powershell: get-vmHost | get-view speeding up
Hello, What property of get-VMHost gets piped to get-view?******************* The reason I am asking is that I want to speed it up but have been using get-VMHost to get the cluster Name.So an...
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View ArticleBackup ESX Host before Upgrade
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View Articlemigrate from old vCenter to new vCenter (V2V)
Gents Hi We just complete installation the new vCenter Infrastructure (Network+ storage, HA ...etc) now we are planning to migrate all VMs on the old vCenter and old ESXi to the new infrastructure :...
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Hello We have 2 ESXi host running several virtual servers. We would like to group the servers together but resource pools is not recommended for this purpose. Any other options within VMware that could...
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View ArticlevSphere 5.5 Installation for c# and web client
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View ArticleAdapter Type Question
Our host environment is ESX 4.0 and ESX5i. All network cards are configured 1 GB. Guests are a mix of 32 or 64 bit W2K3, W2K8 and RHEL.Most guests are using the e1000 driver although we have some...
View ArticleIn VC5.5 HA cluster what options are there for autostarting vm's in a defined...
I have a small ha cluster containing the VC5.5 vm. There is a planned power outage and its not possible to locate alternative hosts on which to run the VC vm or other vms so they will be shutdown...
View Articleesx 5.5 i not find list the command and string for vmx file
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View ArticleEncryption on Virtual Servers
Hello We have a requirment to encypt our MySQL databases. These are running on Windows 2008 servers. What are some of the options to available? We are currently running TrueCrypt but that forced us to...
View ArticleDifferences in Total Capacity (MHz) reported by vCenter
I'm still currently browsing through the documentation, but hopefully somebody can provide a bit of insight. When I am connected to our vCenter server and looking at the Performance tab of an...
View ArticleCreating a DNS/LDAP server in vCenter
Hola! Does anyone have any expereince with creating a DNS/LDAP server in vCenter? I had a request come in that requires a DNS/LDAP server on it's own subnet to oversee multiple resource pools. Query if...
View ArticleIsolating vLAN's in vCenter in a network environment
Hello, I am attempting to isolate a grouping of vlan's in vCenter in a network'd environment. I currently have 10 resource pools assigned with different vlan id's (350 - 360). This network environment...
View ArticleDatastore Selection
Hi All, I want to know ,while provisioning from template ,can i choose different datastore for disks. Regards,Pradeep
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Hello, I plan to use our vCenter SSO and Web client to manage more than one vCenter server instance. If I only assign SSL certificates to SSO and the Web client, will things work as expect if I leave...
View ArticleSYSprep dont run in a template
HelloI have vcenter 5.1Just created a VM 2008 r2CLone it as a templateClick deploy vm from templateChoose customization Fill in the infoSelect generalyseAfetr the new VM is okBUT when the vm boots...
View ArticleHow to speed up vSphere Web Client
Hello, we've got a vCenter Server (as VM - 8 cores, 16GB RAM) and running vSphere 5.1 on all hosts. Since the upgrade to 5.1 we're using the Web Client (as recommended) - but the Web Client seems to be...
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