Reservations on every VM
Why is it a bad idea to have CPU and memory reservations on every VM in a cluster? I am trying to find more information. Below is one good response. I would appreciate if anyone can offer additional...
View ArticleNeed help with Cold Clone and SCSI driver
I am trying to cold clone an HP Proliant DL360 G6 but apparently I need a driver for the array controller. Its a P410i. Has anyone gone through this process before that can point me in the direction of...
View ArticleMust Clone Remote Server and Convert into VMWare Shell
Hello Everyone -- I need help! I desperately need to "clone" a web/database server that is running in a remote data center. I do not have physical access to the box, but I can access it by RDC....
View Articlevpxd high cpu usage
Hi, We have a 1000~ vm's infrastracture and recently we upgraded to vcenter 5.5 update, some of the hosts are 5.5U1 also and some are still 5.1.After the upgrade we began to experience constant 100%...
View ArticleVM Auto Start
HI.. having issue with a VM. whenever i shut Down or Power Off VM it starts automatically no schedule task created in this vm and is HA also disabled. This is only happening with a particular Vm. I am...
View ArticleHow to retrieve information under VMware.Vim.HostCpuIdInfo
Hello all! I'm looking for a way to display all VM's and the CPUID Mask value for edx register under Level 80000001 via PowerCLI. The following article describes how to set it, but I am not talented...
View Articlevim.fault.InvalidLogin while querying kernel modules
I'm using VI API to query kernel modules of all the hosts (using "queryModules" method). But for some hosts it throws "javax.xml.ws.soap.SOAPFaultException: vim.fault.InvalidLogin" . Why authentication...
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VMware VirtualCenter Server Service fails to start
Hi! vCenter was rebooted but the VMware VirtualCenter Server Service fails to start Extract of vpxd.log:2014-07-15T19:10:07.228+08:00 [04140 error 'Default'] SSLStreamImpl::BIORead from...
View ArticleAbout File share migration
Hi, Currently using Windows 2003 as file server. Since it will EOS on 2015, thus I am planning to migrate it to Windows 2008. Currently there are 5 disks on Windows 2003 VM (1 for OS and 4 for data...
View ArticleDomain account no longer works to login to vSphere 5.1
We have an environment setup and have been able to login to vSphere via domain accounts for months with no issue. All of a sudden this is no longer possible. The error says the username/password is...
View ArticleMigrate a vCenter Appliance to a "server version"
Hello, I'm running a vCenter as an appliance. I want to switch now to a windows installation. Actually I'm running version 5.1 and I plan to migrate to version 5.5 Is there a way to migrate such...
View Articlevcenter server appliance license key or registration
Please i need to obtain license key for vcenter server appliance to activate the server.
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CPU utilization over 100% Fantastic but strange.
How is this even possible? 105.995% Usage.... vcenter 5.1 ESXi5.1
View ArticleUpdate Manager plugin missing vCenter 55U1
I seem to be missing the Menu Item for the Update Manager on my vSphere 5.5U1 install. vCenter is installed on a Win 2012R2 platform. The system I managed Updates from is a 2008 R2 server, via the...
View ArticleSet default location for snapshot to local esxi
Hello friends, We have a 3 node esxi 5.1 cluster & iSCSI storage. All the vm's are currently running on storage. I want to change set the default loation of snapshot created for vm's on esxi local...
View ArticleHA or FT?
Ok, my two engineers are going to strangle each other unless I settle this argument! We are a small IT company making our first foray into a private cloud infrastructure. We purchased two IBM server...
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when I installed the vsphere web client use vcenter server iso , encounted an...
Vcenter server is 5.1 version and this server is a workgroup member. this is my administrator : When I used vcenter server ISO ,and installed vsphere web client pulg-in, it prompted :I Used many ways...
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I has install the vcenter server , and now,I need to use the vsphere web...
when i reboot it ,and reinstall it again ,it will apperas again.
View ArticleUbuntu 14.04 Template Customization
I'm trying to create an ubuntu template. However when I try to deploy a VM from the template with customizations (setting a static IP), the customizations fail leaving the network in a nonworking...
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VUM deployment on a non-vCenter server using the vCenter Server default SQL...
Hi All, I'm very new to VMware and have what I'm sure is a basic question...so here goes . Is it technically possible/a supported configuration to install vCenter Server on a Windows platform with the...
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