HA admission control - dedicated failover host and maintenance mode
I am in the process of building a new 5.1 U 1 3 hosts cluster, and due to the fact that I don't use resource pools or limits on the VMs , I have opted to use the admission control policy "use dedicated...
View ArticleStatic IP, DHCP Range, etc.
Hello, Using VM Fusion 5I reviewed a number of the posts and knowledgebase articles related to setting up static IP, but I'm still running into something. I have one VM that I want to use static IP for...
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Filtering in Mirage ?
Hi, In the filtering options of a collection, its possible to select a group in the field and/or OU (Cf. screen). On MIRAGE, when I want to choose this filter, I do not have anything available ......
View ArticleRe: P2V with Converter 5.1 fails
Done :# sh vmware-sysinfo-lin32.sh# vmware-sysinfo-lin32.sh: line 21: 10863 Segmentation fault LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$abslibdir" "$libdir"/$binary "$@" Kernel version is 2.6.18-128.el5. What's the manual?...
View ArticleRe: Getting error when trying to export VM folder locations
Hi Luc I'm running the script in single mode.There are a lot of vm in this datacenter so I'm not sure which VMs are causing the error.I am still getting the error but I am getting an output file for...
View Articleusing powercli to collect logs on esxi hosts
wondering what the best solution is.. We are currently having what I think is storage issues that is really affecting us.. So I want to try to capture in segments at a time is the ESXi nodes logs. I...
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Recovered VM files
Hello all, I am facing following challenge. I had a Win2K8 VM (with several snapshot and it was shut down) on a datastore with 40GB c-drive, 20GB D-drive and 20GB Z-drive. I was cleaning up my...
View ArticleRe: How can failover vCenter Server 5.1 to Secondary Server in DR mode?
When operating in a DR (WAN), vCSHB updates the DNS record of the vCenter FQDN with the corresponding IP address on which vCenter is running. This does not happen in HA mode where both servers have the...
View ArticleRe: HA admission control - dedicated failover host and maintenance mode
Note: Discussion successfully moved from VMware ESXi 5 to Availability: HA & FT
View ArticleRe: vCenter 5.1 services distribution
I currently have one vCenter in my 4.1 environnment. My question is about the 5.1 setup I am planning. As you know, it's possible to divide the services on more than one server, instead of running...
View ArticleRe: P2V with Converter 5.1 fails
Yes - the Converter Manual, http://www.vmware.com/pdf/convsa_51_guide.pdfRHEL 5.x is supported, so some library is not up-to-date.
View ArticleRe: vCOPs Alerting not working ?
Hey Hugo - Log Insight alarms do not show as health today. If you are in the custom UI, then go to the Alerts section and the Log Insight alarms will show up there. I hope this helps!
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Re: Static IP, DHCP Range, etc.
First of all you're misusing the term "hosts"as Virtual Machine's are called Guests not Hosts. Only edit the file if VMware Fusion is closed and the target VM is shutdown, not suspended! If your...
View ArticleRe: AN URGENT TURNING ON VIRTUAL MACHINE
another error... while booting VMware Player unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0) vcpu-0:VMM fault 14: src=MONITOR rip=0x0 regs=0xfffffffffc008e00 A log file is available in...
View ArticleRe: P2V with Converter 5.1 fails
I can't find the librairies in the Converter Manual. How can I find them?
View ArticleRe: How can failover vCenter Server 5.1 to Secondary Server in DR mode?
Sorry for confusion, I actually use DR mode, not HA
View ArticleRe: Can't switch windows after releasing control in fullscreen guest
I'm pretty sure this is a Windows8 bug, because a friend of mine is experiencing the same problems on his Win8 machine but is having no problems at all on a Win7 machine using the same Virtual Machine.
View ArticleRe: Design questions for vCenter 5.1, SSO and SRM
Hi,I think you already have SRM in your environment with 5.0 , But with 5.1 , Would suggest you to go with multisite mode because as there will be SRM in your environment, And for SRM you required...
View ArticleRe: Unable to force mount a LUN/VMFS
I don't know why the datastore isn't show in vSphere Client but even if the device is detected as a snapshot it will be successfully mounted with this command : esxcli --server=ESXI-HOST storage vmfs...
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