Re: QUADStor evaluation thread
Wanted to add that quadstor is now fully open sourced. Good news !
View ArticleRe: Organize VM's into Folders based on Active Directory Info?
I work with the original poster. I used the Quest Active Directory plugin to grab the relevant information out of Active Directory. Since our VMs are named based on the user name (with a 2 character...
View ArticleUsing Set-VMhostfirmware or some other cmdlet for a restore
I have a STIG that I am working on, and I want to be able to take the configuration of one ESXi host, and transfer that to a completely different host. I've used Get-VMhostfirmware to backup and then...
View ArticleRe: Script to export BIOS
I use the below script to audit BIOS versions on our Dell servers which outputs model, BIOS version and date.looks here as well http://vnugglets.com/2011/11/get-hp-firmware-info-for-hp-vmware.html...
View ArticleRe: Recompose, Refresh and Rebalance take 60 minutes to start
Hi, What is memory for view connection server ? if it is 100 VM, minimum memory for view connection server is 10GB. RegardsMohammed
View ArticleRe: ESX 5.1 VM Console refresh is slower than ESX5.0
I haven't tried with hardware version 9 yet as most of our VMs are still using hw version 7 and 8 and we need to support them for a while. If you have same VM on ESX5.0 and ESX5.1 side by side with...
View ArticleRe: Organize VM's into Folders based on Active Directory Info?
Thanks for sharing that.
View ArticleRe: Lowest supported VMFS Version on ESXi 5.x?
As for support, the broad understanding is this:VMware vSphere 5.1Fine reading says "Host Access" ...that means storage is accessible.. now if your client is on 4.1 & have thin provisioning...
View ArticleHow to increase RAM memory to guest OS?
I have 48GB of RAM memory installed on the physical server. How do I increase the amount of RAM memory to each guest OS?
View ArticleRe: Using Set-VMhostfirmware or some other cmdlet for a restore
If I understand you correctly, you did a Set-VMHostFirmware with the Restore switch to a an ESXi B with the firmware backup you took from ESXi A ?Was the ESXi B host in maintenance mode when you did...
View ArticleRe: How to increase RAM memory to guest OS?
You will need to ensure the VM is powered off first (unless you are using hot-add which is uncommon) then right-click the VM(s) within your vSphere Client, select "Edit Settings" and change each one's...
View ArticleRe: SuperMicro with SMC2008 ESX 5.1 compatibel
Hi, You need to give us model number of SuperMicro Server to check compatibility. Use this link to check compatibility VMware Compatibility Guide: System Search RegardsMohammed
View ArticleRe: How to increase RAM memory to guest OS?
You can do it easily with Power CLI. Use SET-VM command. See belowVMware vSphere PowerCLI Cmdlets Reference Not sure what version on vSphere you are on, however this is very simple. By scripting you...
View ArticleRe: Recompose, Refresh and Rebalance take 60 minutes to start
I have 4 view connection servers. 2 for internal and 2 for external connections. 4 GB per view connection server vm.
View ArticleRe: How to increase RAM memory to guest OS?
Many thanks for the help. Okay, so I can increase the RAM and decrease the same way (preferably when the guest OS is power off), correct? I have 48GB of physical RAM and planned to have 4 virtual...
View ArticleRe: Disk Latency ESXi 5.1.0 799733 HP-ML350 G6
I gathered that from reading the responses. The alignment thing I'll have to research more, but everything else was fine and mostly up-to-date since it's all newer. I tried something I read in a thread...
View ArticleRe: ESX 5.1 VM Console refresh is slower than ESX5.0
Will try to do. Can you have a check on the vmware.log in the vm directory to see any suspicious messages.
View ArticleBuffalo Linkstaion for Backup
Hi Guys, one Question more.I need a NAS to Backup the VM's.Which Model of Buffalo Linkstation with RAID 1 or 5 is the right one, to use as Backup in a VMWare/vSphere 5 Environment ?I think the...
View ArticleRe: How to increase RAM memory to guest OS?
how much ram is currently allocated to each VM? How many VMs do you have? Which hypervisor are you running? Depending on how you have things setup, the memory may be able to be changed without...
View ArticleRe: Reading / Writing to Network Shares using vCO
Is there a way to do this if vCenter Orchestrator is on the Linux Appliance VM? Mapping seems to require installation of some things.
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