Role permissions for Affinity Rules
Hi All,is there a way to set up or assign a user role who has only permissions to set "affinitay rules" in vcenter on a drs cluster. If somebody could provide me a privileg path to assign that...
View ArticleCreating a Lion or Mountain Lion VM on esxi5 on non mac hardware
Is it possible to create an apple vm and install Lion or Mountain Lion on them? I've tried so far via iso, dmg, and USB and I have still been unable to get it to work. The installer makes it past the...
View ArticleRe: Convert failed at 99% installGrub.sh failed with return code: 255
I thought i would reply to this thread, since it is basically the only existance of this problem that I found on the interwebs. I had exactly the same error whilst p2v'ing an RH4u4 server...FAILED: An...
View ArticleRe: Role permissions for Affinity Rules
Hello and welcome to the communities. Note: Discussion successfully moved from Product & Feature Suggestions to VMware vCenter™ Server
View ArticleRe: Load sharing among cores
Thanks. I just also read the following link CPU Virtualization Basics and it says the following. It appears if I configure all 4 VMs to have 4 cores each, then VM1, VM2, and VM4 will have access to...
View ArticleRe: Creating a Lion or Mountain Lion VM on esxi5 on non mac hardware
It is not legal to install these products on non-Mac hardware, and as per the community terms of service that is where this discussion should end.
View ArticleRe: LUN is presented to an ESX Host
If you need to create a vmfs datastore on that lun then you can just follow the add storage wizard through - see this link for more info/screenshots:...
View ArticleRe: Creating a Lion or Mountain Lion VM on esxi5 on non mac hardware
Oh, so I have to use a mac mini (or the like) as my server?
View ArticleRe: Host Hardware Sensors stale data through PowerCLI
Sure does look like a caching issue. The Refresh, Update and actual query also complete noticably faster through vCenter. ESXi hostd.log and vpxa.log when running RefreshHealthStatusSystem() through...
View ArticleDatastore Access
Hello, I am new to the forums, so if this should be posted somewhere else, please let me know. I have inherited the following VMware installation: ESXi 5.0 on all the hosts (26 total). I recently...
View ArticleRe: Hosts that won't stay connected to vCenter
Can you connect a VI client directly to the hosts in question? Does that lose conectivity at all?
View ArticleRe: Cannot Get VMware update manager to work
Neither Windows 2012 nor SQL 2012 are supported currently, unless something has changed recently.
View ArticlevCenter Server Heartbeat number of licenses required
I'm confusedI have been going though our license support and checked with VMware Support License Team.I have a setup with vCenter Heartbeat installed in a VM. Site A (VM1):SQL Server 2008 Standard...
View ArticleRe: Best Practice DS3512 iSCSI Dual CTRL with vSphere ESX 5.0
Hey,Each host had 2 pNics hence used 2 nics per controller head. vSwitch configured with recommended active/unused fashion pNics. This is approach is in most documentation at the moment. No LACP or...
View ArticleRe: Creating a Lion or Mountain Lion VM on esxi5 on non mac hardware
Yes, you would need to use one of the Apple systems listed on the VMware HCL. Guest OS support is also listed in the HCL.
View ArticleRe: Creating a Lion or Mountain Lion VM on esxi5 on non mac hardware
alright thank you.
View ArticleRe: Pass input to workflow using AMQP Subscription
The input is an Orchestrator task that is scheduled within the same workflow that is calling the "Create AMQP Subscription" workflow. I then want to pass along the task element to the workflow that the...
View ArticleRe: Extending a Windows XP VM disk
Does that VM have any snapshots? If so, youll need to delete them before you can extend the disk, then use diskpart as normal.
View ArticleRe: Access data from last Snapshot VMDK
Thanks Andre. So I'm assuming you mean use VMware Mount to try to mount the disk in Windows. I tried doing this after following your instructions, and received an error. I've attached screenshots of...
View ArticleXP VM size twice that of guest OS, no snapshots
Hi there, Have an XP VM which (as the post title says) is almost twice the size of the guest OS hard drive. This is an old converted bootcamp which I've upgraded to fusion 5. I also increased the size...
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