Re: vCenter 4.1 database update to vCenter 5.1?
Not sure I understand the ask here. Do you mean would VC work if you restored a 4.x database on a 5.x working VC's DB? If that's a literal restore - no it will not work! However, if you want to create...
View ArticleRe: Guest Customization Fails
I had already installed version 8.6.10 of VMware Tools from the vCD interface. This appears to be the latest as the link associated with the KB you provided points to 8.6.5.
View ArticleRe: vCenter Database retention Policy when does it take effect
Hi Stan, The DB retention policy will not help as the DB would be purged when the next roll up jobs and purge scripts are configured to run. You could try a manual purge of data beyond a certain...
View ArticleRe: Shut down esxi guests without vmware-tools installed
jrmunday, Thank you for the reply. I just tried the esxcli vm process kill -t soft -w WORLDID command on a test VM and it killed the process without communicating to the guest. All of the processes...
View ArticleRe: Unable to Access server
To regain immediate access, just walk up to the console of the ESXi host (if accessible) or take an ILO/DRAC/KVM and on the console hit F2 That should enable you to log in and change the network...
View ArticleRe: Issue with Remove-VDSwitchVMHost
Got it working now! Here is the working code: $vmhost = "myhostname"$vDSName = "myvdsname"$vmhostid = (get-vmhost $vmhost).extensiondata.Moref.value$vDS = (Get-VDSwitch $vDSName)$vDSView = Get-View -Id...
View ArticleRe: Sabotage ? - who can write into the first 1500 Mb of a VMFS-volume ?
Sounds like windows "auto mount" feature to be honest! http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1010092...
View ArticleRe: vCenter server error lookup service
But me i have a disk with 79G , how can i reduse %temp%files thanks
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Re: Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller Cards
For anyone interested, these are the results for a single worker thread with the above PERC configuration;
View ArticleRe: vCenter Database retention Policy when does it take effect
thanks A, how often does vcenter run the purge scripts? is it an automatic process or configurable? i can run the manual purge as well.
View ArticleRe: Force MTU for VMs vNic from Esxi
I really fail to see the point you're trying to make here. The hypervisor and vSwitch merely provide layer 2 forwarding logic. It's at the discretion of the endpoint (read: the guest OS networking...
View ArticleRe: vCenter Database retention Policy when does it take effect
Hey Stan, Purge scripts are set to run once a year, once a month, once a week and once a day as there are four procedures that run both to collect and purge data. You can manually run the purge by just...
View ArticleRe: Why does the snapshot process hang my VM's
Hi I also use Veeam Backup 6.5 specifically and we experience very similiar issues with something classed as a Highly Transactional SQL Server (6CPU,48GB RAM, 2008R2 Enterprise)I notice during the...
View ArticleRe: vCenter server error lookup service
%temp% by default would be the C:\ drive - local temp for the account you are logged in with. C:\ drive just shows about 100 MB free You might have to free up about 1 GB space from your C:\ drive and...
View ArticleRe: Install a Custom SSL Certificate for Log Insight
Hi Eric, Can you send us (zhub@vmware.com) your PEM file if possible? What's your domain name when getting your certificate? Thanks, Bo
View ArticleSSO Database Users
Hey all, Quick question! I've forgot the passwords for my RSA_DBA and RSA_USER users for SQL. Any way to figure them out or is there a way to reset them? Thanks for any input!
View ArticleRe: Installing SSO second node in Multisite hangup
On both SSO machines run the following in elevated command prompt netsh advfirewall set allp state off Hit enter Then try again - this time with the IP address of the primary SSO and check Another...
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