Conflicting path policies
Hi All,In our VMWare ESXi 4.1 cluster, I've just come across a datastore that consists of two extents. One of these extent LUNs has the Round Robin path policy set while the other is using...
View ArticleRe: Long Running Workflows Fail with Authentication Errors After the...
An option is to change the credential in the workflow with a system account right before the long wait. You will still have audit trails to know who was the user starting the workflow even if the end...
View ArticleExpand Physical RDM beyond 2TB
I have a 2TB physical RDM drive on a server that is nearly full so I need to expand it. I am running vSphere 5.0.0 Build1024429. From my research i should be able to attach luns larger than 2TB with...
View ArticleRe: Virtualized VCenter 5.1 and Paravirtual SCSI Driver problem
I'm having this exact same issue. I haven't tried limiting it to the SCSI driver you're mentioning, though. I'm on 5.1 build # 1064983. The first time I saw it, I rebooted the hypervisor and the...
View ArticleExtending a Datastore without using Extents. is it possible?..
We have setup multiple datastores, once they are near full, we extend the size of the LUN on the SAN, however VMware doesn't see the expanded size, is this NOT supported? Our Setup is like this: OS_1...
View ArticleRe: Generate vCenter 'Export List' - PowerCLI
I guess the question may not be cleare. This is when you goto vSphere Client --> 'File' --> 'Export' --> 'Export List'. You can save it as HTML, is there any script that can do this?
View ArticleCongratulations to the VCDX vExperts!
Please join me in congratulating the VCDX-holders who were awarded vExpert status for 2013. Now let's get as many vExperts to become VCDX! Mark Achtemichuk Eiad Al-Aqqad Magnus Andersson John...
View ArticleRe: Need VM performance report.
Hi LUCD - Here are the performance counters, which I was looking for. - CPU -> only Usage- Disk -> Usage and High Latency- Mem -> Usage And, do we have provision to export with the graph.
View ArticleRe: Get VM's creation date
If most or all of your VMs run Windows then you'll possibly find that the OS install date corresponds fairly well with the VM creation date. I've got a Powershell/PowerCLI script that'll collect this...
View ArticleRe: Query around a) VM created date b) VM last-turned-on date
If most of your VMs are running Windows then you might find my post on historic reporting of VM creation date (actually OS install date) useful:Get VMware VM creation date (kind of) Will fairly easily...
View ArticleRe: EMC SRDF adapter
Yeah you need Solutions Enabler installed locally on the SRM server in order for the SRDF SRA to communicate with the VMAX array. You can download Solutions Enabler on the support.emc.com website. Make...
View ArticleRe: VMWare ESXi 5.1 promiscuous mode.
That seems very strange, unicast traffic should never be visible to other VMs like that. Are you sure promiscuous mode is disabled on the vSwitch AND port group level and one doesn't override the...
View ArticleRe: unable to find vApp modification details in the blocking task.
You may be right that in the case of a modification the referenced vApp is the one before modification (I was confused with the case of a new vApp creation where you have access to the shell of the new...
View ArticleFailed VCP5
Have failed VCP5-DV today miserably, 279 score being as you all know 300 a pass... not good enough after being studying on a row for quite a few days. Read the Bill Fergurson official guide VCP5 up and...
View ArticleRe: orchestrator 5.1 - RabbitMQ integration
You can test if this is a problem with the policy by creating a workflow loop waiting for the event. There is a notification package in the document tab with such a workflow.
View ArticleRe: EMC plugins Required
You dont need any of the VNX plugins for the VMAX. Are you using SRDF or RecoverPoint? If the former (which i think you indicated in the other post) you just need the SRDF SRA and VSI Symmetrix SRA...
View ArticleRe: Auto Deploy vSphere ESXi 5.1
nguyenhungsonuit wrote: Dear all, When I create an image profile and assign it to Auto Deploy. I add a network based software depot instead for adding "offline depot" from Vmware.I use cmdlet:...
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