vCenter service stops
Hi, I'm running vCenter 5.0 U1 and my database is on a SQL Server 2008 Cluster, using Windows Authentication. Every time my SQL team fails the server over, the vCenter service stops. This causes quite...
View ArticleRe: vSphere Data protection - Calculate the space consumed by individual VMs
Currently, we do not have a way to see the space consumed by each individual VM on the VDP appliance.We are looking to implement this as an enhancement in a future release though.
View ArticleRe: Login with LDAP users
Mattia, If you have LDAP group imported in vCloud then you would be able to login with users that are part of that group. The LDAP user not neccessarily needs to added individually if the group it...
View ArticleIs paravirtualized SCSI supported in Windows Server 2012?
I'm running ESXi 5.0 Update 2. Checked the compatibility guide and didn't see any mention of it, though the Server 2012 KB article mentions using the .flp file to install the driver pre-install.
View ArticleRe: Vários arquivos .vmdk dentro da mesma maq virtual.
Amigo, isso é por que o VDR não conseguiu excluir o Snaps. que ele criou quando foi fazer o backup, e isso vai se acomulando. *CUIDADO* ja vi casos aonde a maquina acomulou muito, (32 eu acho) e alem...
View ArticleRe: VM on same vSwitch can not communicate
Hello André and Ethan, Thank you for your answer.Here is a printscreen of my network configuration on the problematic ESXi. André,The configuration fo port on my physical switch impacts the...
View ArticleView Horizon 5.2 and Random Reboot PCOIP Tera2 Zero Clients
We just updated to 5.2 yesterday. Now some Tera2 PCOIP Zero clients randomly reboot throughout the day. The VM is fine and you can connect back in to the session without issue. The reboot happens...
View ArticleNested hypervisor guest - DHCP but no internet access
I've got a Hyper-V Server 2012 running on a ESXi 5.1 hypervisor. In the Hyper-V server I have installed a server 2008 R2 OS. The OS is working fine except for the fact that it isn't getting internet...
View ArticleCreating variable user access privileges
What is the best way to allow normal VMware administrators limited access to perform provisioning, but full admin access during rare times of an outage?
View ArticleRe: [patch] Vmware 9 on Linux Kernel 3.8rc4
2) More importantly the header (.h) files in /usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.2-030802-generic/include/linux are greyed out in Dolphin and VMware (but NOT VirtualBox) can't ffind them even though...
View Article"Acquire guest control Ticket" privilege
In previous versions of vSphere there was an "Acquire guest control ticket" privilege. Now in 5.1 the privilege no longer appears under virtual machine -> Interaction Is this privilege depricated...
View ArticleRe: Uneven placement of images with local SSD storage
I understand why it's not going to rebalance - I just dont understand why two of the datastores (all identical) hosted by identical servers have such a high perceived load that nothing is placed on...
View ArticleRe: Kick it Old School. NetBSD 1.5 Network port 10Mb
Edit the physical NIC in a vSwitch and set the negotiation speed.
View ArticleRe: Recovering a snapshot after a failed disk
Best practice is to keep snapshots only as long as required, e.g. during a backup, while installing critical software, ...As soon as you "Delete" the snapshot from the Snapshot Manager the data blocks...
View ArticleRe: Uneven placement of images with local SSD storage
Again, I could be wrong here. But I think it just chooses the one with the least load and sticks them all on there, it does the load query just the once.
View ArticleRe: Kick it Old School. NetBSD 1.5 Network port 10Mb
Okay, I've been able to do that on some interfaces however, this is not a very workable solution. I guess my hope was being able to lock it down either at the V-Port layer or closer to the Guest VM....
View ArticleRe: Vcenter SQL DB
There's a good post on this topic by Michael Webster that should clear things up. http://longwhiteclouds.com/2012/10/22/clustering-support-on-vcloud-director-and-vcenter-databases/ Snip: vCenter Server...
View ArticleRe: Kick it Old School. NetBSD 1.5 Network port 10Mb
Does NetBSD not allow you to change the negotiated speed of the virtual NIC? I know you can do this in Windows (Device Manager > NIC > Properties > Advanced > Speed / Duplex).
View ArticleRe: Nested hypervisor guest - DHCP but no internet access
Do you have Promiscuous Mode enabled for the vSwitch on the ESXi host? André PS: Discussion moved from VMware ESXi 5 to Nested Virtualization
View ArticleService Console IP Address Change
I would like to change the IP address on a standalone ESX4.1 host and I would like to do this without downing the virtual machines running on it. Would this affect the networking of the virtual...
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