ESXi 5.1 EVAL version, ATS support and SCSI-2 reservation
Hi,I have ESXi 5.1 EVAL version installed and connected to iSCSI storage. Storage claims to support ATS. When I try to create DataStore on this iSCSI LUN from logs I do see that ESXi server does issue...
View ArticleEncryption?
We have many Clients that are in the Medical or Financial fields, and need to have encryption on their patient / client data according to HIPAA regulations. Each Client is setup a little different -...
View ArticleRe: Best Practise for 25 drives Raid in a HP ProLiant DL385 Gen8
Am I correct in the reading that you have ONE host server? Enterprise plus is a lot of licensing costs for features you can't use with one server. RAID 5 vs RAID10 is always a trade off involving "good...
View ArticleRe: Error when access to web config vCloud Director
Same thing happened to me, this was DNS related. Had my hostname on the vcd cell as "servername1.domain" but the DNS record was "servername.domain"
View ArticleRe: Error when access to web config vCloud Director
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View ArticleRe: VMkernel traffic
The books you mentioned are based on vSphere 5.0 and vSphere Replication has been introduced with vSphere 5.1. What VMkernel traffic is used for is:ManagementvMotionFault TolerancevSphere...
View ArticleRunning a VMware Player with Server Via NAT
Is it possible to run a VMware Player with a server (such as Ubuntu) using NAT? I basically want to use the host machine's IP address to send and receive data to and from the VM
View ArticleRe: Windows 2008 can not be booted in vmplayer 5
Windows 2008 is installed under C:\Virtual Machines\windows server 2008 R2 x64 Under this directory, there is a file named "Windows Server 2008 R2 x64.vmdk". In this file, I can find:...
View ArticleRe: Encryption?
ESXi doesn't do any form of host level encryption, and you can't use solutions like Bitlocker in a VM (using the proper TPM anyway). Some of these regulations don't make a lot of sense - I've seen web...
View ArticleSSL Cert
i'm want to put an SSL cert on the gateway, however i can't seem to find the generate CSR, so i can upload it to a SSL cert vendor. i read the documentation and was unable to find where i can generate...
View ArticleRe: No internet connection on Guest OS
Thanks for your help though. I will continue to investigate my problem
View ArticleVmxnet3 ghost nic why vmupgradehelper cant be used successfully
I Have 70 vm's that have the vmxnet3 nic. Every time a clone or disaster recovery copy occurs windows 2008r2 redects the nic and the original is ghosted all ip info is lost. I have found the post sp1...
View ArticleRe: vmmark2.5 Error log "help"
The good news is, all your mailserver workloads appear to be functioning correctly now. The bad_data error occurs because the times in your WRF files are not all synchronized. As you noted, the...
View ArticleRe: Configurator URL: HTTP Status 404 -
Can you please run the following command in configurator-va as root user?hznAdminTool listvms
View ArticleTroubles with updating Patches and Updates??
I am using this article to update the esxi 5.1 host I just installed VMware KB: Installing patches on an ESXi 5.x host from the command line In line 6 I type the commands cd...
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Some basic esxi questions (how to's)
Hi, I've just installed esxi 5.1 trial. I have a few questions: 1) One of my NICs is reported as "Down" under speed. Is this an error with the hardware? See screenshot below: 2) I can configure DNS...
View ArticleRe: vCO Web View Autologin
HAve you gone into vCO Configuration web interface and specified the webview auto logon credential? brief answer via iPhone since I'm on PTO in Rio De Janeiro... Going from memory in my note above.
View ArticleRe: Best Practise for separating VMs from each other
No question about it - different customers shouldn't be on the same VLAN. Am I correct in the understanding that you are basically operating a hosting environment and hosting your customer's servers?...
View ArticleRe: Some basic esxi questions (how to's)
1: Yes, this would indicate there's no link on vmnic1. Is there a physical link light?2: Per-nic DNS servers doesn't make a lot of networking sense. Which DNS server will it use for a certain lookup?...
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