moving from VMWserver to Workstation 8, hopefully
currntly running VMWare Server 2.x on Win2003 enterprise with AMD Phenom x4 9500 cpu, 6gb ram fwiw, this is a home hobby network and not production [a few questions before i attempt the move]: q1....
View ArticleRe: Vmware Cap IQ Tools Deployment requirment.
CapIQ 1.5 is compatible with vCenter 4.1 U2. Capacity Planner is used to perform analysis of existing datacenters to properly estimate how to size a new virtual infrastructure. CapIQ works with...
View ArticleKVM in Centos 6.2 Guest under Workstation 8.0.2
Hi; I wanted to see if I could get KVM nested virtualization running in a 64-Bit CentOS 6.2 Guest (under a Windows 7 64-Bit Host running Workstation 8.0.2). This doesn't seem to be working, and I...
View Articlevdiskcreate.pl cannot create more than 7 disks.
I tried using the vdiskcreate.pl (with the changes suggested in other discussions) and was able to create and add disks to the Virtual machine.However,I could do so only for 7 disks, after that I keep...
View ArticleRe: iSCSI Initiators - Path Status "Not Used"
That is correct. We have a Equallogic PS-6500 and use the Equallogic Multipathing plugin. That does shed some light on the situation, but I would not say it solves the problem. I would still like to...
View ArticlePassed today- Thank You
I just wanted to thank everyone on this forum for always answering my questions and helping me prepare for this exam. Your help was invaluable in the process. To those who are going to take the exam,...
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Re: Dual NIC's on host, dual networks, how to connect to a specific card?
Got it. I'm posting the pics for future readers to see were the dialog is and what it looks like From the "Edit" selection on the VMWare Menu, I selected Network Editor from the pull down. Then I set...
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Re: iSCSI Initiators - Path Status "Not Used"
Well, maybe not.... Is there possibly a Max number of iSCSI vmks that can be used by the Dell Multipathing Extention Module ?
View ArticleRe: iSCSI Initiators - Path Status "Not Used"
Not posible, Equallogic only works with active/passive configuration. When you expand with more Equallogic devices you active controllers willdouble. This has nothing to do with the Dell Multipathing...
View ArticleRe: Creating virtual machine with existing data
Another option is to continue to use the Microsoft iSCSI client from inside the virtual machine. However, it will be a more "clean" solution to use RDM as weinstein suggested above. As long as you do...
View ArticleRe: VM Template ESXi Questions
That worked... I also had to change -CPU to -NumCpu... but none the less all worked. I noticed once it spun up the VM's it prompted me with a Y, Yes A Yes to All N No L No to All S Suspend... Is there...
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Host Profiles playing up in vSphere 5
Hi all, Ive recently upgraded about 200 hosts to ESXi 5 from ESX 4.1 and 2 vcenters 5 also.Ive noticed a problem with host profiles when it comes to storage, and wanted to see if anyone else has come...
View ArticleRe: Creazione VDI mediante VMware View in un LAB virtuale.
Ciao,le VM per View risiederanno sul datastore condiviso. Se stai partendo "da zero" con l'installazione di View, puoi seguire la evaluator's guide (www.vmware.com/go/view5evalguide) dove viene...
View ArticleRe: Mountain Lion Kernel Panic during startup after VMWare tools are installed
Maybe this will work..http://www.robservatory.com/?p=809 via @patlee Blake
View Articleusing HP blades with Dell servers in one cluster
Hi,I am getting HP c7000 chassis (10G) but with 2 blade servers for now and planning to use them as esxi. I have another 2 dell (r610/r710) servers that I want add to the same datacenter/cluster. Does...
View ArticleRe: vdiskcreate.pl cannot create more than 7 disks.
Further debugging this issue, looking for why only 7 disks are allowed for this function, I observed thatthe scsi(0:7) was reserved for the adapter (http://communities.vmware.com/message/1904951). Is...
View ArticleRe: PowerCLI challenge: script storage vMotion of 100+ VMs
Hilarious!!! I have a script that does almost this exact thing that I am having a few people beta for me right now. If you want...shoot me an email and I can send you all the relevant details, or if...
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Re: using HP blades with Dell servers in one cluster
Hi, Only thing I would point out is to make two groups in your Update Manager, so you can assign updates like the HP ESXi bundle to the HP blades, and the (presumably) Dell equivalent to Dell servers....
View ArticleRe: using HP blades with Dell servers in one cluster
Thank you for helpful response.what if i am doing storage vmotion of multiple VMs from 10G to 1G? how will it handle traffic if I exceeded 1G?
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