vSphere upgrade from 4.1 to 6.5
Hi All, Like the title said, I need to upgrade from vSphere 4.1 to 6.5,and I was looking for information on the best way to go aboutit, as well as any tips or best practices for the upgrade process....
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That was what I needed! I deleted the audit.log file, rebooted, and the services all started. I also needed to deal with the log disk at 100% capacity. For anyone else who may have this problem I...
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View ArticleRe: PowerEdge 2950: ESXi 6.0 boot: VMB: 85 Halting. E1420 CPU BUS PERR.
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Hi, Not sure but it is entirely possible that when you connect the USB3 device directly into the VM that either the Windows XP stack or VMware's usb logic gets confused and ends up in a broken state...
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I have a similar issue and have found a work around that works for me and my environment. I have found that the certificate that is self-generated with the EAP plug-in is getting rejected by Chrome,...
View ArticleRe: Convert Catalog resource to Virtual Machine
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Installation Question
Thanks for a moment. I've deployed the vRNI Platform OVA. I have connected its IP address. Results of the page is not very good English, but see screen shot. So I Please try login in few minutes....
View ArticleRe: vCenter 6.5, Unable to download datastore folder
I would also like to know how to do this. It was easy with vCenter 6 using the old client but the web client doesn't seem to allow it.
View ArticleRe: Convert Catalog resource to Virtual Machine
This is great, Burke! I see now how to properly access values returned by the resourceData. This does exactly what I needed and will be a very helpful example. I appreciate your help with this.
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View ArticleRe: vSphere upgrade from 4.1 to 6.5
Hello Matthew, Looks like you will have to upgrade to ~5.5 U2 and then to 6.5The Interoperability Matrices are your friend here and will show you what can be upgraded to what for all the main VMware...
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Thanks for response Pim, Issues [note: these are happening randomly with random users] that I am facing are Pinned items on task bar is not persisting and few applications settings are not persisting...
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