Does installing an ESXi enterprise license 'phone home' to ensure authenticity?
When you install a windows OS it connects to Microsoft servers to authenticate the key is legal and never used before. Does installing an ESXi license have the host connect to any sort of VMware...
View ArticlevCloud Datastore Alerts
When I add datastores that are more than 75% full to a vCenter that is hosting provider VDC's I get an alert from vCloud. There is no option to change the threshold in vCloud that I know of unless I...
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Re: Problem using Quick Launch
Hi, Within our VSM9.1.5 system I've configured a Quick Launch to open the local SCCM remote control client and pass-through the calls selected CI title:This works perfectly on clients running IE8, but...
View ArticleBackup vdpa Exchange 2013
Hallo My customer wants migrate to exchange 2013. Does anybody know at which time vdpa supports exchange 2013. Or at which point a could find the roadmap for vdp (vdpa) Thanks for any answere . Kindly...
View ArticlevCenter and vCloud Director package integration?
I am trying to use some tasks from the vCenter library and the vCloud Director library but they have different variable types: Specifically I have a work flow that instantiates a vapp based upon todays...
View ArticleMonitoring tomcat java process metrics
Hello, I am using hyperic hq 4.6.6 to monitor tomcat 7,Here hyperic has detected some services under tomcat server like, threadpool,servletMonitor,But I have to monitor tomcat java process...
View ArticleThinApp Factory & vSphere 5.1
Hey folks, any chance to get this working? I checked my ThinApp Factory vApp Settings over and over, they should be correct. But still, when trying to create a workpool, I get the 404 error. So I...
View ArticleDisconnect View desktop when idle for 2 hours
Hi, I would like my Horizon View 5.2 desktops to disconnect when idle for 2 hours. I have seen several workarounds, all triggered from within the desktop:a screensaver becoming active after a period of...
View ArticleVCenter HA Agent error
Hi All, this is my first discussion, I have a strange situation on VCenter Server 4 Foundation ... I have set HA with no particular situation (standard switch, and just used like monitoring ...) and...
View ArticleESXi 4.1 to 5.1 upgrade
Hi All,In Our Organisation we have single server environment, all the Hardware is of IBM 3650M3. These server contains 8 HDD configured in 2*146 = Raid 1, 3*500 = Raid 5.On these server we have...
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View Pool feature/design consideration
Hallo Just a quick question on the features for the latest version of View(Horizon View) 5.2 Why don’t VMware create the option to create a tiered type pool setup? Your pool limitation is set to 2 000...
View ArticleVmware enterprise license for 78 CPUs?
I'm a bit confused and hoping someone may be able to help me out. My company is switching from an essentials license infrastructure to OEM enterprise. I am not the purchaser of said licenses, I just...
View ArticleN1K or DVS info on a ESXi Host
We are trying to find a way to see if an ESXi host is on a N1K or standard switch as we are moving all systems to N1K and need to verify it was completed. We thought of using the Get-CDP but since we...
View ArticleSingle image, dozens of VLANs
I've been retooling a clients View Horizon 5.2 install for the last few months. The basics are this: a VDI cluster in a centrally located data-center and relatively low latency extended LANs to branch...
View ArticleNetwork on ESXI standalone
Dear all,i have ESXi Standalone with two NIC 1GB,i have in the meantime one NIC is availble for the management and on the same time for the traffic, the second NIC is down just for failover backup,can...
View ArticleDetect VM Image Copied / Replicated
I am looking to detect any unique constraint if and when a VM image is copied from one location to another. I am actually doing this as a part of product licensing service modification to prevent...
View ArticleAppear to have poor storage performance. Best test(s) to confirm?
I am not certain, but I think that I am having performance issues with my storage array. My current environment consists of 2 Dell R510's as my ESXi hosts, and an Equallogic PS6100XV. My data-store...
View ArticleUnable to connect the USB device "" to the virtual machine (error code 13)
Hi there I have got the following message when trying to connect a USB card. Unable to connect the USB device "" to the virtual machine (error code 13)Contact VMWare, Inc. technical support for...
View ArticleDell T610 slow data transfer to datastore ESXI 5.1
Hello All, This is my first post so hopefully I am doing it right. I have a Dell T610 server, 2 seagate x2TB SAS drives, 32mb ram, 2xIntel Xeon E5620. My problem is if I add a 6gb ISO to the datastore,...
View ArticlevmStatsProvider - Event ID 256 / 258
Has anyone seen these event log entries on virtual windows servers - they seem to be floooding the application logs. Where do they come from, what do they mean and can I stop them from being logged...
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