Re: Cannot Get VMware update manager to work
It seems that 2012 server is not supported by Update Manager 5.1.
View ArticleRe: vSphare Data Protection option not shown in vSphere Web Client
This was happening to my team with VDP and VDR. I just figured out how to get the option to show again. Goto the login, attempt to login wtih your account and an invalid password. After it kicks out...
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Re: LUN is presented to an ESX Host
Dear TIM, Many thanks for steps by steps explanation , I appreciate the same. Dear iw123Ahhhh!!!, I have forgotted to check the same in ADD Storage Wizard..... Yes i m able to see the same, Please help...
View ArticleRe: Strange Permission Issues at Guest Level
Thanks for the quick reply LucD, I'm not getting the "The guest operations agent could not be contacted" error with the invoke-vmscript. I'm getting an issuficient permissions error. Also, when I get...
View ArticleHow LUN is presented to an ESX Host
Dear Team, How to confirm weather LUN is present to an ESX host?? We have requested our SAN team to map one 900GB LUN to one of the esx host, these people have done the needful from their end (i.e....
View ArticleRe: Group Policy not starting after machines provision out
We are deploying to the same OU and stil having the issue. We have created multiple scripts to update group policy but they seem to be hit or miss. Soon i am going to contact vmware and see if they...
View ArticleRe: Hosts that won't stay connected to vCenter
No address conflicts. I had a look in /var/log/ and /var/log/vmware/ but there is no vmkernel.log file there. Is there another location or name that it might have depending on the version of ESXi...
View ArticleRe: Host Hardware Sensors stale data through PowerCLI
That seems to indicate it's a vCenter caching thing ?
View ArticleRe: Virtual machine with “Windows XP 32 bit” on “Intel I7-2820QM processor”
You can't believe everything you read on the Internet. All x64 processors power on in 32-bit mode, and most, if not all, x64 operating systems actually start in 32-bit mode before switching.to long...
View ArticleExtending a Windows XP VM disk
Hi, Little confused, as to extedn a disk for a VM i usllay edit its settings using the VI client and extend the disk to a new size..then use disk part.. But in Winxp the option is grayed out - even...
View ArticleRe: Virtual machine with “Windows XP 32 bit” on “Intel I7-2820QM processor”
OK, thanks for the info.
View ArticleRe: Converting Thick to Thin - Stays Thick! need help
The "sdelete -c" trick worked for me on all VMs so far! In one instance, I had sdelete run and then increased the vmdk by some GB, and before the storage migration to convert it to thin - the disk...
View ArticleRe: Pass input to workflow using AMQP Subscription
Or, if this parameter value is retrieved from the AMQP message itself, you need to obtain it from the msg (see the default script handler of the Subscription policy) and pass it on to the workflow,...
View Articlealarm from vcenter
Hi all i have a strange alarm that came from vcenter.The alarm details is as below: Message: test trap received from Vcenter with SNMP Varbinds .1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.4.3.308.0: 2 ,...
View ArticleNeed to create a scheduled file system report on files updated in the last week
All, I'm not a SQL query expert but I need to create a report that lists all files modified in the previous seven days. We'll schedule this report to run weekly. The current SQL query is below, and...
View ArticleRe: Hosts that won't stay connected to vCenter
Sorry, I'm used to 5.x... in 4.x there is no vmkernel.log. VMkernel messages are logged in /var/log/messages. If vmkernel is logging potential IP networking issues (I'd assume it would be, if your...
View ArticleHyperic 5 is available for download
Hi, Just a note that Hyperic v5 is available for download. Hyperic allows the collections of OS stats (Windows/AIX/Linux...) and Applications (Full list here : www.hyperic.com bottom of page). Using...
View ArticleSLES11 SP2: extract information from ESXi takes very long and aborts
Hello, I'm trying to extract status information, using a Nagios plugin called check_esx3, from an ESXi 4.0 using VMware-vSphere-Perl-SDK-5.1.0-780721 on a SLES11 SP2 system with perl-5.10.0 and/or...
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