Re: Host hard drive is full - Need to delete Snapshots
I guess what I meant from that, is if there's a way to completely remove all previous snapshots from the vm file as if a snapshot was never taken and then I can take a manual snapshot of the system at...
View ArticleRe: Thick to Thin formating on the same datastore ??
hi thanks, your link helped me,I cloned the virtual machines through vcenter and I choosed Thin Disk Format, after that I deleted the old (Thick) and now I saved more than 700GB, thanks again
View ArticleRe: HA and failed disk on ESXi - do VMs get migrated
ok,, On one of the ESXi Servers, the lower drive has a flashing light and the status window on the Dell 2950 shows a failed drive. I went into the RAID utility and the drive is off line and show as...
View ArticleFlex clone vs. vaai
how much performance improvement is available with flexclone as compared to vaai?
View ArticleRe: 5.5 vCPU Maximum for Standard and Enterprise Editions
Awesome -- thanks for the link André.What I see in the KB is: As of vSphere 5.5, these provisions apply to all paid editions of vSphere, vSphere with Operations Management, and vCloud Suite:...
View ArticleDisable few paths from ESXi hosts which part of one Cluster
Hi, We are doing a storage port re-balancing and as part of that i want to disable FEW storage paths from each ESXi from ONE ESXi host cluster as the storage team assigned new storage paths to the same...
View ArticleWorkspace 2.1 Installation questions.
Hi, Just went through the install (Deploy) of workspace 2.1 in vcenter on esx 5.5. The disks deploy. I can configure IP, DNS, etc... I can get to the login screen through the browser and can setup the...
View ArticleESXi evaluation licensing / free licensing Issue
Hi All, I had installed a standalone ESXi 5.5, After booting up, I was able to connect the ESXi host in vSphere Client then assigned the free ESXi 5.5 license key successfully (Downloaded from VMWARE...
View ArticleRe: Shared folder is not visible in guest system (Fedora 20)
My experience with Linux VM's is that using /mnt/hgfs is "iffy" at best.I always use smb. Lou
View ArticleRe: vCAC 6.x and SRM 5.5 Integration
What kind of integration do you want ? vCAC 6.x is compatible with SRM recognising same VMs in different sites, and differentiating between the Primary and Placeholder VMs. With release of SRM, 5.8...
View ArticleRe: Guest display split into identical panes
Spent hours trying to get this resolved and ran across your post. Applied the change to vmwgfx enable_fbdev=0 and worked like a charm. Thanks. Tim
View ArticleRe: HA and failed disk on ESXi - do VMs get migrated
It depends on whether the RAID controller supports Hot-Swap (which is usually the case) , and whether it is a Hot-Pluggable HDD. In such a case you'd usually replace the disk without powering down the...
View ArticleConnectivity issues to hosts over MPLS
Hello, We have been troubleshooting an issue that prevents our vCenter server from connecting to some of our remote hosts. This has impacted 2 different vCenter servers running 5.1 and 5.5 on Windows...
View ArticleRe: Purging old tasks/events in VirtualCenter
Also looking for an answer to this re: vCSA 5.5 (now U2)
View ArticleRe: 5.5 vCPU Maximum for Standard and Enterprise Editions
Yes that's how I understand this too, although I never tried this on previous versions to see whether this works and/or whether a patch is required for this to work. André
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HOL-SDC-1313 - vCAC IaaS server appears to be down
Is there a way that I can reboot the IaaS server component within this lab environment? When I log into the vCAC web interface I see various errors. On the Home dashboard in vCAC I see these errors:...
View ArticleRe: 5.5 vCPU Maximum for Standard and Enterprise Editions
Got it. Thanks ... appreciate the help.
View ArticleRe: Disable few paths from ESXi hosts which part of one Cluster
Would you mind sharing the script you used, and the eventual messages it produced ?
View ArticleRe: Disable few paths from ESXi hosts which part of one Cluster
LucD, I dont get any output. $tgtHBA = "vmhba2" $tgtPortWWN = "5764617912562315608" Get-VMHost | Get-ScsiLun -LunType disk | where {$_.RuntimeName.Contains($tgtHBA)} |Get-ScsiLunPath | where...
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