Re: Terminate Idle VI Client Sessions with PowerCLI Script
Hi LucD Much appreciate your assistance. Prior to posting my last post I did make sure that my session was not idle, and it never was showing as idle. Well not in VI client anyway. However, I've...
View ArticleRe: N1K or DVS info on a ESXi Host
Nice one LucD! I tested this on a wide variety of 1000v deployments (vCenter 5.0 and 5.1, and ESXi hosts at 4.1 and 5.1). Works perfectly.
View Articlecannot connect to vcenter
When I open up powercli, I cannot connect to the vcenter. It keeps coming back with a login box and when i enter my domain credentials, it says invalid username or password. username is valis and not...
View ArticleRe: Datastore size is smaller than virtual disk
Hi, First, ESXi does not support beyond 2Tb. For having only 730GB of datastore, it could be because of block size you are using. RegardsMohammed
View ArticleRe: vMotion between 2 hosts
You can use the CPU Identification Utility to check what is different between the hosts: http://download3.vmware.com/software/vi/VMware-CPU-Compatibility-e.x.p-160658.zip Boot each physical host with...
View ArticleRe: QueryChangedDiskAreas crashes for one VM
Ok I tried that. Still the same result. If you want to investigate this, I could send you the vm. It's just 75MB FreeDos Installation. It also worked a week ago, and at some Point, this particular vm...
View ArticleRe: Hardware for 3 VM's Help me please.
Sorry me again. I am looking at this server and was hoping you could let me know if it will work or not before I purchase. ( no I am not buying form this site, its just for reference)...
View ArticleRe: Raw to VMDK
If I understand ou correctly the block level backup is done in the guest file system itself (i.e. not on the Hypervisor level)!?If you convert the RDM into a virtual disk using e.g. vmkfstools the...
View ArticleRe: Export Compliance Reports
What would be the best way to put that in? Just input before the "Get-Compliance" line?
View ArticleRe: Esxi5 Free version install Nic Issues?
Thanks again ap..:) just out of curiosity if I am going to put server 2008r2 as one of my vm on both host and make one the main dc and the other secondary dc and printers server. and migrate from my...
View ArticleRe: More IDE Drives than standard bios has (0:0 0:1 - 1:0 1:1) ?
... will need a Bus Logic driver not included in the package so I won't bother since VMware hasn't bothered.The driver may not included in the Windows XP installation image/CD by MS, but VMware...
View ArticleRe: Appear to have poor storage performance. Best test(s) to confirm?
No - of course not.
View ArticleRe: Autocad 2008 and Fusion 5
THe vmtools yes. Not really sure how to upgrade the hardware drivers. Is that not handled by upgrading the vm tools?
View ArticleLDAP Import in vApp Custom-UI
We are having major issues get ldap with ssl to work with the 5.7 vApp. It appears we're importing the root CA successfully, but we're still getting handshake error when we try to import users with...
View ArticleRe: Appear to have poor storage performance. Best test(s) to confirm?
When I originally wrote my reply, the user hadn't specified that he was on a 1GbE network. We got 10GB/s to a single host, running 4 VMs.
View ArticleRe: Best Configuration for 4 x 1Gb Physical NICs
I would suggest some changes... - NFS are good. You need redundancy for NFS as it is your most important piece of the infrastructure.- I would move vMotion the the vSwitch2, with NFS, and place vmnic1...
View ArticleRe: Export Compliance Reports
No, I wouldn't do that in the same pipeline construct, it would break it since it doesn't do a Passthru of the HostSystem objects.Make a separate one before the one with Get-Compliance. ...$esx =...
View ArticleRe: Esxi5 Free version install Nic Issues?
VMware Converter is primarily used to convert whole systems. If you have the data on the "old" DC, then I'd consider to use a tool like robocopy to migrate the data and create the shares manually....
View ArticleRe: VixDiskLib_PrepareForAccess always returns 1 or 20
Hmm ok, so now I do ManagedObjectReference ^ vmmor = svcutil->GetDecendentMoRef(nullptr, "VirtualMachine", vmname); And afterwards vmmor->Value contains the moref. Does vmxSpec string always have...
View ArticleRe: vCAC Plugin for vCO - retrieve custom properties
Hi Maxim, try the "getPropertiesFromVirtualMachine" action from the vCAC extensibility package mentioned above (supply the vCAC host and vCAC VM as inputs): var vmCustomProps =...
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