Turn on Fault Tolerance - .vmxf file not found
I'm trying to turn on Fault Tolerance and I'm getting an error message telling me that .vmxf file was not found. Is there a way to recreate it or get round the problem? Thanks
View ArticlevLan for VSA ?
Dear:If i want install VSA,Fisrt,I have to set Networking for each HOST. Q1.the sample as :Network...
View ArticleAuthenticity of host's ssl certificate is not verified
Whenever i transfer a VM from one datastore to another i keep getting "Authenticity of host's SSL certificate is not verified"as the error message. I also got the same error message couple of other...
View ArticleWhat's your opinion of vCenter Protect Standard/Advanced?
How is this product for a virtual environment with mostly Windows Server VMs? Compared to other Enterprise-wide solutions like Symantec and GFI and WSUS, how is this product for patching and...
View ArticlevCenter installation workgroup - Pro's & Con's
Someone could you please tell me what is the advantage and disadvantage if i am installing vCenter 5.1 or 4.1 in workgroup(OS windows 2003 or 2008)? I need to prepare a PPT to present to customer.....
View ArticleError on ESXi 5.1.0 Host
In the events entries on one of my 3 hosts I am seeing numerous messages as shown below. Any ideas on what could be going on? I have ESXi installed on a 4GB SD card. The ramdisk 'root' is full. As a...
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I kicked my vCenter server out of network
Hello Everybody, I have a vcenter 5.1 server running as a VM (win2k8R2). We have all the VMs on distributed switch. I had to upgrade the vnic on vcenter server vm from E1000 to VMXNET3. I made a...
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Virtual Storage Console 2.0 cannot access
I installed the Virtual Storage Console 2.0 on our Vcenter Server for ESXi 5.1.0. I now have the NetApp tab on my vSphere Client but I get a This program cannot display the webpage error on that tab....
View ArticleSpace reclamation of thin provisioned disk won't work
I want to reclaim lost space from a thin provitioned disk of one of my vms. First I coppied 30 gb of data to my 100 gb thin provisioned disk and deleted it again. After that the 30 gb are still...
View ArticleHow to do a vCenter 5.1 unattended simple install ?
We are trying to install vCenter 5.1 through Powershell using a Win2k8 template VM having the installer in it. And want to do the automation of the manual steps involved in its installation. So need...
View ArticleProblem with deploying localized version of Windows 7
Hi, we are planning to upgrade our base template of virtual workstations to Windows 7 Ent.We have installed VMWARE vSphere 5.1 (ESX), and now we have a big problem with customization process.When...
View ArticleSome host's crashing since upgrade to vCenter 5.0
Hello,Since we upgraded our vCenter environment from 4.0 to 5.0 been experiencing crashes on some but not all esx hosts in our environment. Been unableto figure out why some are getting this but its...
View ArticleHost Network Usage
ESXi 5.1vCenter 5.1 Question: How to configure Host Network Usage? Which tab on vSphere Client?Second, most important question:What should be the configuration for Host Network Usage? What is the...
View Articlecan add new physical HD to VSA Storage?
Dear :If i had buid 2 HOST with 500G HD,and use 200G by each to build VSA . now ,I add 1T HD ,and add to storage on the configure/stoeage for each host.can I add 2 1T HD to the builded VSA?How ? THX!
View ArticleCannot log in to vCenter with vSphere client but with web client
Hi! I've been struggling for a while with a vmware lab installation environment. I have installed ESXi 5.1 on two separate hosts and installed vcenter on one of them. After finishing the installation I...
View Article/var/log/vmware/vpx/sso_cfg.log shows old IP Address, how do i change it?
Hello All,I'm dealing with a VCA virtual appliance. initially it was using DHCP to get an IP for testing, the device ended up sticking around, and was assigned a static IP address. My issue is that im...
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Performance monitor in vCenter and in Windows are different
Dear All, I monitored the CPU %usage for a VM with Performance monitor in vCenter and in Windows, but I got 2 different results. The maximum CPU usage monitored with vCenter in a duration was about...
View ArticleRights in vCenter using API
For a customer we want to manage rights on vCenter level. i.e. Group A from AD has the role Virtual Machine User on folder 1 in vCenter containing x amount of VMs. Setting these rights will be part of...
View ArticleCan't we keep the sys prep files for all the versions of win2k3 (like SP1,SP2...
I have windows server 2003SP1,SP2 and R2 in my environment and also have templates for the same.I want to install another windows server by using the template i have from the above.I want to customise...
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