how do i determine Pool "User Asignment" with PowerCli get-pool command.
Which of the fields of get-pool command result is equivalent to the Pools "User Assignment" column in the View Admin page?
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Hello, I'm a new powercli user and i need get the children of a given folder in a particular datacenter. For example: get-datacenter $datacenter | get-folder - location $folder How do i do it?
View Articlevmnic2 and vmnic2b?
Hello! I've installed a Chelsio T320, dual 10gb nic and the vmware signed vib, everything went well. But, ESXi(5.1.0), only lets me use one of the two ports. It shows both under network...
View ArticleHow to configure ESXi 5.1 to shutdown using an APC SmartUPS
HelloI understand that DOC-9531 is depreciated and was for ESXi 3.5 but has this method of shutting down ESX Hosts been replaced with something? What is the best practice mentod for shutting down ESXi...
View ArticleVMWare Server - Ubuntu Guest - network bottleneck
For some time I have been struggling with the throughput of an application I have running in a Ubuntu VM in VMware Server 2 (hosted on Windows Server 2003). The application uses datasources on the...
View ArticleTimeout Error While Creating Provider vDC on new vCloud Director Install
I created my vCloud environment, following the "evaluation cloud" directions as outlined in the "VMW-cCloud-Director1_5-EvalGuide.pdf" doc. Everything seemed to have been moving smoothly until I...
View Articlevm credentials for vDC appliance 5.1.x
So, I can find plenty of documentation of the credentials that can get you into the console of the appliance for 1.5, like: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/01/26/vcloud-director-appliance-password/...
View Articlevcenter storage monitoring service fails
Hello,I am hoping someone can help me out. We upgrade to vcenter 5.0 update 2 and now the storage monitoring service fails to initialize. I have done all of the KB tips in the KB's surronding this...
View ArticleNo USB Device in web client?
I connected to an ESXi 5.1 Server from the standard vSphere Client. I created a vCenter 5.1 VM. At the top of the Windows VM on the vSphere client, there are small icons to connect a CD/DVD, Floppy,...
View ArticleStrange behaviour of virtual machines taking all dhcp range free addresses...
Hi to all, It happens to me a very strange thing on 2 esx servers (free edition) 5.1 version. On this servers there are a 2008 windows sever and a 2003 windows server. In the structure there'a a...
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Workstation 9 VMDK file corruption in Windows 8 Storage Spaces
There is a related thread on this topic that seems to have died out so I am starting a new one I experiencing extremely frequent .vmdk disk file issues when running VMWare Workstation 9 VMs from...
View ArticleUsing VMware Tools GUI to disable time synchronization with host
What is the quickest way for a Windows Server VM being provisioned with VMware Tools installed, to insure that time synchronization does NOT occur with the host? These articles discuss using registry...
View ArticleCombine multiple get statement
This question is probably answered numerous times but I have a hard time figuring the answer, so here it is. Often time I need to combine multiple get statements into the output, for exmaple,...
View ArticlevSphere Enterprise Plus -> vCloud Enterprise Licensing Question
My company took advantage of the vCloud Suite upgrade pricing last December to assist in a DR project. With vCloud I am implementing three new Cisco ESXi hosts that will utilize the new vCloud...
View ArticleScript to show amount of free space not zeroed out
We are running our enviornment on a storage array that supports zero detect thin provisioning (3Par). I am trying to find out which VM's and VMFS volumes have the most unused space that has not been...
View ArticleRAID5 Datastore - Crashed/Blank Data Store
Hey Guys, Question. I have ESXi 4.1 U1 and as it was booting it crashed. (lost power) ever since I was unable to boot into ESXi (says no boot device) but RAID show's OK. So after fighting for a few...
View ArticlevCenter Operations Manager Standard with vCenter Server Appliance
Hi-Trying to figure out if I can install vcenter operations manager if I only have a vCenter Server Appliance installed (Dont have windows version of vcenter Server) I am running VSphere 5.1,...
View ArticleVM tools stand alone installer
Hii'm trying to run the standalone vmtools installer inside a vmimage and when i double click in it i see soe activity but nothing else after. any idea what to do ? i ran the exe cause trying to...
View ArticleSe instala sin problema el ESXi 5.1 pero no arranca desde el disco duro
mi disco duro es SAS y la controladora es una smart array B120iel servidor es un ML310e Gen 8
View ArticleUsing a compute-block model
What does it mean to use a "compute-block" model to design your infrastructure? Is it: -Standardizing the size of VMs to use only certain standard specfications of number of cpus, amount of ram, and...
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