View Storage Accelerator & ESXi 5.1 still an issue?
Just recently updated all of my hosts from ESXi 5.0 U2 to ESXi 5.1 U1. Noted the following in the release notes:ESXi 5.1 Update 1 Release Notes Enabling or Disabling View Storage Accelerator might...
View ArticlevSphere vCenter5.1U1 and SSO on MS SQL 2012
I see in the notes "What's new" for vCenter 5.1 Update 1, that Microsoft SQL 2012 is now supported. Has anyone tried this yet? vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1 Release Notes We are currently in the proccess...
View ArticleRe: changing vm storage drs automation level
Sorry, forgot to mention that I re-fetched the datastore cluster object after adding VMs to it, and also after changing the sdrsautomationlevel with Set-DatastoreCluster. Unfortunately, it still had...
View ArticleRe: changing vm storage drs automation level
The ExtensionData property is handled a bit differently, compared to regular PowerShell variables and their properties.Did you also try with the UpdateViewData method as I suggested ?It might be a...
View ArticleRe: Converter unable to create a VSS snapshot of the source volume Error code...
Solved my problem as well. The Visio key was the issue. Thanks!
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Resetting a host to evaluation mode
I installed ESXi 5.0 a few months and applied the free license. Since then I've upgraded to 5.1. I want to try and "reset" the license so I can get the 60 days eval while retaining the VM's on the...
View ArticleRe: Resetting a host to evaluation mode
You can run an installation with preserving the VMFS datastore(s), which however will require that you re-configure networking, ... and re-add all your VMs to the inventory after installation. André
View ArticleRe: VMware iPAd Client Display/Connection Issues
have you figured out that bug in vCenter / vcma?. I have 5.1 running in my environment. I cannot get the ipad app to work.... worked with 5.1 thought. I have vcma 1.2.
View ArticleRe: How to export into a CSV VMs that are powered on in a cluster
Try this, $cluster = "cluster name"Get-cluster $cluster | get-vm | Select-object Name,Powerstate | where-object{$_.powerstate -eq "PoweredOn"} | export-csv "C:\vm\csv.csv" -Brad
View ArticleRe: Windows 7 OEM and VMWare Fusion?
Does VMWare have a built in backup tool, or would I need to do it manually?
View ArticleRe: Windows 7 OEM and VMWare Fusion?
mountain2012 wrote: Does VMWare have a built in backup tool, or would I need to do it manually? No, VMware Fusion does not have built-in backup capabilities in terms of normal file backups and IMO a...
View ArticleRe: Conversion fails with kernel error.
I'm having the same issue. Unfortunately downgrading to 5.0.1 didn't help me that version didn't properly recognize the source partitions. Not really sure what to do here. The odd thing is that...
View ArticleRe: Conversion fails with kernel error.
I also had that issue (which is why i upgraded originally). That is fixed by running the following... yum remove lvm2yum remove lvm2-libs Then I grabbed the lvm2 rpms for version 2.02.87 rpm -ivh...
View ArticleMoving from XenServer to vSphere
I am considering redesigning our virtual infrastructure, moving from Citrix XenServer to VMware vSphere. We currently operate a small virtual environment of 5 VMs as follows: 1x SBS 2008 x641x Windows...
View ArticleRe: Conversion fails with kernel error.
oh so close. I made it to the last step and this: rpm -ivh lvm2-2.02.87-6.el6.x86_64.rpmwarning: lvm2-2.02.87-6.el6.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 192a7d7d: NOKEYerror: Failed...
View ArticleRe: Conversion fails with kernel error.
I have initscripts-9.03.31-2.el6.centos.1.x86_64. That's probably why I didn't get that error. I will see if I can dig anything up to help.
View ArticleRe: Conversion fails with kernel error.
Ok I made it past that last error with: rpm -ivh lvm2-2.02.87-6.el6.x86_64.rpm --nodeps I'll post what the final result is when I'm done here.
View ArticleHost Network - Phantom IP
This is just out of curiosity. Running VMWare Workstation 8.x. I have a typical host network. The VM (running CentOS 6.4) is using DHCP to get its IP address from VMWare. The Host is Windows 7. The...
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