maintenance mode Question
How long does it take after exiting maintenance mode for my guests to return back to their original home? For some reason they are not doing it... I want to make sure there is no set time before I call...
View ArticleVMs that mysteriously change Port Groups (Network Connection: Network label)
In one of our environments we have over the last few days experienced issues where VMs mysteriously had their Network connections changed to a different port group on a vdSwitch. When we leave at night...
View ArticleRe: Present iSCSI Target to Guest OS
There's nothing special you need to do other than to install an iSCSI initiator in the guest OS, present the LUN on the storage system to the guest and ensure the guest has network access to the...
View ArticleRe: maintenance mode Question
I assume you are referring to DRS? DRS doesn't do a load balancing, i.e. move guests back. It only migrates workloads in case of resource contention and to meet DRS rules you configured. So if you...
View ArticleNeed a script for audit purpose
1) here are some of the events for user account created,deleted or updated. Need a script for the below.AccountCreatedEventAccountRemovedEventAccountUpdatedEvent
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Hard drive size - 2 specs??
Please excuse the newbie question but I'm completely confused why I can mount, format and use a 3TB drive using the vSphere client but the hardware spec says the maximum is 2TB - 512kb? Formatted drive...
View ArticleNew-Harddisk Problems
Guys, I wonder if someone can help me. I need to add additional hard disks to several virtual machines and am using the vSphere PowerCLI v5.1 against a vCenter Server running 5.1.0b. When I attempt to...
View ArticleRe: Please, advise the server configuration for 500 platforms
Hi Yepelman This is trial 4.3-EE version.I want to understand which kind hardware need for 500 platforms. Thanks. Dima
View ArticleDebian Squeeze guest idenfication
I've imported a Debian Squeeze 32-bit guest to ESXI 5.1. Using vSphere Client 5.1 Build 941893, I do not have Debian 6 (squeeze) as an available guest OS. (For the mean time I've used Linux Other...
View ArticleClash of the PoSH / PowerCLI cmdlets
So, I learned today the hard way that by adding the vSphere Powercli snapins to my PoSH 3.0 session on a server 2012 with the Hyper-V role enabled, that there are several cmdlet names that clash by...
View ArticleRe: New-Harddisk Problems
You are mixing parameters from different parametersets for the New-Harddisk cmdlet.In your case CapacityGB and DiskPath can't be used together.
View ArticleRe: Is it somehow possible to prevent the USB connection checkbox? ("choose...
I have similar problem. If I assign all the usb device to the host, is there a programmatic way for the guest OS (vm) to get the usb device from the host?
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Re: Clash of the PoSH / PowerCLI cmdlets
I think you described the problem, more and more of us are facing nowadays, very concise and correctly.Alan will not like me for this , but PowerCLI as a module is the only way out I can see. In any...
View ArticleRe: Hard drive size - 2 specs??
Welcome to the Community - In ESXi 5 the virtual disk size is still capped at 2 TB - 512 B - if you want to present the full 3 TB you will have to present it to the VM as an RDM -
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Re: Debian Squeeze guest idenfication
Really? I've got vSphere Client v5.1.0 build 786111 and I've got it. Actually, just checking one of my machines, if it's got hardware rev 7, it didn't show me Debian 6. I upgraded the VM hardware...
View ArticleRe: Thinapp IE7 running on Windows 7
Lakshman Can you share the project files for IE7? I too am having issues getting it to work on Win 7
View Articlevcp5-cloud or desktop?
i passed the vcp5-dcv last year.do you think it is easier to add vcp5-cloud or desktop to my certifications?thanks.
View ArticleRe: Debian Squeeze guest idenfication
You say you are using that specific client but is your vCenter and ESXi host running on 5.1 ?
View ArticleRe: Need a script for audit purpose
Try something like this $eventTypes="AccountCreatedEvent","AccountRemovedEvent","AccountUpdatedEvent" $start= (Get-Date).AddHours(-1) Get-VIEvent-Start$start-MaxSamples ([int]::MaxValue) |where...
View ArticleRe: Accessing values stored in configuration element
Thanks, no, it's only read only in the subsequent workflows so no issue with that.
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