Multiple NICS without Link Aggregation
I have 6 ESX 4.1 servers. Each server has 6 NICs. Current setup is VMNIC0 & VMNIC1 are for Service Console. VMNIC2 is for vMotion and the last three are for VM guest traffic. I have two Cisco...
View ArticleIsolating Backup Traffic
I'm using Image level backup with both Veeam and Avamar on vSphere 5.1. When the backup software access an ESXi host to backup all of its vmdks, we are wanting to make sure that traffic is not sent out...
View Articledirect attached storage: interfaces not detected in vSphere Client
Hello,I am having trouble getting my ESXi boxes to see a PowerVault MD3200 Direct Attached Storage array. This does not appear to be a very common setup, as I have had a difficult time finding...
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Unable to select VMware Infrastructure Server
Hi, I'm trying to convert a Ubuntu 12.04 VM to a VMware Workstation VM using the Standalone Converter on the same Windows 7 64bit machine. TheSource type for the VM is a 'Powered On Machine' with a...
View ArticleLoad Based Teaming to Netapp filer with multiple vifs
Good day everyone! We are deploying vSphere 5 for our view environment, and are running into issues. We used to use fast etherchannel for active/active load balancing, but now are switching to vDS...
View ArticleStrange Issue: Can't deploy new VM unless I select a different name
Ok, two days, two different hosts (ESXi 4.1 u2), two different administrators trying to create a virtual machine. They provision the VM with no problems, point it to a kickstart server to load it with...
View ArticleVmware error with storage vMotion failing at 14%, Error 0xbad010b
I've never had an issue with vMotion before, but for some reason I can't change hosts on my VM's. They all have Vmware tools, up to date, and everything is green with them. I have 3 hosts in the...
View ArticleUpgrade vSphere from 4.1 to 5.1
Good day everyone,I am new to VMware and have been tasked with upgrading my company's VMware infrasturcture to v5.1 Presently our vSphere consists of:vCenter 4.164 bit physical serverSQL Server 200864...
View ArticleHow to set up web session timeout
I need to set up a timeout for the appliance user sessions. I triedVAMI_AUTHENTICATION_TIMEOUT=1; export in VAMI_AUTHENTICATION_TIMEOUT /etc/bash.bashrc, but the users are not logged out from the...
View Articleunable to install VMwareTools.
I got this error when trying to install vmware tools ona 2008r2 vm. Unable to install VMware Tools. An error occurred while trying to access image file "/usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/windows.iso" needed...
View ArticleCloning server 2012 Domain Controller
HI Group, I am trying clone our prod 2012 Domain Controller so that we can use it in our Test Lab which is isolated from productionWe tried to clone the DC , copy VM to Lab network, started the VM but...
View ArticleESXi Hardening - host services/firewall
When it comes to securing inbound/outbound host traffic is there a comprehensive list of native vSphere/vCenter services (in English) that shows which systems require what ports? For instance, I am...
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Multi-display reverts to single after unlocking Win7 client
Had an issue today. Left Workstation running in multi-monitor mode across 3 displays. Came back after the client (Windows 7 64-bit) had locked the screen due to inactivity. When I entered my...
View ArticleAdding OWA as a web application to Horizon Workspace
We have setup horizon workspace and have most of it configured.The one thing we would like to do is add Outlook Web Access as a web application but finding it difficult to find information on what we...
View ArticleUnable to open file"/...../Windows XP Professional.vmdk: The system cannot...
OS X 10.8.4Windows XPFusion 4.1.4 (900582) Noob here. I started running a Sugarsync backup of the files on my computer and now my VMware for XP won't work. My other VMware for Windows 7 does work for...
View ArticleReverted to a snapshot and it reappeared and kept growing
Hi all I couple of weeks back I did some work on one of our servers, a win server 2003 running exchange 2003. Before this I took a snapshot. The work did work out so I reverted. about a week later the...
View ArticleFailed SSH Check
Greeting, Got error ` Failed SSH Check`` I did the steps which followed vmmark 2.5 manual page 108 for esxi 5.xPlease help me take a look what is wrong, online waiting... result file attached Thanksnewbie
View ArticlevShield Manager is not registered with the VC x.x.x.x
Hi, running in to a weird problem with a new vCD (latest) install. When trying to add the first vCenter and vSM to the vCD instance, the vCenter will add correctly, but the vSM fails with the error...
View ArticleКакой сетевой интерфейс используется при перемещении ВМ между хранилищами?
vSphere 5.0u2VAAI нет в лицензииiSCSI СХД Иногда приходится использовать следующие возможности:- сказать browse datastore и скопировать папку с ВМ или файл ISO на другую datastore;- произвести холодную...
View ArticleDoes vCenter Server Heartbeat (WAN) requires SRM
Hi, Does WAN deployment method of vCSHB require Site Recovery Manager or vice versa? Thanks!
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