Influence vApp Placement Engine
Is it possible to influence the vApp Placement Engine in vCloud? Scenario: we're adding a cluster of Mac Pros to enable the virtualization of Mac OS inside of vCloud. However, we would prefer that...
View ArticleBackups fail after upgrading from v5 to v5.1
Hello Everyone, Recently we upgraded our vCentre & ESXi boxes from v5 to v5.1, then upgraded guests tools to latest version. Since then, our linux machines back up ok, but we have not been able to...
View ArticleVMware Player 5.0.2 on Slackware 14 host - installation trouble?
Hello - I'm trying to install Player 5.0.2 on a headless Slack 14 system. I am invoking the installer as root with the '--console' parameter to eliminate some of the GTk failures I see in...
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vSphere 5.1 Replication
Hi All, I have Site A and Site B on vSphere 5.1. vSphere replication is not working, error msg: Both Sites are connected, however, unable to see datastores. Appreciate for any help on this issue. Thanks
View Articleunable to find vApp modification details in the blocking task.
I have made a workflow that captures the task/blocking task for vApp modification.When I made a sample change in the vApp, I changed the name, as well as its lease times. However, I am unable to...
View ArticleFailed to request machine from vCAC with blueprint of vCloud type. Error info...
Hi there, We are trying to request a machine from a blueprint but failed. The "Build Information" tab of the blueprint is as follows."Platform type": vCloud"Blueprint type":Server"Provisioning...
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Mass convert all VMDK's to Eager Zero?
Have thousands of VM's with multiple VMDK's each that are all on different tiers of SAN storage. Looking for an easy way to migrate them all online without an outage to Thick Eager Zero, currently all...
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Trouble Formatting Font Color in Report
Hi I put together a script that reports on datastores from various code examples and LucD's Get-FriendlyUnit finction. The output formats the font color to red for Provisioned Space when it's larger...
View ArticleGranted we have 'many' possible outage scenarios
Hi All – I am curious to find out if anyone has gone down the road, in documenting steps to build Service Manager to an operable state after a disaster ? Thank you in advance,C.
View ArticlevMotion fails for certain VMs (14%)
I'm having an issue where a few VMs will not vMotion - the process stops at 14%. So far I've found 3 that have the same issue, all others work fine. The error I receive is: A general system error...
View ArticleWSX Server
Where WSX Server component to disappeared? Is one abandoned or to be included in GA version?
View ArticlevSphere HA Agent Unreachable
I've got a few nodes in a small cluster that are throwing errors when I try to Reconfigure for HA. /var/log/fdm.log for one of the affected hosts has lots of: [29904B90 verbose 'Cluster'...
View ArticleCan an ESXi server use both FCoE and iSCSI at the same time?
Is it possible for an ESXi server to use FCoE and iSCSI at the same time?We are using iSCSI connection for a storage. We are planning to have another storage (VNX) to which we would use FCoE.I wonder...
View ArticleConfigure flow control on nx_nic ESXi 4.1
Does anyone know how I can configure flow control on an nx_nic (10G NIC) in ESXi? I found this article:...
View ArticleTroubleshooting Assistance
I have a nested VM via Workstation 9 studying for VCP exam. I am going through enabling hyper-threading exercise and the properties is grayed out for processors under configuration. I have done a few...
View ArticleAbout vCenter Server5.1 & vCenter Infrastructure Navigator 2.0
HI Everyone, I have been installed vCenter Infrastructure Navigator 1.0 and synced vCenter 5.0 successful.But, after I updated vCenter to 5.1 version, I tried to remove vCenter Infrastructure...
View ArticleCan't start up Minecraft on windows 7 in VMware Fusion 5
I have VMware Fusion 5 on my Mac OS X mountain lion with a Windows 7 on it. So, when I start up Minecraft.exe in windows, (available to download at Minecraft) I get an error saying no OpenGL found and...
View ArticlePower on to BIOS missing
It would be great if the power on to BIOS feature in 9.0.2 was included in the TP/ Greyed out Any plans?
View ArticleNo Shutdown option via GUI in 5.1.1?
In vCloud Director 5.1.1 how do I shutdown the guest vm's without undeploying the entire CIvApp? If I right click on the CIvApp there are 2 options, stop and force stop. Both of which undeploy the...
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