Import ova from esxi shell to localhost
Has anyone been successful at getting the ovftool to import an ova from the esxi 5.1 shell to the local host? Background: I have a kickstart DVD install that installs esxi 5.1 then copies files to the...
View Articlevxlan preparation basics
trying to get 2 basic questions answered. Setting up up a vxlan i have one vdsSwitch with port group connected to vlan 151 and another cluster has vdswtich with port group connected to vlan 102 when...
View Articlevifptarget command not found
I just downloaded and setup the vMA vapp this week and while trying to get things setup I have added server using the vifp addserver command. I can list the 6 hosts that I have setup but I cannot use...
View ArticleDetermining Memory shares for a sibling VM when Resource Pools are used
If I have a resource pool with 1000 shares and 10 VMs, and one other VM with 4GB of RAM which is not in a resource pool in the same compute cluster, how do the number of memory shares get calculated...
View Articleit seems like I have to reinstall vmware tools every time I update my OS
5.02 1031769 Win 7 host OS, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS guest OS The guest OS was telling me that it was due for an update and restart, so I restarted it. Now I can't see any of my mounted hgfs folders. So I...
View ArticleHP Flex 10 - Received Dropped Packets
VMware Community, We are having a strange issue, which so far VMware/HP support has not been able to solve. We have an environment where we are using 2 x 10GBps and 2 x 9Gbps adapters on a single DVS....
View Articlevsphere 5 - floppy images (read only?)
I am trying to shuttle some config files around via floppy drives as we don't have copy/paste enabled on our vpshere client. I used the vsphere client to create a floppy image on the local datastore. i...
View ArticleSRM 5: what is more efficent between vSphere Replication and Veeam?
We are evaluating a Cloud service that uses SRM to provide disaster recovery. Since we are just starting to think about it and sice we have Veeam Backup and Replicator already, we will find ourself...
View ArticleHow to run DiskWarrior to repair the directory of a virtual machine?
Is it possible to run DiskWarrior... http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11707/diskwarrior...to repair the directory of a VMware Fusion Virtual Machine of Mac OS X Server 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard Server) in...
View ArticleCommitting snapshots when there are no snapshot entries in the Snapshot Manager
Committing snapshots when there are no snapshot entries in the Snapshot ManagerAbove problem on my esxi 4.1.0 host. Committing snapshots from the ESX/ESXi command line failed.Cloning failed: Failed to...
View ArticleHow to check Linux VM is synchroize time with ESX Host or NTP Server
Dear team, we have our internal ntp server which we have configured on every esx host , we have installed vmware tools on all guest vm , how to check whether linux vm are synchrizing with esx host or...
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 ArticleConfigure Windows Server 2012 with Failover Clustering issue
Hi, hope someone could provide some light here. I tried to configure the cluster above but met with quite a number of issuesI followed the guide here:...
View ArticleVMWare Network Design Help
So my brain has become quite scrambled by over-thinking this design and I am hoping someone here is kind enough to set me straight. My overall goal is to adhere to best practices, eliminate single...
View ArticleLinked Clones strategy? Can't grow C drive
So i just ran into an issue with my linked clones where I didn't set my system drive C: large enough and now I can't grow it since its a snapshot/linked clone. All new clones are now stuck with a 40GB...
View ArticleError when attempting to revertToCurrentSnapshot
I am attempting to use the "Revert To Current Snapshot" functionality in the REST API and I am failing. The documentation says that you send a POST request with no body to this URL (replacing the base...
View ArticleHardware "riciclato"
Buongiorno a tutti, avrei bisogno di un consiglio su un hardware "riciclato" (ripreso da un fallimento).Sono due server HP DL360G7 e un DAS HP MSA2000 con collegamento SAS.Da quello che leggo sono...
View ArticleProblem new-vm within a script specifying more than 1 disk
I'm having an issue running New-VM within a script where I read in a csv file to a set of variables and construct the new-vm command. Everything executes fine when a single disk is specified and the...
View ArticleVMware View 5.2 PCoIP Poor Performance
Hi, We're running view 5.2 via PCoIP, everything with the virtual desktops runs great, however when we start viewing the internet or watching anything on YouTube even @ 380p it's very slow and all...
View ArticleSearch and replace in script editor
I'm wondering if there is anyway within the script editor to do a search and replace? I can do a find by hitting cmd+f then if I hit shift+tab I can paste to the highlighted area which is fine for a...
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