Load balancer with View 5.1
Hey all, I've got a question about getting our load balancer up and running in our View 5.1 environment. I've followed KB article 2020913 to get our view servers up and running with SSL certificates....
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ESXi 5.1 – MegaRAID SAS Alert
Last week I replaced a HBA in a Dell PowerEdge R710. After the card was replaced I opened a KVM session and watched the successful boot process. All good.My colleague began flipping through the various...
View Articlecant copy/paste from guest to host
i was searching trying to solve this problem but nothing, the problem is that i cant copy any file from the guest and paste in the host. I try to uninstall the vmware tools and install it again and...
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Practice iSCSI by Building a Nested vSphere Lab.
Note: This post attempts to provide information to those looking to build a simple, nested vSphere lab who may require some basic examples of iSCSI configuration. The examples are intended to be as...
View ArticleSystem Settings in Base Layer
Hello, I'm trying to create a Base Layer which- has Mozilla Firefox and IE with a proxy configured in it.- open the .zip files with 7-zip by default. The default policies (Upload policy, Base Layer...
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vSphere Private VLANs - Dev Environment Use Case
In a previous post on my blog I wrote about the experience of cloning an entire virtual infrastructure by leveraging NetApp FlexClone. Once that was complete I began planning the design of the new...
View ArticleJNLP loads Sigar native libs via file: but not http:
I have an app that is using jnlp as the launcher. It uses the Sigar libraries which require dynamically loaded native libraries for platform specific code.For purposes of debugging this I have two JNLP...
View Articleverification of vShield Manager to vCenter registration
I'm installing the vShield Manager appliance into my "evaluation" vSphere/vCloud environment. Working from the vShield Quickstart document [1], the vCenter configuration section says to verify the...
View Articleunderstanding capacity remaining for disk space
Hi all,I am wondering how disk space capacity is calcultated in vC OPS5.7. I have a cluster with 4 datastores on a SAN / 40 VMs :4.2 To disk space available (Capacity Risk Details view)3.2 To disk...
View ArticleEdit OOTB workflows in Designer
Hello, vCAC provides a few OOTB workflows when we choose the 'create' option while building a blueprint. Ex: WIM Image workflow, Basic VM workflow, External provisioning workflow, Linux kickstart...
View ArticleWindows Endless Reboot Loop
Got a Macbook Pro. Loaded VM, Windows 7 Hm Ed upgrade and MS Office 2010 no prob. Windows wants to install an upgrade. I approve. Takes so long in "logging off" screen that I fall asleep. Laptop...
View Articleaccess is denied
Hi, I have installed and granted "domain admin" inside administrator role in mirage.example: "domain admins" include 'administrator' and "myadmin" accounts.I rdp into the mirage server using...
View ArticleRHEL 4 - P2V - Failed with errors.
Hi, I'm trying to P2V a RHEL 4 server but I'm failing with the following error: FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion: 'InitrdNativePatcher failed to generate initrd image:...
View ArticlevShield Networking for Multi-tenant vCloud Deployment
Hello Everyone,I've read through a lot of documentation and white papers but I cant seem to find out exactly how this works. At our datacenter we've been hosting a multi-tenant system separated by...
View ArticleLow Disk Space
I just upgraded our virtual center server 5 and am having some disk space issues now. I ran jdiskreport and found that there are some huge log files and I wondering if these can be removed and if...
View ArticleRemove "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in a Windows guest
(I already posted this in another discussion but it was so burried down in the thread I fear no one will see it. Plus the discussion topic had nothing to do with this issue really. So there's my formal...
View Articlevmware tools fails to upgrade when $SHELL is a symlink
I have found a bug in the generic linux (e.g. non os-specific) vmware tools upgrade logic. I don't know where to report bugs, so I'm starting a communities thread. Perhaps somebody can take action,...
View ArticleNvidia Quadro
I assume that many of you with exictement have read through all news in vSphere 5.1 What cought my eye in View point of view was this: "Improved 3D Graphics Support– (View Only) – hardware...
View ArticleVery slow shutdown and start with pRDM
Hello, there is one VM on my ESXi 5.1 host, which shutdown and starts veryl slowly. It is a Windows Server 2008 R2 fileserver with 12 pRDM attached. All other VM (no pRDM or at max two) are performing...
View ArticleQuery service failing when object owner is not System
I just sync'd a catalog between two clouds using the vCloud Connector and now a query I am doing is returning zero records. One thing I noticed is that the catalog items got created with a user...
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