Re: Allocation Based
Hudan, Are you trying to generate the report against VC hierarchy or vCD hierarchy? For vCD hierarchy Chargeback automatically syncs allocation values from vCD, whereas for VC hierarchy you need to...
View ArticleRe: Workstation - Bat File to start multiple Virtual Machines
You could create a batch file like this: vmrun start "C:\VM\VM1.vmx"vmrun start "C:\VM\VM21.vmx" This would open both VMs in the same GUI - at least that is the way it works on my Windows 7 host with...
View ArticleJumbo frames, changing MTU size without powering down guest VM
I am trying to disable jumbo frames, specifically change the mtu size to 1500 (down from 9000) in vcenter on a few hosts. Some hosts are running esxi 4.1, others are running esxi 5.0. I am wondering if...
View ArticleRe: Using Powercli I having trouble modifying vm hardware and nic portgroup...
Ok the script ran without error, but when the vm was completed the portgroup had not been changed, the connected on startup was unchecked, and also the cpu/memory also had not been changed. The script...
View ArticleRe: Does vSphere 5.1 still need a DNS server ?
Thanks for VMRoyal and Tom's kindly reply. In fact, we've a production environment which is running vSphere 5.1 without DNS service.There're VM x20 living in ESXi x3 controlled by vCenter x1, and...
View ArticleRe: "Running usbarbitrator start" and RDM's / MSCS
Check out this document. You need to set the RDM luns to perennially reserved so it doesn't try to scan them every time on boot....
View ArticleRe: Virtual Machine Settings Window Freezes With Multiple NICs
I have passed the information on the developers looking into this issue too. Thanks for adding this.
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Web Component Install Failure
After running the configuration tool and selecting the web components I have gone ahead and entered in the license key and database instance name and database name I receive the following error: I was...
View ArticleRe: Multi-Cell NTP Sync
There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with your NTP config or with the configured peer, so maybe the local clock in one or more of the cells is occasionally drifting too far too quickly and going...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.1 management network no connectivity with two nics connected
Additional note: In an attempt to simplify the setup and better understand this issue and its resolution, I am only using one blade and only using ESXi (no vCenter). Using the steps above, anyone...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.1 management network no connectivity with two nics connected
I have tried both downloading the drivers and updating as well as downloading IBM's 5.1 version with the same results. I am guessing anyone can recreate this problem on any hardware. 1. Take a machine...
View ArticleRe: No connection to VR Server: Disk size mismatch
Logged now with VMware. I have a VM with 3 disks, and can protect one of them, but not the other two. Tried deleting the target objects, and re-protecting, but no good. I'll see what VMware Support...
View ArticleRe: Does vSphere 5.1 still need a DNS server ?
I am slightly confused here, do you mean a ESXi DNS Service or a DNS server that ESXi host are registered against and too for naming services?
View ArticleXP Pro will not format during install.
Hello all, I have been struggling with this issue for 2 months now and finally am totally out of ideas. We have a single host, IBM x3650 M4 2x Xeon E5-26200's. ESXi 5.1u1 (IBM build) 32gb (soon to be...
View ArticleVDI environment updates/patching
Howdy, Hypothetically speaking, if I were to reboot the servers responsible for our VDI environment without disconnecting/logging off/shutting down any of the clients, would that cause any issues with...
View ArticleRe: Using Powercli I having trouble modifying vm hardware and nic portgroup...
Are you sure about the NetworkName.DoesGet-vm -VM $_."Server Name" | Get-NetworkAdapter | Select NetworkNameactually display that value ?
View ArticleRe: HA Cluster Shutdown Issue
The ports on the switch are currently configured with a vlan ID and set to spanning-tree portfast. The ports aren't a trunk port so its not set to spanning-tree portfast trunk.
View ArticleRe: Changing VMware infrastructure from 4.x to 5.x
Something else I just thought about, when I bring in the ESX 4.1 hosts to be in the same vCenter 5.1 with the ESXi 5.1 hosts, can I create a cluster for them and move the VMs from the ESX 4.1 hosts...
View ArticleRe: Bypass SSO to allow multiple logins to Service Portal using one browser
I guess it depends on what kind of users you want to use: AD or VSM local.1. For AD users I think the only option is to start the browser application specifying different AD user credentials (e.g....
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