Safely Removing Replicas from Datastore in vSphere
My appologies if this has been answered multiple times before, but didn't see an answer to my exact question when searching. I'm trying to clear up the datastores and it appears to me that if there is...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.1.0 crashes under heavy network load
I'll give that a try. Someone also suggested I completely disable power management. I also tried running just the VM that's been crashing the host. I ran a command that's been doing it (Freebsd's...
View ArticleRe: Script to Remove HDDs other than HDD1 from VM and re-add it back.
On new-harddisk why are you specifying the actual disk path? Why not specify just the datastore? Try this to get the datastore name and put it on the same datastore: $HDDfile = Get-HardDisk -VM...
View ArticleRe: New !! Open unofficial storage performance thread
Here's the results with bytes 8800 policy set, no significant difference. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++TABLE OF...
View ArticleRe: View PowerCLI no longer working
uninstall and reinstall didnt help. Here is the output PS C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\bin> $Error[0].Exception | Select-Object -Property *Message : Object reference not set to...
View ArticleRe: Issue with combo of VMWare Workstation, .vhd virtual drives, and 4K...
Yeah, I had already read that. 4k drives seem to work OK for storage, but anything virtualization falls apart. Microsoft's tools to create or mount VHDs don't work. Microsoft's backup and defrag...
View ArticleEdit VMware Connection Server Settings
Hello, I have a VMware View 5.0 and I am experiencing an issue with our internal web proxy that has been recently in place. We are using a wpad.dat file for our machines to automatically detect our...
View ArticleDeploying, customizing, and modifying VMs from a csv file
Hello, With a lot of help from Eco91 I have produced the script below. It deploys a series of VMs at the same time, waits for them to boot and perfom an OS Customization, then changes basic networking...
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Re: new vSAN feature -- which versions will get it??
StarWind is not a VSA on a Hyper-V. It does not run inside guest virtual machine rather it runs directly on top of a hypervisor turning DAS into high performance and fault tolerant SAN.So it's already...
View ArticleRe: How to install the view agent on windows image and upload to connection...
I waited 30 minutes and also hit the refresh button several times but nothing happened.So i placed it in the folder called "discovered virtual machine" that was there.i hope that does not mess things...
View ArticleRe: Change datastore - insufficient disk space on datastore
I'm not sure whether I understood the issue correctly. However, what I could think of is that the target datastore may not have been created with the required block size (8MB for virtual disks of up to...
View ArticleRe: SATA virtual disk greyed out?
ESXi VMs can use SATA disks, as long as the VM is using the latest virtual hardware version (as André mentioned). Go into the Virtual Machine menu > Settings> Compatibility, and reconfigure the...
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Re: new vSAN feature -- which versions will get it??
From the current state of the product (and speed VMware team is catching up) I think ETA is ~6 months.P.S. It was fun asking VMware team "why should anybody buy an entry level EMC?" and hear the answer...
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Re: new vSAN feature -- which versions will get it??
No, Microsoft has a very broken vision of storage. So instead of the giving people ability to cluster hypervisor hosts using cheap storage and 10 GbE (something VMware eventually doeswith VSAN)...
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MTU 9000 sur carte ISCSI Indépendante seur serveur ESX 3.5
Bonjour, Est il possible de configurer une carte de stockage ISCSI indépendante en MTU 9000 (trames Jumbo) sur un serveur ESX 3.5Ou du moins comment puis je savoir si ma carte est elle déjà configurée...
View ArticleRe: SATA virtual disk greyed out?
Thanks. Forgot up upgrade from Hardware comp 9 to 10.
View ArticleRe: Script to Remove HDDs other than HDD1 from VM and re-add it back.
i have to re-add the same existing Harddisk which I removed that why i was adding the full path of that vmdk.
View ArticleRe: Detect on which ESXi version a VM is running from the guest
I would like to automate the installation of the right version of vmware tools according the vSphere version of ESXi host.There is no "right version" and no need to keep host and VMware tools version...
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