VMware storage, SAN, iSCSI, FC, FCoE, NAS
Hi, My understanding was iSCSI, FC, FCoE, NAS are the protocols used in VMware storage. They carry’s all the operations between datastores and servers. Then what is the relationship between iSCSI, FC,...
View ArticleHP ESXi 5.0 does not boot until key press
Hi guys, I wonder if anyone could shed some light on this for me. I have a HP ProLiant DL385 G7, with HP bundled ESXi 5.0 install onto its internal SD card. However when it gets to the boot stage, it...
View ArticleVMs are registered, but workload is not started
I am using View Planner 2.1, on vSphere 5.1 and View 5.2. Trying to start local workload on WIndows 7 32-bit.When I start test, Planner finds VM, restarts it and shows that VM is registered, but...
View ArticleVMware SRM
Hello Folks, I am looking out for below information for designing a solution leveraging VMware SRM. 1.) How much compute (Processors,memory.space) I need to configure for each SRM virtual machine at...
View Articleuser access control
Hi, How to link up the AD to the vCenter server in order to manage the access control?. How to create the users (maybe admins) directly on vCenter server instead of accessing from AD?. thanks,Madhav
View ArticleVMware storage, SAN, iSCSI, FC, FCoE, NAS
Hi, My understanding was iSCSI, FC, FCoE, NAS are the protocols used in VMware storage. They carry’s all the operations between datastores and servers. Then what is the relationship between iSCSI, FC,...
View ArticleUsing a vSphere Storage Appliance at a remote site
I'm considering vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) at a remote site. The remote site has two hosts and no vCenter Server. To use VSA, I would need to connect my two hosts to a vCenter Server over a wan...
View ArticleQuestions on maintence mode
I have a couple of curious (probably dumb) questions on maintainence mode (esxi ver 51). What exactly does it do?What happens if you run the patch command similar to "esxcli software vib install -d...
View ArticleVM System Event Error: The device has a bad block
In my Event Viewer->System logs, I spotted the following error "The device, \Device\Harddisk1, has a bad block." It has occurred several times in the last month, usually in the early morning. For...
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Why so many Generic bus devices?
I've got perhaps 100 Generic Bus devices listed and 50 or so PCI Express standard Root Ports listed in this VM. Windows 7 SP1 VM Workstation 7.1.3 I noticed this while trying to fix a problem with my...
View ArticleEnable EVC on a Running Cluster
Hello, I have a doubt on enable EVC on a existing and active cluster. I have a Cluster with: 2 x Dell R320 with Intel Xeon X3430 @ 2.40 with 4 core without hyperthreating. EVC now is disable. This two...
View ArticleFresh install of vCloud Director 1.5 fails to set up ESXi 5.1.0 hosts
Hello dear community . I have the following error message when trying to create a 'Provider-VDC' on my freshly installed vCloud director appliance :"Could not retrieve state for sequence: seq_os"....
View Articledirectpath i/o Inactive with ucs vmfex
I am getting this error when trying to do direction i/o with vmfex on ucs. any idea what this error mean?
View ArticleSingle Sign On Multi-Site ?
Hi I am rebuild virtual center and moving to a SSO multi-site configuration with 2 virtual centers to take advantage of linked mode. A pre-requisitefor linked mode is: Make sure that all vCenter...
View ArticleGetting null value while retrieving firewall rules using vCD 5.1 SDK
I am trying to retrieve firewall rules using vCD 5.1 SDK. Please refer to the below code snippet for more details: vcloudClient.login(userName, password); ReferenceType adminOrgRef =...
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How to programmatically disable IP masquerade ?
How using Java API, programmatically remove "IP masquerade" option from "network -> configure sevices -> NAT Mapping" tab ?should become :
View ArticleUnmarshaller exception with the vCloud SDK for Java
Hi, I'm trying to use the vCloud SDK within Spring.When calling the login method (with the appropriate username and password strings) from a vCloudClient object, I got the following...
View ArticleHow to set the language for sdk exception details
We got an SDK exception, the details for this exception is not english, please take a look at the attached file. Does anybody know how to set it back to english? Thanks!
View Articlexml binding for vcloud 5.1 api for scala, using scalaxb
Is there a prescribed way to generated scala xml bindings for vcloud 5.1 api, We tried to generate class files using scala 2.10.0 and scalaxb 1.0.0, Unexpectedly compile failed at...
View ArticleEmail Notifications Question
Hi, I recently signed up for an account on communities.vmware.com. After doing so, I changed my Email notification preferences so that only "Automatically receive notifications for all discussions I...
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