Re: Swich SATA-controller from AHCI-mode to IDE-compatible ?
Yep - please provide a driver floppy for 32bit XP and 2003 as soon as possible.Otherwise warn when someone creates a new XP-VM and selects SATA-disks - like you do when a new XP-VM is created and...
View ArticleRe: Fusion 6 Professional crashes on launch
Hi Larry, Your problem there is quite different: One of your USB peripherals is misbehaving and reporting an empty serial number. You should be able to find out which device it is by looking in your...
View ArticleRe: E1000 virtual nic on Win 2003 R2 causing PSOD on ESXi 5.1 (PF Exception 14)
Hello , you know you can actually generate the core dump manually. as per KB VMware KB: Manually regenerating core dump files in VMware ESXi/ESX and then open up call to VMware, They might confirm...
View ArticleRe: VM CPU and or Memory Stress Alerts
You need to adjusted the stress calculations on your configuration policy. You should also examine the oversized VMs policy. Set the stress calculation to be appropriate given the workload type. If it...
View ArticleRe: vCenter with 10000 hosts
Evening, Personally if I were designing a system like this I would consider waiting for the changes to vcac and NSX. I would think you would want to use NSX on this greenfield design to make a lot of...
View ArticleRe: Multicast requirements for VM on ESXi 5.0?
Since multicast is UDP based it will just work. The real trick is configuring your external switches to transport multicast correctly. It's not broken on your ESXi setup it's 100 switch setup that...
View ArticleRe: Fusion 6 - simply does not work
Larry Smith, have a look at dariusd's reply to you in: Re: Fusion 6 Professional crashes on launch
View ArticleRe: ESXi Hardware Monitoring with VCOPS
If the health service in vCenter can detect the hardware failure, it'll be collected by and reflected as a "Fault" in vCOps. Just like if a NIC died and reported to vCenter as down/failed.
View ArticleRe: SSO database import - Bug
TheoSmit, can you tell us the outcome of this, I am finding myself in a similar situation but not with SRM, SSO. I have seen those errors in the log files as well. Thanks
View ArticleRe: "Snapshot hierarchy is too deep" after vSphere Replication crashed
Hi, This problem is a tricky one to handle since VMware supports only 32 level of snapshots. but we have our options, this is what I do when the snapshots is out of control Option 1 : Step 1 : Take an...
View ArticleRe: ESXi install on a HP N40L Microserver - Errors during installation ?
Actually this error occurs when I try to install the software during the first boot from either usb media or dvd media, I have created a fat16 - 4GB partition on the first internal disk but this did...
View ArticleMove function in Datastorebrowser actually copies
Recently I had to clean up a datastore after some failed Veeam snapshots had filled up the datastore.I used the Move-button of Datastorebrowser to move a file from /vmfs/volumes/datastore/dir1 to...
View ArticleRe: 571 vcops and 57 Hyperic
So you wish to use MOM as a destination for vCOps alerts? The vCOps integrates pretty well with Hyperic using the solution pack. The legacy adapter had it's challenges, but now with the solution pack...
View ArticleRe: How do I verify VMMark's Olio-web VM work currently ?
One way to check that Olio Web virtual machines are working correctly would be to start a partial tile run with workloads OlioWeb and OlioDB only. Page 143 of the VMmark Benchmarking guide describes...
View ArticleRe: Changing Tomcat sizing settings in vSphere 5.1, no GUI anymore
You can configure Tomcat by modifying Wrapper.conf as mentioned before and edit these lines : wrapper.java.initmemory=3 wrapper.java.maxmemory=64 Hope this helped , let me know if you need any...
View ArticleRe: Multicast requirements for VM on ESXi 5.0?
Hello Jon, did you get a chance to check this article.? http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1006558Hope its helpful, Thanks,Avinash
View ArticleRe: Olioweb error: "Logged on but unable to attend an event error " seen in...
Hi there, To answer your questions first: Your hosts files look fine. The only thing I would identify is maybe remove the external IP address for the VM's own hostname, but that's probably not a...
View ArticleRe: Fusion 6 Professional crashes on launch
Hi Darius, That was the problem and I'm amazed at the quick response. I just have one nagging question. What the sour pickles were ya'll thinking. I can't believe 5 worked just fine with this device...
View ArticlevCloudDirector plugin for Electric Commander
I'm using the vCloudDirector plugin for Electric Commander to control VMs. I believe I have everything configured correctly-no error when configuring the plugin with my credentials. But when I call a...
View ArticleNFS datastore is empty after mounting
I have created a lun on a NetApp filer; via vsphere/vCenter 5.1 - i was able to create an NFS datastore and mount it successfully.The datastore however shows it has ZERO bytes instead of 50GB as it was...
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