Re: Constantly having to consolidate virtual machine disk?
Thanks guys, it was indeed the backup software (CommVault) failing to clean up a failed vsa backup attempt. All good now...
View ArticleRe: Constantly having to consolidate virtual machine disk?
There were no snapshots in the GUI, however the hd were not pointing to base disks. Sorted now, it was out backup software causing the issue. Thanks
View ArticleRe: Allocation Pool vCPU and memory reservations not as expeccted in vCD 5.1
To clarify the issue I am seeing using the above PDF linked by IamTHEvilONE. On page 20 of the "VMware vCloud Director Resource Allocation Models" doc it shows an example of how the reservations on the...
View ArticleRe: Bandwidth Needed for vMotion
VMware's recommendation is at least 1 GB but I have run it on a 100 MB
View ArticleRe: ESXi hypervisor free version license question.
Yes you can use the free hypervisor with in a company and the vSphere client is free.
View ArticleVMware Guest API is not enabled on the host?
Hi allFor some Windows 2008 R2 VMs we copy from vSphere to Workstation, we've noticed the following errors in event viewer (as two separate events). Any thoughts on whats causing this? Unable to start...
View ArticleRe: How Can I tell if a hypervisor is patched in vCenter using VUM or otherwise?
Thank you. Unfortunately I don't have access to hypervisor console. Is there any way to accomplish this using vCenter?
View ArticleRe: Bandwidth Needed for vMotion
Duncan Posted this recently may be answer your question Minimum bandwidth requirement per concurrent vMotion?
View ArticleRe: Requirements for sitting the exam
Just go through the blueprint of the exam which are planning to sit that should cover all the topics required for the exam.. If you have good experience on the product clearing the exam would be easy
View ArticleRe: Text getting cut off in Reports - about to cry
Hi psuch,Thanks for the info. I enabled the stretch and that's half of the fix. It looks like Excel is doing the truncate thing so the CEO will have to make do with either limited information or be...
View ArticleRe: Help with install ESXi 5.1 with SSO
From the screenshot the SSO service is also stopped and the vCenter service is in starting status. Do you have the SQL on the same server or a different server ?What is the Memory allocated to the...
View ArticleRe: Help with install ESXi 5.1 with SSO
SQL 2008 is on a separate server. I have confirmed it is up and running and logged into the SQL Management Studio and then booted up the VCenter VM. Memory allocated is 1GB for both SQL and VCenter...
View ArticleRe: Help with install ESXi 5.1 with SSO
So your comment about my RAM had me searching and per the VMWare link below I need 10gb minimum RAM to run Vcenter, SSO, and inventory service on same machine. I gave my VM 10 GB of ram and then...
View ArticleRe: Unknown: Out of Memory [5880] in syslog
Well, I decided I'd wipe ESXi and recreate everything from scratch. So new install of ESXi(updated to the latest public build, 1157734), I did reuse the vmdk files but the remainder of the VMs was...
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Re: dvSwitch not inheriting parent policy & host spanning not working
Hi jrbrewin,welcoem to the community .Could you please Traffic Shaping concepts: Average Bandwidth: Target traffic rate cap that the switch tries to enforce. Every time a client uses less than the...
View ArticleRe: Full Screen Minibar always hides even when told not to (Fusion 6.0)
Sorry I don't have an answer for you however I just wanted to report it's working as it should for me, it initially hides however when I mouse over to it, it appears. Is the same behavior you're...
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Re: Smallest Linux distro to run W8
Hi scerazy,Generally non GUI os are need less resources . But still I will not suggest what ever OS you are going to install take littlebit higher configuration than minimum recomendation . If...
View ArticleRe: Getting this error during the build step: Failed to communicate with VI...
2nd thing I did was run with the root password changed so no "#"It gave me a NEW error, and it transported fine, or appeared to.. the disk-core8 data store works for everything else.. Any ideas what to...
View Articlev6 can you reformat the HD to a smaller size?
Does anybody know if you can reformat the HD to a smaller size with the new version of Fusion? I have accidentally made it too big and don't want to delete the VM just to change a number that represent...
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