Re: ISCSI multipathing and multiple ISCSI SANS in a single ESXi 5.1 cluster
You are going to need 2 more 10GbE ports per host in that case. Only way to retain multipath, load balancing and fault tolerance. There is a way to get it to work, but you'll lose fault tolerance and...
View ArticleHow to shutdown powered on VMs by reading a CSV file or just off the Cluster
Hello,I have csv file with the following headers: "Name","Cluster","ESX Host","Datastore"This csv lists all the powered on VMs from a cluster XYZ. How can i read the CSV file and shudown all the VMs...
View ArticleRe: Insufficient Resource Available to perform the HA failover in cluster
Hi Deepika, thanks for highlighting that, no VM affinity rule is configured on cluster not even in our environment today i reconfigured my cluster with for HA, seems the error has gone from Host. now...
View ArticleVMWare Player Mouse does not snap to a menu
I am using VMWare Player 5 and I open some software and it has drill down type menus. If the menu option I need to click is at the bottom of the screen and the next menu I choose happens to be shorter...
View ArticlePCoIP image quality levels, what's your best practice?
I've just started experimenting with tuning the PCoIP performance of our 300+ desktop deployment. They are primarily general use computer labs so some video (YouTube, etc) is needed so I can't clamp...
View ArticleRe: How to shutdown powered on VMs by reading a CSV file or just off the Cluster
To shut down all the powered on vm's from cluster xyz you can do: Get-Cluster -Name xyz | Get-VM | Where-Object { $_.PowerState -eq "PoweredOn" } |Shutdown-VMGuest -Confirm:$false
View ArticleRe: Thunderbolt Display Resolution not available in Windows 7 Guest
Yep, latest VMWare Fusion and VMWare Tools installed. Latest version of Windows 7 with all patches etc installed as well
View ArticleRe: changing vm storage drs automation level
The changes you make in vCenter are not automatically done in your PowerCLI variables.You will have to get the object again, or refresh the ExtensionData property with the UpdateViewData method.
View ArticleWindows 7 OEM and VMWare Fusion?
Can someone please tell me how Windows OEM works with VMWare Fusion? The OEM software links itself to your computer hardware, and I'm wondering how this works with VMW? What happens when I want to...
View ArticleResolution in Ubuntu 13.04 (Retina Display)
I'm trying to use VMware Fusion 5.0.3 in a MacBook Pro with Retina display (15 inches). The idea is to run Ubuntu Linux 13.04 in a virtual machine, but I'm having problems with the screen resolution....
View ArticleHow to change Effective Policy in Hosts and Cluster View?
Hi - I struggle to change Effective Policy from Default to "Custom" in vCOPS Host and Cluster View. I notice I can go to the Group View, create a Group and assosiate a custom policy with the group....
View ArticleRe: Windows 7 OEM and VMWare Fusion?
Typically OEM versions of Windows comes with a PC and is tied to that PC.In the EULA is usually state that you are only allowed to run that copy of Windows on that specific PC. So not to get in any...
View ArticleRe: Smartcard reader – USB devices
You set them at the Agent but gets downloaded to the Client at connect. // Linjo
View ArticleRe: vmtoolsd.exe User instance doesn't run
Thanks WoodyZ, that's gold. Now just to try and sort out the new issue with my screen resolution on the external monitor (Thunderbolt Display Resolution not available in Windows 7 Guest)
View ArticleRe: Windows 7 OEM and VMWare Fusion?
I just bought a retail copy of Windows 7 OEM, so it's not tied to a machine yet.What I'm worried about is installing Windows with VMW, then months later when I do my regular OS X install and I...
View ArticleRe: Added SATA drive can't login to vSphere
Does anyone have any input?Since I was able to log in via SSH are there logs I could look at to find out why the vSphere client becomes inaccessible?
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Re: Windows 7 OEM and VMWare Fusion?
Why would you have to reinstall Windows because you upgrade or reinstall OS X? If you do as one is supposed to and make proper backups of the Virtual Machine then one can just restore it from backup...
View ArticleView Storage Accelerator & ESXi 5.1 still an issue?
Just recently updated all of my hosts from ESXi 5.0 U2 to ESXi 5.1 U1. Noted the following in the release notes:ESXi 5.1 Update 1 Release Notes Enabling or Disabling View Storage Accelerator might...
View ArticlevSphere vCenter5.1U1 and SSO on MS SQL 2012
I see in the notes "What's new" for vCenter 5.1 Update 1, that Microsoft SQL 2012 is now supported. Has anyone tried this yet? vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1 Release Notes We are currently in the proccess...
View ArticleRe: changing vm storage drs automation level
Sorry, forgot to mention that I re-fetched the datastore cluster object after adding VMs to it, and also after changing the sdrsautomationlevel with Set-DatastoreCluster. Unfortunately, it still had...
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