Upgrading to Essentials Plus
So we got the money to do the upgrade. The new keys were sent and I assigned them to the hosts and the Vcenter server. I was under the impression that there was no upgrade to the software as it just...
View ArticleChange from Foundation to Enterprise not working
Hi All,I tried to change the license for vCOPS from Foundation to an eval license of Enterprise (standalone). I'm able to change it in the licensing area, but even after I restart the vSphere client...
View ArticleChecking /etc for files that have been modified
In a typical 'NIX environment, if I wanted to find any file modified in the last 3 days, I'd use: find /etc -mtime 3 Does anyone know if the find command on ESXi5.0 supports this find "option"? Thx in...
View ArticlevSphere upgrade: VM tools/hw and VMFS
Hello all, Just have a quick question (hopefully). We've gone through the process of upgrading our Mgmt servers (vcenter, update manger, SRM) to 5.1. We have also already upgraded all of our ESX...
View Article/var/log/boot.gz
I'm assuming that this file is created at bootup and then gzip'd for archival purposes. So, question: - Is this file overwritten at every boot or does it get archived/moved/saved for historical...
View ArticlevCenter SQL DB - Query VM allocated resources
OK, so we all know vCenter uses a SQL backend DB.Is it safe to assume that the SQL DB holds a list of all VM's from all clusters in all datcenters it manages?If so, I would like to query the SQL DB and...
View ArticleVMDK vs RDM
Hi All, I was just going through with VMFS & RDM storage setup but stuck with certain doubts as below 1. Would there be any additional advantage using RDM over VMFS ?2. How does the storage...
View ArticleInstalling SSO with Multisite confgiruration hangs
Hopefully someone can provide some insight. I have a new VC (5.01b) vcenter setup with signed certificates. I have a separate SSO server, a separate SQL server 2008r2, and then the VC server with...
View ArticleServer 2012 NIC
Hope someone will be able to help. Recently installed a DL370 with esxi 5.1 and two instances of Windows server 2012. I may be getting something really basic wrong, but I've tried all three NIC driver...
View Articlecan't shrink vmdk with vMotion
vsphere 4.1Windows Server 2008 sp2 VMSecond HDD has 166 GB free now after cleanup Sdelete -c e: (e is the disk i'm looking to shrink)Migrate from datastore with 4MB block size to datastore with 2MB...
View ArticleCannot find ace.dat
I recently had a hard drive crash. I was able to recover my VHDK file from it, but lost everything else. I created a new VM and linked to the recovered VHDK file. Whenever I launch the VM, I receive...
View ArticleQuestion: How can my guest RHEL guest O/S access a RMP file on the host...
I need to install Java 7 on my RHEL guest O/S. This VM is behind a firewall and does not have access to the internet. So I have to download the file from the Java site to my workstation. I then...
View Articlealert from host
hello everybody i have e strnge massage thet came from vcenter for ine of my host . i could not explain this message . The massage is as below: test trap received from Vcenter with SNMP Varbinds...
View ArticleLosing proxy setting continuosly
Hi- We use VMware protect 8.02. We have a proxy so I set the proxy in Internet Explorer and check the box in Protect optionsto use the Internet Explorer proxy. Seems every time I need to use Protect I...
View ArticleVMWorkstation 9 - ubunto merge split vdisk
Is it possible to merge a split disk into a single disk ?The host is ubuntu 12.04 x64 with VMWorkstation 9. it is running guest Win7 and Win8 which both have a virtual disk which is split in several...
View ArticleDell Wyse P25 Zero client
Does anyone know if I can run Redhat 5 on a Dell Wyse Zero client? Assuming vmware view is the software managing the redhat image. This is not a thin client and I do not believe the view client gets...
View ArticleHow Calculate the time of a VM is in poweroff state?
Hi, I need to calculate the time of of a VM is in poweroff state, someone already did that? Thanks
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