Dell R610 running ESXi performance questions
Hi all, I'm really a rookie in vmware, as well as in virtualization world. Recently I have bought my first server Dell R610 with 2xXeons X5570, 48GB RAM, 4x146 15K SAS drives and 4 NICs. I have...
View ArticleRenaming a distributed switch,uplinks, and port groups??
We've recently upgraded to esxi 5.1. I wanted to rename an existing distributed switch and possibly the uplinks and/or port groups. Does anyone know if there are supported ways to do this without...
View ArticleDR Solutions
Hi,What are the DR & Back up solutions available with VMWARE for critical servers and how will it work . Regards,Ragesh
View ArticleGenerating Traffic
All, I want to generate traffic in my nested lab but not sure what the best way to do this. Some of the things I want to check are: . Alarms, snmp, etc. with notifications. Generating CPU utilization...
View ArticleVCenter Backend-SQL-DB Maintenance
Hi Guys, we have our Vcenter (4.1.0 Build 491557) DB running on a remote MS-SQL-Server. For a planned System-Maintenance the SQL Server will not be available for one hour during that time,...
View Articlecopy VM from exsi5.0 to esxi 4.0 ???is it work
hi, can we move a VM from Esxi5.0 to Esxi 4.0, i mean am running a vm in exsi5.0 i want to copy that vm and placed in exsi4.0 and manage from vcenter 4.0 is it possible???
View ArticleDatastore Missing?
Running ESXi 5.1.0 with local storage and had some VMs crash. Found one of the Datastores was missing. Rebooted ESXi and the Datastore is still missing and the VMs show up as "Unknown (inaccessible)"...
View ArticleNew version of Horizon Suite coming soon???
I was reading the transcripts from last weeks earnings report (July 23, 2013) for VMware and found this nugget interesting: From Pat Gelsinger:At end user computing, our Horizon View virtual desktop...
View ArticleReplications starting at random times
I have 4 VMs replicating to a remote site. They each have a 24 hour RPO. I manually ran the jobs the first time between 9:00 and 11:30 P.M. because those are the times that I want it to run....
View ArticlePlease help me: vmware workstation error (vthread-4)
Hi, When I tried to open vmware workstation program, it show the error: vmware workstation unrecoverable error (vthread-4) I searched on google this error # but I did not see any result I attached the...
View Articlerunning out of disk space on VM
Hi allI`ve got a VM that is out of space and the challenge now I can`t logon on it so that I can free up some space and I can`t expand the disk because that option its inactive "Greyed out" and I can`t...
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Hang when rebuilding a new virtual disk
I tried to create a new Windows 7 x64 client this morning. I went through the wizard and was able to change the SCSI drive to be one file, not "split into 2GB files" without issue. However, when I...
View ArticleRevert to Snapshot not working properly
Hello everyone I've made a VM machine to make images on, to get as clean images as possible. And during this process I've taken alot of snapshots, and reverted, but now it seems that the reverting...
View ArticleVDP File-Level Restore with Server 2012
When I run a backup on a VM running Server 2012, and then attempt to browse that image at the file level using the vSphere Data Protection Restore Client, I can not do so. I can successfully mount, and...
View ArticlePlatspin Powerrecon CPU
Hi, I've been provided powerrecon CPU analysis for a numebr of VMs and need to understand the detail. e.g. output states CPU Count, Total Cores, and Normalised speed. How can these figures be used to...
View ArticleUrgent - VM Will not power on
Have a single ESXi Host 5.0 and 3 VMs. Local Storage is a RAID-1 datastore, 553 GB with 256 GB free. The Database Server VM will not power on - getting a message of "Virtual machine disks...
View ArticleVMware View - Windows 8?
Hi I'm new to this forum and VMware so please be delicate :-) First, I'd just like to confirm VMware View 5 doesn't support Windows 8 OS, right? So which version (earliest version number) of Horizon...
View ArticleDon't understand the vfhttpd user and group
When creating your first web server using vFabric Web Server there is a user and group created, both named "vfhttpd". Would anyone be able to explain this? Why are they needed?What do they do?What are...
View Articleupgrade capplan from 2.8 to 3.0
Hi, How can we do this upgrade...?Currently I am running at 2.8..I wish I can upgrade it to 3.0 Thanks error attached...
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