Re: vCenter server service shuts down when ESXi Host connects to it
I had also spent about 2 hours yesterday with vmware support without any resolution, they did suggest if I could setup a new vcenter. Which I did today and I still received the error when trying to...
View ArticleRe: Datastore full but not using that much data
actually andre it did reduce the size i managed to free up from 88 MB to 1.02GB dont undertsand why but it did mind you i actually deleted about 200 GB of files. and screen shot attached please note...
View ArticleRe: Are There Instructions For Fusion -- For Non-Computer Scientists?
From my experience I'm not sure if that machine has the resources to run a Win 7 VM with what would be considered good performance. I had no problem running XP SP3 VMs with 1 vCPU and 640M to 1GB of...
View ArticleRe: Site Replication Alternatives
ekisner I work for Quest software. Thanks for your post. Here are some points about our solution. If you would like to have more conversation, please feel free to email me at Kiran.Ranabhor@quest.com....
View ArticleRe: ViewComposer Agent is not visible in VMware View Agent
Can you share a print screen of the error message?
View ArticleRe: Site Replication Alternatives
BTW, the scratch disk space requirements in the doc are conservative (best practices) than absolute requirements. Also note that scratch disks are not used when doing initial sync - so initial size of...
View ArticleRe: can't apply esxi5 license (added to vcenter license, but greyed out)
oye vay -- seriously? So - then what is the point of emailing them to us 1 cpu at a time, if we cannot apply them thus? ok, ok - whatever. Thank you again.
View ArticleFT Isolation Time
ESXi 4.1 HA FT clusterCome across in the logging "FT_ISOLATION_TIME not set. Isolation time is 7500" and "FT_ISOLATION_TIME set. Isolation time is 14000"Unless explicitly set, default value is 7500?...
View ArticleRe: ESXi and SAN/NAS
Hi, I currently have one server, I plan to expand to two or three as my lab grows. However as I only have one server just now I haven't figured out how to share a drive, that has been added as a...
View Articlehow to create a 1.1 ova/ovf file with ovftool 2.1
Dear: I create a ova/ovf file but its version is 1.0, how can i create 1.1 version files? I can't find any option in help. Thanks. Best Regards,
View ArticleVCAP-DCD done and dusted!
Just received notification today of my VCAP-DCD...#453.So now I have both the DCA and DCD...a double VCAP! Hey just in time to do it all again for vSphere5. As people have previous commented, the exam...
View ArticleRe: Fusion & MCE Optibay
Hi dlhotka, To help collect data and narrow down this problem, could you kindly also provide the Model Identifier (from System Profiler) as well as the HDD models (also in System Profiler) for the...
View ArticlePropertyCollector.retrieveProperties question
Hi there I'm trying to get rootFolder property of the ConversionManager (http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/converter-sdk/conv43_apireference/converter.server.conversion.ConversionManager.html),...
View ArticleDistributed Switches
I am reading over some training material from different sources and am getting conflicting information. If I want to migrate a VM from a standard switch to a distributed switch do I need to (1) edit...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.0 vmotion trouble - Migration considered a failure by the VMX
Dumb question, but you did upgrade vcenter first, right? Have you looked at the vpxd.log on the vcenter server right after a vmotion kicks off and fails? -KjB
View ArticleRe: Distributed Switches
This is from VMware: http://vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere-vnetwork-ds-migration-configuration-wp.pdf It has been a while, let me read this again also.
View ArticleRe: OSX Menu bar problem. Won't hide, covers important buttons.
You may want to try uninstalling/reinstalling (not a repair install) VMware Tools because the normal Full Screen VMware Fusion menu bar is supposed to look like the image below and appear in the center...
View ArticleRe: Distributed Switches
Oh, you are migrating only one VM from std switch to dvSwitch. This might help: http://ntpro.nl/blog/archives/1084-Migrate-an-Existing-Virtual-Adapter-to-a-vNetwork-Distributed-Switch.html
View ArticleRe: Distributed Switches
Hello. Of those two choices, 2 makes more sense to me too! Good Luck!
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