ESXi on Macbook Pro 5,4 HDD
I have an old Macbook Pro 5,4 that I'd like to install ESXi 5.1 on. The installation works great from a USB and I can get through it, except it does not recognize my Macbook's internal HDD. This is a...
View ArticleRe: Fully connecting directly attached datastores in an ESXi cluster?
Hi in this case you need something like a virtual appliance which uses your local storage to turn it into a shared storage. Your hosts then can access the storage via iSCSI/NFS. In the end you will...
View ArticleRe: Форвард портов виртуального файерволла в vSphere
Спасибо за Ваш интерес к этой проблеме!Насчет доступа 86.134.17.85 из интернета это 100% я это сразу проверил-все работает шикарно-просто не форвардит Я тоже было подумал - что это не вмваре виноват......
View ArticleProblem With Network Adapter
Hello every body I have a PC (dell Optiplex 7010) with a Built in network adapter Intel 82579LMI installed ESXi 5.1 on the PC and It work FineAfter this i decided to add another network adapter to...
View ArticleRe: Server Monitoring Tools - Advice, Direction, help please
Check the VMware Monitor from MindArray IPM (http://www.mindarraysystems.com/vmware-performance-monitoring-tools.php). This allows setting threshold on temperatures, fan and other Hardware sensors. And...
View ArticleRe: View 5.2 - sysprep breaks USB redirection
Thanks for the update Geoff. Glad the workaround worked.We are trying to reproduce the problem, but many attempts to do so have always worked. We will keep trying to repro and find root cause.Anyway,...
View ArticleRe: SRM 5.1 & NetApp - VM with RDM and MSCS
Thank you very much to you both for the answers.There is a MSCS that I can not delete. How could configure replication with rdm disks? I think that the virtual machine and volume by rdm, must be all in...
View ArticleRe: Script for 5.1
Hello, here is that what you need (you can change the 5.0 script, to get working on 5.1):I went to roll out a new VMware server, grabbing the fresh ESXi 5.1 build. When implementing ghettoVCB I...
View ArticleRe: Problem With Network Adapter
one issue could be that the network card is not on the hcl.Please check the HCL underFrankVMware Compatibility Guide: System Search
View ArticleRe: Map spanned vmdk
Yes. Windows OS.. In windows we can convert MBR disk to GPT without dataloss.. Another OS I am not sure
View ArticleRe: changing vm storage drs automation level
Hi LucD I tried $pod.ExtensionData.PodStorageDrsEntry.StorageDrsConfig.VmConfigthen$pod.ExtensionData.UpdateViewData()then$pod = Get-DatastoreCluster -Name $datastoreclusterThe VM still doesnt appear...
View ArticleRe: Unknown compliance errors for mailserver and ds2webb/c
I may have stumbled across the answer. WIll know for sure in about 3 hours. I honly had about 1GB fo free space on client0. I forgot to clean up the exchange and cygwin installation files. Cleaning...
View ArticleThe transaction log for database 'VIM_VCDB' is full
Over the weekend the VIM_VCDB database hit the 10gb SQL Express limit. We shrank the database down to just under 8GB and reduce the log database file down to 500mb. Now I'm seeing this errors in Event...
View ArticleRe: Unknown compliance errors for mailserver and ds2webb/c
Ah, yes that could cause any number of issues. Good luck.
View ArticleBest practices regarding replication of protected site vsphere database to...
All, The question at hand is do we failover a production sql server that requires protection through SRM 5.1, but houses the current protected site vsphere database. Will we have issues if the sql...
View ArticleRe: problem mounting external 4TB drive on ubuntu vm
PMJI: Some (very) basic questions:1. Do other USB devices connect OK?2. Does the device show up in VM/Removable devices (or the status bar) when you plug it in?3. In VM Settings, is the "Automatically...
View ArticleRe: Vmware 9.0.x on Linux-3.10.0 patches?
> OK. I can pull down 3.10-rc1 from the Ubuntu Kernel archives (http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/)- pre-compiled since I don't care to roll my own kernel - especially if the patch...
View ArticleHow to connect physicl nic to a virtual switch ? (esxi 5.1)
Hi, I am trying to programatically connect a physical nic to a virtual switch.I am doing this as part of the virtual switch creation in which the HostVirtualSwithSpec is used with...
View ArticleRe: problem mounting external 4TB drive on ubuntu vm
Have you looked in the vmware.log file for any clues? If you want you can archive (compress) it and attach it to a reply. NOTE: DO NOT copy and paste the contents of the .log file into the body of a...
View ArticleRe: vCenter Single Sign On master password
Andrew_Keller_Ctr wrote:Do I use a completely separate Windows installation and install SSO there?Yes. Create what is referred to as the DummyDB by installing SSO on a completely different VM. Then...
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