Reducing the amount of cores per VM
Hello all, I recently got admin rights to a small vSphere 5 environment (2 physical hosts, ~25 VMs).The people who set it up didn't have the correct knowledge about CPU core scheduling on the physical...
View ArticleRe: SSO Install Error 29168
Hi,I have created SSO5.1Update01a test bed with Windows 2008R2 and MSSQL 2008R2 and its working perfectly fine. Also SSO got latest version 5.1Update01b. Some of the best practices are belowWhen...
View ArticleRe: Cannot power on VM.
Welcome to the Community, How did you deploy the VMs. The entries look kind of weird, i.e. multiple delta.vmdk files instead of a flat.vmdk file!? Please compress/zip the VM's vmware.log file as well...
View ArticleRe: Reducing the amount of cores per VM
If the usage is less you can reduce the vCPU, but I would recommend to keep the minimum Operating system recommendation to do their operation well.You may have to look for downtime as well, most of...
View ArticleRe: Reducing the amount of cores per VM
Welcome to the Community, not sure about Ubuntu, but for Windows 2008 and newer you should be able to reduce the vCPU count without issues, since the HAL is the same for Uniprocessor an Multiprocessor...
View ArticleRe: Everytime my host network access changes, Fusion restarts the NAT guest...
Imagine a typical home network setup like this: Laptop -- Wireless NAT Router -- Cable ModemNetworked Printer --^Based on your setup, when you at home, select Bridged mode for the VM, the VM...
View ArticleRegarding upgrade of license keys from Essentials plus 4.1 to Essentials plus...
Hi, We are running Essential plus with 2 hosts and one instance of vcenter server it is version 4.1. We have an active SnS contract so from what i understand we can do the upgrade for free. I am just...
View ArticleRe: Cannot power on VM.
Hi André, Thanks a lot for your response. I attached the log here. Travis
View ArticleRe: Regarding upgrade of license keys from Essentials plus 4.1 to Essentials...
From a technical point of view, it dosen't matter when you upgrade the keys (the current keys will continue to work). It's more the EULA which dictates it. Basically you have to ensure that you don't...
View ArticleESXi 4.0 Server Crashed
Hi, Today my one ESXi 4.0 server got crashed due to iSCSI drive problem. After some 2 hours i managed to get it up and running but one of the datastore got corrupted as its not showing any data there....
View ArticleRe: Cannot power on VM.
According to the log files you are deploying a VM with a delta (snapshot) disks, which has another 6 links (snapshots in the chain)!? To me this doesn't look like it is really intended to be this way....
View ArticleHow to recover VMFS volume after a RAID controller failure
Dear community, I have a very critical issue regarding my ESXi installation and VMFS datastore.Here is the story:ESXi 5.0 (free) installed on IBM 3650 with adaptec 8k RAID controller and 6xHDD (1 was...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 4.0 Server Crashed
Welcome to the Community, I assume you don't have an active support agreement with VMware!? Do you have a backup?Please run fdisk -lu from the command line and post the output to see how the current...
View Articlevmnic Status
Hi, I need one powercli script to check if vmnics connected to a distributed switch is down or linkspeed in less than 1000 mb. Pls help.
View Articleobserved IP ranges seen in the networking settings.
Hi Folks,I am not really a VMware guys but more into networking. We keep getting these queries from the VMware folks about the observed IP ranges in the network showing wrong entries. example if the...
View ArticleRe: vCenter Inventory Services
The user that I used is admin@system-domain. In the vsphere web client I use the admin@system-domain, and I can connect but I cannot see any Vcenter server, everything is "0". But in the tasks tab I...
View ArticleRe: vCenter Chargeback default superuser credentials
i same like you, in progress installing chargeback dont have user credential, but after installing and open application chargeback must put license key and super user credential. i find super user on...
View ArticleRe: vCloud Director - vShield Manager Registration
Please make sure that you entered the exact same value for the hostname of vCenter into vCloud Director and vShield Manager. If you put an IP into vShield and a Hostname into vCloud, this will fail to...
View ArticleRe: Гипервизор vSphere 5.1 не передает значения аппаратных датчиков на HP...
Обновил хост до билда 1065491 (это 5.1 U1a) и датчики появились.До этого был билд как у вас 799733 - видимо это глюк конкретной сборки.Обновитесь.
View ArticleRe: ESXi 4.0 Server Crashed
no i dont have an active contract # fdisk -lu Disk /dev/disks/eui.00e09e0000fe0f5f: 72.8 GB, 72839168000 bytes64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 69464 cylinders, total 142264000 sectorsUnits = sectors of 1...
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