Hosts with different NICs and vDS
Hello Gentlemen, I'm currently migrating an ESXi environment from 4.1 to 5.1. The migration involves upgrading all existing servers to vsphere 5.1 and also migrate all VM's from an IBM SAN to a Nimble...
View ArticleRe: Steps for changing network addresses of the cluster
You can disconnect it and then remove. It should work.
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Re: External Network Configuration
So when you add an external network, you pick a vSphere port group. 1. you give the information required to configure NIC cards to be attached to that network, so yes ... whatever is on the actual...
View ArticleRe: How to troubleshoot intermittent network problems with guest in ESXi 5?
Any one sorted this? I have exactly the same problem except I have a single VM on ESXi 5.1 (Dell version) and it randomly drops the connetion for about 8 sec or so. No events in Server 2008 R2 or...
View ArticleRe: No Shutdown option via GUI in 5.1.1?
Thanks for the response. We migrated from LabManager which had this feature. I understand vCD is CIvApp based, but I would have thought a simple feature such as a 1 click solution to "Shutdown only...
View ArticleBeware the free VCAP voucher promotion
Saw it, and followed the link to the VCAP classes in my area. Employer paid $4k for the class. Come back, denied voucher because it was not an "authorized" Vmware training center. Even though the...
View ArticleRe: Windows Server 2012 won't boot on ESXi 5.0.0 build 821926
This is from today - but its been a few days since I had the VM up. Thanks in advance!
View ArticleRe: How to troubleshoot intermittent network problems with guest in ESXi 5?
Whiskey, are you running 5.0 or 5.1?
View ArticleRe: Hosts with different NICs and vDS
Welcome to the Community - If I have one vDS using 10GE uplinks, can I add the IBM (older) hosts that are using 1GB uplinks? - Yes you can just remember the uplinks will need access to the same vlans...
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Jefijeff, can you email me directly at lbourque@vmware.com with the details of this? Let's see if we can figure out what happened and get it resolved.
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Re: Fusion 5 Bootcamp Boot when Windows Installed as EFI
jim.gill wrote: Woody -- Your message is complex, please forgive me if I misunderstand. Come on Jim, it's not that complex! Once you get a hybrid MBR onto your system, it will probably stay around...
View ArticleTotal Storage amount in datacenter
I'm trying to get a script that will give me the total amount of space used in an entire data center. I will like to run it against the data center from the virtual centers. There are a total of about...
View ArticleRe: Virtual machine can't ping host on fresh vSphere5.1 install
I'm going to dig a very big hole and jump inside.I have done a mistake under PRTG where ip was changed between 172.20.20.10 and 172.20.10.10
View ArticleRe: Beware the free VCAP voucher promotion
Thank you for the quick response. Regardless of the outcome, I appreciate at least you hearing my side of the story. Thanks!
View ArticleRe: Windows Server 2012 won't boot on ESXi 5.0.0 build 821926
Your guest OS type is set to Windows Server 2008 R2. Try changing it to Windows Server 2012.
View ArticleRe: Steps for changing network addresses of the cluster
Ok then sorry, this does work, but I am unable to re-add host in the cluster now - THe host cannot be admitted to the cluster's current Enhanced vMotion Compatibility mode. Powered-on or suspended...
View ArticleRe: Windows 8 on a Windows XP Host?
lovly wrote: if VMWare works on HOST then any GUEST OS will be happy... The problem with making statements like this is it's erroneous! Not all OSes or versions of some OSes do well in a Virtual...
View ArticleRe: Veeam and NFS
Thanks guys. Not sure if we will tap into our Hitachi (BlueArc) SAN unit since since space is very tight. We have a few Dell 2950 servers that were once used as ESXi hosts. Maybe just format them...
View ArticleRe: Steps for changing network addresses of the cluster
If you have EVC you will need eventually to power off all VMs when doing the new vCenter. Do you have different hardwares? Can't you disable EVC?
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