Re: How to create a partition for the hard drive of a new VM?
You should have a look at the vmkfstools.https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vcli/vcli41/doc/reference/vmkfstools.html Viele Grüße EDITForget what I said to --createfs. Thats on datastore level....
View ArticleRe: Volunteers needed: 2012 Mac users affected by 10.8.2 update issue
Further to this I have not upgraded to 5.0.3 yet. The 10.8.3 update alone was enough to resolve the issue on my rMBP. Cheers!
View ArticleRe: Can't login to ESXi 5.1 Host with Active Directory Credentials
Checking again if anyone has setup to authenticate to their ESXi 5.1 Hosts with Active Directory Domain credentials. I have set this up in the past without issue with ESXi 4.1. In this case, I can...
View ArticleRe: VMware Horizon View 5.2 Feature Pack... gone into hiding.
same problem here: We are activating your licensing key entitlement, re-try your download soon.
View ArticleRe: ESX Cluster Configuration
Would you build a 3 host cluster with these below machines. How would you beef up the M3?IBM- 3650 M3CPU - 1 x 2.40 Ghz Quad-core Xeon - E56201066 MHz 4 GB DDR3 (RDIMMs)IBM- 3650 M4CPU - 2.60 Ghz Xeon...
View ArticleHA election issue, only getting one agent as master and timeout for second
I'm facing a strange HA issue. Essential plus kit (2 hosts, virtual vcenter), DAS storage. Vsphere 5.1 lastest patches. 1 datacenter, 1 cluster inside with 2 hosts.While trying to enable HA (with...
View ArticleRe: Unable to add NFS storage to the Data appliance
I was able to successfully mount an NFS with the following command: ./mount-nfs-store.pl --nfs 10.112.16.222:/nfs2 (where --nfs will take the hostname:/mount_point) The command has to be run as root,...
View ArticleRe: HA election issue, only getting one agent as master and timeout for second
Check for errors in the fdm logs (/var/run/log/fdm.log) on both hosts.Elisha
View ArticleRe: Can't start VM Workstation 9 (kernel update)
Install Synaptic (I find thiseasiest) 'sudo aptitude install synaptic'. Then open a terminal window and type "uname -r". Output should be (from the screenshot) 2.6.32-5-amd64. Plugin that...
View ArticleUnable to add vShield Manager to vCloud Director [PKI]
I've got a new install of vCloud Director and vShield manager and I'm trying to add the vSM to vCD. This is a PKI environment with certs for the vCD, vCenter Server, and vShield Manager replaced with...
View ArticleRe: Remove ESXi hosts from vCenter Host Cluster same
All 3 point are correct.Is there a mode for remove the host from old vCenter, without old vCenter, possibly from vsphere?
View ArticleWSX on Synology NAS?
My goal is to access my VMs from a tablet or a smartphone. With WSX on my Windows host machine, I managed to control them quite well (instead of using a remote control client like VNC or Teamviewer)....
View ArticleRe: How to map a RDM to a VM via the CLI
This is an interesting one. I used to do the same thing - removing and adding the rdm on the fly with this command: vim-cmd vmsvc/device.diskaddexisting $VMID /vmfs/volumes/DATASTORE/vm/rdm.vmdk 1 0I...
View ArticleRe: ESX Cluster Configuration
Machine #1 and Machine #3 are worthless, as they dont have enough memory. To make them worth while, they need at least 96GB ea (in order to handle the failure scenario of losing the large 128GB...
View ArticleVMRun command line length
VMWare ESXi 4.10, Windows Server 2008 R2 server and XP based client VM's. I'm administering an application that programatically build's command lines and 'shells' them out to the server and client VM...
View ArticleRe: Volunteers needed: 2012 Mac users affected by 10.8.2 update issue
I upgraded today. The graphics and text on Star Wars: KOTOR 2 are now wonderful and fixed, HOWEVER, once you finish creating your character and it goes to start the game, the program crashes. This...
View ArticleRe: VMWare Tools on SliTaz? (Linux Distro)
Aside from the fact that SliTaz isn't a supported Guest OS and considering is distribution size I doubt it even has the prerequisites necessary to even install VMware Tools. As far as installing OpenGL...
View ArticleRe: web client 51u1 exceptions
5.1U1 build 981673 is Jan 17 and is not the GA release. This problem has been fixed since.I don't know when GA will happen but it should be soon now.
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