Timeout Error While Creating Provider vDC on new vCloud Director Install
I created my vCloud environment, following the "evaluation cloud" directions as outlined in the "VMW-cCloud-Director1_5-EvalGuide.pdf" doc. Everything seemed to have been moving smoothly until I...
View Articlevm credentials for vDC appliance 5.1.x
So, I can find plenty of documentation of the credentials that can get you into the console of the appliance for 1.5, like: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/01/26/vcloud-director-appliance-password/...
View Articlevcenter storage monitoring service fails
Hello,I am hoping someone can help me out. We upgrade to vcenter 5.0 update 2 and now the storage monitoring service fails to initialize. I have done all of the KB tips in the KB's surronding this...
View ArticleNo USB Device in web client?
I connected to an ESXi 5.1 Server from the standard vSphere Client. I created a vCenter 5.1 VM. At the top of the Windows VM on the vSphere client, there are small icons to connect a CD/DVD, Floppy,...
View ArticleStrange behaviour of virtual machines taking all dhcp range free addresses...
Hi to all, It happens to me a very strange thing on 2 esx servers (free edition) 5.1 version. On this servers there are a 2008 windows sever and a 2003 windows server. In the structure there'a a...
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Workstation 9 VMDK file corruption in Windows 8 Storage Spaces
There is a related thread on this topic that seems to have died out so I am starting a new one I experiencing extremely frequent .vmdk disk file issues when running VMWare Workstation 9 VMs from...
View ArticleUsing VMware Tools GUI to disable time synchronization with host
What is the quickest way for a Windows Server VM being provisioned with VMware Tools installed, to insure that time synchronization does NOT occur with the host? These articles discuss using registry...
View ArticleCombine multiple get statement
This question is probably answered numerous times but I have a hard time figuring the answer, so here it is. Often time I need to combine multiple get statements into the output, for exmaple,...
View ArticleJoin hosts to active directory using PowerCLI
How can I join a group of hosts to Active Directory using PowerCLI? Thanks
View ArticleSet NTP Server information using powerCLI
How can I set NTP server settings on a group of ESXi hosts using powerCLI? I want to set my primary and secondary NTP server names, and configure them all to have the NTP server service start with the...
View ArticlevSphere Enterprise Plus -> vCloud Enterprise Licensing Question
My company took advantage of the vCloud Suite upgrade pricing last December to assist in a DR project. With vCloud I am implementing three new Cisco ESXi hosts that will utilize the new vCloud...
View ArticleShow active directory authentication information with PowerCLI
How can I get a list of all hosts that are NOT using active directory for local authentication in environment using powerCLI?
View ArticleScript to show amount of free space not zeroed out
We are running our enviornment on a storage array that supports zero detect thin provisioning (3Par). I am trying to find out which VM's and VMFS volumes have the most unused space that has not been...
View ArticleRAID5 Datastore - Crashed/Blanked?
Hey Guys, Question. I have ESXi 4.1 U1 and as it was booting it crashed. (lost power) ever since I was unable to boot into ESXi (says no boot device) but RAID show's OK. So after fighting for a few...
View ArticleRAID5 Datastore - Crashed/Blank Data Store
Hey Guys, Question. I have ESXi 4.1 U1 and as it was booting it crashed. (lost power) ever since I was unable to boot into ESXi (says no boot device) but RAID show's OK. So after fighting for a few...
View ArticleSetting up server
Hi VMware family, I'm having some problems. I'm trying to set up a Windows Server 2003 (yes I know it's old, outdated and blah, but it's all my company will allow me to have so I have to work with it,...
View ArticlevCenter Operations Manager Standard with vCenter Server Appliance
Hi-Trying to figure out if I can install vcenter operations manager if I only have a vCenter Server Appliance installed (Dont have windows version of vcenter Server) I am running VSphere 5.1,...
View ArticlevSphere V5.1 networking with HP
I'm installing vSphere 5.1 essentials plus on a pair of HP DL380G8's - each has 12 NICS. This might be overkill! I've a pair of HP 2910al switches that will be used exclusively for this project. I...
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ESXi 5.x on new Apple Mac Mini 6,2 Late 2012 *NOT* working
Hello! I bought one of the new MacMinis, which were presented yesteraday, plugged two 8GiB DD3-1600 modules in (OsX reported 16GiB of memory, as the models before) and tried to install ESXi 5.1 Build...
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