java sdk vcloudclient ssoLogin() w/ samlassertion
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Help all - I've been trying to upgrade my vCenter 5.0 appliance in my lab to 5.1, and am failing miserably. Currently the upgrade fails with this error : 1 [23502](7) ERROR: column "small_icon_url"...
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View ArticlePerformance Report of All ESXi Hosts
Is that possible to report performance of all ESXi hosts of one vCenter or Cluster?
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View ArticleBuilding a Thin Client using Windows Thin PC
Hey Everyone, I just did a write up on how to build a View Thin Client on a system running Windows Thin PC. Check it out and let me know what you think. We have been using this solution at my company...
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Hello, I am having an issue authenticating to the web service on vCenter 5.0. Here is the situation: Case 1: vCenter 5.1Setup a Windows account in vCenter with read-only permission.The authentication...
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Hi We are soon to retire Labmanager but before that we need to move a lot of VMs/Configurations. But we have an issue in SQL DB in Labmanager server.There are a DB called VSLATempyyyymmdd_xyzxyz that's...
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Hi All, On one of my esxi hosts I got a PSOD. Snapshot attachedCan you please suggest on what could have caused it ThanksVaibhav
View ArticleSwitch vCenter
Hi@all did anybody switched the vCenter Server underneath a View Environment bevor? I do have a vCenter Server 5.0 with View 5.x and i have to move the vCenter onto a new Windows Server. What are the...
View ArticleMigrating vapps
Hi,Can Connector be used to migrate a vapp from 1 OrgVDC to another within the same vCloud Director instance?ThanksSam
View ArticleCloning/Merging Disks from Linked Clone
Is it possible to clone a Linked Clone and get rid of the additional disks somehow without crashing the VM?
View ArticleHow to maintain datastore availability after upgrading to ESXi 5.1 with new...
How can we maintain the access to the presented LUNs and the VMFS datastore after we upgrade the ESX into ESXi with new naming convention and new IP addressing scheme ? My back end SAN is EMC Clariion...
View ArticleGet-VIObjectByVIView error in PowerShell v3
In PowerShell v3 the Get-VIObjectByVIView cmdlet generates two errors if you specify the MoRef of a virtual machine as a parameter. It works without any problem in PowerShell v2. I know that PowerShell...
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