remove a snapshot without enough disk's space.
Hi. Sorry for my poor English (I'm Frensh speaker). Please, does anyone knows how to reduce VMWare Fusion's space on hard disk? I've allowed a space of 80 gb for Windows XP3 on my VMWare on my Mac....
View ArticleESXi Hardening - host services/firewall
When it comes to securing inbound/outbound host traffic is there a comprehensive list of native vSphere/vCenter services (in English) that shows which systems require what ports? For instance, I am...
View ArticleIsolating Backup Traffic
I'm using Image level backup with both Veeam and Avamar on vSphere 5.1. When the backup software access an ESXi host to backup all of its vmdks, we are wanting to make sure that traffic is not sent out...
View ArticleHow do I resolve ESXi boot problems?
Have tried an install of VMware ESXi 5.1.0.I downloaded iso and burned to dvd then proceeded.The installation went fine but on restart in fails to boot with just a flashing cursor on screen.The server...
View Articledirect attached storage: interfaces not detected in vSphere Client
Hello,I am having trouble getting my ESXi boxes to see a PowerVault MD3200 Direct Attached Storage array. This does not appear to be a very common setup, as I have had a difficult time finding...
View ArticleHorizon 1.5 change FQDN
When going through the initial setup wizard and entering the FQDN I am getting "Invalid IDP host/port". When I click on detail message says "Error when updating Connector with Federation IDP URL". I...
View ArticlevCenter Inventory Services
Hi, I want to install the Inventory Services, but when I enter the password for admin@system-domain, I receive this message: The user hasn't got enough privileges to perform administrative actions....
View ArticleLinux guest で動作している SAMBAへ Windows host から接続出来ません。
こんにちは Linux guest で動作している SAMBAへ Windows host からアクセスしようとしていますが，うまくいかなくて困っています。どなたか解決方法をご存知でしたらご教授願います。 [動作環境]VMware : ver 9.xLinux guest : CentOS6.4(静的IP)Windows host : Windows XP SP3(*) Linux guest...
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unable to obtain hardware information for the selected machine
helloi tried to take image of my pc and i get this eror i attach the log file can anyone help me?
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HOL Stucked at - starting lab
Could not launch any new lab, always stucked at starting lab as picture shown below. I used to use srm lab and it was take about 30 seconds to launch, now the longest time I wait was 83minutes and then...
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Seperating VMs in vApp by their OS
Hello vCO group, We have Infoblox IPAM automation in place and using vCO and Infoblox IPAM plugin we are trying to achieve this. However, the IPAM workflow picks up all the VMs in the vApp irrespective...
View Articleadd vmnic puts it in standby
I noticed that when I run esxcli network vswitch standard uplink add -u <nic> -v <vSwitch it always seems to add the nic in standby I realize I could then just configure the port group...
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Expanding data disk in vmware esx server 3
Hi, I havebeen askedby a colleagueif I canbe of assistanceto expandd: \ driveon an existingvirtualwindows2003 server. They use:VMwareESXServer3iVersion3.5.0Build110271VMwareInfrastructure...
View ArticleSeting up alerts
I am setting up alerts on my vcenter I setup few alarmes like Host CPU usage and Host Memory usage etc. I would like to setup some alert on few more things.1. SWAP memory usage. 2. Memory balooning.3....
View ArticleSatp rule -s
Good morning.I was messing with SATP rules.I notice that when I put in tmp # esxcli storage nmp satp rule add -V NewVend -M NewMod -s VMW_SATP_INP Plugin 'VMW_SATP_INP' is not a registered SATP....
View ArticleКакой сетевой интерфейс используется при перемещении ВМ между хранилищами?
vSphere 5.0u2VAAI нет в лицензииiSCSI СХД Иногда приходится использовать следующие возможности:- сказать browse datastore и скопировать папку с ВМ или файл ISO на другую datastore;- произвести холодную...
View ArticleVmware error with storage vMotion failing at 14%, Error 0xbad010b
I've never had an issue with vMotion before, but for some reason I can't change hosts on my VM's. They all have Vmware tools, up to date, and everything is green with them. I have 3 hosts in the...
View ArticleDirectly check if esx host is in maintainance mode
Hi, I need to know whether there is any api in vi java which can let us know if any esx host is currently in maintainance mode ?I know there is a way to find this out through even monitoring using...
View ArticlePool clones created with wrong size independent disk
Hi, I'm new to using View/Composer. The snapshot I'm cloning has two disks, 100GB for the OS (c:) and an independent disk of 32GB (d:). When I create a pool the OS disk behaves as expected, however...
View Article? Datastore datastore-XXX is not correlated to datastore XXXXXX, but the...
I received an alarm email about Datastore usage (97%), only to find no alarms and 60% by the time i logged in. What do these entries in the log mean?: 2013-08-14T01:14:14.459-05:00 [05252 info...
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