WinPE 4.0 + VMWare Workstation - Hangs "Windows is loading files" booting...
I've been trying to boot into WinPE 4.0 on workstation 8 but it hangs on anything older than Windows 8. I've tried about 20 different machines on 5 different hosts. Only my Win8 (UEFI and BIOS) guests...
View ArticlevMotioning SRM protected hosts
Hi All, We have just installed SRM on our enviroment and I am trying to test recovery plans at the moment. It would be a great help if anyone could answer the below: Our enviroment is 2 esxi5.1 hosts...
View ArticleDNS instead of NETBIOS
Hi. How can we use DNS FQDN instead of NETBIOS names when deploying patches, running scripts etc? Because vCenter Protect is using the NETBIOS machine name we receive the following error:Error: 201 -...
View ArticleLogin to VC 5 without AD authentication
Hi All, I have ESXi5.1 hosts and 5.1b VC. If my DC is down then I am not longer able to login to VC via VI Client.I have installed SSO - Inventory Service and then VC. What changes do I need to make so...
View Articlevcenter server password recovery?
hey guys,i deployed a 3 vmhost with network storage about 3 weeks ago. I installed the vcenter server appliance and everything worked fine.Today i'm not able to log into the vcenter server at all... it...
View ArticleSupported guest OS View
I am assessing VMware's capabilities in providing a zero desktop (Wyse) solution to display multiple Linux RHEL 5 workstations to users by deploying View managed (Connection Manager I really mean)...
View ArticleWill 5.5 beta sdk will be compatible with 5.1 web client ?
Hi there, We are exploring the options for vsphere web clinet plugin. We are using 5.1 sdk for our plugin currently. Now we keep hearing many new features coming with 5.5 Sdk. So we plan to switch to...
View ArticlePerfmon Failed Unknown Error
Hi Every One We are running CP for araoung 600 Servers , Lately i have noticed Permon is getting failed when i do test connection and getting error unknown error .Im getting this error on Only...
View ArticleUnable to login as root to Local TSM
Hallo, I have an ESXi 4.1 server and I managed to lock myself out by giving read-only access to root in the VMWare Client...However I can login to the server console as root and enabled Local TSM to...
View ArticleCan't pull perfmon data for a windows 7 desktops
Team, I am running into a issue where I have the CP tool up and running as it should outside of a handful of Windows 7 desktops that we manually added to the assessment. We can pull inventory data for...
View ArticleBrowser hangs on authentication to optimize site
Hi all Has anyone else had issues successfully accessing optimize.vmware.com over the last 2 weeks? For all users in our NFR company ID we can logon and its totally random as to whether we get the...
View ArticleView Pool Sync : Failed to verify View Connection Server
Hi, I'm installing Horizon Workspace in my demo environment, but have problems with the View integration. When trying to Sync via configurator-va, I get: "Failed to verify View Connection Server". The...
View ArticleCapacity planner - WMI error
Hi all, I have recently been configuring the capacity planner in its desktop mode to scan and assess all of our desktops. I have it set up in a test environment. Everything installed fine and has set...
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Strange iSCSI port binding issue
I'm having a very strange problem with my iSCSI SAN that I can't work out.Previously, I was running ESX 4.0 with multipath iSCSI working just fine. I did an upgrade to ESX 5.1U1 and now I can't get...
View ArticleNew !! Open unofficial storage performance thread
Hello everybody, the old thread seems to be sooooo looooong - therefore I decided (after a discussion with our moderator oreeh - thanks Oliver -) to start a new thread here. Oliver will make a few...
View ArticleDiscover USB Devices available for passthru
So here's a challenge that I seem to be needing a little bit of help with. Basically I what I'm trying to do is trigger an alarm in vCenter when the Host USB Configuration has changed, once that alarm...
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High ready time & i/o Latency after upgrading to Vsphere 5.0 U2
Hello gurusWe have an infrastructure based on a ibm blade center h with a mix of 7 blade servers (Hs22 hs23, hs23p) Since the upgrade from vsphere 4.1 to 5.0U2 we have noticed a slowdown with a few...
View ArticleUnable to migrate VM from ESXi 4.1 cluster???
Afternoon all, I'm trying to migrate some VM's from an existing ESXi 4.1 cluster to a new ESXi 5.1 cluster. I've installed VMWare Converter 5.1 on the management server at the destination end, and have...
View ArticleProblem with re-size the volume
I tried to create VM using Vcenter Convert 5.1 from a physical windows swerver 2008R2. I tried to re-size the volumes that is iSCSI from the SAN. I tried to make it smaller because it is huge, cannot...
View ArticleOrchestrator with Nexus 1000v
Has anyone leveraged Orchestrator with Nexus 1000v. I was researching workflow integrations and it appears that nexus 1000v has REST capabilities now. I was wondering if it is possible to hook the APIs...
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