VMware Guest OS shutdown despite adequate space
We had a Guest OS shutdown and refuse to start saying the datastore was out of space, yet the datastore had 60 GB of available space. Has anyone seen this before? If so, what did you do to sort it out?
View ArticleProtocol failure in VMware view administrator 5.1
Hi Team, We are using VMware View 5.1 & getting "Protocol Failure: on one Pool.We have disable & enable the provisioning,after provisioning,it goes to customize, start up & gives Protocol...
View ArticleHorizon Kerberos not working
I have followed the directions an the Horizon website still won't auto login with IE, neither will the Horizon workspace client. where would I look in the logs to start troubleshooting this. the...
View ArticleVMware Tools and vHardware Updates
Is there any way to automate the upgrade/update of VMware tools and vHardware on 800 virtual machines? Someone out there must have a powercli script of something. Thanks,jd
View ArticlevCloud Director and vCenter
Hi everyone I am currently working for a company that have a MSP looking after their VMware environment. They have installed vCloud Director. Now, I am unable to add interfaces to VM's in the vCloud...
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vSphere Web Client 5.1 the “Use Windows session authentication” is grayed out
vSphere Web Client 5.1 the “Use Windows session authentication” is grayed out after install on Client Integration plug-in. It works in Crome but not iE... Tried:1. reinstall (deleted, reinstalled and...
View ArticleVMDR (VDR) is locked up with a Recatalog task
Hi all, My VMDR is stuck at 65% for 5 days in a row and my backups are not happening. This was working as recently as last week. Any help would be appreciated.I am using v 2.0.1.2374Thanks, Alex
View ArticleUpgrade from free VMware hypervisor 4, 4.1 and 5.0 to vSphere 5.1
Hi, there are several hosts with the free hypervisor version 4 - 5.0 and local disks. The machines that are running on those hosts need to be movedto the new vSphere 5.1 cluster with shared storage. I...
View Articlesnapshot script help
Most of the below script for listing snapshots was passed to me ( i made some small modifications) and it works great except that it will not list the original creator of the snapshot but rather the...
View ArticleWorkstation 9 promiscuous mode
How do I enable promiscuous mode for an ESXi guest in Workstation 9 on a Windows 8 system?TIA!
View ArticleProblems installing: Error code 29144
Hello I am installing the latest version of VMWare Workstation 9 and the first time I uninstall the previous version and when installing the new one, it gave me error code 29144. I tried installing it...
View ArticleShared file invisivel
Instalei VM Player com Win7 como host, Linuxmint 14 como guest. Configurei um diretório presente no win7 como shared, mas não consigo ve-lo. Não há nada em mnt/hgfs, nem em etc/fstab. As pastas estão...
View ArticleESXi 4.1 losing network connection
We have 2 ESXi 4.1 hosts that randomly (about once a month) completely drop off the network. All guests are inaccessible and the management network is inaccessible. You cannot ping any IP address or...
View ArticleView Linked Clones Icons Freeze
Hi everyone. I have a bit of a dilemma. I have just a few desktops running as linked clones, 4 to be exact. I just recently started experiencing something unusual. The linked clone's desktop icons...
View ArticleUnable to connect to VCloud Director 5.1 build 5.1.1.868405
Hi. We are not able to connect to a VCloud Director ver. 5.1.1 868405. When we try a: connect-ciserver we get the following error: Connect-CIServer The underlying connection was closed: The...
View ArticleVMDK operation failed
Hello I am new to VMWare and have encountered a problem that I am unable to fix. I'm not sure what I can do to fix or at least recover my files. I have attached the log files and would appreciate any...
View ArticleError installing 1000v - vCenter Server Connection
Hi, I am installing the 1000v on my test lab and getting this error when setting up the VCenter Server Connection (See attached)I deploy the ovh template nexus-1000v.4.2.1.SV2.1.1a.ova - everything ok...
View ArticleNetwork connectivity requirements for vFabric App director
1. Does vApp AppDirector has to have direct network connection to the VM's it is deploying? 2. Does vApp AppDirector has to have Internet access in order to download the Services (e.g. Windows SQL exe) ?
View ArticleESX Host Memory Modules
Is there anyway to pull in information such as the number of memory modules in an esx host and the specs behind the memory? Similar to what the hardware status tab shows when looking @ a host?
View ArticleCustomization Specifications Manager - Need tips on troubleshooting / best...
I have used the CSM tool successfully for several builds. I just added a few command lines to run once and modified the domain information and it failed. I figured a quick look at the logs would show...
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