Re: Connect an ESXi (free) host to a vSphere 5.0 infrastructure
If you have the available license in your vSphere 5 environment you should be able to do that since you cannot manage a free license with vCenter -
View ArticleRe: Thinapp Internet Explorer 10
I'm sorry, I don't know that I can suggest much else. I wasn't getting any errors at all - the IE10 ThinApp just wouldn't start. I captured it on a clean 32-bit Windows 7 machine and it wouldn't launch...
View ArticleRe: Error: Can't call method "macAddress" on unblessed reference
Well, you can't get the ESXi host IP address through that code bit, you'll have to get to the Host networking object to query the various VMK interfaces for that information. For the VM IP Address...
View ArticleBest reports to measure effect of storage changes?
Hi all, we recently replaced an EMC CX4-480 with a VNX5500 and saw a perceptible improvement in the performance of all our VM's. I now have 200 gigs of fastcache that I'm about to enable but before...
View Articleripristino VM
Buona sera... uso come sistema di backup per le mie VM Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5. ma non ho mai testato una restore, è possibile simulare un restore? è possibile avere indicazioni?grazie
View ArticleRe: Adding Metadata to vDC
Not sure if you're in the right forum, but have you tried - POST /admin/vdc/{id}/metadata GET /admin/vdc/{id}/metadata Haven't tried it myself, but was in vCD 1.5 and later to add metadata to just...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Windows VM - report as "Laptop" in WMI?
Is there a way to get a an ESXi VM to appear to Windows as a Laptop? I need to do some testing on software that changes its behavior based on whether it is a desktop or laptop and would like to test on...
View ArticleRe: VICredStore Problems
Where did you get the shutdownvms.pl script? Didn't see it in the VIPerl toolkit? Since init is defined in VICredStore, have you tried just adding 'use VMware::VICredStore;' to the shutdownvms.pl?...
View ArticleRe: AsyncEventListener
According to the javadoc for the close() method in the CacheCallback interface CacheCallback (GemFire Java API Documentation):"It is possible for this method to be called multiple times on a single...
View ArticleRe: View Performance Issues
That is for sure not right. What is the hardware version of the VM? WP
View ArticleUSB AutoConnect
Trying to get a USB HID device to autoconnect, but I appear to be missing something... Here is what I see in the vmware.log for the VM:013-05-15T12:43:23.992-05:00| vmx| I120: DICT...
View ArticleRe: Bug: VMware Workstation hangs indefinitely if imported VM has more...
This is true for Windows XP, Windows 7. Did not test Windows Vista, Windows 8.Did not see it with Linux (CentOS, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, openSUSE). Reinstalling didn't help, as did...
View ArticleRe: Host Gentoo linux : Guest Win XP - Problems with usb device.
This is a me too. In my case a XP host and XP guest work o.k.A linux (up to date install) and up to date player does not work. The same problem occurs in VirtualBox. The Win XP recognises the Siemens...
View ArticleRe: 10GbE with 1GbE standby?
Josh26 wrote: I would prefer two individual cards to protect against a card hardware failureHow many failed NIC cards have you seen in the last ten years?I've seen failed RAM, failed motherboards, fan...
View ArticleRe: Very Confused, VMware Certification codes and names, Please Help
I was wondering whether it is possible to get certified with going going through a formal VMware course?. We had truly expert consultants who trained us inside the organization, I have a tons of...
View ArticleVMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) Defense schedule for 2013 (Revised May...
The VMware Certification team is pleased to announce the Revised VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) Defense schedule for 2013. Registration for all VCDX Defenses listed here are open in myLearn....
View ArticleRe: 10GbE with 1GbE standby?
a.p. wrote: PS: With 2 active and 1 stand-by adapter, the stand-by adapter will already be used in case of a single NIC failure!Interesting. So if I drop a switch or bump a cable, the 1Gb link will...
View ArticleRe: Invoke-VMscript crashes PowerShell
Was that "testuser" you created on the ESXi server or inside the guest OS ? Have you already seen this post Invoke-VMScript – least privilege ?It features a script that fixes the 2 parts that were...
View ArticleRe: Resource Pool Reservation Question
He does have good stuff, but I looked there before posting here and didn't see any posts directly related to what I was doing. I did find a post on Frank Denneman's site (Resource pools memory...
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