Upgrade from free VMware hypervisor 4, 4.1 and 5.0 to vSphere 5.1
Hi, there are several hosts with the free hypervisor version 4 - 5.0 and local disks. The machines that are running on those hosts need to be movedto the new vSphere 5.1 cluster with shared storage. I...
View ArticleRe: Java 7 crashes on OS X Lion (10.7) guest
That's awesome news! Thanks for letting us know, fura. (And welcome to the VMware Communities!) Could I ask which guest OS version(s) you used for your verification of the fix? There is another...
View ArticleRe: vCloud Director and vCenter
I would advise against it - I have found you can perform some admin functions and it has no effect and other ones can cause uncertain results. The recommended approach is to use vcloud director.
View ArticleRe: Fully connecting directly attached datastores in an ESXi cluster?
I am following the brownfield process. We have ~60 VMs and if they're at risk, I'll need to provision enough temporary storage to back up those ~3 TB of data...
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vSphere Web Client 5.1 the “Use Windows session authentication” is grayed out
vSphere Web Client 5.1 the “Use Windows session authentication” is grayed out after install on Client Integration plug-in. It works in Crome but not iE... Tried:1. reinstall (deleted, reinstalled and...
View ArticleRe: PLEASE HELP : Migrating VMs from old ESX4.1 hosts to new ESXi 5.1 hosts
Hi Andre i have been waiting for some response. i newbie to this and really need some instructions here to do the task. please help. please let me know any doc which will help me migrating vm from 4.1...
View ArticleESXi 4.1 losing network connection
We have 2 ESXi 4.1 hosts that randomly (about once a month) completely drop off the network. All guests are inaccessible and the management network is inaccessible. You cannot ping any IP address or...
View ArticleRe: Red Hat 6.4 for vCD?
Our lab install is running on 6.4 just fine as well. 6.4 only has some minor fixes over 6.3 and our production environment is running on 6.3 Eric
View ArticleRe: ESXi 4.1 losing network connection
IIRC there were some issues with network adapter drivers. Which type of NICs do you have in the hosts? André
View ArticleRe: Unable to connect to VCloud Director 5.1 build 5.1.1.868405
Thread moved to vCloud Director PowerCLI
View ArticleRe: ESXi 4.1 losing network connection
We're using the stock Broadcom network adapters. Do you know how I can identify the driver version I'm currently using? HP's most recent driver update is from 5/7/2012.
View ArticleRe: Upgrade from free VMware hypervisor 4, 4.1 and 5.0 to vSphere 5.1
Welcome to the Community - Converter is an exccellent tool for that - after the machines have been V2Ved you may want to upgrade the virtual hardware and check to make sure vmware tools has been updated.
View ArticleRe: One NIC for vSwitch and VDS?
Could you just clarify the reasons for needing the use of the Distributed vSwitch? If you only have a single ESXi host with a single physical NIC then the Distributed vSwitch might not give much...
View ArticleVMDR (VDR) is locked up with a Recatalog task
Hi all, My VMDR is stuck at 65% for 5 days in a row and my backups are not happening. This was working as recently as last week. Any help would be appreciated.I am using v 2.0.1.2374Thanks, Alex
View ArticleRe: Upgrade from free VMware hypervisor 4, 4.1 and 5.0 to vSphere 5.1
Indeed - and take a look at your options relating to mixed versions, relating to vmware tools/virtual hardware & vsphere in your clusterMixing ESX/ESXi Versions in an HA/DRS Cluster | VMware...
View ArticleRe: snapshot script help
I take that back, changed the filter time to 60 seconds from 5 as this may not be enough and the script is now reporting creator properly. thanks, davotronic5000!
View ArticleRe: w2k8 r2 poor performance on vm
Hi,i) You using vmxnet3 drivers? if not i wouldii) Would use LACP if your switches have the capability...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 4.1 losing network connection
You may want to check with the VMware Compatibility Guide whether version 3.129d.v40.1 (2013-03-04) is supported with the ESXi build you currently run. André
View ArticleRe: Workstation 9 promiscuous mode
This could shed light on the subject. Worth a lokk VMware KB: Using Virtual Ethernet Adapters in Promiscuous Mode on a Linux Host
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vMotioning Thin disks from Oracle NAS (NFS) to NetApp NAS (NFS) results in...
Hey everyone, I've got an issue that I can't quite get an answer to...from VMware or NetApp...at least as of yet anyways. I've got an Oracle 7420 which has caused us some heartache with VMware living...
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