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Re: VM Sizing on ESXi
When you are done reading that blog post you can start reading this white paper http://www.vmware.com/pdf/Perf_Best_Practices_vSphere5.0.pdf Summary of both: Start with as little as possible and grow...
View ArticleRe: VCAP5-DCA exam - That lab is slooooooowwwww!
I had very similar problems too, best thing you can do is email certification@vmware.com and describe in DETAIL how the clunky exam environment prevented you from answering all the stuff you knew....
View ArticleDoes ovftool 3.0.2 support vCenter 5.0?
I'm using ovftool 3.0.2 to deploy an OVA to vCenter 5.0. I'm getting this message:Error: A connection to the remote object could not be made. OVF Tool does not support this server. My command with...
View ArticleRe: Best way to move VM from an old Blade environment to a NEW one
Thanks Andre, So I'm assuming that there is no way to do this without having downtime because of the different hardware? Are there going to be any gotchas because the new vcenter and esxi hosts will be...
View ArticleRe: VCAP5-DCA exam today - Performance issues
Sounds exactly like my experience, except I ended up shooting myself in the foot and breaking my access to the lab for a while. I figured the only way I would finish is to rocket through everything,...
View ArticleRe: Newbie - Trial question (pro/standard)
After installing the trial version of Fusion and running Windows virtual machine you need not reinstall Windows after you have purchased the license ( pro or standard ) . You can continue to use the...
View ArticleHow do you create a "network" folder
Can anyone tell me how to create a network folder. The New-Folder cmdlet doesn't provide that as an option ,but yet under the vSphere 5.1 Webclient that's an option. I'm trying to automate the...
View ArticleRe: Powercli, change pathing: RDMS to Fixed and VMFS to Round Robin
I could also do it with the EMC VSI if i wanted to change ALL to round robin but then my ms cluster vms would go to round robin and that would be BAD as they then go into flap and the clusters fail and...
View ArticleRetrieving IP Address/Hostname of an extension from Serenity
We are writing a vCenter server extension that runs in its own VM. And we have a client web server plugin that would like to make calls to it. After receiving the call, I need to know where our own...
View ArticleRe: Allocation Based
Hello - have actually set the allocation values against each entity in your hierarchy? When you go to the Manage Hierarchy tab, if you right-click an entity you will see "Set Allocation Units". Have...
View ArticleRe: vCOPS Script errors when using vSphere Client Plugin?
I have the same problem, but the say "just use it in IE" is rubbish. What is the point of integrating these products if you can't use them in an integrated fashion? Does anyone know if there is a KB...
View ArticleRe: SSO DC Server changed
I logged in to Web client with the admin@domain-system account and saw that sign on and discovery configuration the active directory identity still prompts to the old server. I changed it to the new...
View ArticleRe: Allocation Based
Hi Diwakar, What do you mean " you need to set the same manually for its entities." How to do that? Regards, Hudan Sent from my LG Mobile
View ArticleRe: Allocation Based
Hi gogogo5, I haven't do this, what do you mean each entity in my hierarchy? Is it each vm in VCenter hierarchy? Regards, Hudan Sent from my LG Mobile
View ArticleRe: datastore can not be mounted from virtualbox
What type of datastore it is ? NFS ? Are you seeing any errors related to storage in VMkernel.
View ArticleAccess LSI MegaRaid status visible in vSphere Client (CIM) via ESXi SNMP server?
After installing the LSI MegaRaid CIM into my ESXi server, I can view the RAID and drive status via the vSphere client. However, I cannot access these values through the ESXi SNMP server. Is there a...
View ArticleRe: 'Hardware Status' not updated for months
Ensure VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices services are started .Try restarting the the watchdog services " /etc/init.d/sfcbd-watchdog restart "If not try removing the host from VC and re join...
View ArticleRe: HELP! vmware won't mount vmfs volume
The messages states that there are underlying storage issue . Try these KB and let us know If that worksVMware KB: Using nfsstat3 to troubleshoot NFS error: Failed to get object: No connection...
View ArticleRe: PowerCLI: Detect incorrect Time Configuration
I found a couple of cases where $dts=get-view$_.ConfigManager.DateTimeSystem needs to be refined. It can occasionally return more than 1 value.For these cases I modified the line after that to read:...
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