Re: Inside virtual machine determine whether it is ESX or Workstation
Hi Again, I have a new problem. Is there a way to read uuid.location information inside virtual machine? Thanks in advance
View ArticleRe: Confused about ESXi 5.1 VM Memory Usage
I only have the essential plus license so I can't really use FT. Where do I adjust the memory reserve settings?
View ArticleRe: Powercli, change pathing: RDMS to Fixed and VMFS to Round Robin
You don't really need to explicitly set your VMFS volumes to round robin, you can change the default PSP for your array type then reboot the host and everything will be set to round robin by default...
View ArticleManagement Network ESX5i Vsphere 5 and port group load balancing.
http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/04/09/kens-view-on-service-console-redundancy-and-my-take/ Can anyone advise please on above setup on the latest version of Vmware 5.1 is is best still to seperate the...
View ArticleRe: Upgrade a Flexiable Nic to VMXNET 3
@MartinAmaro This is possibly, the most dangerous process I have attempted in my IT experience. Yes the script works, but upon VM migration, or restart, the MAC ADDRESS WILL CHANGE. This creates a...
View ArticleRe: Removing VMNIC from vSwitch
I don't think its so much a mismatch, I don't think you have the redundancy due to your VLAN's maybe. Simplest thing to do is draw it out on paper from Physical Network Switch to vmNIC's to vSwitch to...
View ArticleIssue with Data Object - GuestNicInfo
Hello everybody, I am writing a script collecting data about virtual machines running our 32 ESXi 5.1 hosts. About 500 VMs are concerned. I have an issue with about 20 VMs when I access GuestNicInfo...
View ArticleRe: Failed to load ThinApp Management support interface
Do you have more than one connection server? Have you tried setting up a different reposiotory to see if that would work?
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Re: Using Powercli I having trouble modifying vm hardware and nic portgroup...
Ok i made the change, not sure if it is right, when i run the script it proceeds to clone the vm but then prompts me if I want to configure parameters on testserver01, if i hit Y it gives an error(vm...
View ArticleRe: Bluetooth not working on ESXi 4
It might be possible, the ESXi has taken control of the device as USB. Check out lsusb in your esx server. Also check on the status of the usb arbitrator in the server.
View ArticleRe: Converting a virtual machine (Windows 2003) fails
I'm confused, why are you trying to "convert" the machine if its already a VM.The VM will run fine in either the 4.x or 5.x ESXi environment.A simple migration is all that is needed not a conversion.
View ArticleRe: I need a script to log into guest OS desktop, similar to option in guest...
the error is this: Invoke-VMScript : 7/8/2013 10:12:19 AM Invoke-VMScript Failed to authenticate with the guest operating system using the supplied credentials.At...
View ArticleRe: Converting a virtual machine (Windows 2003) fails
Perhaps, the 4.1 cluster does not have access to the 5.1 Datastores or vice-versa.
View ArticleRe: Converting a virtual machine (Windows 2003) fails
Have you cleaned but the previous convert. make sure that the Agent is not running on that guest. you may have to do a manual uninstall of the Agent from the Guest machine, then try again. aslo are...
View ArticleChange the names that appear for my ESX servers
I have the Virtual Storage Appliance set up and running (VSA)I have one vCenter Server (running on Win2k8r2 and full MS SQL)I have two ESXi 5.0 hostsI have 2 VMs runningWhen I initially set up the VSA...
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Re: On VM opening : "Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to" or...
I'll answer myself to my problem ! Done a lot of search to find it out. In summary : don't mess with CPU Affinity... or keep this in mind ! Detailled answer :I have installed 6 months ago, a small...
View ArticleRe: Setting Path Policy on Only Single Datastore
I have not had to do a reboot. I've changed many of our datastores to RR from the default VMware (Fixed) policy. I have seen I/O go active on all paths without a reboot.Also you dont need to do this...
View ArticleRe: Does vSphere 5.1 still need a DNS server ?
Even thought the requirement for DNS has been removed from HA, there are plenty of other functions that work better with it. SSO for a start, AD integration, As VMRoyal says, it is in the Best...
View ArticleRe: Failed to load ThinApp Management support interface
We have only one connection server. It will be really hard for me to set up another repository - it is production environment and I will need RFC, etc
View ArticleRe: Lost access to volume
¿¿Como puedo hacerle un down a la HBA por CLI?? Ahora se me queda casi sin acceso por vsphere client.
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