Primary VM freezes during FT
I've a FT setup and my primary VM freezes every now and then. The freezing time is from 20 seconds to more than a minute. I've pin-pointed the problem and it seems than whenever the secondary ESX...
View ArticleValidation check delay
Is there any way to tune the validation checking in the orchestrator client? In the webviews the validation only gets checked when you move to the next screen but in the forms it seems like every...
View ArticleInstalling printer
I am attempting to reinstall a Canon iP4920 printer in Windows XP running in VMWare Fusion 5.0.3. I have uninstlled the printer, attempted to reinstall and for some reason, the installation stops...
View Articleupgrade from vCenter 5.0u1 + SRM 5.0.2 to vCenter 5.1b + SRM 5.1.0.1 really...
Hello, I have vSphere Enterpsise Plus with vCenter 5.0u1 and SRM 5.0.2 on two sites (SRM for two protected volumes and two recovery volumes on NetApp filer at each site) and I guess its time to move to...
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ESXi 5.x on new Apple Mac Mini 6,2 Late 2012 *NOT* working
Hello! I bought one of the new MacMinis, which were presented yesteraday, plugged two 8GiB DD3-1600 modules in (OsX reported 16GiB of memory, as the models before) and tried to install ESXi 5.1 Build...
View ArticleThinApp Factory 404 problems due to Single Sign-On?
Like a lot of people I'm having 404 issues when trying to add a workpool for ThinApp Factory in my company's vCenter. I'm starting to wonder if my problem is due to vCenter 5.1 and Single-Sign On. Is...
View ArticleVmotion & HA DRS test cases failing
hi All, Did anyone have any problem with vmotion tests cases failing.. When we manually do the vmotion it succeeds for all the vms.. When we run the certification suite, the first set of vmotion of vms...
View ArticleSet NTP Server information using powerCLI
How can I set NTP server settings on a group of ESXi hosts using powerCLI? I want to set my primary and secondary NTP server names, and configure them all to have the NTP server service start with the...
View ArticleObtaining vCenter Params From Within a Web Client Plugin
I am somewhat experienced with vCenter server plugin development, but completely new to this whole Web Client Plugin development, so be gentle please. I did a few searches online, but could not find...
View ArticleXML help
I"m not sure how to bring this up since it has been kind of answered in a previous post here, but is there any primer in regards to how to query XML in Orchestrator? Someone asked a similar question...
View ArticleFrequent shutting down of VM in Windows.
Hi! We have a virtual machine in one physical server. That virtual machine is hosting as another server. It used to be running ok, but lately, that virtual machine is frequently stopping (by some...
View ArticleFT CPU Limitation
Hi There, I'm new to VMware so here's a silly question. As I understand it there is a limitation of 1 on the number of vCPUs a VM can have when using FT. Firstly, is this limitation only for FT or is...
View ArticleFusion 5.0.3 and Ubuntu 13.04
I have the VM running but I cannot seem to get the VMWare Tools installed. I installed the build tools and the kernel source files. I have tried to point it to...
View ArticleNeed help on cleaning VMDK files
I have a windows xp vm image which takes up to 57g of disk spce. While I am checking inside the vm, the total disk comsumption is only around 51 g. Then I tried to delete some files on the vm's disk...
View Article10Gbe NICs
Hi All,Just installed ESX5i on a DELL R320 with 10GbE PCI NIC connected to SFP+ switch.ESX has correctly picked the NIC and speeds 10000 full etc. but the VM's are showing 1GB and being connected to...
View ArticleVDP will not backup Server 2008 R2 - lots of errors
I just downloaded and installed new newest version of VDP on Vsphere 5.1. I had it back up two linux VMs....no probem. I then tried to have it back up a Windows 2008 R2 VM (twice)....both times it...
View Articlevmware workstation 9 bridged networking not working
hello everyone, I have been using vmware player for awhile now and just recently i started having problems with my guest os (ubuntu linux) not working with bridged networking. Here is some...
View ArticleUpdate Manager 5.1cannot perform scan on esxi 5.1
After upgrade my esxi hosts to 5.1 (from 5.0) i cant perform a scan for patches. Update manager show this entry : [2013-04-25 17:16:47:291 'HostUpdateDepotManager' 2144 ERROR] [patchDepotManager, 213]...
View ArticleLinking issue
How to link 2 incedents? There is a linking option in call details but what to do after you click on linking? Can I link any service request or change request togather?
View ArticleWhat do I need to buy
Ok, we are a new partner to VMWare. We are in a remote but developing country and have very little help finding a VMWare Parnter we can trust and provide us with the answers we need. So, since we...
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