What is the best way to restore VMs after a server refresh
Hello all, First time poster here. A group of people at my job have their own VMWare environment that they setup a while back. It has 3 VMs up and running on it and they want to bring up a fourth one....
View Articledatastore name still exists after deleted
I deleted a datastore and rescanned all hosts and in vcenter the datastore is gone. but in powercli get-datacenter | get-datastore still shows the name there. Now whenever I try to add a new datastore...
View ArticleRe: Changing multi-path policy to fixed and nominating a preferred HBA
Hi Luc, Thanks very much!. This is on the right lines. I'll see if we can utilse it.
View ArticleRe: How to disable debug info gathering
Open the vmx-file in an editor and make sure that you disable "Thinprint" as Thinprint uses a serial port. In the previous versions sometimes Thinprint was a big performance killer - often the logs had...
View ArticleRe: NT4 shutdown UI problem still present
Newer guest OS have support for ACPI - NT 4 did not have support for ACPI. So shutting down a NT 4 VM while the VM uses virtual hardware of the latest versions will not work. If you really need a full...
View ArticleRe: Horizon View Administrator and Untrusted Certificate
That is my question. Do I have any options? Its not that I don't want to buy one I can't.
View ArticleRe: VMWare Player 5 Silent Install
The attached file "DoForEachUser.vbs.zip" file contains a sample script of how you could add this to your batch .cmd script to implement something for each Local User. I coded it to skip the...
View ArticleRe: Attempting to run VMs located on an external USB 3.0 HD crashes OS X.
FAT32 is the most compatible file system out there :-). But yeah, if you're on 10.8.3, then it definitely looks like it's the NTFS issue. You may experience issues going through the shared folders...
View ArticleRe: VMWare Player 5 Silent Install
You're welcome... also I modified the code so re-download the DoForEachUser.vbs.zip file. See Message was edited by: WoodyZ in the previous reply for reason.
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Re: Passed VCP5-DCV
Thanks - VCAP5-DCD looks good. One of my colleagues was send and tasked to write the VCDX5-DCV I believe and looking at the requirements is a helluva of a difference beast from the VCAP5-DCD. Now to...
View ArticleView contents of file on ESXi servers?
Anyone know how I would view the contents of a file on all the ESXi servers in our environment? Does Get-Content work with PowerCLI ? I searched and couldn't find a solution. I want to determine which...
View ArticleRe: Zombie VMDK issues.
Be careful when using the results of RV-tools. I found that the number of false positive Zombies detected by RV-tools is so high that I read the results as "the VMs listed in the Zombie column may...
View ArticleRe: Extending VMWare disk corrupted it.
now to correctly extend it afterward do all the steps except diskpartdownload the ubuntu iso to your comp go to vmware setting and choose iso file for cd/dvd drive and find the ubuntu iso save now play...
View ArticleRe: open RDM device with vix DISKLIB fails
Not sure which version of ESXi you're using, but I'm going to move this question to the ESXi 5 forum area.
View ArticleRe: Bug in v5.1.0 build 1087880
Thanks Poceh. Appreciate the explanations and suggestions. I want to be able to move the vms between different platforms, so I guess I'll have to learn this. Part of the problem I have is I don't know...
View ArticleDo you see Symantec as an important part of the infrastructure for a...
The term Software-Defined Data Center seems to be getting more play. VMware is providing many of the key components with their vCloud Suite offering. Does Symantec have a big role in enabling SDDC...
View ArticleRe: Upgrading distributed virtual switch from 4.1 to 5.1 operation mode
My migration did not go so great. I went from 5.0 to 5.1. Post migration deploying new machines failed to associate to the interfaces properly. I also had issues when starting up pre-installed vms...
View ArticleRe: How do you hide the toolbar of an HTML Editor field by default?
Thanks guys. I've just logged an SR for this.
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