VCM Collection on vCenter Appliance
How do you do a collection on a vCenter Appliance, as opposed to a Windows vCenter Server?
View Articleview 5.0 persona management & folder redirection
I'm trying to figure out whether I want to enable persona management - but before I decide whether to enable the "manage user persona" policy (in /computer configuration/classic admin templates/VMware...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1/VCO 4.1
Trying to test running our current version of VCO (4.1, Build 733) with VC 5.1. Failing on the step to add licenses from the configuration page, error displayed during validation page was Error while...
View ArticleGem Fire - Shared-Nothing Disk Persistence
Hi,Gem Fire's Share Nothing Disk Persistence, how good it is compared to NAS that Gem Fire uses?Gem Fire docs says, it outperforms NAS. Not clear about it.Please clarify. Thanks,Chakri
View ArticleVMWare Network Design Help
So my brain has become quite scrambled by over-thinking this design and I am hoping someone here is kind enough to set me straight. My overall goal is to adhere to best practices, eliminate single...
View ArticleNvidia Quadro
I assume that many of you with exictement have read through all news in vSphere 5.1 What cought my eye in View point of view was this: "Improved 3D Graphics Support– (View Only) – hardware...
View ArticleIs there a way to replicate data across site?
We have a multi-site implementation separated by WAN. We have one site up and running with all the data. The other site has same configuration as the first one except for the data. Is there a way to...
View ArticleMount/decrypt a single encrypted virtual disk
Is there a way for decrypt/mount an encrypted virtual disk whose encrypted virtual machine has been accidentally deleted ?
View ArticleEncryption for ESXi
Hey, as you can see I'm using VMware ESXi4. For some reason I'm looking for an encrpyting solution to secure my server. I already searched the internet ... but haven't found anything suitable. So...
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Ongoing problem with VMware Player
etsah57 wrote: Sudo worked, opening VMware didn'tTerminaletsah57@etsah57-KZ208AA-ABG-m9385a:~$ sudo su root/sudo password for etsah57:root@etsah57-KZ208AA-ABG-m9385a:/home/etsah57# sh...
View ArticleAES 256 Encryption
Hi I am currently working on project using VMware images on multiple platforms and VMware products, After finding out that VMware workstation 7 now has AES 256 encryption I was quite happy to move...
View ArticleEncrypt files inside VMFS
Yes, I know facets of encryption-inside-VMware have been discussed here many times, but I think my request/idea differs a little from many other requests, so if you lend me your ear for a moment......
View ArticleErrors running the script.
Good day everyone, Getting following errors when running the script v236: Use of uninitialized value $openssl_results in scalar chomp at ./vmwarevSphereSecurityHardeningReportCheck.pl line 2429.Use of...
View ArticleEncryption is killing the VM
I just tried out the Encryption option for one of my VMs.The result was a broken VM... It does no longer find the operating system when booting.Fortunately I had a copy of the VM! After making yet...
View ArticleHow to best encrypt a Windows file server drive in ESXi 5 for HIPAA compliance?
Hi, I work for a medical practice and we're in a bit of a bind. Turns out that HIPAA laws require us to encrypt any data that may contain PHI and I suspect quite a few docs on our Server 2003 file...
View ArticleConnecting to iSCSI on Windows 2012 Box
I have been trying to get iSCSI set up on my network with little success. I set up the target on a Windows 2012 box and I can get other Windows 2012 boxes to connect but not my ESXi 5.1 box. When I...
View ArticleEncrypting Win7 VM Causes Boot Failureme
This is 100% reproducible: I can take any of my Win7 VM's (which are all 32 bit working, activated, VMs), make a copy of it, and verify the copy still boots. I shut down the working VM, encrypt it,...
View Articlemigrating Windows to Nas (or other external drive) for mac
I am migrating my Windows 7 to for my mac, but i don't have enough space for that. The only option i have, is to, use my external storage to save the virtual windows (vmware copy).Would that be...
View Articlevcenter 5, windows 2008r2, bitlocker - where to store the key
I've read many posts on the "how to" encrypt a vmdk using bitlocker. My question is: what do you do with the USB/FLP disk after the disk is encrypted? It seems rather pointless to have a USB disk tied...
View ArticleProblem with HTTP PUT Commands
I am having a problem sending a PUT to the vCloud Director API through the NetworkConfigSection of the vApp Configuration. I keep receiving an "Unsupported Media Type" error. Here is the XML data I'm...
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