Re: vCenter Appliance loses password?
afunnynut wrote: How are you logging into the VC? Using vSphere client or PUTTY when it stops taking the backup? Could you share the VC log bundles?When it stops taking the backup, we cannot log into...
View ArticleRe: P2V Repeatedly Fails at 98%
No. The controller type is set to what I would have expected and, as Draconian as it sounds, when I start getting BSOD's, I lose faith in the image very quickly. I'm going to go for another clone this...
View ArticleRe: need help my windows 7 ,can't open it
Welcome to the Community, please run "Help" -> "Collect Support Information" from the Help menu bar and attach the resulting .tgz file to a reply post. André
View ArticleWhen to use multiple virtual distributed switches
What factors should influence the decision to use more than one VDS?
View ArticleRe: CIM not working properly,failed to connect
Been digging around as I've been wanting a suitable CIM client to test connections to our ESXi 5.1 hosts to enumerate WBEM data. Came across this info from VMware that might also help with...
View ArticleRe: Pb connexion avec VI client vers ESXi 3.5
Disons plutot que pour l'instant on a pas vraiment le temps (du moins en ce qui me concerne) de tester ce type de manip' Eric
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Re: How to gather real-time CPU usage from ESXi host and MVs - Linux/Windows.
Hello Thank you for your suggestions, all ideas are welcome The optimization part won't be done by me, I'm tasked with gathering the data, but I will suggest that it might not work as intended. I've...
View ArticleRe: management network, set on host or vcenter?
Not sure I understand this. All involved components - vCenter Server as well as the ESXi hosts - need their own network settings (IP address) in order to work in an IP network. Usually you will manage...
View ArticleRe: question about virtual machine networking vs phy networking
hmm....well my storage vendor is saying there is nothing wrong. I am out of ideas. how can copying a 20gig file from 1 vm to a 2nd vm over a windows share on the same storage group, on the same host...
View ArticleRe: VM Direct Path I/O and vMotion
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-F9A4F876-B2A6-447D-ACB6-711A2D8C6550.html
View ArticleRe: Getting a VM to keep its static IP in Vcloud
This is a bug and will be fixed in the next patch release (5.1.2) buckmp wrote: Morning all, I'm new to Vcloud, i've been using Lab Manager for a while and am trying to eval Vcloud as a replacement....
View ArticleRe: Inconsistent behaviour for vCloud:VM
There are two cells behind a load balancer, both cells have the same REST API Base URL set. All forward / Reverse lookups are correct.
View ArticleVmware workstation 8.0.4 unity mode artifacts (host: win7, guest: ubuntu 12.04)
I'm running vmware workstation 8.04 on windows 7, with an ubuntu 12.04 guest. I'm using the gnome-classic w/ no effects login session (so no ubuntu unity, etc). I can enter unity mode and all appears...
View ArticleRe: Can I re-install from scratch with my existing license?
The problem is that a VM isn't a single file - it's a collection, and they are constantly changing. So your backup may have files from different times, resulting in a corrupt VM. This is even worse...
View ArticleRe: Fusion 5.0.2 - Network keeps disappearing
If it's a corporate router, many are configured to only grant a single IP per MAC address. NAT networking solves that.
View ArticleRe: SSL Communication on WebClient Plugin
Thanks for the additional info. This is definitely NOT the recommended approach as we prefer not to have our keystore file modified. The simpler and recommended approach is documented in the...
View ArticleVMware tools in Ubuntu 12.04 - can't get it to autostart
Good afternoon- I have a couple 5.1 hosts running a handful of Ubuntu 12.04 vm's. I have successfully installed VMware tools, but the tools don't automatically come back on after a vm reboot. To be...
View ArticleRe: Reduce size of VM Disk?
I think I now have another potential issue that I did not consider. The converter looks like it should work fine, which is awesome, but I didn't consider the fact that vmware esxi would be installed on...
View ArticleNested ESXi 5.1 Purple Screens
Hi, I've been trying to set up a lab at my job with a nested ESXi 5.1 on a Dell R710. When I attempt to power on a Windows 2008 R2 vm within the nested ESXi, I get a purple screen with a #PF exception...
View ArticleRe: Nested ESXi 5.1 Purple Screens
Hello and welcome to the communities. Note: Discussion successfully moved from VMware ESXi 5 to Nested Virtualization
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