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Yet another "IP address conflict" issue
I know there have been several threads, but I've dug through everyone one I've found with no success. This seems to be different. A Win7 VM I've had for a long time has started reporting IP address...
View ArticleESXi 5.1.0 disconnects from vSphere client during storage creation
We have a new Dell T420, RAID5, out of the box, with ESXi 5.1.0 already installed, after installing the vSphere Client on my machine, connect and start to create storage, when it is on Current Disk...
View ArticlevCloud System Alerts
Hello,Is there way to get list of System Alerts (such as "No hosts accessible to VDC") through .NET API? Nothing found about this in documentation and google...
View ArticleDeploying VM's from template using customisation
Hi, I am trying to deploy an XP SP3 VM from a template using guest customization but at approx 95% through the process, i receive a popup message saying 'guest customization failed'.When I deploy a VM...
View ArticleWhy limiting vRAM on virtual machine?
It seems that vSphere5.0 supports the maximum vRAM of 1TB on virtual machine by referring the following site. http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf But from the...
View ArticleSeparate dvSwitches for traffic types or use NetworkIO Control with port groups?
If you look at traditional networking documents they recommend separating traffic types into separate physical switches. If that's not possible then using a larger core switch with multiple VLANs can...
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Managing ESXi 5.0 licenses during multiple host replacements
I have six Enterprise licensed hosts running presently and six more new ones I'm building to replace them (one for one). What options do I have in terms of transferring the licenses from old to new...
View ArticleStrange Console Window Behaviour
Hi The issue i am going to outline is probably a pure networking issue, however on the off chance someone has an idea on what might be happening, i continue... OK vCD web access works as does the...
View ArticleMaking datastore visible to single VM
Hi I have vCenter 5.1.0 (Win2008 R2), with ESXi 5.1.0. I have the possiblity to adminster everything with the windows administrator account. For one machine I'd like to give another person the...
View ArticlePassed the VCP-510!
Glad that's over and thanks to all the community for their support and knowledge! Best community in the world!
View ArticleUpgrade from ESXi 4.0 to 5.1 update 1 Failed
This weekend I was upgrading my 3 host servers from ESXi 4.0 to 5.1 update 1 (I do have vmware essentials). The first two upgraded without problems. The last one failed. These servers all have the...
View ArticleVcenter - New Installation with transfer of Permissions and Folder to new...
Hi,i installed a fresh VCenter 5.1 and want to transfer all Hosts from the old 5.0 Installation.Detaching the hosts and attaching it to the new Instance is only half of the work to be done. The Folder...
View ArticleVcenter 5.1 SDK error
Hi I have just installed a fresh instance of vcenter 5.1, I can log onto the console, but each time i do I get an error: Could not connect to one or more vCenter server systems https://fqdn:443/sdk I...
View ArticleOVFtool bug when specifying datastore
It appears that ovftool 3.0.1 has an issue while specifying the target datastore when importing an OVF when the VI is a vCenter 5.0 server with ESX 5.0 Update 1 hosts that have a large number of...
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vmware pricing - some confusion on cpu limits
I need some clarification on the pricing & limits of free & paid versions of VMware vSphere. For free vsphere, this link (VMware vSphere Hypervisor Requirements for Free Virtualization )says...
View ArticleReprotect fails with error
Hi, I'm setting up SRM and did a successful planned migration to the recovery site. Now I want to do a reprotect and do a recovery in the opposite direction.The reprotect fails with the following...
View ArticleLinked clone gives "Cannot complete customization"
Dear All, This is very urgent and need immediate assistance. I tried to do Linked clone from snapshot but while customization step it report error and bailout with message as SOAP...
View ArticleSDK returns StorageCapacity null
I'm using Java SDK to access VMWare VCoud Director. I need same data from the VDC's (CPU used, CPU limit, memory used, etc.). I've no problem with all data except "storage capacity" which is always...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 и jumbo frame
С нуля был поставлен vSphere 5 пару лет назад. Изначально было сделано основным хранилище на NFS. На хранилище, на коммутаторах на ESXi(точнее vDS) было выставлено MTU(читай jumbo frame) 9000.Работало....
View ArticleUnable to create deployment package
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2036173 The KB that was out on this was a little misleading and seemed out of date for 5.1 so I...
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