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error when download vmdk
VMware 5.1. The VM is down. Get error when download vmdk from data store.what it could be : Expected File_DATA message. Got:30294055
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I have vCenter protected by Heartbeat in several environments and none appear to be allowing vCenter to automatically start from a cold state (where both nodes in heartbeat are powered off). To bring...
View ArticleHalt after "Starting Avahi daemon [OK]"
I notice a few other people have been experiencing this. I'm trying to deploy Serengeti on vCenter 5.1a and upon starting the Management VM it runs up until "Starting Avahi daemon [OK]" and then halts....
View ArticleUsing Connect-CIServer in a Start-Job
Has anyone been able to complete something like this? This works perfectly in a plain PoSh window but running in a Start-Job it never gets past the connect-ciserver. The job shows running and...
View ArticlePending restore
One of our users whose laptop was provisioned with mirage, and has been working successfully with it for about a week, called me this morning telling me that it was doing a disk check when she booted...
View ArticleAdding VNX LUNS to ESX
I'm trying to add 4 VNX LUNS to our production ESX 4.0\ESXi 5 VMware environment. Each LUN is 1024 GB - we want two 2 TB VMFS3 datastores. In vCenter I created the first 1024 GB datastore....
View ArticleSyslog Collector Plug-in
I just installed the Syslog Collector following the instructions below. I can see the folders and logs being created in the C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Syslog Collector\Data\ directory, however...
View ArticleVDP 2TB image ran out of space on root
/usr/local/avamarclient folder seems to be full of huge log files. Are these safe to delete? 0 bytes left on / How could I have prevented this?
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Latency to be available to execute commands
Hi,I have setup a full powershell script in order to duplicate a master from 1 vCenter to another one.The way I am doing it is by snapmirroring (netapp storage) the volume where my Master is, then...
View ArticleDisplaying More than 1000 Events using EventManager
Any way to get this to display more than 1000 events? $begintime = (Get-Date).adddays(-15) $endtime = Get-Date $si=get-view serviceinstance $em= get-view $si.Content.EventManager $EventFilterSpec =...
View ArticleUpgrading ESX 3.5.0 build 110268 to ESXi 5.1 or latest
I need to upgrade our current VMware ESX 3.5 cluster to the ESXi 5.1. To sum up the migration, we will be using all new hardware for vsphere 5.1, ESXi 5.1, and new iSCSI SAN. Current/existing cluster...
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How to get the Available CPU and Memory capacity in Cluster via Powershell ?
Hi All, I'm looking for ps1 command/script to grab the information of Available CPU & Memory from the Cluster using powershell commans of script. I instaled vCenter server/Powercli on Wn 2008 R2...
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Scrolling Problems with View Client running Silverlight in Sharepoint 2013
We are having problems on our view clients scrolling our SharePoint results with Silverlight. The act of scrolling causes the results to drop most of the pixels. Here are the expected results which I...
View ArticleVMware Fushion does not start up- windows 7 x 64.vmx" line 1: Syntax error
Hi,I got the problem which is described and resolved in the community, so I try my luck as well, could somebody pls help to get it resolved, attachedthe archive file I where i put in the 4 log files I...
View ArticleProvisioned, Used and Free Space information along with Thin / Thick...
Hi All, I am currently using the below script to obtain VM Name, Disk Name, Disk format (Thick / Thin) for each disk for all the VMs in vCenter. $report = @()Get-VM | %{ $vm= $_ $_ |...
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.PQI to VM
Hello everyone! I have a .PQI backup image. I created a VHD and restore the data from .PQI to that VHD using Norton Ghost 15.0. Then created a VM using that VHD as "Using Physical Disk". Then i used...
View ArticleNew-VIProperty and Get-Stat with Clusters
I have a function that I have been using to collect Min,Max,Avg for CPU and Memory. The function collects data from the last month and returns a single value for each item. After reading about the...
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VMware Workstation 9.0.1 and Player 5.0.1 incompatible!
Hi all, I bought the last upgarde of VMware 9.0.1 build 894247 that came with VMware Player 5.0.1 build 894247. Both these two tools allow me to create a VM using 1 CPU with 8 cores on my AMD FX 8150...
View ArticlevCloud Storage Calculation - Memory Reservation 100%
Hi everyone,I'm having a hard time understanding where some of the used storage calculations are coming from in vCloud Director. Since the memory reservation on this OrgVDC is set to 100% the VSWP...
View ArticleIs VMware Partner Labs, HOL-PRT-* (01-06) no longer available?
All links go to a link http://hol-inf-b.cloudfoundry.com/HOL-INF-06_EN/index.html which is only the lab manual. There is no link to the actual lab environment to run the lab? I logged into the...
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