Re: Speccing Out a New ESXi 5 Server
Remember that VMware is handling the management of physical resources. In your example if you have 2 sockets with 4 cores VMware will list it as 8 processors available. That doesn't mean if you assign...
View ArticleRe: Multi-Cell NTP Sync
Here is the ntpq -p output: remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter==============================================================================*FQDN-ntp .GPS. 1 u...
View ArticleRe: Converting a virtual machine (Windows 2003) fails
Thanks a lot for the quick replies! @Cyberfed27: Sorry, the old esxserver is a standalone Server, not in a cluster like the new one. The new 5.1 Cluster consists of two esxserver is in the same network...
View ArticleRe: Failed to load ThinApp Management support interface
Do You have somewhere any checklist with permissions?
View ArticleHere is a Powercli script to set VM bootdelay option
We had over 700 Vms that we wanted to set a 5 second boot delay option to give people the option to enter the VM bios or BOOT Order FN keys before booting the guest OS. So I rushed together this...
View ArticleRe: Volume Free Space
I've never actually expanded a VMFS volume before. That is creating an extent?
View ArticleRe: Failed to load ThinApp Management support interface
Here is the admin guide for 5.0 and the thinapp piece starts on page 223. http://pubs.vmware.com/view-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/view-50-administration.pdf
View ArticleRe: Volume Free Space
You can use extents or grow the volume - depends on which versions you are working with. What do you have?
View ArticleRe: Converting a virtual machine (Windows 2003) fails
Exactly, it is a common error. it is always recommended to clean up the source server if the conversion has failed or been stopped previously
View ArticleRe: Cloned 2 servers but now the original servers are not part of the domain
You gave the machine a new name in VMware during the cloning process but that has nothing to do with the Windows hostname.Austin is correct when you powered those up they superceded the physical ones...
View ArticleRe: VMware esxi 5.0 host server will not display on LCD monitor
The YouTube video appears to deal with Windows. The problem is with the host, not the guests.It is a Dell monitor. It is a rack mount KVM. I have power cycled the monitor and have auto-sync'd the...
View ArticleNeeds to take database backup of the vCenter Server
Team, I would like to take database backup of the my vCenter Server. Currently am running with the default database that comes with the vCenter during installation.
View ArticleRe: Cloned 2 servers but now the original servers are not part of the domain
I did just that, I put them in workgroups then rejoined the domain. I deleted the cloned ones and will sysprep them from the get go when I clone the production ones.
View ArticleRe: Volume Free Space
Depending on the storage, you might be able to use the grow feature - check out p.117 of...
View ArticleWorkstation - Bat File to start multiple Virtual Machines
I am currently using the following bat file to start multiple virtual machines: start ""/b "C:\Users\Abe\Desktop\Virtual machine 1.lnk" start ""/b "C:\Users\Abe\Desktop\Virtual machine 2.lnk"...
View ArticleRe: Needs to take database backup of the vCenter Server
Start here: VMware KB: Backing up and restoring vCenter Server 4.x and 5.0
View ArticleRe: Cloned 2 servers but now the original servers are not part of the domain
There is no need to do a full reconvert on those guest, just move into a dummy domain, Then add it back to the correct domain, if these guests have different Computer names then they will add to the...
View ArticleRe: Workstation - Bat File to start multiple Virtual Machines
The vmrun command is what you want here.
View ArticleRe: Volume Free Space
ok cool. I'll check it out.Of course this is a replicated volume, so I would most likely need to stop that, increase both sides then re-establish replication...
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