Feature Request: Group Policy Support
Hi, Are there any plans for Group Policy (.admx) support for managing multiple deployments of VMware Workstation for Windows? I recently came across a scenario where a client wanted to disable the...
View ArticlePost-VM Migration Issues
We current have an ESXI 5.0 setup and two Dell R710's that are the hosts. This morning we wanted to migrate one of our servers to a different host and also change the data store location. The process...
View ArticleBriefcase Connection Issues
We have been using the Vmware Horizon Mail app for probably a little over a month now. We have 3 different types of Android based tablets all running either Android 4.0.4 or 4.1.2. What we are seeing...
View ArticleVcenter 5.1u1 host that keeps getting Host Memory Status Alarm.
About 2 times a day the same host keeps popping up with the Host Memory Status alarm. But nowhere does it show a memory failure. Whether it be in VCenter or in the UCS manager. I am trying to figure...
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vmfs space missing
I have a 2tb volume with just 2 vm's. The vms have no snap shots. browse the data store and only 2 foldersThey add up to 1tb but vs shows only 118gig free. I am missing 900gig. see attached pictures....
View ArticleVDR to VDP Migration and vCenter 5.0
hi guys I have vCenter 5.0 and VDR 2.0 and I want to install VDP. Since VDP needs vCenter 5.1 I want to install a new vCenter Appliance 5.1 and delete the 5.0 So I have some doubts about this migration...
View ArticleFailure to import CSV with ConvertFrom-Csv
I have a script that is designed to record the consumed data of all my virtual machines and create a CSV with the data. The script checks for the existence of a file with the same name as the output...
View ArticleVMware ESXi 5 - vCPU limitations
Hi, I notice the Essentials Kit has an 8-way cpu limitation. With Essentials Kit, if I have 2 x 8 core CPUs for the VM host, can I assign 12 cpus to a VM guest or will the VM guest be limited to 8...
View ArticleExample VCAP5-DCD question(s) and resources?
I'm after some much needed advice from the wise folks here on the DCD community. I have my exam booked for the first week of August and have been reading like a mad man for about 2 months. A bit of my...
View ArticleGetting errors resolving tile workloads
Hi,Me again - sorry. I think we are close. I am now stuck on resolving the workloads in my tiles.- I am doing a partial tile, and I have excluded the standby/ deploy/ exchange related tests. I have...
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ESXi 5.1 on HP (ProLiant DL380p Gen8) Hardware Monitoring / Health Status Issues
I am having trouble with getting accurate hardware monitoring with ESXi 5.1 on an HP (ProLiant DL380p Gen8) server. The build installed is 799733 (HP version, with HP Tools installed) I am using this...
View ArticleRestoring VMs after Building new RAID Array
Hello All, I am new to virtual machines so I apologize for the newbie question. Currently I have a HP ML350 G6 running ESXi 5.0.0 on a 4GB SD Flash card hosting two virtual machines, and licenses for...
View ArticleRestarting VDP hangs at starting VDP appliance systems.
estimnated time to complete: 10 minutes. But it has been much longer than 10 minutes. Powered off and powered on. Didn't help
View ArticleVMware Virtual Disk Manager - [NFC ERROR] NfcNetTcpRead: bRead: -1
Getting NFC error when trying to download VMDK using VMware Virtual Disk Manager. VDDK version: 5.1.0-774844 Error detail: Creating disk 'C:\BACKUP\VM01_2.vmdk'SSL_VerifyCbHelper: Certificate...
View ArticleVMware Virtual Disk Manager - Received signal 11
Getting error message "Received signal 11" when trying to download VMDK using VMware Virtual Disk Manager (VDDK 5.1.1-1042608). Tried with multiple versions of ESXi (4.1.0-260247, 5.1.0-1065491,...
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VDP integrity check fails
One of my VDP appliances won't run integrity checks. When I try to run an integrity check manually I get the following error. My issue is almost identical to the following...
View ArticleHow are you validating network on new ESXi hosts?
As we have no visibility into our corporate ITs networking configuration, we must trust that they have completely configured everything end to end successfully for any given port. We use, what I...
View Articleperformance tab not working
In vsphere (vmware esx 4.0.0) when I click on the performance tab on any device, host vm etc I get nothing or more specifically on the overview sub-tab: This program cannot display the webpage Any...
View ArticleEsxi 5 update 1/HP DL380g6 with bnx2 driver doesn't load all network ports
Hi,I have a HP DL360 G6 with 4 physical Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T network interfaces.But Esxi v5.0.0 U1 build 623860 only gives me 2 ports: ~ # esxcli network nic list Name...
View ArticleHow can failover vCenter Server 5.1 to Secondary Server in DR mode?
My understanding is vCHB do following step to failover vCenter Server to DR site:1. Stop vcenter server on Primary Server.2. Hide principle network on Primary server.3. Make Secondary Server to Active...
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