Re: After doing an edition upgrade to SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard, vSphere...
You were on the money. When I shutdown the "VMware VirtualCenter Server" service, it shuts down 2 additional services, one of them being the VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices. Then once the...
View ArticleRe: Securing a connection server questions
You should be able to use this KB to get the info you need. http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1027217
View ArticleRe: vMotion validation fails due to RDM mapping
Try a rescan on the ESXi HBAs, and then see if you can verify connections from all of them on the NetApp management side.
View ArticleHypervisor Recovery - data?
I was going to revert back ab ESXi 5.1 version of the hypervisor by using SHIFT R question: will reverting back to a previous version cause me to lose the VMs thanks
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Re: Find Host from VM
Not that I know of. The network & MAC address approach is the best way to go imho.Get the MAC address, and the network team should be able to determine on which switch port that MAC address is...
View ArticleRe: Snapshot report on how often
Copied the function over to a script and connect it to my vcenter and am using the following:Connect-VIServer vcenter01 The VIEventPlus Function ) My CommandGet-VIEventPlus -Entity (Get-VM *)...
View ArticleRe: Hypervisor Recovery - data?
ok,,, also, since this is on a dell r420, i was going to load the latest dell generated version.. during the install,i select option - install esxi and preserve vmfs data, will the vm's be...
View ArticleRe: Size of windows pagefile on win 2008 r2 servers running on ESX 5.0
This is where the depends come in - if you have sufficient memory in your ESXi host so that the pagefile is not overly taxed when there is contention for memory
View ArticleVMWare Products and Services
VMWare has so many products and services that it's hard to keep track of what does what. Several cloud providers give users the ability to provision their own virtual machines and I wondering if VMWare...
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Re: Explanation of error log entries
It's fairly hard to come up with direct suggestions regarding the APIC interrupt delays without a better understanding of the rest of the OS. It happens that I recently modified our virtual EFI...
View ArticleRe: VMware Fusion / Windows 8 / Shared Folders / System Hang
Hi Mark, I went so far as to open a ticket with VMware. My experience was that they were not really hearing me on the issue and they were in a hurry to close the ticket. The engineer did have me...
View ArticleNDG claims schools with VMWare VMAP subscription may use those licenses to...
My school is currently a subscriber of VMWare VMAP that allows me to teach VSphere. That is great and the classes are a huge success.Another instructor has contracted with NDG to install their NETLAB+...
View Articlemy newly created vmfs volume is only version 3.46?
Hello, just trying to understand what is happening. I just created a new VMFS volume on my 5.0 (build 914586) and when I look at the version in vCenter it says that its version 3.46? When I look up...
View ArticleRe: vC Ops 5.7 Performance Issue
Hello Guys, We are having the performance issues with vC Ops after upgrade from 5.6 to 5.7. Ours is huge environment and we are monitoring 3000 vm's with one instance of vC Ops. The problem is when we...
View ArticleRe: my newly created vmfs volume is only version 3.46?
When you create a datastore, you have the option to create either a VMFS5 or VFS3 datastore. Can you confirm you selected VMFS5 in the wizard? André
View ArticleVmware Tools Installation Fails
Host Windows 8Guest Debian Sid VMware Tools fails (as it does in VMWare 9) with following error message: Creating a new initrd boot image for the kernel.update-initramfs: Generating...
View ArticleRe: VMware Fusion / Windows 8 / Shared Folders / System Hang
Thanks Tony Will keep you posted if I figure anything out
View ArticleTo cluster or not to cluster...
Hi all, I have just completed a migration from vCenter 4.1 to vCenter 5.1 by swinging all of my 4.1 hosts from the vCenter service under windows to the new vCenter appliance VM. I have 4 hosts (All...
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