Re: Backup Guest OS
You mean that there wouldn’t any space to store a snapshot even for the backup job duration? Then it seems that you’ve definitely underprovisioned required resources, leaving noopportunity for virtual...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 4.1 PSOD when performing certain Linux disk operations
I migrated to LSI Megaraid. It's not ideal as their webbios doesn't actually work on the web (or at all for that matter), but they do have a MegaRAID Storage Manager which runs in Windows and can...
View ArticleRe: vApp network limit
We created 2 pools, 2k networks, managed by 2 nexus1000, in a active/stand-by configuration.With more than 100 customer in the cloud, if any of them decides to create 10 vApp net (they have assigned 2...
View ArticleLicensing problem adding host to vCenter trial
I am evaluating vmware as a virtualization option in our datacenter. I have ESXi 5.1.0 installed on a host, and I deployed the vCenter trial appliance 5.1.0 on a second server. When I try and add the...
View ArticleHigh Consumed memory on empty host.
We have a small 5 node cluster in a DMZ. They are running on IBM 3650M2 with 88 GB RAM. All running ESX 4.1.0 502767. We have recently been doing work in there. Removing the v1000 switches. When we...
View ArticleRe: Mac vmware fusion with VM Micro OS
Running Virtual Machines regardless of what OS is installed will deplete the battery relatively quickly and you will never ever get 7 hours out of a battery on a Mac when running things like Virtual...
View ArticleRe: Licensing problem adding host to vCenter trial
Welcome to the Community - You will need to run the ESXi host in evaluation mode and not with the free license. One of the limitations of the free license if that it cannot be managed by vCenter - you...
View ArticleOSP tools on RHEL6 / CentOS 6 update breakage
Hi, I suspect this is a yum bug, introduced in RHEL6. This works fine on RHEL5 btw.Have installed vmware tools and all kmods 9.0.1 from here:Index of /45848/tools/esx Update is from 5.1p01/ to 5.1u1/...
View ArticleRe: Fusion 5 Bootcamp Boot when Windows Installed as EFI
Well the issue with that is there isn't a VMX file created anywhere.This is when you try and boot the VM from a bootcamp partition
View ArticleRe: Remove guest alert from vC OPS
Hi gradinka, Couple of questions:For which VCOps version the information that you have provided is correct - all/VCOps 5.0+/ VCops 5.6 / 5.7 ?Is it official information (part of admin guides, etc) or...
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Re: Fusion 5 Bootcamp Boot when Windows Installed as EFI
Have you tried adding the following option the the .vmx configuration file while the Virtual Machine is shutdown, not suspended and VMware Fusion closed? firmware = "efi" Have a look at: Editing the...
View ArticleRe: Licensing problem adding host to vCenter trial
How can I remove the license? My options in the Assign License for the ESXi host are: - VmWare VSphere 5 Hypervisor (ie. the free license, which is selected)- Evaluation Mode (No License Key), which is...
View ArticleRe: Fusion 5 Bootcamp Boot when Windows Installed as EFI
resonanttoe wrote: Well the issue with that is there isn't a VMX file created anywhere. A Virtual Machine cannot run without the .vmx configuration file being present! This is when you try and boot the...
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Re: Remove guest alert from vC OPS
Alexander, that's valid for 5.6. I'm not sure whether it's part of user-facing documents - it's internal info I have.As to next releases, I won't count on it thanks!
View ArticleRe: unknown internal error - when finishing wizard
I've check and I have such logs, hope you will find something useful, I haven't find any errors in this files.
View Articlevicfg-hostops clarification
I need further explanation on what exactly vicfg-hostops --operation shutdown --force does. All I've been able to gather is what I've read in the documentation "if the host is not in maintenance mode,...
View ArticleRe: VMWare Service Manager 8 schedule reports and manual login
Hello Vlado. I encountered this same problem. Scheduled reports can be found in the table SU_REPORT_SCHEDULE6. You will need to link these records to RB_ITEM to determine which reports they refer to....
View Articlecpu AND ram usage supermetric
Hi all, I'm using vcops 5.7I need an alarm when cpu&ram usage are both < 40% for a week on a host system. I think a supermetric can help me, but I don' t know how.I think something like this: if...
View ArticleRe: Fusion 5 Bootcamp Boot when Windows Installed as EFI
Nothing in the directory. ( I have no other VMS at this stage, fresh install) $ ls ~/Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/$ Essentially, its a fresh install of 5.0, and you go to add, New Boot...
View ArticleReclaimable waste
So I'm coming from vKernel, where the right sizer takes into account peaks when giving recommendations on removing/adding resources. According to the configuration on oversized VM's, it's only looking...
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