Programmatically assigning IP information to VMs using vSphere APIs??
I see that this can be done with a customization spec. However, this means adding a good deal of other information about the system using Sysprep. I do not want to change the VMs added by other people...
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Re: Player, win8 and Truecrypt questions?
André, Absolutely correct. Had I waited I would have seen that the VMDK Files is now 47G in size from the original 12G. No matter, as it is on a dedicated USB-3 connected SSD and still plenty left for...
View ArticleRe: syslogs and logs in vsphere 5.1
We set up syslog collector to collect logs but only syslogs. How to collect other logs such as vcenter server logs? Where is it located of vcenter servers logs?
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syslog s are supposed to including logs of all vmware servers including vcenter server?
View ArticleRe: Help ! Datastore space issue??
Spartacus, snapshot manager IS installed by default and it's not unusual to see a person creating a snapshot on day one (as I've said above) - so once again, please check your snapshot manager. If you...
View ArticleRe: vCloud Director 5.1 prepare host failed
I called VMware support and through esxtop, we can see there are some abnormal high number for DVG/cmd on the USB driver. Possibly something wrong with the local embedded USB disk. I am going to retry...
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Re: Script to export Alarms from VCenter to analyze.
Hi James, Glad it helped Please select my comment as answered then people can use it! -S
View ArticleRe: Help ! Datastore space issue??
Josh26 I went into windows and shrunk the 800gb partition from 200gb then exited out of this and powered off the vm and did a rescan of all datastores and my problem was gone along with my spaced...
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Re: Help ! Datastore space issue??
Josh26 here is my snapshot I dont think anything is running
View ArticleRe: SRM Customise IP is Broken/Useless
The timeout issues are a direct cause of starting too many customised VMs at once. What I did was change the number of customised VMs from 24 down to 5 and I had 'some' luck with it then. The first...
View ArticleRe: Help creating partition via CLI
Should have mentioned that in the beginning, you are correct, it's C*H*S - 1.
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Re: Catch 22, win2000 Guest and VM-Tools
I'm not jumping it to fast, just making some comments that you or others may benefit from and there is free software available that creates ISO images or can append to ISO Images. What you did in 5...
View ArticleRe: Location based printing; occasionally a printer is not assigned
Have any of you successfully test the LBP with user/group?I've been playing with it all day and it won't work.If I changed it to (*) instead of an AD user/group, it will work like a charm.The...
View ArticleRe: Large number of luns in a growing ESX environment - when to abort the mesh
Until recently, the maximum hosts per HA cluster was 10. It's completely feasible to continue leveraging this approximate number, even though the theoretical maximum is now 32. There's no reason you...
View ArticleRe: Confused About "Wait-Tools"
I spoke too soon. Now I'm getting this (below). First, make sure this is a real vm (which works):> get-vm 'taw2k8r2v070'Name PowerState Num CPUs MemoryGB----...
View ArticleNetwork connection drops for 30 seconds occassionally
I've recently installed VMWare Player 5.0.2, to run a Windows 7 x64 Pro virtual machine. I did this because I've upgraded to Windows 8.1, and my citrix receiver no longer works, meaning I can't...
View ArticleRe: Problems virtualizing Windows 8 OEM using VMware Converter 5.1 and Player...
G'day, POCEH wrote: To be sure set the hardware version to 9 and check for 'firmware = "efi"' line in VMX file. HTHThanks - both are set but still no success. Regards,Chris.
View ArticleRe: hgfs file corruption when using different file handles to the same file...
Do you have a paid support contract with VMWare, or are you a $39 retail customer? In the absence of the former, perhaps a reset of expectations might be appropriate.
View ArticleRe: Fusion Bridged Mode Not Seeing Wireless Network
Windows will not see a wireless network or adapter directly. If you want that, you'll need to use a USB network device. Otherwise the host network is virtualized and provided to the guest as a wired...
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