Re: WS8 and WinServer2008 Shadow Copies
Hi The concept of the VSS Writer is that it allows the files constituting the VM to be backed up, by a VSS aware backup tool on the host, even though the VM is running and without VSS awareness would...
View ArticleHow to access a Virtual Machine's Event Tab contents
Hi Everyone, I had a question hoping somebody can help with that. I need to know where exactly the contents of Events Tab in vSphere Client are stored and how we can access the entries without using...
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Re: vCenter Placement
Is it better to have vCenter and the ESXi hosts all on the same management VLAN or would it be more secure to have vCenter on a VLAN of it's own with a firewall allowing specific ports betweeen the...
View ArticleRe: File system used by ESXi while creating partitions.
Those are formatted with vFAT file system
View ArticleRe: ESXi / iSCSI / Etherchannel
Welcome to Community ! You should refer to this VMware KB: Sample configuration of EtherChannel / Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) with ESXi/ESX and Cisco/H…
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Re: Account lockout after multiple failed logins on ESX 4.0
Hi m4x either you can delete account or reenable for that please follow below steps 1) The first task to complete after the install was to change the password of the root login. This was done with the...
View ArticleRe: adding 100GD D drive to 50vms
does thse 2 lines need to be on the vm? $driveD = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Volume -Filter "DriveLetter = 'D:'" Set-WmiInstance -Input $driveD -Arguments @{DriveLetter="E:"; Label="Label"} Can i run...
View ArticleRe: SAN Information Needed
Hi, The following script should do, modify the bold and italic line to change the output path: $output = foreach ($esxi in Get-VMHost | Sort Name){ $esxcli = Get-EsxCli -VMHost $esxi...
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Re: VM SHUTDOWN ALONE
Hi ffelxi ,welcome to vmware forum,there is one option available called auto shutdown , seems that is enabled please disbaled that option it will not shutdown automatically .Yours, Abbie
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Re: Vmware SCSI controller for TSM library
Dear orthohin , please follw the steps to change the SCSI controllerTo change a virtual machine's SCSI controller when the guest operating system is already installed:Power down the virtual...
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Re: Cloned VM won't match its files after rename, svmotion
Hi can you please add the renamed vmx file again hope solved this problem.Because in mycase its working .Yours, Abbie
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Re: Any way to use a usb as datastore
Hi ESXi does not support using local, internal SATA drives on the host server to create VMFS datastoresthat are shared across multiple ESXi hosts. Yours, Abbie
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Re: Migrating SQL 2005 Express DB to SQL 2008
HiI gparker , sometime to avoid the old configuration files and conflicts they are recommending to uninstall then install ,but it is not manadatory ,as suggested by forum team please stop the servies....
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Re: ESXi and vCenter Server 5 - "DRS cannot find a host to power on or...
Cannoli wrote: I'm getting the error in the title when I try to deploy View linked clone VM's to a newly configured cluster. Some background (applies to all three servers): * Three ESXi 5 servers, 12...
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Re: Difference b/w ESX 3.5 & ESX 5i
Brandon wrote: I will be upgrading vCenter 2.5 update 6 to vSphere 5 next week. Unfortunately I am not able to update my ESX 3.5 host until a few months down the road. What are the disadvantages by...
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Re: how do I auto start a guest vm?
Leathal wrote: I don't see any options under the Options -> Tab under the settings for Startup/Shutdown in esxi 5. So how do I go about setting it up so it auto starts in the event the VM loses...
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Re: Guest Performance Monitor Question
woodycollins wrote: Many individuals maintaning an ESX (or ESXi) server generally understand some of the performance monitoring aspects that are taken into account when monitoring the health of an ESX...
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Re: Activities which required "root" user access
TechSuresh wrote: Hi all, Good Day, I want to know exactly for which kind of activities in vSphere environment the "root" user access must required. For example: 1) to add a host in to VC...
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Re: Vm doesn't start
colt18 wrote: I already do that. It didn't worked by the way. And other vm's running pretty good. I doubt that it may be due to vmdk-flat file failure while VM was shutting down. Hi please let me know...
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Re: vmware view connectionserver 5 install error
sadeghalmahdi wrote: HiI try install vmware-viewconnectionserver-x86_64-5.0.0-481677 in a vmware workstation but when i trying to install it. this problem occured"this image file...
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