Deleting consolidated snapshots, running out of space on host
I am currently deleting consolidate snapshots on a host, however as time goes on, and its been going on almost 2hrs now, free space is dropping on my host. I a currently just at over 68GB of free space...
View ArticlevCD IMPORT Guidance - OVF
Hi >> Does anyone know if there is a KB or whitepaper on IMPORT guidance with respect to the the content of the .vmx => OVF parameters ?i.e. either an edit of the .vmx file or some options in...
View ArticleRe: Win 8: Automatic repair couldn't repair your PC - What to do?
Thanks for your help. I get that one has to treat the Windows VM as carefully as a Windows disk. Since deleting the VM disk or deleting the VM both involve reinstalling Windows, I decided to completely...
View ArticleRe: What features lost in View 5.2 if your don't have vSphere 5.2
Thanks guys! That space reclamation is one of the features I was looking forward to trying so i guess I'll have to upgrade.
View ArticleWill upgrading vsphere 4.1 to 5.1 cause any View headaches?
Hello, I have vSphere 4.1 and VM View 5.0 I wanted to upgrade to vSphere 5.1 and at some later date upgrade to View 5.2.If I upgrade to vSphere 5.1 from 4.1 will VM View stop working in any way or any...
View ArticleRe: svmotion script wait-task error
I found the issue is definitely related to the VM Name, if I shorten the test machines name to about 8 Characters it works. The original name must be too long Can I svmotion using some other identifier...
View ArticleRe: Internal Error?
Hi, Just wanted to provide an update to those who ran into this problem. The DB admins manage to disconnect storage to 2 of the CloudCred cluster nodes. This left some people unable to upload images...
View ArticleRe: vcp5-cloud or desktop?
Agreed with scott28tt it really depends on area your are currently working on or the area in which you want get specialized
View ArticleTime synchronization issue vCenter
hi guys vCenter Appliance 5.1 build 880146the thing is I was having issues among two vmware apps, Vmware Data protection was not able to log in since time sync issues. After checking I found my vCenter...
View ArticleRe: Time Sync Issue with Data Protection Appliance
I found these logs when trying to sync time in my vCenter lsassd[5510]: 0x7feeed5eb700:Failed to sync system time [error code: 40075]May 7 13:46:15 vcenter5 syslog-ng[1245]: Log statistics;...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.1 - Health Status Unknown
tomhof, I would like to try it, but can you please explain the exact steps you performed when you say "I enabled and configured the snmp" I'm running ESXi 5.1.0 U1 on a Supermicro X8SIE, it start off...
View ArticleRe: Hyper-V to VMware
It seems to be the folder containing my virtual machines. *Edit: No wait a minute... It is the default location containing one old consolidated VM (which I seldom use).
View ArticleRe: Deleting consolidated snapshots, running out of space on host
Hi, Best practices is please delete the snapshot one by one and do it one VM at time. When using Delete All in the Snapshot Manager, the snapshot furthest from the base disk is committed to its parent,...
View ArticleERROR: Failed to execute processSetup for the Setup : Failed to execute...
I got following error while running tests on Workbench 2.1 with 5.0 SAS Certificaiton: 2.0.0-810278. The tests are running OK on Workbench 2.1 with 5.0 SAS Certificaiton: 2.0.0-470301. Any idea why it...
View ArticleRe: what is the difference between web client and web access
vSphere web access - It is been given an alternative to the ends used to perform administration task on the VM's without using vSphere Client, Not all vSphere administrator tasks were available on web...
View ArticleVirtual to Physical migration of a VM
Hi , I have a scenario where i want to migrate a mount point on the virtual machine which is carved out from a Data store and data store is created from storage LUN.Please suggest me which API do i...
View ArticleRe: Getting Best Performance from ESX 5.1
You haven't mentioned whether your RAID card has a cache or not. ESXi doesn't provide any software level caching like the Windows OS does, and performance on ESXi is generally accepted as being garbage...
View ArticleRe: Need a script for audit purpose
Are the account actions visible under Events and Tasks in the vSphere client ? Can you try connecting to the ESXi server on which you manipulated the account and then run the script ?
View ArticleRe: Alarm action keeps repeating even when the alarm is no longer triggered
What is the alarm which is getting triggered? See if you are facing similar issues vCenter Server 5.x reports false alarms on virtual machines
View ArticleRe: changing vm storage drs automation level
The PowerCLI object does not refresh, unless you do an UpdateViewData.Did you try fetching the datastorecluster object again $pod=Get-DatastoreCluster-Name$datastorecluster
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