Converter 5.1 - Unable to detect disks or volumes on the source machine. Make...
Hi, I'm trying to convert a RHEL 6.4 virtual machine on KVM, pretending this is a physical system during conversion.After a while the conversion stops with the message "Unable to detect disks or...
View ArticleI Can't Use This
Seriously. I can't use VMware Fusion. I haven't been able to use it for quite some time. Here's why: When running a freshly installed instance of Windows 7 (64 bit Ultimate w/ 2 CPUs and 2 GB RAM in...
View ArticleResource Pool vs DRS?
Hello, I have a VM that is running near CPU capacity all day long. I am looking at allocating more resources to alleviate the demand. My question is; Will I be achieving the same thing if I create a...
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Guest cant power on
HImy VM is lockedand when start this Machine see this error how to solve this problem ? My host is ESX 4.1 tnx a lot
View ArticleVcenter SQL Server Backup
Hi,I am trying to backup db on Vcenter using my domain admin id which is also in local admins on Vcenter server but its giving me access deniced error , Even i cant not access VC DB from Management...
View Articlean error occurred during the conversion 'unknown exception'
Hi, this is the error I get when trying to convert a live (or turned off) server 2008R2 Hyper-v machine to Vcenter inf. using VMware Vcenter converter 5.0.0 build 470252. any help would be appreciated....
View ArticleNesting ESXI 5.1 on a ESX 4.1 host
Hi guys, One the nested ESXI 5.1, I can not start up a 64 bits O/S. Error: This virtual machine is configured for 64-bit guest operating systems. However, 64-bit operation is not possible.This host...
View ArticlePowercli and Hardening Guide
Hi All, I have almost addressed all security recommendation from a single powershell script but i'm stuck with below two settings. Disable Managed Object Browser Establish a password policy for...
View ArticleError Joining Host to Domain ( Active directory authentication store is not...
Trying to join a few hundred hosts to the domain. Please advise whyt he below commandline is not working.NOTES:-$VCenterAdmin is an AD account that has permissions in both VCenter and AD, the credetial...
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SSO healthy ?
Recently built vcenter 5.1 installed with SSO running on the same Win2008 Virtual server. Setup a SQL DB on another server for SSO and vCentre.SSO starts a service fine. Added our our AD Domain to SSO...
View ArticleHost Hardware Sensors stale data through PowerCLI
I'm trying to read the temperature values available on the hardware status tab on our hosts via PowerCLI:Get-VMHost | Sort | % { $reading = ((Get-View...
View ArticleInstaller Stuck at EULA
In order to prepare for a SAN installation so we need to have an ESXi installation ready so that it can have the Service Processor loaded on it (so we can get the SAN configured so we can get it hooked...
View ArticleCompress CVD or Layer size?
As I am adding our computers to Mirage, we are running out of space rather quickly! I only have 13 CVDs at this time, they are "new" computers with just a base layer of Windows 7 and Office 2010 that...
View ArticleSSL Problems
We recently replaced the SSL certificate on our horizon servers and now we are receiving this error. Any suggestions?We use a godaddy wildcard ssl certificate.Request failed:...
View ArticleWhat's the best way to get a customized version # out of an ESXi host?
Every quarter we generate a suite of updates (including patches and security scripts) that are manually run on our ESXi 5.0 hosts. I don't have internet connectivity so I have to do it this way. I...
View ArticleMKS: could not connet to pipe \\.\pipe\vmware-authdpipe
Hello Formum members, I am having a little problems with ESXi 5.1 and had the problem appear with the previous 4.1. Details as follows:We had ESXi 4.1 installed on a Dell 1950 (2xdual core 3GHz 16GB...
View ArticleApplication upgrade in app layer
I have a question about application upgrades in the app layer. The App Layer Capture Guidelines 4.0 states in a "Note about application upgrades" that "you can replace the existing app layer with a new...
View ArticleFailed to clone disk: There is not enough space on the file system for the...
Hi all! I installed and configured ghettoVBB on an ESXi 5.0.0 build-469512. On this ESXi I have 2 VM: "LinuxServer" and "WindowsServer". It's about one month that every 3 days the cloning of the...
View ArticleProblems with "Use Windows session credentials"
I have successfully joined ESXi to my domain. I can successfully login to ESXi with vSphere Client if I spell the username out: domain\user and explicitly supply the password. I cannot login using the...
View ArticleioLength / storage optimization
Hello. Im currently analyzing my io workflow - from what i can see in vscsistats, the mostly used length of both my read and write commands, are 4096 bytes.Most of my machines are windows terminal...
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