using vsphere 5 enterprise plus licenses on esxi 5.1 hosts
Can I use vsphere 5 enterprise plus licenses on esxi 5.1 installed hosts? or do they have to use vcloud licenses?
View ArticleNeed to set "vSphere Distributed Switch" after fresh install ESXi 5.1 ??
Hi All, Under a cluster, one of four hosts is planned to upgrade from ESX 4.0 to ESXi 5.1 (with fresh installation). All settings (IP, hostname, etc.) will not change. Since it is using "vSphere...
View Articlehow to set up vmware channel between primary and secondary vCenter servers on...
Hi, I am trying to set up create a vDS (for VMware Channel IPs) for the two different ESXi hosts but it does not work.
View ArticleUSB Controllers - Problems with autoconnect
Hello, Does anyone happen to know if there are any USB controller drivers that prevent autoconnect of usb devices working correctly. The devices are redirected from the client to the virtual session no...
View ArticleError 1327 after removing drive vSphere was installed on
Hi all, I have a situation that I can't seem to find anyone else having had in the past. At least not that Google can find, it seems. Most of the time, when someone receives an error 1327 Invalid...
View ArticlevMotion and Physical Mode RDM's or in guest iSCSI
Is vMotion supported with Physical Mode RDM's or in guest iSCSI? This is with ESXi 5.1, there seems to be conflicting opinions!
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Video card problem.
Hello everyone. I've installed Windows XP on my Virtual Machine, and I can't detect my graphic card drivers. Tried about everything.. I'm gonna need it for League of Legends, and I know it's possible...
View ArticleStats for Each Datastore
I am trying to write a script to determine the average read and write rates, average number of read and write requests, and average read and write latency for each datastore. I've tried doing it two...
View Articlethe vmrc console has disconnected
Salve a tutti. Ho un problema, e spero solo questo. Approfittando dell'estate ho sostituito il mio pc installando Windows 8. Nel reinstallare il client vSphere 5.0 ho utilizzato il workaround presente...
View ArticleESXi 5.1.0 crashes under heavy network load
I have a VM that has an NFS-based disk. When I do something IO (and possibly VM-network) intensive on the VM, ESXi crashes.The motherboard is an Intel DH57JG, the chipset is Intel H57, and the Ethernet...
View ArticleCannot cancel app layer finalization, nor delete Reverence CVD
I was recording an app layer, and decided that I did not want to record it, so I canceled it in the mirage console. I reverted to a previous snapshot, prescanned and created the app layer that I...
View ArticlePer Device Level vs Level Metrics
Recently I have been writing scripts to collect metrics from my environment and had set all collection levels to 2. However for metrics such as toalReadLatency, the data did not seem to collect until...
View ArticleBasic XML parsing using E4X syntax
Hi there, I'm going crazy with E4X parsing. I'm trying to parse a rather simple XML document but I can't seem to find a way to parse what I need. I'm trying to extract vApps name (only 1 vApp in this...
View ArticleGetting Lotus Notes in Fusion to open URLs in Mac Browser
Running Lotus Notes 9.0 in VMWare 5.0.3 on Mac OS X ML 10.8.4. I have set the preference in LN to run on the OS preferred Web Browser. I have set the preference in VMWare to "Open Web Files and links"...
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Windows 8.1 Pro/Ent Preview Guests - Windows Net Performance Halting, Barely...
I have a powerful Windows 7 x64 Ultimate workstation. On it I have installed VMware Workstation 9. It's fully up to date. Windows 8.1 Pro Preview and Windows 8.1 Enterprise Preview Guests can barely...
View ArticleVM's moving back to there original folder locations?
Dear All,We seem to have a GHOST working overnight. When we move a set of VM's from the root folder to sub-folders which they seem to do with no issues. The following morning they have returned back to...
View ArticleAutoDeploy plugin 5.1 just not working...
I've installed the 5.1 AD plugin, added hosts, added depots, but the AD hosts say (inactive) and the createDeployrule function returns a "java.lang.nullpointer" error. Please tell me what config step I...
View ArticleIs full clone to a network path broken in WS9?
I've used Vmware WS 7.1 for years in testing and created 500+ full clones to network paths but I get an error for every attempted variation I try in WS9.0.2 Using the clone wizard at the dialog page...
View ArticleDay 3 blog post and summary
Day 4 coming soon.... I'm almost caught up! http://www.vjason.com/2011/07/23/vmware-view-4-6-bootcamp-day-3-network-considerations-and-best-practices/
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