Re: Poor CPU performance of virtual machine
Hello, so that is not its fault since power management is disabled on your host. This is greyed out because either hardware does not support power managment or power management by OS is disabled in...
View ArticleRe: Creating a replication VMware server
Without shared storage, you could look at the vSphere Storage Appliance, and still use HA. If shared storage of any type is out of the question, then you could look at vSphere Replication.
View ArticleForcing the unmount of an NFS datastore
After the replacement of a NAS with a bigger one I still see the NFS datastore pointing to the old NAS and the new datastore pointing to the new NAS.As the old datastore does not exist anymore, how can...
View ArticleRe: Query for IP address and assign value to variable
Ah, that is what I was looking for thanks! So you can run functions/commands in parenthesis and then get a value from that?
View ArticleRe: Fast provisioning and Expand / Delete Disk
Thanks for your response, but the issue is specifically about the fast provisioning. As mentioned on your third link, "One additional thing you should be aware of, is that you will not be able to...
View ArticleRe: Can a Wyse V10L frmw 6.4.0_24 connect to a View 5.1 desktop ?
That's exactly what we were seeing.So the conclusion would be that a connection to View 5.1* with the 6.4* firmware is not possible.I found a post that states that a 7.1* firmware would support the...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.x on new Apple Mac Mini 6,2 Late 2012 *NOT* working
Darius, Thanks for this detailed response. I did not realize that passing video card, USB (besides the fact it's broken in ESXi 5.1), and other PCI devices was "experimental" so to speak. So, thank you...
View ArticleRe: Memory required for vmotion
vMotion is an CPU intensive workload for the VMkernel, the used memory for the process itself is neligble as we are only accessing memory and copying it along across the network (which is CPU load by...
View ArticleRe: Organizational structure in vCM
You can use Dynamic Filters to see the machines in which ever grouping you'd like, and have them in multiple groups. I'd stay away from having to manually put servers into groups if possible. I'd...
View ArticleRe: Disk writing JVM arguments
Yes, i here mean Data Persistance. Data on my distributed servers are written to disk.Data loss is the main consern and I can't keep all the data in memory so Data Persistance is what is required. I...
View ArticleRe: Cannot import user into org via LDAP
Finally figured this out. I first had to wrap my head around the idea that LDAP is defined not only at the top VCD level, but also at the Organizational level. When I had initially setup the...
View ArticleVMware vmtoolsd documentation
Hi Can you help me to find some documentation which describes the vmtoolsd tool available on the guest VMs.I already found some documentation how to install VMware tools in general. On some forums I...
View ArticleProblems uploading virtual machines to ESXi 4.1.0
Update 02/11/2013: Anyone have any ideas on this issue? We've even tried rebooting the ESX servers as a last resort; but it still shows the same problem. Any help would be very much appreciated!...
View ArticleRe: how to uninstall workstation evaluation
I guess I wasn't clear - I had uninstalled workstation before installing player and even uninstalled player and reinstalled. I read that player automatically converts to commercial use if you have...
View ArticleRe: XP VMs in vSphere? A license issue?
Thanks for the reply, Fabian.I've now heard back from our re-seller and the situation has slightly changed. As expected really, they're now saying that I can run XP VMs directly within ESXi. However,...
View ArticleDynamically Populate Asset Extensions
I'm looking to pull in attributes from my CMDB (a SQL db) into VCM. The CMDB has meta data such as state, which I'd like to be able to us in VCM when I want to report on or use compliance to set...
View ArticleRe: vcenter showing "syncing inventory"
A vCenter must sync before you can perform operations with it. Unl;ess the vCenter is having issues or is really large it should only take minutes. If it is "stuck" (and this can happen) you might...
View ArticleRe: Forcing the unmount of an NFS datastore
Hi, there is a kb article on how to unmount it: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1005057 Regards
View ArticleRe: Dynamically Populate Asset Extensions
I don't remember off-hand how often Asset Extensions get updated, but, for the second part, of how to connect to the other source, the easiest option is to set up a linked server connection from the...
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