Re: Storage for 22 virtual machines
performance is not only about storage but mostly on a very good configuration between esxi and the storage.when creating luns vols raids consider to follow best practices of each vendor on how to...
View ArticleProblem with installation via jumpstart
Hi, I have a problem with jumpstart installations of VMWare instances. When I start an installation via jumpstart, installation starts and everything looks fine, but after a while the installtion...
View ArticleRe: An annoying 0xc0000005 error
Welcome to the Community, the error number points to an Access Violation which could be either a file system or registry issue!? Can you confirm you have read/write access to the folders which contain...
View ArticleRe: vCenter Appliance 5.1 Active Directory no longer functioning
I am currently out of the office at customer sites and will return on Jan 4th. I will be checking email but please expect a delay in my response. Thank you Brandon Schaffer
View ArticleRe: server installations
Welcome to the Community, Sorry I don't understand what you are specifically asking for. Can you please clarify the question and/or add some details? Andre PS: Discussion moved from 10. Installation...
View ArticleRe: Copy-DatastoreItem vmdk
I think I have a solution.I started the copy process with "*. *" and looked at what happens to the DataStore.The disk has been created there with "VM_test-flat.vmdk" and after the copy in...
View ArticleRe: new datastore vmdk file too large
Welcome to the Community, to me this looks like you created the VMs with thick provisioned virtual disks with a size of ~100GB on these datastores!?What one usually does is to create multiple VM's on a...
View ArticleRe: esxi 5.1 snmp error
Hi Marek.ZIssue not resolved yetYour issue will be a full diskLog on to the Host navigate to /var/ spool/snmp dirdelete the files in there For some reason this dir fills up when the snmp does not work
View ArticleRe: The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system.
Welcome to the Community, please take a look at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2000542 to see whether this helps resolving the issue. André
View Articlelisting non-stateless VIBs in an imageprofile
I have honestly never felt so helpless... I have an image profile, it has non stateless VIBs in it, I want to take them out of it... can I fiure out how to list them??? no. If anyone could please tell...
View ArticleRe: VMware view checkout client - Error
VMware now published a KB-article: vCenter Server user privileges missing in the VMware View Installation document are required for certain View features.http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2042161
View ArticlevCenter thin provisioning not so thin?
Hi, We're having some troubles with the disk setup of our vCenter. This is the situation: we're running 12 Ubuntu virtual machines with thin provisioned 300GB disks on a vCenter cluster with a total...
View ArticleRe: How to create Scheduled Task in VC with PowerShell
Sure, try something like this $si=get-viewServiceInstance$scheduledTaskManager=Get-View$si.Content.ScheduledTaskManagerGet-View$scheduledTaskManager.ScheduledTask|where...
View ArticleRe: Copy-DatastoreItem vmdk
I didn't notice that in your script. A VMDK file is actually 2 files (at least), there is the VMDK file itself, which is a type of header file.It contains information about the vDisk. In fact you can...
View ArticleRe: Does the vCenter in the Essentials kit offer cloning/linked cloning and...
Afaik cloning and creating templates is available in all paid editions. The options are only available when connected to vCenter Server (rather than to a host directly). See e.g...
View ArticleRe: vCenter thin provisioning not so thin?
Welcome to the Community, thin provisioned .vmdk files can be compared with regular Linux sparse files. Basically there are NULL pointers for each block, but as soon as data is written (i.e. the guest...
View ArticleRe: Vmware 5.0 , loss connection
if the NIC only one port, and unicast flood protection,what can we do
View ArticleiSCSI in ESXi 5.0 performance poor, MS iSCSI initiator fast
Hi all, I suppose i'm not the only one posting performance issues. I really did try a search, but couldn't find anything usefull. So, here it goes. I have a ESXi 5.0 box configured with a software...
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Re: Installation of VMware Tools.
Hi,you can install vmware tools after guest operating system. Normaly, installing the vmware tools is easy process. I really don't like use the "easy install" feature. Check this vmware's KB abount...
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