Re: I'm seeing cpu freezes at random in most of my VMs ESX4.0.0
Is HT Enabled on your hosts too?
View ArticleRe: VM can only communicate with VMs on same hosts
Yup...other VMs on the same vswitch communicate fine with VMs sitting on the DV switch. It has been a puzzler to me. Was thinking of creating a new NIC and setting that up to see if that would fix...
View ArticleRe: ESX Hosts PSOD (Unable to find correlating events via Log Insight)
Thank you for the excellent suggestions. I did confirm that my time range was not a limiting factor (searches were for 'All Time') and we had previously cycled the syslog process locally via 'esxcli...
View ArticleRe: Initiate Orchestrator workflow via REST/Post with JSON body
Burke,It looks like there only about 3 posts on the whole web about using JSON with the REST interface.Nor can i find any documentation on it. I can't understand why the support seems to be so poor as...
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Re: vCenter DR Situation!
Thanks for the reply.It sounds like the 'resignature' option is the one I would use because I would expect to get SAN 1 back by 'hook or crook', I just need to test this out somehow.I am going to...
View ArticleRe: esxi 5.1 nested configuration.
You should be able to run Nested ESXi on this host, but as regards to performance that will very much depend upon what you are attempting to do.
View ArticleAutomatically delete VMs for VDI pool after period of time
We use Vmware View 5.0 but soon will upgrade to 5.2 and need functionality to automatically delete all VMs from selected pool after some period of time. We want to provision VDI for a project which...
View Articlehow to virtualize a old installed disk
Hello I use vmware Workstation 9, recently i have installed win8 to a new disk on my PC, andI haveto keep the old installed diskwithwin7. Now i want virtualizing my old win7 Installation from old disk...
View ArticleRe: Error 31: A device attached to the system is not functioning, Windows 7...
The fix is: Shut down Workstation.Open the registry (Start > Run > regedit).Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\hcmon\.Create a new key called Parameters.In...
View ArticleRe: how to virtualize a old installed disk
put your old windows 7 disk back in , connect your win8 disk as slave, boot your win7 then install VMware standalone convertor . convert your machine and save it as VMDK file on win8 disk . boot from...
View ArticleRe: VMWare vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 5) Issue
ESXi actually doesn't do anything else like other operating system. It reads the available blocks/size from the disk.What size do you see when you boot the system with a LiveCD like gparted? André
View ArticleRe: all VDI's locked after reboot
Hey Apostolis, Thankfully it looks like the error is telling us exactly what's happening (seems rare we get that luxury haha) but the question is why can't you get a lock on it (presumably something...
View ArticleCan not login to Orchestrator
ESXi 5.1.0, 1117900vCenter Server 5.1.0, 1123961Standard Finally, vCenter Server and Web Client are working well and I am getting comfortable using it. I now want to get Orchestrator setup and I am...
View ArticleRe: all VDI's locked after reboot
Are all the datastores mapped ? anything changed with mapping ?If they are then Like Brandit said recomposing should sort it . Im not sure if any user data is lost upon refreshing linked clones
View ArticleRe: VMWare vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 5) Issue
146GB, even my boot process detects all the drive as 146GB, but VMWare install sees that as 136GB thanks
View ArticleHelp with Set-VMGuestNetworkInterface and Get-VMGuestNetworkInterface
Hi all, I'm trying to write powercli scripts to mass change VM IP addresses and hostnames. The hostnames I have no clue how to tackle, but I figured I could use Set-VMGuestNetworkInterface and...
View ArticleRe: Vcenter vSphere Web Client
Per sicurezza ho creato uno snapshot del VM Vcenter, sto installando tutto!! speriamo bene!! ;-)
View ArticleRe: vSphere 4.1 (ESX) to 5.1 (ESXi) using New Hardware
Everything is fine except the fact that cluster controls the EVC features, but once the hosts are running on EVC , then its the VM that emulates the concerned EVC feature...
View ArticleRe: Initiate Orchestrator workflow via REST/Post with JSON body
In 5.1.1 :If following header is provided "Accept: application/json" - Returns JSON response as it was in 5.1 GA. This format is deprecated and will not be supported in newer version of VCO. "Accept:...
View ArticleRe: Assign IP address to VM
If you have VMware Tools installed on the VM and are on vSphere 5.0 or later, you can use the GuestOperations object in the API to run scripts and programs in the GuestOS without network connectivity:...
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