Re: Failed to open disk scsi0:0: Unsupported or invalid disk type 22. Ensure...
The virtual disks are not comparible between ESXi and hosted products like VMware Workstation, Player or Fusion that is why you will need to either export the VM as an OVF/OVA or use converter to bring...
View ArticleRe: Virtual infrastructure migration from Vcenter 5.0 to 5.1
1) On the new vCenter 5.1 create a second cluster. 2) Add the "old" host in the old cluster to this second cluster. (this will disconnect them from the old vCenter and add them to the new vCenter - VMs...
View ArticleBackup Guest OS
Hello, What are you suggestions to backup a Guest OS on a ESXi 4.1. The plan is to upgrade hosts to ESXi 5.1.- Taking Snapshots is not an option, there is no space.- Download Guest OS to another...
View ArticleRe: Imported patch show as compliant although there is an update available
One more thing I noticed: When viewing the installed patches the CIM Provider package show up as "not appicable". Maybe the answer is somewhere in this spot.
View ArticleUsing VMWare standard license with EqualLogic
I'm getting mixed answers on weather it is possible to use Dell Multipathing Extension (MEM) with ESX standard license.I'm also confused about terms like PSP, PSA, NMP, and Storage API. I'm not sure...
View ArticleRe: automatic vm migration on vswitch fail
If you have all ports of a vSwitch connected to a single physical switch and that switch were to fail there is really nothing that the vSPhere environment to do - this one reason why redundant switches...
View ArticleRe: Virtual infrastructure migration from Vcenter 5.0 to 5.1
Hey Gleed, thanks for answering. Indeed, the servers have different generation CPUs, that's why I can't to a vmotion between clusters. If I detach one node from the old cluster (5.0) and attach it to...
View ArticleRe: Backup Guest OS
Welcome to the Community - SInce teh vSphere backup solution all require the use of snapshots you will have to fall back on the old school of installing a backup agent in the VM -
View ArticleCannot connect heartbeat console to remove server?
Hi, I am trying to connect the heartbeat console on my Win7 PC to the heartbeat service on my 2 vcenter machines, but I am getting "Could not connect to host x.x.x.x: port 52267". On each of the...
View ArticleRe: Virtual infrastructure migration from Vcenter 5.0 to 5.1
Yes, VMs will stay running when you switch to the new vCenter.
View ArticleESXi back-up and restores
Again, I'm new to VMware and I've recently installed ESXi on a server and currently have one virtual machine up and running on it. What tool/tools should I use to handle back and restores of this...
View ArticleRe: VMWare Lab from two Dell 1950's
Welcome to the Community - No there is nothing special you have to do - iSCSI traffic if IP traffic - things to check include any vLAN tagging and make sure it is configured appropriately - if you are...
View ArticleRe: Need to configure Infrastructure Cost via Chargeback API
We have different instance of VMWare (VDC, Chargebacks) around the world. The software that I am developing is to pull the data from a "master" Chargeback and push the configuration to the other...
View ArticleRe: Need powershell script to collect ESX host Network Info
HI lucd please let me know how can i retrive the result of this script in csv file. ThanksPravinu.
View ArticleRe: ESXi hardware compatibility
Most common hardware devices where people have probelms are NIC and drive/RAID controller
View ArticleRe: Not able to access rawReport API
Hi Diwakar, Thanks for your reply. Can you please suggest me any billing API for the same in Chargeback as I want to bill the customers based on Memory, Storage and vCPU. Thanks,Tejas Trivedi
View ArticleMove a VM from vmfs 3.33 to vmfs 5.58 (different location)
Dear Experts, Please help me for the following, I have a VM running on a datastore vmfs 3.33 , it is a WSUS (System update server for Windows), now I want to move this VM to our office in another...
View ArticleRe: Network Design and Configuration
WHat you describe is a very common scenario - each vswitch should have 2 NICs withe ach NIC going to a seperate HP switch - within the vSwitch you will be able to configure NIC Teamins which allows you...
View ArticleRe: VMs crash during login process
It really look it is a Persona related problem. I have enabled personna for a specific Desktop. The user log on the desltop and it is working.I created a pesistant new desltop and associted it to the...
View Articlecannot direct input to remote VM
I am running vmware workstation 9.0.2 on my laptop and I am occasionally connecting to other vmware workstation running shared VMs or to corporate vsphere. When I start any local VM and at the same...
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