Power usage and cpu load of server export to csv
I am supporting a Green IT pilot with a lot of big companies in The Netherlands.We want to investigate impact of power setting on servers to look for baseline and changes when altering BIOS and power...
View ArticleRandom Domain User authentication failure
Im having a randomly occurring event with the domain admin, which is part of Administrators group on vCentre. Attempting to login to the web console with " domain.local\Administrator" or...
View ArticleVCSA 6.7 U2 - New Backup Over SMB
Cool backup vCenter to SMB share now in 6.7 U2! I can't get it to work! Not sure what I am missing. The helpful 'example' in the path...
View ArticleESXi continuously auto deselects CD/DVD
Just did a fresh install of 6.7 and keep encountering an "error" that's been making me furious. I'm unable to mount ISOs from my datastore as a CD/DVD because it keeps unselecting it after I save my...
View ArticleAny benefit to place vMotion traffic on 'vMotion TCP/IP stack' if you aren't...
I thought it was best practice to place all vMotion traffic on the vMotion TCP/IP stack regardless if you use a separate gateway for vMotion or not, but after reading v6.7 documentation seems like you...
View Articlealternate location to install vsphere automation sdk for python
Hi guys, I'm trying to configure Ansible for vm tagging, which requires the automation sdk libraries to be installed. However, I cannot access GitHub (blocked by our web filtering), is there an...
View ArticleCannot give a user permissions to shared VMs on Directory connected PC
The machine in question has a host OS of Ubuntu 18.04 on it that is connected to Ansible and also tied into our Active Directory. It is running VM Workstation Pro 15.5 with a Windows 10 VM that was...
View ArticlePowerCLI Script to get ESXi Network/Storage Firmware and Driver Version
Hi Admin, Found this script which gets me firmware and driver info. -------$vmhosts = Get-Cluster "clust01" | get-vmHost $report = @() foreach( $ESXHost in $vmhosts) { $HWModel = get-vmHost $ESXHost...
View ArticleError using `adminstrator@vsphere.local` with Get-Tag
Greetings, I am seeing the following error when trying to work with Tags and PowerCLI. The error is the same whether I use my own domain account (AD) or the vsphere.local administrator. get-tag...
View ArticleHow to Suppress CEIP disabled warning?
Just upgraded to 6.7 from 6.0. Have a nice warning on my new vcenter appliance regarding CEIP being disabled: The current status of the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) is disabled....
View ArticleCassandra DB size and grow to store VM metrics
Hi, Is there anyway to estimate how much will grow a Cassandra DB based on the number of VMs and Metrics collected?If somebody can share actual DB sizes indicating # of VMs, # of metrics and retention...
View ArticleRabbitMQ and vCD 10
Is there a specific version of the 3.7 branch I should be using? These are my notes on the install and I seem to be having communication issues from anything remote like vROPS Tenant App # In...
View ArticleDelete old snapshot but exclude with snapshot name do not delete
I have below script which will delete snapshot older than 15 days, what i need is to add a parameter like get-snapshot or something to exclude snaphsot with name "donotdelete" # vCenter Server...
View ArticleScreen Lag Especially When Typing
We seem to have started to get some screen lag, especially when typing, it feels slow and sometimes doesnt appear for a second or two. Noticeably after upgrading to View 7.5 but cant confirm if that is...
View ArticleDashboard not properly rendering data
Hello all, I have a complex dashboard template that based upon what resource pool you are a member of you should be permissioned to a certain restricted set of data. Basically it's a multi-tenant...
View ArticleSQL Express sufficient with View Composer 7.10?
Planning to upgrade from Windows vCenter 6.5 to VCSA 6.7, and need to migrate View Composer currently co-installed on this server to a new Windows server. Is SQL Express powerful enough to handle...
View ArticlevRA 8 Deployment and Migration considerations
Stumbled upon this great summary from the folks at SovLabs. https://www.sovlabs.com/blog/top-vra8-deployment-considerations-webinar-recap
View ArticleFailed to build vmnet. Failed to execute the build command when installing...
When installing VMware-Workstation-Full-14.1.7-12989993.x86_64.bundle on ubuntu 18, on first run after install I get the error Failed to build vmnet. Failed to execute the build command in the log...
View ArticleQuestion on a pre-upgrade check item for NSX upgrade
We are upgrading from NSX v6.35 to v6.46. We are going through the runbook and the upgrade guide. In the upgrade guide on page 22 there is a.Validate netcpad and vsfwd user-world agent We know how to...
View ArticleNSX-Edgs montor tool
HiIs there any monitor tool for NSX-Edgs to monitor bandwidth,cpu,memory ,also VPN-tunnels ,does solarwinds virtualization manager can do so .
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