Re: Failing to navigate to plugin registration page after deploying vApp
There is no proxy involved, the only error during the process is the 404 when trying to perform the plugin installation step. The only troublesome spot I had during installation was step 10 in the PDF....
View ArticleRe: How to do a random linkage of child VMDK
This won't work, you cannot insert a chain link. However, what you could do is something like base.vmdkchild-1.vmdk ---> child-2a.vmdkchild-2.vmdkchild-3.vmdk where child-2a as well as child-2 have...
View ArticleRe: DNS/ping/traceroute problems on mutiple UNIX guests
Thanks, I've heard that before, but in this case I would think I'd see traffic with tcpdump towards the switch and no response back, right? Or would I not see that if I'm filtering on port 53? Brandon
View ArticleRe: ThinApp Factory 0.3.2, vSphere 5.1, and vCenter 5.1
Tried with 5.1.0 1235232. Since we had to upgrade. Still getting the 404 error when trying to add a workpool. Tested the domain account and it can login and connect to the virtual center without an...
View ArticleRe: dvSwitch uplink assignments not restored at boot
I found this blog post by Shane Creech that seems to be the same issue: Partly Cloudy with a Touch of Virtualization: Lose vmnic on vDS Uplink Configuration When ESXi Host is Rebooted The note from...
View ArticleRe: Hyper-V 2012 nested VM in ESXi 5.1 corruption/crash
Can you post a picture of the PSOD?
View ArticleRe: DNS/ping/traceroute problems on mutiple UNIX guests
Sorry, I never tested this, but I' wouldn't be surprised if you cannot see any TCP/UDP traffic. Maybe you can capture some ICMP traffic, depending on which OSI layer the connection is established....
View ArticleRe: How to speed up vSphere Web Client
Hello Alex, > And yes, we really have 5.1 :-)I was more referring to the build number of 5.1. Is it U1 already? At least some performance improvements were implemented in the later updates....
View ArticleRe: Why my host disconnects?
VMware KB: ESXi/ESX hosts in APD may appear Not Responding in vCenter Server Yes this behaviour was somehow "fixed" in 5.1 but only for a clean APD state when the LUN was not coming back and getting...
View ArticleRe: Upgrade VC 4.1 to 5.1
I was stating install of the VC with an Existing DB well you could consider that as an upgrade the only difference would be the ODBC DSN , the new one has to be 64 bit where as the previous would have...
View ArticleRe: two hosts in cluster, vms in shared storage, when one host is down, vms...
meddle2010 wrote: I am unclear as to why if they are in a cluster and on shared storage they show "disconnected". If I manually tell it to start, it will "register" (with the available host(s) I...
View ArticleRe: Adding VCenter server into AD - Issues?
There might be some issues, like Group Policies being pushed to OS vCenter is installed on which could cause some features not to work, everything that has to do with the webmanagement services being...
View ArticleNew-VM: Specifying a static IP address for the -OSSpecification parameter
I'm looking for a way to automate a large number of VM deployments using an array of IP addresses. First, however, I need to figure out how to pass the static IP parameter to the -OSCustomizationSpec...
View ArticleWhat network throughput is possible with WS9 + 10GbE?
I'm getting approximately 325 Mbits/sec throughput with Iperf on VM-network-VM (same host) tests without any tuning whatsoever. I know that's very slow but what would be considered an achievable...
View ArticleRe: Virtual Machine disks consolidated successfully on host in cluster
Hi Yes when you clone or do a V2V convertion of a VM with snapshots, the snapshots will be consolidated to the cloned VM.But the snapshots on the parent VM will not get consolidated during this...
View ArticleRe: View 5.2 pool only available on one connection server
If you logon to the admin portal of the internal connection broker do you see the pool listed? That would verify whether you had some type of sync issue in the replica group.
View ArticleRe: View 5.2 pool only available on one connection server
Yes, it is listed. I've also run the PowerCLI command: get-pool and they are all listed on both connection servers.
View ArticleRe: Do I have my VDI Deployment Storage Build correct? Am I close?
I think it is a common best practice to put the replica on Tier 1 (fastest) and the clones on the 2nd Tier of disk.
View ArticleRe: Enabling network for VM
It's actually not a good idea to modify vmnet adapters on the host. The virtual NAT network (vmnet8) you see on your host is only an additional adapter but does not change the way NAT works. I'd...
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