Re: .vmdk size doesn't match Disk size setting in Settings
Here is another gotcha... If you did not expand the partition to its full size when moving the existing install to the head of the disk then the virtual hard disk will not shrink to is maximum...
View ArticleRe: View Security Server failing PCI scan
I had the same thing come up on a recent scan and haven't yet had time to build a second security server for testing possible fixes, so if you do discover a procedure that fixes the problem without...
View ArticleRe: Renaming the Hard Disk in VM Settings?
... and you have like 5 or more that may be the same size, so you have to do some investigating as to which disk is what in the OSFor this reason I usually create all virtual disks with a slightly...
View ArticleRe: NFS Multipathing within ESXi? Possible?
I understand what you mean and no. Multipathing is possible from a host's perspective, but when you're trying to get a single host to connect to two different nfs shares and multipath between nfs...
View Articlecan´t vcac roll out vapps with vshield ?
hey guys, i am just wondering if vcac can´t handle vapps with vshields !? Tried to configure everything to handle it, but without success. The vapps are being rolled out, but only the vapps without the...
View ArticleRe: Clone a cloud VM into the same vApp?
Moved to the vCloud Director PowerCLI community
View ArticleRe: Anyone interested in VCP5.1 4 weekend course starting this weekend at...
It is 360 GSP and they are vmware authorised. I think You can get 75% discount on exam voucher. I am supposed to start this weekend but got a contract si ot will be hard for me. Plwase give me ring...
View ArticleRe: advice for very small installations--where?
No worries all questions are wlecome- 1&2) WHat you would gain in the base Essentials kit with vCenter is a central point to mange all hosts as the ability to maintain a set of gold images of VM...
View ArticleRe: VDP Proxy errors
Have tried that numerous times..... In the end I rebooted the vCenter Server..... and that cleared up some stuff and allowed VDP to generate a different error which explained what was causing the...
View ArticleRe: get useful vm information with guest OS
Hi LucD, I am using following script filter Get-FolderPath { $vm | % { $fol = "" | select Name, Path $fol.Name = $vm.Name $current = Get-View $vm.Parent# $path = $_.Name # Uncomment out this...
View ArticleQuestion: Installing RHEL 6.4 on ESXi host, but throwing Partition Error
Trying to install RHEL 6.4 in an ESXi host, but during the installation process I get a partition error‘Could not allocate requested partitions: Not enough space for LVM request’ (see attachment...
View ArticleRe: Need help getting quicken deluxe 2013 to work with fusion 5.0.3
Well, I heard back from Quicken, and they told me that "the use of VMWare Fusion and Parallels is not supported by Intuit at this time. Quicken will not be able to assist you in resolving these...
View ArticleRe: Could not look up host [username]. Proper password, but will not convert
Were you able to get this sorted out? I'm running into the same issue, and a quick search only seems to return this 1 thread. ovftool --noImageFiles "vi://user:pass@server/datacenter?ds=[datastore]...
View ArticleSetting/changing custom fields during VM cloning operations
The following is with regards to using the vSphere SDK or VIJAVA SDK and programmatically performing the operation via a Java program. I know how to set/get/delete custom fields in a VM once the VM...
View ArticleThoughts on Acronis Backup & Recovery solution for VMware
Hello, I am just trying to get thoughts on this solution. We have implemented it. But damnn...CPU spikes on 100% and disk latencies I called Acronis, and they said is normal. Any insights from you guys..?
View ArticleRe: The VCD entity network .. specified for VM .. does not exist.
I am trying to add a bridged vapp network as well, and am unsuccessful; I'm doing practically the same thing: <ns6:RecomposeVAppParams xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/versions"...
View ArticleRe: Recompose vapp error in vcloud 5.1 Java SDK
Just realized this works for an existing vapp network, its when I try to bridge to an org network that I get that error. Thanks.
View ArticleRe: Could not look up host [username]. Proper password, but will not convert
Actually, yeah. I did solve it, but it was ugly. Instead of using an ovftool or "export" from vSphere client, I had to actually ssh in to the ESX server and scp the .vmdk files to a local computer....
View ArticleRe: Lun Offset Question - NetApp Filers
Maybe Im missing something, but VSC doesnt list out the offsets of the actual VM's/VMDK's. There are Misaligned > Online Migration > Group 1, 2, etc... but nothing that tells me the offset....
View ArticleWhere does the OS's for the dropdown for Price Model->Other Cost come from
In Chargeback, under the "Manage Cost" in the "Price Models" under the "Other Cost" you can set the fix cost for guest OS.The "Guest OS Name" dropdown at different times has new OS's in it. I attached...
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