Re: Unexplainable disk space growth
Hi Carl, PMJI,Carl Knerr wrote: I had read previously was that the monolithic file offered better performance. Is that not the case in your experience?Not really no. Sure there might be a very marginal...
View ArticleRe: VM Deployment with customization, parallel
No logs. I get zero errors in output as that script stands, if I comment out the remove component, and check the custspec it creates for each one, the parameters are correct, nothing ever gets passed...
View ArticleRe: 5.0 to 5.1 via iso
Well that was simple... I was thinking this was going to be difficult..
View ArticleRe: VM Deployment with customization, parallel
I mean these logs inside the guestc:\windows\temp\vmware-imc\*c:\windows\setup-act.logc:\windows\setup-err.logc:\windows\debug\*The customization will start when the VM is powered on, that's the...
View ArticleRe: Would someone please let me know where I can get access to the VCenter...
If you are still evaluating the product and need some more time, contact your VMware partner or a VMware sales representative and ask them for time limited evaluation licenses which you can apply to...
View ArticleCorrupted esxupdate.conf file, ESXi 4.0, please help.
I just got Update Manager installed in my vCenter 5.1 install. I have a few 5.0 esxi and a single esxi 4.0. I was trying to stage updates to the 4.0 host, but the small 500MB /var/tmp/cache (on /...
View ArticleGuest OS Quiescing - is Grayed out
Hi All, I am trying to enable vSphere Replication (VR) on windows VM ( server 2012), everything works fine but Guest OS Quiescing is grayed out. Vcenter and VR in Base and DR is version 5.1.1. Any...
View ArticleRe: VM Deployment with customization, parallel
Luc, how can I get my output to show in HTML or proper formatting? I tried copying as HTML but it doesn't seem to work like it used to
View ArticleCan I share a datastore between vcenter and a non-vcenter ESXI host?
Is it dangerous to grant a "free edition" licensed ESXI host access to an iSCSI LUN that is used by a VCENTER environment, if the ESXI versions match? Can the free edition store and run virtual...
View ArticleVirgo Server Error
Hello, So I'm not sure why I'm getting these errors when my Virgo Server starts running. Am I missing some files? I never had this issue yesterday....
View ArticleRe: Poor performance compared to desktop with VMware View 5.2
Atlantis is a good product.. Here is a nice CPU ready cheat sheetCPU Ready Revisted - Quick Reference Charts - VMtoday
View ArticleRe: VM Deployment with customization, parallel
See the updated procedure in Some ways to enter PowerCLI code under the new forum SW PS: I removed that answer with the long HTML line
View ArticleStore pagefile on separate disk
I suppose this is more of a general Windows question than specific to Workstation, but have a question regarding the Windows pagefile. We have a "master" Workstation Windows image that we pass out to...
View ArticleRe: Can I share a datastore between vcenter and a non-vcenter ESXI host?
That will work. You may want to make sure though that vCenter Server and the free host do not try to access the same VMs simultaneously (although the file locking should avoid issues). Keep in mind...
View ArticleRe: mpt2sas messages in /var/log/vmkernel.log?
For others that may have this issue, evidently the errors were cosmetic and were resolved by installing the latest "HP ESXi Offline Bundle for VMware ESXi 5.x"
View ArticleRe: VMware Thinapp still exists in the Program Files after unassigning/removing.
Lakhman, after testing on different VDI I've found it's only a folder and the folder doesn't contain it's contents. So, I've deleted the folder. One thing more, after removing the thinapp I had to...
View Articlevm template clone operation -maximum
is There a limit on how many vms can be cloned from a template simutaneously? I tried doing a clone from powercli and looks like i can only do 8 at a time? how do I force more vm cloning?
View ArticleBest way to move VMs between two clusters: HP and UCS
Hello,We have to move VMs from the UCSChassis cluster: 6 ESXi hosts into an HPChassis Cluster. I am just wondering how to do it with the minimum downtime. Thanks for your help,
View ArticleRe: Listing host information
Ah, I misunderstood. The following line should be added:@{N="DNS suffixes";E={[string]::Join(",", ($esxcli.network.ip.dns.search.list() | %{$_.DNSSearchDomains}))}} So overall, it will be: $esxi =...
View ArticleRe: Adding ESXi 5.1 to vCenter buy FQDN rather than IP
Here are the test of both ESXi and vCenter resolutions.
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