Re: Raw to VMDK
If I understand ou correctly the block level backup is done in the guest file system itself (i.e. not on the Hypervisor level)!?If you convert the RDM into a virtual disk using e.g. vmkfstools the...
View ArticleRe: Export Compliance Reports
What would be the best way to put that in? Just input before the "Get-Compliance" line?
View ArticleRe: Esxi5 Free version install Nic Issues?
Thanks again ap..:) just out of curiosity if I am going to put server 2008r2 as one of my vm on both host and make one the main dc and the other secondary dc and printers server. and migrate from my...
View ArticleRe: More IDE Drives than standard bios has (0:0 0:1 - 1:0 1:1) ?
... will need a Bus Logic driver not included in the package so I won't bother since VMware hasn't bothered.The driver may not included in the Windows XP installation image/CD by MS, but VMware...
View ArticleRe: Appear to have poor storage performance. Best test(s) to confirm?
No - of course not.
View ArticleRe: Autocad 2008 and Fusion 5
THe vmtools yes. Not really sure how to upgrade the hardware drivers. Is that not handled by upgrading the vm tools?
View ArticleLDAP Import in vApp Custom-UI
We are having major issues get ldap with ssl to work with the 5.7 vApp. It appears we're importing the root CA successfully, but we're still getting handshake error when we try to import users with...
View ArticleRe: Appear to have poor storage performance. Best test(s) to confirm?
When I originally wrote my reply, the user hadn't specified that he was on a 1GbE network. We got 10GB/s to a single host, running 4 VMs.
View ArticleRe: Best Configuration for 4 x 1Gb Physical NICs
I would suggest some changes... - NFS are good. You need redundancy for NFS as it is your most important piece of the infrastructure.- I would move vMotion the the vSwitch2, with NFS, and place vmnic1...
View ArticleRe: Export Compliance Reports
No, I wouldn't do that in the same pipeline construct, it would break it since it doesn't do a Passthru of the HostSystem objects.Make a separate one before the one with Get-Compliance. ...$esx =...
View ArticleRe: Esxi5 Free version install Nic Issues?
VMware Converter is primarily used to convert whole systems. If you have the data on the "old" DC, then I'd consider to use a tool like robocopy to migrate the data and create the shares manually....
View ArticleRe: VixDiskLib_PrepareForAccess always returns 1 or 20
Hmm ok, so now I do ManagedObjectReference ^ vmmor = svcutil->GetDecendentMoRef(nullptr, "VirtualMachine", vmname); And afterwards vmmor->Value contains the moref. Does vmxSpec string always have...
View ArticleRe: vCAC Plugin for vCO - retrieve custom properties
Hi Maxim, try the "getPropertiesFromVirtualMachine" action from the vCAC extensibility package mentioned above (supply the vCAC host and vCAC VM as inputs): var vmCustomProps =...
View ArticleRe: Raw to VMDK
This is a mapped raw lun. Are you referring to using vmkfstools to clone the disk than swapping?I suppose I would have to stop all traffic during the process or changes on the primary will be missed.
View ArticleRe: QueryChangedDiskAreas crashes for one VM
I downloaded all the files though the web Interface, 7zipped them and put them on dropbox: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/103286/temp/freeDos.7z58 MB.It's still uploading right now. Dropbox says,...
View ArticleRe: Esxi5 Free version install Nic Issues?
Thanks again Andre' Very appreciated For the update the free version doesnt have the update manager so do it by command line you said do you have a guide as to what commands I need to use or can I just...
View ArticleRe: Raw to VMDK
Yes, if that is - what I understood from your original post - you plan to do!? André
View ArticlevDS multiple default gateway
Can vDS have multiple default gateway assign to different port group? I have Management port group and vMotion port group on same vDS but cannot assign different default gateway to each port group and...
View ArticleRe: Esxi5 Free version install Nic Issues?
Please take a look at e.g. VMware KB: Installing patches on an ESXi 5.x host from the command line which explains the required steps and commands. André
View ArticleRe: Where to put VixDiskLib_Cleanup ?
This is odd. The vixdisklibsample does this: It calls PrepareForAccess before Connect. if (appGlobals.vmxSpec != NULL) { vixError = VixDiskLib_PrepareForAccess(&cnxParams, "Sample");...
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