vCenter High Availability HA
Hi, I am trying to understand how does someone know whether there is enough resources for HA capability. I know that HA can fail if there is no memory and CPU resources but just wondering how is this...
View ArticleRe: VMware Installer could not shut down all running virtual machines ...
Are you running the program update frlom within the program itself? You will have better luck trying to shut down any running guests by loginning in and out - or if that fails reboot the machine....
View ArticleRe: Having issues Thinapp'ing an Access2010 database with ODBC connections
You may try this workaround: [CompassReports.dat]Source=%ProgramFilesDir%\Compass\Reports\reports97.mdb;Change ReadOnlyData to bin\Package.ro.tvr to build with old versions(4.6.0 or earlier) of...
View ArticleRe: Issue with Xen conversion
Are you seeing any VSS/Snapshot provider errors in the Event Viewer within the guest OS? 824 warning 'task-2'] [UsedClusterBitmapImpl] FlushFileBuffers failed for volume...
View ArticleRe: vlans in esxi
Usually you will neither use VLAN1 (native VLAN by default) nor VLAN 4095 (special purpose) or any reserved Cisco VLAN's when you work with trunk ports in ESXi. You can however use any other VLAN,...
View ArticleRe: Check Host Profile Compliance At Host Level
One more thing that we are trying to do is capture the last time the host was checked for compliance. For a host that is not compliant I can find this value in '$Compliance.ExtensionData.CheckTime',...
View ArticleRe: Issue with Xen conversion
Nope. The only one is this one, but it matches when i canclled the task. The others i let run did not create any errors Unexpected failure. Error code: 490@01010004
View ArticleRe: Migrate Vmkernel from DVS to Standard Switch and vice versa
Here is the finalized version and I posted some on it to my blog here:http://nutzandbolts.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/migrate-vmkernel-ports-from-1000v-or-vds-to-standard-switch-using-powercli/ Usage:...
View ArticleBuilding SRM 5.1 into Existing vSphere 5.1 Environment
As the name suggest, this is my latest assignment. First I will say the SSO piece seemed cumbersome when I installed v5.1 (without considering SRM as it wasnt a glimmer in my eye yet). Im simply...
View ArticleRe: vCenter High Availability HA
Unless you disable Admission Control, HA will take care of this itself. It will prevent you from powering on VMs in a cluster, if it cannot guarantee to power on VM's from failed host(s) on the...
View ArticleRe: Trouble running a Windows shell script on 2008R2 - Cannot open file
As is always the case, I figured this one out shortly after posting the question. For anyone who runs into something like this in the future I just added a command to my installation script before the...
View ArticleRe: Oracle RAC 11.2.0.3 on Red Hat 6.3 vSphere 5.0 (ESXi 504890)
Ciao Danilo,Per quello che so io Oracle Linux non é altro che una RHCL. La differenza tra le 2 oltre al logo è che la prima è certificata mentre la seconda è supportata da Oracle. Al link seguente, gli...
View ArticleRe: Issue with Xen conversion
Just for the fun of it, i am running a chkdsk incase thats the issue, but i doubt it. I'll report back when it's done
View ArticleDirect Connect ESXi Servers
Hello,I am trying to directly connect 4 ESXi 5.1 servers to each other via 10GB nics. This is to get 10GB networking without having to pay for a 10GB switch which are spendy. I am able to get network...
View ArticleRe: Check Host Profile Compliance At Host Level
I have no idea. I am afraid that this is not possible because the Test-VMHostProfileCompliance cmdlet only returns VMHostProfileIncompliance objects. But maybe someone from the PowerCLI team can tell...
View ArticlePowershell Jobs not finishing when using Move-VM
This is a script block from a larger script I am using to feed it parameters. The background job never finishes if I leave off the -runasync flag. The task completes fine in VC, but I don't see any of...
View ArticleNew to dvSwitch. Do PortGroup VLANs transmit to cisco 802.1q trunk?
I'm new to the dVSwitch so bear with me. I'm thinking of migrating (eventually) from standard vSwitch on 3 ESX hosts to dvSwitch. Each vSwitch has it's own uplink to Cisco switches and those ports are...
View ArticleRe: Oracle RAC 11.2.0.3 on Red Hat 6.3 vSphere 5.0 (ESXi 504890)
In aggiunta alle informazioni date da Francesco, ti segnalo questo interessante post di Michael Webster sull'argomento Oracle licensing:...
View ArticleRe: vlans in esxi
mrjoli021 wrote: the issue is that the article explains "Set the VLAN ID to 4095. VLAN ID 4095 stands for Trunk mode in ESX 3.x." I dont have vlan 4095 in my switch and my native vlan is another one....
View ArticleCan no longer copy/paste between Fusion and Mac
Hello, Using Fusion 4.1.4. Copy/Paste used to work fine but now it doesn't. No Fusion settings have changed, and all the preferences for Fusion have been confirmed. I've restarted the Windows 7 PC as...
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