Adobe flash player plugin
Hi all, I am attempting to install Adobe Flash Player Plugin for Firefox via Shavlik. We use a custom template to deploy new software such as Foxit, Firefox and etc... We are able to install Adobe...
View ArticleCouple of basic Hyperic questions
Can the polling interval to the agents be modified? Can they be modified on a per agent basis? Can duplicate alerts be suppressed? DoesHyperichave the ability to monitor or limit the amount of CPU...
View ArticleVXLAN instance does not exist on the host
Hello, I'm trying to deploy VXLAN, so i configured vDS, i have prepared the cluster in Network Virtualization tab, but hosts are in status "Not ready" and i can see this error in system events of...
View ArticleARP issue: two interfaces inside VM resolves with same mac address during arp...
Hello, community! I have problem with Virtual Machine running at VmWare Workstation. You can see my networking in attached images.I'm using vmnet1, which as you can see bridged to eth1 (of host...
View Articlepersona management %username% AND %username%.2
hello curious as to why everyone in the persona repository has two folders referenced above instead of just one? thanks in advance -charlie
View ArticleWorkstation 9.0.2 1031769 build and USB issue
Hi, I upgraded my v9 Workstation installation to the latest v9.0.2 1031769 build yesterday and am now suffering from general USB failures on the host. I noticed shortly after the installation that the...
View Articleinfrequent boot to Recovery Console, Windows Server 2008 R2
Hi! When booting VMs running Windows Server 2008 R2, sometime they end up in the Recovery Console. This seems to happen most often after installing Windows updates (but then again, this is probably...
View ArticleCannot connect heartbeat console to remove server?
Hi, I am trying to connect the heartbeat console on my Win7 PC to the heartbeat service on my 2 vcenter machines, but I am getting "Could not connect to host x.x.x.x: port 52267". On each of the...
View ArticleHow do you change the device name of a storage adapter?
We have a host on which we forgot to disable iSCSI on its Emulex NICs. So the FC HBAs installed with device names vmhba3 and vmhba4 because the iSCSI initiators took device names vmhba1 and vmhba2....
View Articleautomatic vm migration on vswitch fail
Hi, I have 4 nics in the LAN network. I successfully tested the failure of one or more of them (by shutting down the ports on the physical switch). since the nic teaming is set, no lost of even a ping...
View ArticleScript to count total amount of Memory allocated to VM's on each ESX host
Hi, I am looking for a script to add up all of the RAM allocated to VM's per ESX host in vCenter.I can quite easily display the MemoryUsageMB and the MemoryTotalMB but I'd like to get the total amount...
View ArticleUSB AutoConnect
Trying to get a USB HID device to autoconnect, but I appear to be missing something... Here is what I see in the vmware.log for the VM:013-05-15T12:43:23.992-05:00| vmx| I120: DICT...
View ArticleUnable to locate VMware Tools iso after upgrade ESXi 5.0 to 5.1
Hi all, After upgrade my ESXi from 5.0 to 5.1 , Choose some VM to install VMware tools and get error 'The required VMware Tools ISO images does not exist'Follow details on error, I ssh to esx server...
View ArticleSRM Recovery Between 2 different processor family's
I am trying to find out if it's ok to run SRM between 2 different processor family's and different EVC settings between the clusters. I believe that the systems would potentially require an extra...
View ArticleAdding disks to VM or creating new VM in one vApp fails
Hello all, we are experiencing a weird behaviour in one of our customers vApps. It is not possible to add a new disk to an existing vm or to create a new vm.The task fails with error "The operation...
View Articlereclaiming space on thin provisioned disks - used to work, doesn't now
In the past, I used to occasionally go through and reclaim space on thin provisioned disks that had expanded. I was using a technique I've seen listed in lots of different places, involving running...
View ArticleBest reports to measure effect of storage changes?
Hi all, we recently replaced an EMC CX4-480 with a VNX5500 and saw a perceptible improvement in the performance of all our VM's. I now have 200 gigs of fastcache that I'm about to enable but before...
View ArticleBinding with VMKernel network Adapter with the iSCSI Adapter
Hello, I'm trying to automate the flow for connecting the iSCSI initiator with the corresponding target server. The VISDK API doesn’t seems to provide the support for automating the “Binding with...
View ArticleKeeping ESXi and VMware Tools Up to date
I have 3 5.1 hosts I brought up in November of last year managing them with the VCenter appliance which appears to have upgraded itself on several occasions. My question, how to I keep my hosts up to...
View ArticleRe-install vCenter
Hello all, I have a messed up installation of vCenter I want to perform a complete re-install of vCenter non-disrutively and I think I can do it but would like to get some other opinions to be sure I...
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