Re: Fault tolerance and high %VMWAIT value
%RDY less than 4 generally means no noticeable CPU contention so we can rule that out. Issue could possibly be disk IO / disk latancy, can you send over a screenshot of that metric for this host form...
View ArticleRe: HELP - Content Library items are showing up as unknown
Hoping to find out if anyone can help with this. I've restarted my vCenter and vCenter PSC appliances and they are still showing as unknown. I don't know what to do next. Thanks!
View ArticleRe: vcenter SSO - AD LDAP login problems
I can understand the hang / delay while the VC tried to contact the primary DC. When this time sout ,it's going to try the other. What I don't understand is why the secondary is not working in your...
View ArticleFinding the last modified date for Orphaned vmdk file
Hi All, I am planning to delete the Orphaned/Zombie file and after looking through the vSphere platform, it has come to light that there are THOUSANDS (well over 10,000) of orphaned VMDK files, looks...
View ArticleRe: Connect and retrieve data from vsphere web services from the web client
If you don't want to use the Data Service API provided by the client SDK you can use the vSphere WSSDK API available with vim25.jar. See the vsphere-wssdk sample for code using that API.(I don't know...
View ArticleRe: SCCM VCM overlap
Compliance and reporting. VCM reporting is far superior to any other product.
View ArticleRe: VM Auto startup/shutdown
Yes it will work in a Cluster where HA is disabled. Note: The Virtual Machine Startup and Shutdown (automatic startup) feature is disabled for all virtual machines residing on hosts that are in (or...
View ArticleRe: Unable to update vm tools with UpgradeTools_Task
Thanks Guru That is what I am looking but once step pending after execution setup.exe process is running inside guest but tools are not updating.Tried with setup64.exe also but no luck. Is this...
View ArticleRe: Finding the last modified date for Orphaned vmdk file
Depends a bit on how you created your list of orphaned VMDK.The SearchDatastoreSubFolders method allows to specify that the Modification property is returned.The Datastore Provider also returns a...
View ArticleSQL Reporting Services
I have an audit request to provide a patch report that contains the installation date of each patch. None of the default reports provide this information. I would like to edit the "Windows Patch...
View ArticleRe: Unable to update vm tools with UpgradeTools_Task
It could be a quote thing, I double some quotes in my sample script to have them appear in the resulting string.Isn't the vmware.log of the VM showing what command was actually transmitted?Another...
View ArticleRe: Conversion failed when trying to convert local machine
OK, looks like I'm not going to get any help here! I did some more looking around and found comments that if the failure happens after 96%, then the VHD has actually been created, but the settings...
View ArticleRe: New to VCenter Converter
If the customer has Linux or MAC and want to run a VM on that OS with your software then I would suggest VMware Workstation / VMware Fusion. Then install a Windows OS on top of that and then install...
View ArticleVM Mac Address Shows Up on physical vMotion Switch Port
Our Network group monitors MAC addresses that show up on their physical switch ports and if they see a MAC address that they don't have registered to that physical port in their database, they generate...
View ArticleRe: Unable to update vm tools with UpgradeTools_Task
ok.ill give a try and get back to you.Thanks Guru for your kind support.
View ArticleRe: Finding the last modified date for Orphaned vmdk file
Thanks LucD for your prompt response. We are using RV Tools for generating the Zombie/Orphaned file report. We want to validate with timestamp logs for deleting the orphaned file. We will copy the...
View ArticleRe: Edge Gateway problem
i can ping any thing in internal networkthe problem is the external network sometimest i can pingand after 5 mn the ping fails
View ArticleRe: Edge Gateway problem
i can ping hosts in the vslanthe problem is the external network
View ArticleRe: How to modify code to send results to seperate cells for csv export
Hi Kunai, Thanks for your response but when I tired to export the data to a csv file I get the following message"An empty pipe element is not allowed" Do I tried adding the Select-Object...
View ArticleRe: vCenter 6: Lookup Service MOB Repeatedly Prompts For Credentials
I figured out the problem, and documented the findings in my blog post here: Troubleshooting Expired PSC Certificates with vSphere 6 | Virtually Understood
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