Re: Force vSphere Replication to a Specific Network Adapter
Reply 3 by Neilynz should work. It requries you to configure two VLANs, and use static routing to force the replication traffic to use one interface only.You can give it a try. The new 5.1 web client...
View ArticleRe: Microsoft Word and Mathtype - an impossible marriage?
Dear kmgp,thanks for your suggestions. I will try them shortly. In these weeks I almost gave up to it. But I will give it a go again: I never tried the settings you saggest. So you Thinapped MS Word...
View ArticleRe: When deploying a new VM from template, storage DRS doesn't clone the .vmdk
Thanks Rubeck, I hadn't thought about the edit virtual hardware.... however I have been using that feature on and off for years and never had any problems. Its only since storage DRS has been...
View Articlevxlan end points not pinging
HiI have 2 vtep end points, configuration is as follows: server-1esxivtep1-10.0.0.100/24 server-2esxivtep2-20.0.0.200/24 server-1 --> switch-1 --> routerserver-2 --> switch-2 --> router...
View ArticleRe: Blueprint has changed 2 days before my exam!!!!
Given that the training, exam, and blueprint have all now gone through their update cycle since the 5.1 release I would now expect a period where nothing further changes for many months...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.x "I/O Error Occurred"
This cannot be right, surely? ~ # esxcfg-scsidevs -avmhba0 ata_piix link-n/a sata.vmhba0 (0:0:31.2) Intel Corporation Ibex Peak 4 port SATA IDE Controllervmhba1...
View ArticleRe: ESXi Crash - No PSOD
Thanks for your help mpx.vmhba0:C0:T0:L0 is showing as the CD-ROM drive and is showing as mounted, however the CD-ROM drive is not being used by any VMs. No BIOS/firmware/drivers/patch updates have...
View ArticleUpgrade plan from ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5.1
Hi all,we are sketching an upgrade plan from ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5.1.The cluster includes 3 Dell R710 hosts and the vCenter server is a Windows 2008 VM.Since we don't want any headaches from a painful and...
View ArticleDisplay host's mac Dock in fullscreen
I'm running a Win87 VM in VMWare Fusion. I have with VM fullscreened spanning multiple sceens. When I full-sceen the VM, the Mac dock in inaccessible.Is it possible to keep the dock on-top of the...
View Articlevm time - changes even when vmtools option is unchecked?
I'm just wondering how this would happen: vms running on a host that was esxi 4.1 - but the server ntp settings had not been configured. Then vms were migrated off to other hosts, and the first host...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.1: vmsvc warning guestinfo RecordRoutingInfo: Unable to collect...
Ran into this as well today with CentOS Minimal 6.3 on vCD 5.1. Looking into it myself. Never seen this one before.
View ArticlevCenter 5.1.0b fresh installation
I'm looking for advice as to what version of vCenter I should install. The latest 5.0.X version on the latest 5.1.X version. Being a new environment, I really didn't give it much thought and just...
View Articlehow to upgrade datastores from vmfs 3.46 to current format?
Just upgraded 4 hosts from 4.1 to 5.1 - everything went great. The datastores are vmfs 3.46 - I figure it would make sense to get them updated. I don't see an option for doing that. Is there a process,...
View ArticleRe: VSA 5.1 with Link Aggregation?
darkbgr123 wrote: Did you have any luck with the LAG setup? Nope. Also which method would you choose for the active/active adaptor configuration in the vSwitch? port ID or IP hash? IP Hash is really...
View ArticleRe: Monitoring View with Nagios
Hello, here is my script thanks to six4rm fo his ProblemDesktops.ps1 , I was able monitor my view active session using nagios. # This script will count the connected Desktops within a VMware View...
View ArticleRe: 5.0.2 crashing
Does anyone low if VMWare is ever gong to fix the bugs ? IT's been a long long time
View ArticleVcenter Server Appliance fails with no VT support in nested ESXi 5.1
I’m trying to run vCenter Server Appliance in a nested ESXi 5.1 64bit environment.When starting the vCenter Server Appliance it fails with: This virtual machine is configured for 64-bit guest operating...
View ArticleRe: how to upgrade datastores from vmfs 3.46 to current format?
nevermind - I finally saw the "upgrade to VMFS-5" option - DOH - I was looking in properties and in right-click menus. Sigh.
View ArticleVMWare Fusion - USB Wifi NIC pass-through
I'm trying to pass a USB Wifi NIC adapter through to a windows 8 VM. I can see the USB adapter in windows 8 just fine, but it's disabled. Enabling it does nothing. I suspect VMWare Tools/Fusion is...
View ArticleRe: ESXi Management not working Cisco LAG
ZFSRocks wrote: Okay, so I was just reading through the setup on VSA and realized it was going to do a bunch of setup for me. This isn't a brownfield install because it is a fresh cluster, however, I...
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