Exchange 2010 Alternative to Snapshot Consolidation\Deletion
My organization is experiencing an issue with overgrown snapshots. We've apparently been running on a snapshot since March 2012 and did not find out until last week when the LUN ran out of space that...
View ArticleRe: Can't Download VM Files using Datastore Browser in vSphere Client 5.1
These files are probably locked on another host. You can try to connect to the host directly where the VM is running on using the vSphere Client. But seeing that the VM is running, how do you expect...
View ArticleRe: Alarms not sending E-mails
Yes, there are no restrictions on SMTP and it is setup to not require authentication. I have serveral other tools using it and they are working fine, it's just vCenter that is failing.
View ArticleRe: Setting up the SSO database as part of a simple install
cjscol is correct. The compatibility guide applies to SSO for the same settings as vCenter Server 5.1. You will find the needed scripts to set up the database on the installation media in the Single...
View ArticleRe: How to Set Node's Hostname with REST APIs?
Not fully sure. This time it's perhaps a genuine error. Can you make sure you save your blueprint and save your deployment profile (by going through the wizard and clicking on save on the last screen)?...
View ArticleRe: vcenter aborts installation !
Are you using Windows Server 2003? %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter would be the correct path there.Otherwise it should be the following on Windows Server 2008 and...
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Re: HELP! vmware won't mount vmfs volume
When I read "raid 5 rebuilt on local storage" the rest of your post was predictable IMHO the combination: local storage + VMFS + Raid5/6 should only be used to run VMs that have no important data so...
View ArticleESX host cannot ping default gateway
I've got ESXI 5.1 installed on a Dell Power Edge R620. I have a VM deployed running as a VCenter server. I was able to manage the physical host through VCenter okay. I configured two virtual...
View ArticleRe: VMware Ethernet with Cisco EtherChannel and Trunking Question
Some overdue responses: @Josh - thanks for the help. I found out the bpdufilter setting. We have local disks on each host. Do we still need dump collector? we don't use auto deploy (I think). @MKGuy...
View ArticleRe: vcenter aborts installation !
Try this VMware KB: Troubleshooting VMware Single Sign-On configuration and installation issues in a Windows server
View ArticleRe: Tile score for partial tile
I am not seeing that section in the guide. I did a search in the guide for the section name you provided and came up empty. I then searched on the perl script name and found a reference to it in the...
View ArticleRe: Tile score for partial tile
What version of the benchmarking guide are you using? You should have downloaded the latest (2.5.1-20130613).-h prints the usage.-X skip Standby scoring.
View ArticleRe: Exchange 2010 Alternative to Snapshot Consolidation\Deletion
you can clone a VM and boot that in off-network. Ensure if all set and bring that to production. Cloning the VM should bring everything where it left. Alternatively you can also try V2V .
View ArticleRe: Exchange 2010 Alternative to Snapshot Consolidation\Deletion
Making a clone with the VMware Converter is a documented alternative to consolidating large snapshots. I don't see Exchange being overly relevant - services on the guest should be oblivious to such...
View ArticleRe: Exchange 2010 Alternative to Snapshot Consolidation\Deletion
I agree that the clone is a good option here as is the V2V. One very important point to remember - Microsoft doesn't support virtual machine snapshots of any kind with Exchange 2010 (or 2013 for that...
View ArticleRe: How to Set Node's Hostname with REST APIs?
Rags, I have to apologize about the last posting. It was user error - I used the wrong deployment profile id. Thanks again for all your help. Howard
View ArticleRe: ESX host cannot ping default gateway
To restore your network work settings:Use the Direct Connect UI (DCUI) to connect to ESXi host.Click Reset System Configuration.Reboot the ESXi host.Enter the networking information. For more...
View ArticleRe: vcenter aborts installation !
Dear JD,my Nslookup works fine no problem with the reverst !Frank i am on 2008R2 and yes absolutely nothing there, is it possible to Download the Vcenter appliance somewhere here? i can't download it...
View ArticleSnapshot with more than 1 year
We have VMware ESXi 5 migrated from 4.1. Checking space I've found that a former admin trying to test a backup application left a snapshot for a vm. It was created on January 2012. There is only one...
View ArticleRe: guest with more vCPU than pCPU a bad idea?
We did not get time to test, i managed to convince the relevant parties to just go for more smaller VM's and resource allocation and that has worked well.Id just build a test VM if you can and watch...
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