Re: vCenter Licensing
Depending on your needs, you may want to take a look at the special prices Essentials/Essentials Plus Kits. Each of these two Kits contain a vCenter Server license as well as 6 CPU licenses. These Kits...
View ArticleRe: VMware Workstation and Windows XP License.
Another alternative is to get an MSDN-subscription from Microsoft, but then the use of the licenses will be restricted according to that EULA. // Linjo
View ArticleUsing Host Profiles to add hosts to Distributed Switches
I'm attempting to use host profiles to add hosts to vSphere Distributed Switches. The process is failing and the process is actually reconfiguring the management network settings on my host to that...
View ArticleRe: Persistent Issues with QLogic 10GbE nic - Appears and Disappears in vCenter
Try this:Power down all VM's or migrate them to other hostsShutdown the hostRemove the power cableWith the power cable removed press and hold the power button for 5 secsConnect power cable backPower on...
View ArticleRe: took vcap5-dca exam today and had lab performace issues
MAybe I've missed something here because I really can not believe what I am hearing. It sounds like we all just accept the latency issues. This is ridiculous. The issues should be sorted out. If people...
View ArticleRe: VM command POWERSHELL for to position DNS on a VM
Hello, Do you want it to work with Powershell v3 for Windows 2012 and Windows 2008(R2) ?In any case, you can try this (not tested) Function Set-DNSServer { param ( [IpAddress]$DNSServer,...
View ArticleRe: Manual View Assignments
I had that error myself, but I have always been a 1:1 dedicated environment. I have had no further issues since moving to 5.2. How I set mine up: You are assigning a specific pool to a specific vm,...
View ArticleRe: CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system error
Yes I validated the ISO image. As I mentioned, the issue is not specific to this particular ISO. So how not installing OS initially solves the issue??! All I have is a blank VMDK file.Whenever I try to...
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Re: Nested 64-bits VMs
Thanks a lot! I followed your directions and the value of nestedHVSupported is "FALSE". So, my brand new laptop is just useless to try any 64-bit based software ( virtually all of them nowadays!! )...
View ArticleRe: VM host affinity rule for use within vCloud
Affinity rules would need to be created at the vCenter level and not VCD so there's no way to do this via VCD. There are two ways to do this but both may have issues. You could do this via a script if...
View ArticleEvent Logs vs. Syslogs
Under Event Configuration, there is a spot to setup an event database and a spot to setup syslogging.What is the difference? I am thinking that having the syslog server setup would be better?
View ArticleRe: CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system error
So how not installing OS initially solves the issue??! All I have is a blank VMDK file.I think you misunderstood this. What WoodyZ said was just not to use the "Easy Install" feature (i.e. select the...
View ArticleRe: NIC layout
Got it, thanks. And yes, we already have vcenter and the hosts in a cluster. With DRS, how do we manage the rules that it uses to move VMs around? I'd really like to be cautious about letting it move...
View ArticleRe: Copy and paste sometimes don't work between Windows guests and hosts?
am seeing the same issue, if I restart guests it does not resolve issue, but if I close the workstation gui and leave guests running in background it works again when the workstation is relaunched
View ArticleRe: Latest Queries related to GemFire
Can you please provide help in doing a POC based on the following Use Case: Say we have a database repository, from where data will come to Gemfire Data Grid (Gemfire Server kindoff), and have several...
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Re: vShield App vs Cisco vs Juniper vs . . . .
Please have a look.. http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/feature/Virtual-network-security-A-vendor-comparison
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Re: Cisco VSG vs vShield App?
Please have a look... http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/feature/Virtual-network-security-A-vendor-comparison
View ArticlePowerCLI Reporting -- Guest OS Version
Hello, I'm attempting to do some reporting on a large number of VMs in a few different environments. Is there any way within PowerCLI to determine the specific Guest OS version? I'm trying to find a...
View ArticleSRM - Remove Synchronization when performing Disaster Recovery Production Test
Consider the following scenario:Production Site contains the following:HP SAN P4500G2 for Storage System (v9.5)A couple of ESX v5.1VM's acting as several mission critical servers.Colo Site contains the...
View ArticleRe: how to find the list of ideal vms
Are you trying to find idle times?Powercli script to analyze the idle VM's
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