Updates of ESXi standalone and vSphere ESXi
Hello all, I am currently struggeling with a bunch of ESXi servers which are part of a vSphere Center in the Essential licensing. First of all the update plugin in the vCenter via the vSphere Client...
View ArticleView Users default printer not always sticking
We are using VMWare Horizon View 5.2 and it seems that about 50% of the time, our users' default printer is not remember between sessions. I put a ticket in with VMWare, who referred me to the KB...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 hosts randomly disconnects from vCenter
Hi.After installing vSphere vCenter and ESXi 5.1 (with latest patches), we are starting to see hosts disconnecting randomly from vCenter.We have different server models but so far, we have only seeing...
View ArticleESXi could not reach isolation address
Hi, I'm experiencing a strange behavior of one of my ESXi (7 total in my cluster) every single night.I don't have this problem during the day but (coincidence ?) when my Veeam backups start and after a...
View ArticleDeploying a simple web application using Gemfire in WLS
I want to create a sample web application using Gemfire where I put data in cache and this data is exposed through some API or webservice. Can anyone help in this, how to proceed?
View ArticleMailClient.connect
Hi, somehow I cant get the MailClient.connect going. Everything works fine with POP3Client, but in that Class there is no delete function. var vCOMail = new MailClient(); System.log("Start");...
View ArticlePDXSerialization inconsistencies
Hi, We are using ReflectionBasedAutoSerializer to serialize the domain objects between client and server. We are noticing strange behavior, where one request is successfully received by the server....
View ArticleNMAP through VMWare Workstation NAT Interface
Hi, I am wondering the technical reasons as to why nmap scan's take much longer to complete when the interface is in NAT mode rather than bridged mode scans. Technically, it shouldn't take anymore time...
View ArticleQueries related to Gemfire Developement
Can any one please answer below given urgent questions related to Gemfire Developement: 1. Can you please provide help in doing a POC based on the following Use Case: Say we have a database...
View ArticleCommand windows appearing when calling an external child process
We have an internal powerbuilder call-center application that I've Thinapp'd and works great, except when you need to call an external application (view images of claims). I've recently added the...
View ArticleSeparating OS and data using separate RAID sets on one host
I am using the free version of ESXi 5. Is there a way to put the OS's of multiple virtual servers on one RAID set and their data on a separate RAID set on one ESXi host machine? My host machine has...
View Articlecron on ESXi5 "operation not permitted"
Hi all, I have my script configured and running ok on my ESXi5 installation. But I'm hitting an issue when I try to add the task as a weekly job to cron. I am editing "/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root"...
View ArticlevSphere vCenter 5.1 Events filling up SQL DB from VDP 5.1.11.3
I have a vCenter 5.1 environment with VDP deployed for backups. The backups jobs run successfully, and the environment is stable. I a specific issue with the SQL database filling up with a flood of log...
View ArticleSplitting up a nVidia GRID K2's GPUs?
What I'm talking about is designating one GPU for vSGA and pass-through the second GPU to a VM for high performance 3D work. In theory this should work, but I'm curious to know if anyone has actually...
View ArticleConverter standalone 5.1 crashes host on retrieving source machine information
Hi all, I'm kinda stuck atm. We are using 2 ESXi servers. I'd like to convert the servers of 1 ESXi to another.I'm using Converter Standalone 5.1. The source server is running ESXi 4.0, the destination...
View ArticleBest ESXi 5 hardware?
I was planning to get a Dell PowerEdge r515 configured with ESXi already installed (2x Opteron 8core 4386 3.1ghz, 32gb ram, 6x2tb raid5). Weighing in at 7k+.Now, that's going to be a hard sell to the...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Welcome page after Fusion install
Hi, I have an OSX server and after installing Fusion 5 my server's main page is now a "VMWARE ESXi 5.1" welcome page. Why would this happen automatically and how can I disable it now and in the future?...
View ArticleHow is the 'LowFreeThreshold' counter calculated?
Hi I assume that the LowFreeThreshold value is determined by using the 'MemMinFreePct' setting, because both values are about the threshold at which memory reclamation techniques as ballooning,...
View ArticleAdding IPs
I'm fairly new to ESXi so bear with me. I have a system setup and running already and if I wanted to add another public IP to it (I have 13 total that will be going in) what do I need to do to make...
View ArticleThinDirect incase of javaScripts
Hi, Infrastructure at our customer site was being upgraded to WIN7 and IE9 and one of our web applications are not supported on IE9 so we had to make use of VmWare Thin App solution to let users use...
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