Re: Which product for running multiple releases of OS X and Windows?
That is not enitrely correct. You are only allowed to virtualise 10.7 or 10.8 when you have bought it via the Mac App Store. When it came with the computer you are out of luck; if you want to...
View ArticleRe: vCenter Server Appliance update
Check for updates and in Available updates you would see the 920217 which is latest one. Click on update and run through the steps. Upgrading the VCVA from 5.0 to 5.1 is a migration process.
View ArticleRe: Can't SVmotion machine
This is what I am seeing in the vmkernel logs just before the status: I/O error 2013-07-10T12:43:10.929Z cpu10:2058)ScsiDeviceIO: 2316: Cmd(0x412441b19e00) 0x28, CmdSN 0x2ae9a67 to dev...
View ArticleRAID monitoring/check on ESXI whitebox
Hi. I am building a whitebox system intended to run ESXI 5.1, hosting some application/web servers.I have purchased an IBM M1015, as it seems to be pretty popular for "home-use" ESXI's.I intend to run...
View ArticleRe: Can't SVmotion machine
2. At this time stamp 2013-07-10T12:43:10.929, I don't see any failures (Storage vmotion failure) in hostd.log
View ArticleRe: vCenter Server Appliance update
Ok thanks. So as far as ESXi is concerned...5.0 to 5.1 is a migration process as well? If I update all the patches that I am behind on currently with Update Manager that will only bring me to latest...
View ArticleSNMP Adapter for F5 Load Balancer Data?
Has anyone configured the SNMP Adapter to poll SNMP data from an F5 load balancer? I got it up and running using the default MIB's but I wasn't sure if importing F5's MIB's would let me see things...
View ArticleRe: How to make hard disk available for diffferent guest OS?
You don't do this directly. What you have to do, is to edit the VM's settings and add an additional virtual disk. Once done the new disk will appear in the guest operating system and you may...
View ArticleRe: Can't SVmotion machine
Ok lets see this:# Can you try and do a vmotion of these machines to a different host in the cluster. And then try and do a sVmotion to target datastore.# Also, check the MPP for the target datastore...
View ArticleRe: ESXI 5.1 Monitor
Correct - ESXi has no alerting, so yes you will need 3rd party software or vCenter.
View ArticleRe: vCenter Server Appliance update
From the host prescriptive its an update. You would need to download the update files (update-from-esxi5.0-5.0_update02.zip) then import to the Update manager and remediate. It will bring your host to...
View ArticleRe: ESXI 5.1 Monitor
you can also try using the Alarms for some level of monitoring on ESXi hosts and VMs. Goto VC, select VC name at left top, goto alarms and edit the definition that matches your requirement, set action...
View ArticleRe: How to make hard disk available for diffferent guest OS?
a.p. wrote: You don't do this directly. What you have to do, is to edit the VM's settings and add an additional virtual disk. Once done the new disk will appear in the guest operating system and you...
View ArticleRe: Nested virtualization requirements
Marius - Roma wrote: I an trying to implement nested virtualization in a vSphere 5.x environment with 2 ESXi 5.0 nodes.I created a Windows 8 VM, installed VMware Player inside the VM and attempted to...
View ArticleRe: ESXi and DMZ
Just one question for clarification. Is it the hosts which have to run in the DMZ or only some VMs running on that hosts? If the latter, you may just create a separate vSwitch with dedicated uplinks to...
View ArticleRe: boot from SAN on BL460C
thanks Rupesh, When I am in PXE Select the first prompt is "controller configuration" do I enable advance mode support? If yes, do I select NIC personality?
View ArticleRe: VSA installed - what is supposed to happen?
you don't need to make a cluster first, VSA installer will build one and it should configure HA. VSA doesn't replicate data between the data stores. The DS itself it replicated. Is your guest VM...
View ArticleRe: VDCA510 Results
Thanks for covering for me various and assorted colleagues. Josh pointed this string out to me. I'm shocked that you would be receiving 30-day notices! Could someone please provide me a PDF or screen...
View ArticleRe: NIC Teaming
It may be possible. I don't see why you would need to though. Whats the purpose? Teaming is usually done on the Hosts and the VM is able to talk to the host at whatever speed the host is capable of....
View ArticleRe: Workstation 9 crashes when I try to edit a certain virtual machine's...
I've got the same problem with my machine. I'm running VMWare Workstation 9.0.2 on a Dell 1950 server machine that has dual quad core processors and the Windows 2003 OS. The VMWare image I'm running...
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