Using vCenter Operations to troubleshoot performance problems
A paper has been recently published in the performance area. It has a lot of great information in it so I'd like to point it out here too. For details, see http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-23094
View ArticlevCAC virtual machine provisioning
Hi,How to create a template for a virtual machine to be used in vCAC and be visible for data collection template ?
View ArticleDisabling automatic guest resizing
Hi - I just started using VMware Fusion recently on some shiny new Apple hardware to run Windows XP Professional (recycled an old vmdk/vmx from another machine). It seems to work fine, but I seem to...
View ArticleAge of Empires II The Conquerors Black Screen and Colors go to 8-Bit
Hello, yesterday I purchased the newest version of VMware Fusion to get it to run with Mountain Lion. As it turns out it the upgraid damaged my game-flow. Let me explain: Age of Empire II the...
View ArticleIssues with VMware VMIA after upgrading Vcentre from 5.0 to 5.1
After a upgrade from Vcentre 5.0 to 5.1 we are now unable to get the VMIA server to talk to the management server. I get the error message below. Any Assistance in this issue would be greatly...
View ArticleVMwareToolsUpgrader.exe has initiated the restart
Hi, One of the vm has rebooted in my environment.when i check the event logs of the VM it shows "The process C:\Windows\TEMP\vmware-SYSTEM\VMwareToolsUpgrader.exe (pord-vm1) has initiated the...
View ArticleCaught up on SSO registration
WHen we initially installed vCenter, we didn't have an SQL server. We do now, so I'm migrating the DB to the new server. Well, trying to. I followed the instructions, and the DB is running on the new...
View ArticleESXI 5.1 Update 1 get BSOD with exception 14 (Areca ARC-1200 RAID controller...
Hi all!Server:MB: Intel S1200BTLCPU: Intel E31220RAM: 2x4 GB KingstoneRAID1: Areca ARC-1200HDD: 2x500 GB HGST BIOS and RAID controller firmwares are latest.There are 2 guest systems: Windows Server...
View ArticleEVC Issue
Hi All, Since migrating to 5.1 from 4.1 we have been having issues enabling EVC, this had been working in the previous 4.1 environment but now when trying to enable EVC we get the following error, The...
View ArticleNot able to access rawReport API
Hi, Whenever I am trying to use /api/rawReport API, I am encountering with the below error. <ns1:XMLFault xmlns:ns1="http://cxf.apache.org/bindings/xformat"> <ns1:faultstring...
View ArticleHost CPU - MHz, Host Mem - MB, and Guest Mem - % fields report a zero value...
Out of 10 Host 5 esxi host are not showing CPU/Host Memory performance states. All ten ESXi 5.1.0 hosts managed by vCenter Server 5.1.0Any suggestions on this.
View ArticleVcenter 5.0 Web client
Merhaba Arkadaşlar, Geçen gün kullandığım Vcenter 5.0 üzerine Web client kurulumunu gerçekleştirdim. ama web client service kendini stop ediyor. Sorunun neden kaynaklı olduğunu bulamadım.
View Articleファイルをロック出来ず、起動できません
VMWorkstation9を使用しています。Windows7とXPSP3を同時に使っていたのですが、Windows7が調子悪く、VMをタスクマネージャーから強制終了しました。ホストはWindows8です。その後、再起動してVMのXPを起動しようとすると、ディスク「「ファイルをロック出来ませんでした。ディスクD:¥VM¥・・・¥XP・・・.vmdk」、またはこのディスクが依存するスナップショットディ...
View ArticleHTTP-REST/HTTP-SOAP plugin and SSO authentication.
Hello. Can anybody provide any help regarding the topic? More details:I have two instances of vCenter Orchestrator (version 5.1.1) installed in my environment. Both of them are configured with SSO...
View ArticleVM Hardware 7 & 8 not 9?
Hello all, According to the vCNS quick start guide linked below http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vshield_51_quickstart.pdf VM hardware 7 & 8 are required but 9 is not listed as being supported. Does any...
View ArticleVCD 5.1.2 Host Spanning is not working
I am trying to get my vcloud director 5.1.2 into production so we can move off of Lab Manager and when a vm is deployed on a different server that its aasiacted vShield edge device it we can not access...
View ArticleESXCLI methods
Hello Guys, I am totally confused with esxcli things @version 5 $esxcli = get-esxcli -vmhost $esx$esxcli | get-member why I do not see methods here like $esxcli.storage ... $esxcli.network .... etc I...
View ArticleIncreasing the VRAM to 32GB for VMWare Workstation
Hello, I have a HP Elitebook laptop running VMWare Workstation 7.0 on a Windows 7 Professional. The physical RAM of the laptop is 16GB but I would like to increase the virtual RAM of the VMWare...
View ArticleReplicate VDP appliance as a backup AND DR strategy?
Hi all, not sure if I'm posting this in the right spot or not...but here goes. I have VDP deployed, and it works great. However, my concerns are also for DR, not just backups of data. So, I was...
View ArticleVMware Player (5.0.2) Fails to Install Modules on Ubuntu (13.04)
For quite a while, VMware Player (5.0.2) has been popping up error boxes on my Ubuntu host. The box would prompt me to install modules into the kernel. When I clicked 'Agree', VMware would attempt to...
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