IBM v7000 storage solution FS/iSCSI
We are looking for our company for a storage solution. On our search we vind the IBM storage solution v7000. It is a combination of FC and iSCSI. The main connection is powered by FC and with less...
View ArticleRe: vsphere HA failover in progress
are you running vCenter5 by any chance? If so, check your alarms. There are specific alarms to HA. You may try to disable/enable the alarm to clear the alert. If you are running vCenter4, then maybe...
View ArticleRe: Multi NIC vMotion & iSCSI
Why/how are you being 'forced' to use 4 NICs for storage/iSCSI?? I would also split off the vMotion traffic from the other NICs... My normal configuration is 2x Management, 2x vMotion, 2x VM and 2x...
View ArticleRe: SCP Workflow Issue
Ha, so instead of banging my head, I should have looked to add some debugging code and found my error. I was not converting a string to uppercase to follow the filesystem. Damn the man...save the...
View ArticleSuspended State Lost after Copy ?
I seem to have gotten my self into some trouble after starting from a base VM and then using the suspend feature. I had done some important work and reached a point I wanted to capture so I suspeded...
View ArticleRe: SCP Workflow Issue
Hi,Do you get any error?Does it work with small files? (I remember an issue in the past with the ssh plugin and transferring larger files...)Cheers,Joerg
View ArticleRe: Enabling Fault Tolerance Logging on VMkernel ports via command line
I am new to using these types of scripts. Can you provide some basic instructions on where to place the file and provide and example on how to run this script? Thanks!
View ArticleRe: vsphere HA failover in progress
yes I am on vcenter 5. enbling and disabling those alarms worked. Thanks
View ArticleRe: USB devices not connecting to windows 7 virtual machine
updated to 10.7.3 and still having same issue. Any help is appreciated
View ArticleRe: Suspended State Lost after Copy ?
Welcome to the Community, the two files you backed up only contain the current memory state of the VM at the point in time when you suspended it. If you used the VM in the meantime you also modified...
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Starting from scratch - need advices
Hi everybody. This is my first post here and i'm wondering if people can help me design a good branch office solution. Just to do a quick overview of what's the site before diving in the subject, i...
View ArticleRe: Enabling Fault Tolerance Logging on VMkernel ports via command line
Take a look at this document for the details and examples - http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-10279 FYI - I would recommend you download the script from vGhetto Script Repository on Sourceforge as...
View ArticleRe: HowTo: Beginners Advice for using the vSphere APIs in C#
Thanks, those were very useful links.
View ArticleRe: New to SRM - General usage question
Thanks for the welcome and for the reply. Why would a second vCenter be required, and would only machine A and B be in the second vCenter? Or are you saying that machine B needs to be in it's own...
View ArticleRe: vDS Blocking Ports on VMotioned Guests
I take the last comment back...disabling / re-enabling LLDP doesnt resolve the issue, it appears that ANY update to the VDS definition will clear the port blocking. IE a MTU change will restore...
View ArticleSet-NetworkAdapter VDS
Will the following command work the same for a dvportgroup as it would a standard port group? Get-VM $VMname | Get-NetworkAdapter |Set-NetworkAdapter -NetworkName "$network" Unfortunately I don't have...
View ArticleRe: New to SRM - General usage question
Why would a second vCenter be required, and would only machine A and B be in the second vCenter? Or are you saying that machine B needs to be in it's own vCenter instance? SRM requires two vCenter...
View ArticleRe: q re: configuring jumbo frames
Rikard, That worked. I had only set the VKERNAL and not the VSWITCH.Thank you very much, something so simple. I didn't do vmkping yet. I just installed ESXi 5.0 and still trying to find out how to get...
View ArticleRe: Scripting import of VM to catalog in vCloud
Thank you lamw! I will download and give it a try immediately. I will let you know how it goes.
View ArticleRe: 2003 / 2008 / 2008 r2 vm best practices
What I'm looking for are settings that you would configure for every machine by default when you build it. For instance disk alignment, disabling the windows scheduled task for defrag on a 2008...
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