Re: VMware Performance Analyzer
Thanks. Are any of those free or have trial periods? I'd like to see what exactly they monitor and analyze before purchasing anything. Thanks again.
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Re: Fusion 5 Bootcamp Boot when Windows Installed as EFI
jim.gill wrote: I think it was Win7 that introduced the ability to boot from an EFI (pure GPT) disk. The first was actually Windows Vista x64 SP1. -- Darius
View ArticleRe: vmware and hyper-v
jmtella wrote: I cantry torequestthe source codeof the virus.That would be splendid. Thanks!I understand thatit is not possiblethat the virus couldchange theHyperV code. Lose thecertification. Windows...
View ArticleRe: VDR to VDP Migration error
Logs for the VDR to VDP migration can be found on the VDP appliance under /usr/local/avamar/var/vdp-migration/server_logs/migration-server.log. If you can append what you are seeing, we can try to...
View ArticleExternal Network Configuration
I'm creating an external network for my evaluation vCloud. I only plan to have a single one. During the creation, there is the "configure external network" page. You can add rows to the...
View ArticleRe: vAPP deployment
You'll register vOPs with your vCenter server so it'll need to have a communication link to your vCenter Server host. Page 9 lists the ports for that -...
View ArticleRe: I can't get battery status reporting in the guest working.
Hi AlanaA, Thanks for the detailed post. The issue is exactly as you describe: Workstation's battery status passthrough functionality needs to be updated to use sysfs on modern Linux hosts. We have...
View ArticleRe: Steps for changing network addresses of the cluster
Wrong. Unfortunately, it should not work. You cannot remove ESXi from cluster without putting it into maintenance mode - migrating vms are obligatory.
View ArticleRe: powershell: how to determine when guest OS is in steady state after...
Yes I did. Here is the syntax: Copy-VMGuestFile -vm $vm -source c:\myfilename -destination c:\myfilename -force -localtoguest -guestuser myuser -guestpassword mypassword Here is what I get in response:...
View ArticleRe: Issues getting VIN 2.0 working
Configuring the vCenter Managed IP address did indeed resolve the issue. Thanks again for the help!
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Re: Windows 8 on a Windows XP Host?
That's the whole point of virtualization, no matter what OS you have as a HOST, if VMWare works on HOST then any GUEST OS will be happy...Although I don't like your 3 GB RAM, make it 4 GB to be sure...
View ArticleDisplay ESX host short name in vCenter instead of FQDN
I don't have any issues, but I would like to have the vSphere Client to display only the short name of the host instead of the FQDN. Just extra clutter in the mgmt gui that I would like to get rid of...
View ArticleRe: Display ESX host short name in vCenter instead of FQDN
When adding a host to the vCenter inventory a reverse DNS lookup is performed to get the FQHN, if the lookup fails (i.e. you don't have a PTR record in DNS) it will resort to using the IP address of...
View ArticleRe: Virtual machine can't ping host on fresh vSphere5.1 install
According to the screen shots, the subnet mask you are using in your LAN is 255.255.0.0. As a first step, please run ipconfig /all within the VM to verify the VM is configured with the same subnet...
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Re: Pulling information from /usr/lib/vmware/vm-support/bin/swfw.sh
Luc, Worked on a method for getting this done last night. Here is the function I came up with (how do you get syntax highlighting and spacing to look right in the communities for powershell??) function...
View ArticleCommand-tab and Option-tab
Hi,I am using Lubuntu Linux on VMWare for a certain project. I wish to disable Command-tab when in VMWare from switching to running Mac OS programs and cause it to instead switch programs in Lubuntu....
View ArticleRe: Display ESX host short name in vCenter instead of FQDN
The lookup process will hit the hosts file first so you can add an entry like this to display the short name. 192.168.1.31 esx02 esx02.mishchenko.net If you're ever planning to add SRM or other...
View ArticleRe: Purple error screen (PCPU 0 Locked up)
You may also consider USB booting ESXi and let your VMs run from network attached storage. That would still make good use of the current hardware and take the array controller out of the picture....
View ArticleHosts with different NICs and vDS
Hello Gentlemen, I'm currently migrating an ESXi environment from 4.1 to 5.1. The migration involves upgrading all existing servers to vsphere 5.1 and also migrate all VM's from an IBM SAN to a Nimble...
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