How can I perform the heartbeat functions enable, disable and markactive...
My company has an embedded system we would like to run within a virtual machine. The system runs on FreeBSD 8.1 and has been extensively trimmed. As an example, of this trimming, we only use the...
View ArticleAnyone here going to the VMUG Conference in Indianapolis?
If anyone is going to the Indianapolis VMUG User Conference, I'll be there presenting two topics back-to-back in the afternoon. VMUG : Indianapolis VMUG User Conference : Event Agenda- vCloud Director...
View ArticleRe: Volume Free Space
You could do this. The alarms would need to be addressed for sure. Check out VMware KB: Troubleshooting a datastore or VMFS volume that is full or near capacity for info on the free space requirements...
View ArticleRe: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon
@technobro1 As long as the laptop is supported under HCL and the CPU has VT-D or MMOU "Whatever AMD version is" it will work. But the question is why would you want to load ESXi on a laptop to do VGA...
View ArticleRe: Run PowerCLI Script everyday and send output to mail
I used a scheduled windows task to run my powerCLI scripts on a daily basis. The script runs from one of our management servers that has powerCLI installed. It gathers some simple information about...
View ArticleRe: Help, VSA down after disconnecting from network
Silly question - but did you plug them back into the same exact ports on the same switch?Maybe it is something simple - like someone took a DHCP lease that is the same IPs? This time of day is when...
View ArticleRe: Removing VMNIC from vSwitch
I noticed that you are using 'Route based IP hash', this can be used only if the physical switch is configured with Etherchannel enabled. If ether channel is not enabled in the physical switch chnage...
View ArticleRe: Failed to load ThinApp Management support interface
If you can't setup another environment then you should just go through and double check all of the permissions to rule that out. Then I would open a ticket with VMware to see if they can assist.
View ArticleRe: Volume Free Space
So if I have 34GB or so free I may be ok? I don't know, I think I may just create a new larger datastore and svmotion it to it. I was going to create a consistency group on the SAN for replication,...
View ArticleRe: Migrate existing View Composer DB to a new DB server
Just did this last weekend. I stopped the Composer service, backed up the DB, restored it on the new server, verified login and DB security settings were correct on the new DB server, changed the ODBC...
View ArticleRe: Removing VMNIC from vSwitch
If you are using VLAN configure "Route based on originating virtual port ID" for PG
View ArticleRe: Volume Free Space
You would probably be OK with 34GB, but personally I feel like that is cutting it pretty close. Like you said, its one more thing to remember and creates additional operational complexity around that...
View ArticleRe: Speccing Out a New ESXi 5 Server
Remember that VMware is handling the management of physical resources. In your example if you have 2 sockets with 4 cores VMware will list it as 8 processors available. That doesn't mean if you assign...
View ArticleAllow adding a permission, while deny Remove/Modify a permission
I am trying to find a way to allow a user to Add a permission to an object (ex:VM folder), while disallowing them to Remove/Modify already existing permissions on the object. In a similar fashion as I...
View ArticleRe: Multi-Cell NTP Sync
Here is the ntpq -p output: remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter==============================================================================*FQDN-ntp .GPS. 1 u...
View ArticleRe: Converting a virtual machine (Windows 2003) fails
Thanks a lot for the quick replies! @Cyberfed27: Sorry, the old esxserver is a standalone Server, not in a cluster like the new one. The new 5.1 Cluster consists of two esxserver is in the same network...
View ArticleRe: Failed to load ThinApp Management support interface
Do You have somewhere any checklist with permissions?
View ArticleHere is a Powercli script to set VM bootdelay option
We had over 700 Vms that we wanted to set a 5 second boot delay option to give people the option to enter the VM bios or BOOT Order FN keys before booting the guest OS. So I rushed together this...
View ArticleRe: Volume Free Space
I've never actually expanded a VMFS volume before. That is creating an extent?
View ArticleRe: Lync 2013 VDI plugin only works with RDP protocol
Hi essisim, No Mistake. If you have Lync 2013 client installed on your laptop or PC and try to connect to a VM, the Lync VDI plugin will not work. I suspect they share common DLL files. I hope MS...
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