Starting down the VCAP DCA road...
Well I've decided to go for the VCAP series of certs. I have both vcp 4 and 5 and have been working w/ VMware for last 5-6 years now. I have read Lowe's book Master Vsphere 5, setup my own lab at home...
View ArticleRe: Unexplainable disk space growth
That seems to have done the trick. Of course, I don't have space for that 60GB of temp files. Need to work something out and then I'll verify everything works fine without those files and how big the...
View ArticleRe: expanding datastore
might be 3par specific issue in my case,but I recall similar reservations issues when a lun is presented to a hostset
View ArticleBenchmark Testing
Greetings, We use VMWare (ESXi 4.1 and VSphere 5.1) to run automated tests and we are wondering if there are tools to manage VMs performances in order to benchmark our system. If our typical setup is...
View ArticleRe: change ip address of all vms
I'm afraid you are mixing two things here.Use the GuestUser and GuestPassword parametersUse the GuestCRedential parameterThe GuestCRedential parameter can be easily obtained like this $cred =...
View ArticleReplacing Existing Host with New Host/Hardware
We are in the process of replacing our older ESXi 5.0 hosts that unable to be upgraded to ESXi 5.1 with new hardware that will support ESXi 5.1 and beyond. The existing hosts are members of a vCenter...
View ArticleRe: Where to find Windows 7 Pro download or DVD that is not OEM?
you should be able to get this directly off Microsoft's site: Windows 7 32bitWindows 7 64bit This link is to the official MS download site.
View ArticleRe: Replacing Existing Host with New Host/Hardware
that will work, from what I am reading you have two 5.0 hosts that you wish to replace with two shiny new 5.1 hosts, with the same host names and IP addresses for management and iSCSI connections etc....
View ArticleRe: Blank Icons/Explorer.exe locks randomly in View
Are you redirecting the desktop folder? Geoff
View ArticleRe: How to install windows 8 on esxi 4.1 ?
Thank you jmattson. This worked like a charm!
View ArticleRe: Replacing Existing Host with New Host/Hardware
looks good - I am sure you know that the new hosts have to have access to the existing storage luns (since you are using iSCSI) in order to vmotion guests to them. Other than that, pretty...
View ArticleRe: New e.x.p. build 1245816 breaks multi-monitor support
Another full reboot of host and client and I can put the client on 3 displays. Not sure if the tools repair did the trick, the most recent reboot, or a combination thereof.
View ArticleRe: Replacing Existing Host with New Host/Hardware
Yes, we have considered that and forgot to include in the post. We will be updating the target security information for the LUNs to reflect the host changes once the hostname and IP changes are made....
View Articlebackups halted after adding datastore
Has anyone observed any issues when adding an additional datastore to an older host to share the data that used to be just on one datastore? I'm wondering if the differences in the two datastores has...
View ArticleVMware Remote Console - The request refers to an unexpected or unknown type.
Hello Help, please. I´m use "vcd-1.5-vmrc-api-example"... I can access the console of the VM with VMID but not with datacenter + vmpath. When I try to access gives: "The request Refers to an unexpected...
View ArticleRe: Entitled ThinApp package with Workspace client = No Launch of app.
Your clients need to be domain members for ThinApps to work. // Linjo
View ArticleRe: blues screen -install 8.1 enterprise-
What type of CPU do you have? Some older processors are not capable of running Windows 8.1. Can you upload the vmware.log file?
View ArticleRe: Problem changing root password with Invoke-VMScript
Luc, I take back my previous statement, yes the VM is powered on before running the script, we are using 3rd party workflow engine for automation, which internally powers on the VM before running the...
View ArticleRe: Entitled ThinApp package with Workspace client = No Launch of app.
Okay. Thanks .. I got that... but.. 1. Where is that documented in the install guide or reviewer's guide or somewhere obvious? (Just want to see with my own eyes what I missed.) and.. 2. What about iOS...
View ArticleRe: Removed LUNs still showing on one FC path
Hi. I get: An error occurred while communicating with the host. Call "HostDatastoreSystem.QueryAvailableDiskForVmfs" for object "datastoreSystem-31" on vCenter Server <server_name> failed.
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