Re: Windows 8 isn't recognizing extra space in resized hard drive
Best tool to do that http://www.partition-tool.com/resource/windows-8-partition-manager/extend-system-partition-windows-8.htm
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Daniel, can you provide more specifics? I am looking at my lab 56 that has been up about same time, and when I select planning tab from vsphere UI I get the page with the greyed out New...
View ArticleRe: How can I assign an IP Pool to a particular VM with vSphere Hypervisor
Hello and welcome to the communities. How do you have the networking set up on the ESXi server? Are you talking 2 internal networks, or what exactly?
View ArticleRe: SRA Requirement for Multiple Storage/Site
hmmm.... let's say i have 4 sites (A, B, C, D). Sites A, B, C are replicating to site D. All are using different Netapp arrays. there's only one type of SRA for Netapp, so i would think i would only...
View ArticleRe: Problems with ThinApp'ed application that uses native WINWORD.exe
Got it! I recaptured and took another look at the project folder.At first I through all emtpy folders away, including %appdata% %personal% etc. to try to make it as small as possible.But apperently I...
View ArticleRe: VMmark2 PowerCLI Service Failed to Start :: Workers Ready:0
I just reinstall JRE and STAF to match the prebuild workload VMs, DS2DB, DS2DBWeb, OlioDB and OlioWeb. I knew these VMs could only import to ESXi 5.1 because of Hardware version. I cat the...
View ArticleHow to add storage/datastore to ESX host using vsphere SDK for perl?
Hi, Provided a LUN no., Is there any available code on how to add storage (datastore) onto an ESX/ESXi host using vsphere SDK for perl? Regards,Pranesh
View ArticleRe: Network requirements
Sorina, I dont know of any white paper on network requirements for data collection. I worked at Integrien before vmware bought us, and NOBODY every talked about minimum network specs. I have seen it...
View ArticleRe: Use vdiskcreate.pl for "Thin" vmdk
When looking for why my vDiskCreate was failing, I searched high and low and this post was the closest I found to the answer. It pointed me to the following section: Okay, onto your question. So...
View ArticleRe: How can I assign an IP Pool to a particular VM with vSphere Hypervisor
I am very very new to virtualization. Let's say I have 3 IP addresses: 21.21.21.21 (The IP I access vSphere) 21.21.21.22 (The IP of the first server I want to virtualize) 21.21.21.23 (The IP of the...
View ArticleRe: How can I assign an IP Pool to a particular VM with vSphere Hypervisor
With the default setup of ESXi, there will be a Management Network and a Virtual Machine network. In this case, you would build out your virtual machines, and put them on the default network created by...
View ArticleRe: Updatemanger unable to update the host patches in ESXI 5.1
Hi , I haven't installed the thirdparty VIB's.Also i have rebooted the host but no use.
View ArticleRe: total latancy in datastores
What I find often is that high latency alerts for datastores are tied into PLANNED moves. Big chunks of data moving to meet a planned need. Are your datastores showing high latency without cause? for...
View ArticleRe: Lessons on looping and global variables in functions
You can get the cluster name from a VirtualMachineImpl object by $_.VMHost.Parent.Name. So you don't need the hashtable. In the Get-VMInfo function the "$i=1" and "$j=1" lines should be before the...
View ArticleRe: Server 2012 doesn't reboot
Matt, ESXI 5 U2 was just released a month or so ago and I would recommend upgrading your host to this version (and if you have Vcenter do the same). 2012 can work on U1 but it is not supported and...
View ArticleRe: Bizzare vShield Edge NAT/VPN Issue Post-5.1 Upgrade
Looks like this is a known issue during upgrade. Those hidden firewall rules won't go away until the firewall config is updated in some way. So upgrade would go like- 1) Upgrade VCD2) Upgrade VSM3)...
View ArticleRe: Marvell 88E8056 PCIe on ESXi 5
i am having the same problem hopefully someone will advise how to get this Marvel works,can't install my ESXI it hang on the boot asking for NIC
View Articlestopping iscsi i/o
Is there a way to stop I/O to an iSCSI storage server and then reconnect to those LUN's without powering off and on the ESXi hosts? We need to do maintenance on the storage server but starting up the...
View ArticleRe: Datastore not available
Hi Donald, Thanks for your input. I’ll look into that although I do not think that is it. Here is why I am thinking the way I am: I have a total of one virtual drive. ESXi loads from the same...
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