How to maintain datastore availability after upgrading to ESXi 5.1 with new...
How can we maintain the access to the presented LUNs and the VMFS datastore after we upgrade the ESX into ESXi with new naming convention and new IP addressing scheme ? My back end SAN is EMC Clariion...
View Articlelinux guest missing Virtual Disk.vmdk
I had a made a terrible mistake and deleted the vmdk file from my mac in a hasty migration and no longer have this file and can not start my vm and am at a total loss on how to recover from my mistake....
View ArticleStaging upgrade to vsphere 5.1
Hello All I am just looking for some advice regarding upgrading my current vsphere 5.0 to vsphere 5.1 I would like to stage the upgrade so I don't have to do every piece during the weekend. What parts...
View ArticleHow can I get the "powered on" state history of VM's?
HI, How can I get the history of a VM's power state? Questions like "when was the VM last powered on?" Thanks, A
View ArticleBest way to move VMs between two clusters: HP and UCS
Hello,We have to move VMs from the UCSChassis cluster: 6 ESXi hosts into an HPChassis Cluster. I am just wondering how to do it with the minimum downtime. Thanks for your help,
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MSI error when attempting to update from 8.0.3 to 8.0.6. Help!
I successfully installed Workstation 8.0.3 a few days ago. Then it offered an update to 8.0.6 which I don't believe completed. Since them I cannot open one of my images. I get an errorWhen I attempt to...
View ArticleSwitching between guest and host hangs computer
I am running VMWare Fusion 5.0.3 on an Late 2012 27-inch iMac with a 3.4Ghz Core i7 and 16Gb RAM running OS X 10.8.4. The guest is 64-bit Windows 7. Here is my problem: If I stay in the guest OS for...
View Articlevcenter keeps showing everything "offline" and "disconnected"
Running 3.5 on several hosts with vCenter. things keep being thrown offline or disconnected. Hosts actually say "not responding" and VMs show "disconnected" If I restart the primary service, it comes...
View ArticleFloating pool, persona management, default printer not remembered
I've deployed a small View 5.0 floating pool with Persona Management enabled to a few users, so far everything seems to be working just fine. The only exception is with default printers, a looks up the...
View ArticleView Client Freezing
I have a View Client installed on a Windows XP desktop with 2 monitors. We are using View 5.01, ESXi5U1 and vCenter 5U1. Periodically the View Client freezes where the user can't do anything on the...
View Articlevmnic Status
Hi, I need one powercli script to check if vmnics connected to a distributed switch is down or linkspeed in less than 1000 mb. Pls help.
View ArticlePersona Printing
I'm new to Personas and am in the process of testing a floating Persona pool it so we don't have to have so many staff persistent desktops to manage. I believe have everything working except for...
View ArticleHow to transfer ESX 4.1 configuration into ESXi 5.1u1 ?
Hi people, How can you transfer the current production ESX 4.1u1 setting (Network, available datastore LUN, VLAN /VM label, Alarms and Folder permission) into the newly build ESXi 5.1u1 host ? because...
View ArticleHow to recover VMFS volume after a RAID controller failure
Dear community, I have a very critical issue regarding my ESXi installation and VMFS datastore.Here is the story:ESXi 5.0 (free) installed on IBM 3650 with adaptec 8k RAID controller and 6xHDD (1 was...
View ArticleFT-Record/Replay functionality is not supported by this virtual machine...
I ran across a bug recently when I created a VM with the latest versions of ESXi 5.1.0-838463, Client ver 5.1.0-860230, vCenter ver 5.1.0-880146. If you create a VM for a Windows 2012 Server OS for...
View ArticleVCP online training
HI Can any one explain VCP online training ? 1. difference between online and classroom training2. disadvantage on online training Is it good to take online VCP training on koenig-india.com,...
View ArticleESXi VM's very slow file transfer to 100Mb clients on Cisco 2960 switches
Anyone seen this before? We've just completed a major LAN upgrade and replaced 12 legacy switches with Cisco 2960's. The LAN is performing very well, but any traffic to and from ESXi VM's is very...
View ArticleGet-VIObjectByVIView error in PowerShell v3
In PowerShell v3 the Get-VIObjectByVIView cmdlet generates two errors if you specify the MoRef of a virtual machine as a parameter. It works without any problem in PowerShell v2. I know that PowerShell...
View Articleadd vmnic puts it in standby
I noticed that when I run esxcli network vswitch standard uplink add -u <nic> -v <vSwitch it always seems to add the nic in standby I realize I could then just configure the port group...
View ArticleESXi + User-Space NFS = write but no read?
OK, so I know that this question has been asked around here (and various other places as well) but I have not yet seen a solution, nor have I seen it asked recently. So, I'm asking again for the good...
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