Network preferences don't offer the physical Ethernet devices I have (and need)
When configuring networking in vmware workstation 9 on Linux it only offers me a selection of devices, apparently limited by overly simple string-based filtering. I get offered my eth<n> named...
View ArticleHELP my keyboard doesn't work in my virtual machine!
I have a pretty straightfoward setup. Thinkpad T430 running XP SP 3. Used standalone converter to convert to VM and also resized it down onto a USB hard drive. When given the choice of export formats I...
View ArticleImac Had Disk Volume Corruption; Now XP Won't Start
I am running an IMAC with OSX 10.6.8 and Win XP. Last night I was working in XP and everything froze. I ran the disk utility and found a corrupted volume. Today I fixed that corrupted volume. I can...
View ArticleDistributed port state find
Hi I am looking for a powercli script or maybe a one liner to find the state of a distributed port. We had a situation where they were applying patches to hosts in a vblock configuration. Patching team...
View ArticleVMWARE VIEW MANAGER LICENSE
Good afternoon guys! I need a free license of VMware View Manager, but where have vmware site of the trial license, I could not find! For this I need to be able to continue in my virtualization...
View ArticleGuest OS Quiescing - is Grayed out
Hi All, I am trying to enable vSphere Replication (VR) on windows VM ( server 2012), everything works fine but Guest OS Quiescing is grayed out. Vcenter and VR in Base and DR is version 5.1.1. Any...
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Manually deleting vCloud director network objects from MS-SQL database
I ran into some issues in my lab while trying to delete the entities like Org vDC, Edge gateways and Org Networks on vCloud Director(happens with all the versions) . I couldn't delete the Org vDC as it...
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Host with 2 NICS + iSCSI - Best Practice?
Hi, I'm sort of new in virtualization and although I have some knowledge about network administration, but i'm not really a network administrator, so the question might be dumb Recently the company I...
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Show the State(InvalidState) of a machine via scripting
HI All,I have a problem with some of my VM's in my VCenter:Few ones of them go in an unknown state and aren't accessible for our users.When I try to start them via Power CLI I get the error: Start-VM...
View ArticlevCenter Resource Pool Permissions
My goal is to have a group of users be able to create VMs in a resource pool. Have them test what the need on the VM then if it works as they expect I want to move the VM into another Resource pool...
View ArticleAnyone collecting Netscout data into vcops?
5.7 vapp collecting from Netscout? How and what is the use case?
View ArticleDocumentation Report on all advanced settings in vCenter
Trying to set a list of all the advanced settings in vCenter for a "build-as" report in a 2 column format with a list of option and then the value. When trying to run this I get the information I...
View ArticleDatastore's Performance data
Under a Datastore's performance tab if I select <Performance> in the [View] dropdown I can see several graphs. My problem is that most of them state "no data available". Is there a switch I need...
View ArticleHow to set up VMplayer 3 network for VMs to comminicate with each other ?
Folks,Hello. I am using VMPlayer 3.Host OS: Windows 7Guest OS:Windows XP and Oracle Linux 5I need to set up the network and enable Windows XP communicate with Oracle Linux 5. I follow this tutorial...
View ArticleCluster members with different management network addresses
Hi All,I have a Vsphere cluster which has 6 members managed by VCenter 5.1 . All servers are HP Proliant DL 380 G7. Now I'm in the process of cluster upgrade from ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.1. In addition to...
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ESXi 5 Testing/Installing environment?
I'm stuck with a very old network so I thought, lets start updating/reinstalling it with some "new" hard and software. So I pulled out a "server", installed ESXi 5 on it and hooked it onto my...
View Article"Vcenter alarm: ESXi 5.1 Host connection failure/ Host not responding"
Hello Everybody, I am facing a strange issue with my Vsphere environment and VMware Technical support hasn't been able to help me so far. The case is still pending with them for about 2 weeks now. We...
View Articlerandom network Performance on host, inter-host
network performance issue between host communication etc. we have 3 esx4 host in infras. lets say esx 1/2/3 esx 1 has VM A B C D esx 3 has VM F G H I When copying files from vm A to F , noticed speed...
View Articlemaintenance mode stuck at 2%
I have a 2 hosts cluster but when i put one host in maintenance mode its stuck at 2%. No cd rom is attached to any vms. no pending vmtools install. what is the problem?
View ArticleESXi 5.0 and VMTools on XP
We are starting to build our Test -View environment. We have to ESXi servers running the new 5.0 version and Vcenter 5.0. I am building our template computer (WINXP sp3), but I can't install VMTools...
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