Re: How to select what hosts or vm to be included in the Usage Meter
What you are probably going to need to do is to go into MyVMware, divide the current key into two keys for each pair of hosts. Don't forget that the old key will be invalid when you divide it and it...
View ArticleRe: VMWare 5.0.3 build 1040386 with Windows 8.1 Preview
I have Windows 8.1 running under VMware Fusion 5.0.3 without any issues. The Virtual Machine's Display resizes correctly in both various sizes of Single Window view and Full Screen. Have you installed...
View ArticleRe: Transferring files to and from VMs
Thanks Chris - This turned out to be the issue after I got past some silly mistakes of mine. If using the orchestrator appliance, be sure to change the conf file described here:...
View ArticleRe: Recovering a lost partition on VMFS-5 volume with GPT
The partition table seems incorrect. Was this LUN ever expanded in the past - wondering why it has two partitions. Can you post the output of the below command:hexdump -C...
View ArticleRe: How to find the storage of a VM in Cloud director
I'm trying to follow this thread but am not grasping the XML schema extension. I understand the ExtensionData.GetVirtualHardwareSection but that only provides allocated storage. I'm trying to produce a...
View ArticleRe: Dragon Naturally Speaking with View 4.5 Win7 desktop?
Hi,I am hoping to get the script as our machines will recognize the powermic but only after a refresh and some machines wont autoinstall powermic drivers.Also don't know if you are interested but our...
View ArticleRe: Symlink bug in shared folders with Linux guest
Did you figure out why the fake long path works...static |-- index.html `-- root.html -> ././././index.html ...and a normal adjacent symlink gets evaluated as broken?static |-- index.html `--...
View ArticleRe: ESX4.0について
まず謝らなければいけないのですが、4.0の環境でVDR使えますね。（さっき、気づきました。。。）VDRは仮想アプライアンスなので、リソースに余裕があればデプロイしてGUIでバックアップジョブをスケジューリングすることができるツールです。（オンラインで取得できるところがいいところ）...
View ArticleRe: How to find the storage of a VM in Cloud director
As long as you have admin access to both vCD and vSphere, you can relate objects between the two. Alan Renouf has a excellent explanation here:...
View ArticleRe: ESX Hosts PSOD (Unable to find correlating events via Log Insight)
It sounds like you are doing it correctly. Have you tried to search for either 'esx.audit.host.boot' or 'Host has booted'? Do either return results? What do you have the time range set to? Perhaps...
View ArticleRe: Migrating vCenter Server 5.1 database - Oracle to SQL
This link is only the guide for data migration from mssql to oracle.What i most want is after data migration,when my new vcenter to connect oracle database,what should i pay attention to do it,any...
View ArticleWhat is the problem with CA Applogic?
We have discussions about the CA Applogic solution.This supports the vmware and xen hypervisor.CA Applogic Cloud Platform - YouTube From my perspective this is an old fashion solution!It uses...
View ArticleRe: Assigning IPs to each VM Ubuntu using VMWare EXSi 5, with vSphere Client.
You have to assign the IP Address on the individual VM. and for each VM assign a Virtual NIC, Do you have a secondary NIC on the ESXi host if yes add that to the vSwitch1 and the physical NIC will be...
View ArticleRe: Recovering a lost partition on VMFS-5 volume with GPT
I am guessing that is the LUN that contains the vmfs volume... did you add it back as a volume anytime via "add storage"?
View ArticleRe: Recovering a lost partition on VMFS-5 volume with GPT
Yes, I tried it after deleting but avoid it because of warning to reformat the disk. This drive for first time was used with ESXi 4.0 formatted as VMFS3 and later upgraded to ESXi 5.1 and quite sure...
View ArticleRe: Moving VM from ESXi to ESX
As suggested by AakashJ the best option would be to export the VM as OVF and copy the data to External USB drive and import them on the new site. But would like to know why you want to move from ESX to...
View ArticleRe: Recovering a lost partition on VMFS-5 volume with GPT
ok... run the below commands and attach the output here# cd /scratch (or any partition with at least 100MB free space)# dd...
View ArticleRe: HA Cluster Shutdown Issue
So the VM's were Powered OFF as soon as the first NIC was removed ? Do you have both the NIC on vSwitch0 is configured as Active or one NIC Active for Management and other for vMotion and other on...
View ArticleVCP Certification without vmware background
Dear all, I have no vmware background, but I have been told many times that this is the field to get into. I feel like getting a certification will be the best start point. Could any one suggest the...
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