SRM 5.1 configuration
Hi all, I am currently trying to upgrade my SRM 4.1 environment to SRM 5.1. My question is the following. Can SRM 5.1 work on a mix environment? I was able to work with a mix environment of ESX 3.5 and...
View ArticleSeparate vCenter for vCloud director infrastructure?
My vCloud Director experience is limited to labs and sessions at VMworld. In of the sessions, a VMworld employee stated that you need at least two vCenters. One vCenter would contain all the hosts...
View ArticlevCentre Hosts events every few seconds - user root@127.0.0.1 logged in as
hi - i have recently upgraded my DL360 Gen8 hardware to ESXi 5.1. Update 1. Every 60 seconds i now get the following Events logged in vCentre ... user root@127.0.01 logged in asuser root@ logged out I...
View ArticleMulti-Sites VMs backup solutions ?
Hello i am currently running 7 ESXi host 4.1 -5.1 servers in 7 diffenrent cities. Each host contain 4-5 VM. They are connected togheter in vCenter appliance 5.1 in one of the location using NAT with...
View ArticleCloned DNS server issues
First let me preface this by saying I cloned our production DNS servers via clonezilla and restored that clone to a VM on our private network. Here's what I have and what I'm trying to accomplish.What...
View ArticleLinux Kernel 3.9-4 Guest-VMware Tools fails to install
Host Windows 8Guest Debian Sid VMware Tools fails (as it does in VMWare 9) with following error message: Creating a new initrd boot image for the kernel.update-initramfs: Generating...
View ArticleDatastore size is smaller than virtual disk
Just deployed a fresh installation of ESXI 4.1 rev3 on a new Dell PE R520 server with 4 1gb disks configured in a single RAID5 array. When I log in with vSphere and go to Configuration>Storage it...
View ArticleData-va backup
Is there an easy way to backup the data from the data-va VM so we can take it offsite. We use IBMs TSM for our other backups and that goes to tape and then offsite. I don't suppose a TSM Linux client...
View Articletransport vmdb error 44
transport vmdb error 44 vmware authorisation service is not running
View ArticleVMDirectPath and ATI Radeon
I am using VMware ESXi and I am trying to setup a guest that is Windows 7 that will have an ATI Radeon video card passed through to it. I actually had this working on a previous system but I had to...
View ArticleNetworking best practice for 2 hosts with 4 nics
Whats the best practice for networking configuration with two Esxi 5 hosts, each with 4 nics.? Our storage will be SAS connected. We will need to have about 10-12 VMs. Our network is a flat network...
View ArticleIssues with Deploying a VM from template
I am having some issue deploying a VM from template with guest customization. I have not been able to find any answers on the web.Here is my setup: vSphere 5.1.0Build 1064983 1) Create a VM (WIN2K8R2)...
View ArticleGuest Customization not working?
Running: ESXi 5.1.0, 1021289, vCenter 5.1.0b. I created a new specification in "Customization Specification Manager" and applied it to a VM during a template deployment of Windows 2008 R2.The...
View ArticlevCenter and vCloud Director package integration?
I am trying to use some tasks from the vCenter library and the vCloud Director library but they have different variable types: Specifically I have a work flow that instantiates a vapp based upon todays...
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Linux Client for vSphere and vCenter 5
Hey folks, I know this has been dragged through the mud a lot over the past two years and with the introduction of a web-based GUI for vCenter I'm not sure how necessary it will be, but does anybody...
View ArticleIs it possible to virtualize OS 9 or OS 8 on Mac OS X using VMWare Fusion 4?
Hi. I have VMWare Fusion 4 and was wondering if I obtained the installer discs for OS 9 or OS 8, would I be able to virtualize them on my MacBook Pro running OS X Lion?
View ArticleDisk Space "Over by" in Capacity Risk Details
Hi, We have a vanilla install of vCenter Operations Manager 5.7.1 however there seems to be an issue the the "Disk Space" reporting in virtual machine capacity. VCOM/VCOPS is reporting that we have 0...
View ArticleVMWare ESXi 5.1 update 1 with multicast. Everyone be aware
I am not a VMWare expert and my main knowledge is in networking but I've used ESXi 5.1 update 1 enough. We have a ESXi 5.1 update 1 environment that has been having issue for almost six months now....
View Articlevmmark2.5 Error log "help"
1:VC-listhosts.txt VMmark 2 PowerCLI : 1.15 Starting Timer : OKStarting Cluster ListHosts :: VC : vcserver Cluster : Cluster_RH2285 Passing Login Info : An error has occurred connecting to vcserver...
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