Re: ESXi 5.1 Partition Table Layout (& Increasing diagnostic partition size)?
Thanks! That information really cleared things up for me as to what these other partitions are used for. I suppose given we are booting via Auto Deploy, stateless caching is creating the partitions...
View ArticleScript to export Alarms from VCenter to analyze.
Does anyone know of a script, or how to script an exportable report of your alarms that are being used in your Vcenter? Need to know what thresholds are being set.Is it emailed or SMNP as an example....
View ArticleRe: How to script changing IP and hostname on 600 Windows 2008 R2 (64bit) VM's
Success, that did the trick. Just to keep things clean, I did receive the following, even though the command worked. The system cannot find the file specified.    '.   At line:1 char:141+ Get-vm...
View ArticleFile system used by ESXi while creating partitions.
Hello Everyone, Which file system do ESXi x5.0/1 uses while creating partitions like Bootpartition,Bootbank,AltBootbank,Dump/crash partition,Store & Scratch partition.Thanks in Advance.
View ArticleRe: VM Deployment with customization, parallel
I am trying to run this script that Mark Jones wrote/posted on page 2 of this thread (Version 2 with the #convert back to string stuff added in, and it executes flawlessly (no nasty red text in the...
View ArticleRe: Hey all, i am ending up with the error - vim.fault.PlatformConfigFault...
Hey, This is more of a vCenter question, and you posted in the vCloud Forum. Alternatively, if you have support, you can create a support request for more assistance. For vCenter 5.1, I think the...
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Re: vCenter Service Status and Hardware Status plugin errors in vSphere 5.1 -...
NickA99: THANK YOU! I had an unclearable "Host IPMI System Event Log status" alarm on a Fujitsu Primergy RX200 S7. Clearing its IPMI SEL content via the iRMC S3 (lights-out management) card did...
View ArticleRe: vCloud Director - Web console is blank without any content
I think some people are getting mixed up on your description. Web Console more commonly refers to the VMRC ... not the actual website of vCloud Director where you would login to do stuff (configure...
View ArticleRe: Windows cannot access \\vmware-host\shared folders\desktop
I had the same problem after an upgrade to VMWare 5. I tried everything in here with no luck. What did finally work for me was reinstalling the VMWare tools on the windows vm. A few restarts later...
View ArticleRe: 5.0 to 5.1 via iso
The VMs should still be there and can be powered on after the upgrade of the host.
View ArticleA particular exe file not working in ThinApp on XenApp 6.5
I have an application which just has a exe and a ini file. It is not working as expected after ThinApp on XenAPP 6.5 and gives access violation at a particular module error which is not as per the...
View ArticleRe: File system used by ESXi while creating partitions.
Welcome to the COmmunity - As I recall they are EXT3 -
View ArticleRe: How to script changing IP and hostname on 600 Windows 2008 R2 (64bit) VM's
Where did you get that "The system cannot find the file specified" message ?Are you running this from the PowerCLI prompt or from a GUI (like PowerGui) ?
View ArticleRe: Issue with the management network
After taking each host into maintenance mode, i have:-> unmounted the LUN from th ehost-> removed the mappings from the san-> rescanned the HBAs on the hostAll good now.Thank you.
View ArticleRe: A particular exe file not working in ThinApp on XenApp 6.5
Please provide more details about the application and the error.
View ArticleVMware View Connection Server - Error 404
I was getting alarms in vCenter for CPU usage on my view connection server, which I found out was caused by the mysqld service being at 100% CPU utilization. I rebooted the server and when it came back...
View ArticleRe: VM Deployment with customization, parallel
I suspect this might be a timing problem.Can't you build in a While loop where you ping the IP address until it comes back with a reply ?
View ArticleRe: 16 vCPU VM on Intel E5-2690 vs AMD 6276 Numa considerations?
The VMKernel does an amazing job scheduling CPU resources. However having a high vCPU count on VMs that idle may cause issues with the CPU scheduler resulting in high CPU Ready. If I'm not mistaken,...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.1 Partition Table Layout (& Increasing diagnostic partition size)?
Building on my prior comments/findings, this KB suggests an option of allocating a SAN volume that can be shared by multiple hosts for writing core dumps:VMware KB: Host not configured with core dump...
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