Re: VDP DR
I strongly suggest installing VDP at the 2nd data center and use VDP replication. Replicating the VMDKs or LUNs that they sit on are not application consistent. With VDP there is a real chance of...
View ArticleRedundant SD PCI Card to install ESXi on?
I have a Server that I want to repurpose. Most of the ESXi Hosts we have all have internal Redundant SD Cards in them and we install ESXi on them. I'm looking for something like one of those that I...
View ArticleRe: Increasing CPUs in Windows Server 2008 R2 VM
Although i'm still not fully clear on the NUMA nodes. I assume as i have a 6 core processor (x2) with hyperthreading that if the vCPUs i require per VM is 6 or less then wide and flat is not entirely...
View ArticleVROPs 6.0 Badges not showing up on VRAC 6.2.1
Has anybody seen this issue? I added the VROPs server to the Tenant Machines as the metric provider. However, the badges do not show up. I can see the metrics of the VRAC VMs on the VROPs gui. Weird....
View ArticleAll serial ports unsupported all of the sudden
Hello, We have many VM's on a number of ESXi hosts configured with network connected serial ports set as listening server. This has been working for years, and today all of the suddenall the serial...
View ArticleRe: vsphere 6 readiness vs ready performance chart
The important thing to be aware of is that the ready time measured in milliseconds is a Summation value that represents the combined ready time of all vCPUs. If you divide the ready time sum by the...
View ArticleDisconnect when trying to copy a large amount of data to the clipboard in...
When I have a user who is trying to copy a large amount of data from one spreadsheet to combine it with another spreadsheet data set, it is disconnecting if she is in the HTML access to the View...
View ArticleRe: vSphere 6 on server 2012 R2 - Getting Flash Error #1009 and Crash
I get that when I try to change the network settings on a vCenter appliance. I have found that if I just click no then I can continue what I was doing.
View ArticleRe: Windows 8 can't update to 8.1
Thanks everyone, my fix was a bit brutal but worked. I uninstalled Fusion 7.1.1, reinstalled. Then I was able to install 8 and then 8.1
View ArticleRe: Loop through CSV file
Awesome! that should work for me. One last thing, as I loop through I would like to be able to use the contents of $vm later on to display some results. However once the code has run I'm only left with...
View ArticleNested ESXi 5.5 host
Hello, I have a test environment: few virtual ESXi 5.0 hosts and several VMs there.Virtual ESXi are running on a physical ESXi 5.0 server. Everything worked fine.Upgraded physical server to 5.5, then...
View ArticleDoes Upgrading VMware Tools require View Agent Update
We are running View 6.1 + vSphere 5.5 u2D. We are using Linked Clone desktops. We want to update VMware tools on our parent image and I wanted to know if it is still recommended that you update the...
View ArticleBest way to convert a Windows XP Pro VM to a physical machine
The physical machine is too slow to run VM's but the VM contains tons of software that there are no installation CD's for. Tried Acronis True Image to make an image of the VM's system partition and...
View ArticleRe: Nested ESXi 5.5 host
hello what NIc are you using? e1000?try using different NIC models VMXnet3 or E1000E
View ArticleRe: keep the VM when the orchestrator failed to execute some workflows on VM
You can change the vSphere agent behavior to move vRA destroyed VMs to a folder, instead of delete from endpoint. Configure the vSphere Agent Example: Place Destroyed Machines in a FolderType the...
View ArticleRe: Blueprint Deletion
Because Day two operation and Machine property are associated from the Blueprint. So once the Blueprint is deleted this relationship will be broken. So this will break some of the actions like...
View ArticleMisconfiguration detected error - multicast problem?
I was seeing a ‘Misconfiguration Detected’ error after logging into the the Web client, selecting a cluster, Manage tab, Settings subtab, Virtual SAN->General. This went away after enabling VSAN...
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