VCA
When you are deploying vca and connect via web browser and the installation starts, you get to the static IP and dns information. It says to perform those tasks and then relaunch the wizard to...
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Thats because IP and DNS provides the server an identity to the appliance and further when you configure db,sso,ad , the appliance needs to talk to these servers therefore a restart isrequired in the...
View ArticleRe: vSphere Update Manager 5.1
Update Manager has nothing to do with SAN unless you are booting your ESXi from SAN. if that's not the case, the prompt means that it will upgrade your ESXi version from 4.1 to 5.1.Further it means...
View ArticleRe: vCenter permissions - local group doesn't seem to work
yes thats because local group is a group inside your local admin group. So when you remove the parent group from vCenter, the more restricted access will take preference and hence the behaviour. Remove...
View ArticleRe: SDRS invalid - Esxi host removed
SDRS will still be valid even if you remove host from a cluster since SDRS is applicable for datastores and not for ESXi. The only condition is the ESXi should be a part of vCenter.
View ArticleRe: Can I assume that flat.vmdks always start at the beginning of a 1 mb block ?
Search for word contiguous in this blog. http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/02/vmfs-extents-are-they-bad-or-simply-misunderstood.html
View ArticleVirtual Machine List Report
Hi all, I'm new to vCenter Operations Manager and trying to comprehend those standard reports it provides.In the "Virtual Machine List Report" there're columns with headings like "CPU Limited Demand",...
View ArticleRe: Installer crashing. I currently have 4.1.3
Thanks for the crash report, fmcooper. Despite the superficial similarity, the cause is quite different from Tomahawk!'s earlier report, so we'll track your crash separately in ticket 1050821. We...
View ArticleRe: Persistent Issues with QLogic 10GbE nic - Appears and Disappears in vCenter
Hey Mristok, As the card was replaced, this would take care of two things - static charges on the device and resultant firmware hangs/issues if any Regardsa
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Re: Using more than 8GB of ram for ESXi
You'd have to manually edit the .vmx configuration file setting the option memsize = "12288" and when you start the Virtual Machine you'll get dialog box that says, "This virtual machine is configured...
View ArticleRe: USB redirection not working
Thanks for your providing info and screenshots. I also found similar issue on Fusion http://communities.vmware.com/thread/187469?start=0&tstart=0 , so I think the reason may be caused by the USB...
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I understand that part and thanks for your response. My question is: Is there anything different done when using the wizard versus going into database, sso and starting the service?
View ArticleRe: Unknown command or Namespace error.
Hello Narkee, I have successfully configured snmp on the ESXi host as per the suggestions you gave. But now , i just want to know , when will the ESXi host send traps ? We use Zabbix for monitoring...
View ArticleAssign multiple users to one linked clone?
Hello, I recently created a media pool for my manufacturing departments. I set it up as a dedicated pull with an 8 gig persistent disk to support the users desktop and lotus notes information....
View ArticleRe: manually installing patches working but not showing up in patches repository
Upgrade your update manager to 5.1 version
View ArticleRe: vCOPs Alerting not working ?
Hey Hugo - good questions! 1. Yes2. Are you running vCenter Operations Manager 5.7.1? If so then you can view the information from the custom UI or by going to the environment events heat map for an...
View ArticleRe: How to add non vSphere source?
Hey Iwan - did your question get answered? If so, can you mark it as answered?
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