Re: syslogs and logs in vsphere 5.1
Syslog is not the log file, it's the tool to transfer different logs. You can include other logs if you want as explained in the virtuallyGhetto link I provided. For log locations take a look at the KB...
View ArticleRe: VMWare vcenter server appliance issues
I saw some post in the community with the title: Defect report <...>.. maybe you should do the same? eg: Defect Report: SSO Users cannot enter a hyphen in their email domain RegardsGirish
View ArticleVCAP-CIA Wait Time
I sat the VCAP-CIA exam on July 12th and still don't know if I passed or not. Is this to be expected? The exam report said I should expect a Pass/Fail within 10 business days. I'm interested in hearing...
View ArticleCannot power on VM.
Hi All, Recently I always encounter the issue that one or several VMs cannot be powered on after deployment. In the VMWare.log it will contains the following error message: VMWare.logAug 12...
View ArticleReducing the amount of cores per VM
Hello all, I recently got admin rights to a small vSphere 5 environment (2 physical hosts, ~25 VMs).The people who set it up didn't have the correct knowledge about CPU core scheduling on the physical...
View ArticleRe: SSO Install Error 29168
Hi,I have created SSO5.1Update01a test bed with Windows 2008R2 and MSSQL 2008R2 and its working perfectly fine. Also SSO got latest version 5.1Update01b. Some of the best practices are belowWhen...
View ArticleRe: Cannot power on VM.
Welcome to the Community, How did you deploy the VMs. The entries look kind of weird, i.e. multiple delta.vmdk files instead of a flat.vmdk file!? Please compress/zip the VM's vmware.log file as well...
View ArticleRe: Reducing the amount of cores per VM
If the usage is less you can reduce the vCPU, but I would recommend to keep the minimum Operating system recommendation to do their operation well.You may have to look for downtime as well, most of...
View ArticleRe: Reducing the amount of cores per VM
Welcome to the Community, not sure about Ubuntu, but for Windows 2008 and newer you should be able to reduce the vCPU count without issues, since the HAL is the same for Uniprocessor an Multiprocessor...
View ArticleRe: Everytime my host network access changes, Fusion restarts the NAT guest...
Imagine a typical home network setup like this: Laptop -- Wireless NAT Router -- Cable ModemNetworked Printer --^Based on your setup, when you at home, select Bridged mode for the VM, the VM...
View ArticleRegarding upgrade of license keys from Essentials plus 4.1 to Essentials plus...
Hi, We are running Essential plus with 2 hosts and one instance of vcenter server it is version 4.1. We have an active SnS contract so from what i understand we can do the upgrade for free. I am just...
View ArticleRe: Cannot power on VM.
Hi André, Thanks a lot for your response. I attached the log here. Travis
View ArticleRe: Regarding upgrade of license keys from Essentials plus 4.1 to Essentials...
From a technical point of view, it dosen't matter when you upgrade the keys (the current keys will continue to work). It's more the EULA which dictates it. Basically you have to ensure that you don't...
View ArticleESXi 4.0 Server Crashed
Hi, Today my one ESXi 4.0 server got crashed due to iSCSI drive problem. After some 2 hours i managed to get it up and running but one of the datastore got corrupted as its not showing any data there....
View ArticleRe: Cannot power on VM.
According to the log files you are deploying a VM with a delta (snapshot) disks, which has another 6 links (snapshots in the chain)!? To me this doesn't look like it is really intended to be this way....
View ArticleHow to recover VMFS volume after a RAID controller failure
Dear community, I have a very critical issue regarding my ESXi installation and VMFS datastore.Here is the story:ESXi 5.0 (free) installed on IBM 3650 with adaptec 8k RAID controller and 6xHDD (1 was...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 4.0 Server Crashed
Welcome to the Community, I assume you don't have an active support agreement with VMware!? Do you have a backup?Please run fdisk -lu from the command line and post the output to see how the current...
View Articlevmnic Status
Hi, I need one powercli script to check if vmnics connected to a distributed switch is down or linkspeed in less than 1000 mb. Pls help.
View Articleobserved IP ranges seen in the networking settings.
Hi Folks,I am not really a VMware guys but more into networking. We keep getting these queries from the VMware folks about the observed IP ranges in the network showing wrong entries. example if the...
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