Re: ClusterName of a VM
You can get the clustername from a vmview or hostview object with: $ClusterName= (Get-View (Get-View$VmView.Runtime.Host).Parent).Name$ClusterName= (Get-View$VMHostView.Parent).Name
View ArticleRe: vCenter Appliance 5.1 - unable to connect
It's a brand new installation - my first one. No SSL certificates were installed or configured. But strange that after a restart connections are allowed for a while and then suddenly no longer. I did...
View ArticleBest practice in installing and configuring HP ILO
Not sure if thisis the correct forum. Des any body know of prefered way to install and configure ilo on host running esxi 5. Will it be as simple as restarting the host and going into the bios and...
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Re: management network, set on host or vcenter?
For more info - I've 2 clusters with 5 hosts each and I'm in the process of adding another host to each cluster. I didn't setup the original hosts or vcenter. So I guess my main question is. Should the...
View ArticleRe: Monitor packet drops across all ESXi hosts
Perfect - thanks again Luc. Albert, if you're interested, this is the script I've made from what Luc gave me. Its scheduled to run hourly, and I can just sort the reports folder for any files with...
View ArticleRe: VSA new installation on running ESXi 5.1
Yes. Version 5.1 (or 5.1.1) will allow you to select a portion of local storage for the VSA, and keep the remaining local storage for already deployed VMs. You should then be able to migrate your VMs...
View ArticleRe: Brownfield Installation - Where does vCenter live while installing VSA?
Thanks for the feedback. Indeed, this was a paper created for VSA 1.0. I'll see if there are resources available to bring this up to VSA 5.1.x.
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Re: Configurazione rete vmnic in NPIV e non pass-through
Ciao,Se ci dici che blade e che apparato network stai utilizzando, forse possiamo aiutarti di più.Ad esempio, Hp C7000 con Virtual Connect Flex10 Ciao
View ArticleRe: documentation
Check out the blog articles listed towards the end of this blog - http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/10/vsphere-storage-appliance-vsa-useful-links.html You should be able to apply the ROBO guides to...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 AD Identity Sources 1 Domain 2 Different Base DN's
Is it possible to have vCenter user accounts sourced from 2 or more different Base DN's from the same domain?It looks possible by adding another identify source to the SSO configuration but I was...
View ArticleRe: VSA Cluster Network - Using EtherChannel / Link aggregation
Let me try to get a definitive answer for you. I suspect that the VSA networks were never tested with link aggregation. Cormac
View ArticleTelnet to PowerShell
Hi everyone!! I am new to powershell.I am performing following steps :->1. Telent to windows machine where powercli is installed.2. Execute following command...
View ArticleRe: Best practice in installing and configuring HP ILO
HP has a product called HP Lights-Out Online Configuration Utility to configure iLO without rebooting the host. Unfortunately it supported only on Linux and windows not in ESX....
View ArticleRe: Telnet to PowerShell
You can try: C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -PSConsoleFile"C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\vim.psc1" -Command...
View ArticleRe: vCO server not appearing under managed vcenter instances
Please check this document : http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-20368This may help. Christophe.
View ArticleRe: ghettoVCB seems to hang, no logs for days
ok, I killed all scripts, unfortunately, I still can't remove all snapshots: Remove all snapshotshostname.comUnable to access file <unspecified filename>that's the same error as before. I cleaned...
View ArticleRe: Slots Query !
What is Difference between available slots and failover slots ?In our other cluster i saw Available Slots : 122 & Failover Slots : 36
View ArticleRe: Vsphere replication
Welcome to the VMware Communities forums. I've moved your post to the vSphere Replication forum. The recovery process relies on vCenter server so you would have to use an unsupported method such as...
View ArticleRe: VMware Authorization Service doesn't start at Windows startup
Thanks for your help, I'll try if, with the local administrator account, it works. If it will work with this account I think that the problem is related to the standard user in domain account, who...
View ArticleRe: Shutdown existing vCenter Server, create a new one
Frank wrote:But you wrote that the hosts are not on the HCL. If this Cluster is your production environment and you have support on that, i would not recomend to update. Because when you come into...
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