actual error is "Weasel skipped boot command line token". But you can...
View ArticleMove Vcenter Protect to another server and activation
Hi, I have moved the Vcenter Protect SQL database to another server and that is working fine. I now want to move the applicationto another server as I am trying to upgrade our infrastructure to Server...
View ArticleRe: Using the vSphere API to Register a vSphere Client Plugin with VCenter...
Here are some answers in the same order:1) You can use any user credential that has the vCenter privileges to access the Extension Manager. If you don't catch any error running that program then it...
View ArticleRe: deleted virtual hard disk and the files .vmdk how I can recover that.
This looks kind of unusual, there are a lot of snapshots (00000x files) but no base virtual disk files in the VM's folder!?Please compress/zip the vmware*.log files, the .vmx file, the .vmsd file as...
View ArticleRe: Move Vcenter Protect to another server and activation
Copying the patches should not be a problem but there will be a lot of old patches that you may not ever need again. You should be able to just activate the product with your current license. If you...
View ArticleRe: Unity issue with the Alt Gr + combo
Hello, could you solve the problem with the alt gr key?I have the same problem with ubuntu 10.04 and also with ubuntu 12.04 as guest.The host is like yours. Ernie
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Re: vMA, vifs and cron
Hi MKguy, Thank you for your answer. My syntax command after what you've suggested is :vifs --server xxx --username xxx --password xxx -g "[datastore1] log/ghettoVCB-backup.log" /tmp/backup.log Works...
View ArticleRe: vSphere Web Client: Identity Source ADS failed
This is not the right forum for SSO API questions. We only answer to vSphere Web Client SDK questions here.
View ArticleRe: VMPlayer: WinXP 32bit RealTek PCIe GBE drivers help
I was able to load this Virtual Machine (WinXP) on an intel board. I had to load the drivers for the intel network card on the winxp using the winxp driver and worked. How else would I be able to get...
View ArticleRe: Replacing Current Switches and General Config
This looks to me like it achieves the segregation you are targeting.
View ArticleRe: Can not register VDP to vcenter
This SSO bullsh1t just needs to go. Everyone that I've talked to that has upgraded to 5.1 is still authenticating against AD. No one gives a sh!t!!!!! Just make it simple. I cant stand it when...
View ArticleRe: VMWare Tools causing freeze on Linux guest
Creating a new/empty home directory for my user on Centos 6.4 seems to have fixed it. I had an empty .bashrc file, so I can only guess there was something in the thousands of dot files that gnome uses...
View ArticleDisk I/O Estimated Capacity for VM way off
So found this interesting today, noticed that one of my VM's the Disk I/O Estimated Capacity is way off of what is even remotely possible. What would cause something like this?
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