Re: Routing conditions based on cost centre values
Rules Builder have been developed for Conditional Branching Rules in 9.1.5. So conditions based on any readable request/task fields will be available. Edit: Looking at the screenshot, the rule has been...
View ArticleHost vMotion Failures
Hello, I've been having a lot of vm's (most) failing to migrate in the past few weeks. Occasionally one or two will migrate after taking a long time, but most are failing with this error....
View ArticleRe: SRM failback failing with failed to recover datastore error
This LUN is in a consistency group. I haven't tried 7.3 however I did upgrade to 7.5 today and am still having the issue. "normal promote failed. Error Details: Failure during Clariion Interface...
View ArticleRe: ESXi Management not working Cisco LAG
darkbgr123, John White gave me the answer. You can find it here http://virtual-journeyman.john-refactored.com/ Stephen
View Articlevtep end points not pinging
HiI have 2 vtep end points, configuration is as follows: server-1esxivtep1-10.0.0.100/24 server-2esxivtep2-20.0.0.200/24 server-1 --> switch-1 --> routerserver-2 --> switch-2 --> router...
View ArticlevCenter Operations Manager 5.6 - Custom Reports
In the release notes for vcOps 5.6, it states: Custom Reports (Experimental) This release introduces an experimental feature for configuring user-defined and pre-defined custom reports. You can use...
View ArticleRe: Upgrading from 4.1 to 5.1 - SSO Design?
Really? No takers but 60+ looks? Hmmm... Well, here's more food for thought... What if we've decided to go with a central/single SSO HA 2-node instance for our 4 vCenters, and we're NOT using an...
View ArticleRe: Force vSphere Replication to a Specific Network Adapter
Reply 3 by Neilynz should work. It requries you to configure two VLANs, and use static routing to force the replication traffic to use one interface only.You can give it a try. The new 5.1 web client...
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Re: Microsoft Word and Mathtype - an impossible marriage?
Dear kmgp,thanks for your suggestions. I will try them shortly. In these weeks I almost gave up to it. But I will give it a go again: I never tried the settings you saggest. So you Thinapped MS Word...
View ArticleRe: When deploying a new VM from template, storage DRS doesn't clone the .vmdk
Thanks Rubeck, I hadn't thought about the edit virtual hardware.... however I have been using that feature on and off for years and never had any problems. Its only since storage DRS has been...
View Articlevxlan end points not pinging
HiI have 2 vtep end points, configuration is as follows: server-1esxivtep1-10.0.0.100/24 server-2esxivtep2-20.0.0.200/24 server-1 --> switch-1 --> routerserver-2 --> switch-2 --> router...
View ArticleRe: Blueprint has changed 2 days before my exam!!!!
Given that the training, exam, and blueprint have all now gone through their update cycle since the 5.1 release I would now expect a period where nothing further changes for many months...
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Re: ESXi 5.x "I/O Error Occurred"
This cannot be right, surely? ~ # esxcfg-scsidevs -avmhba0 ata_piix link-n/a sata.vmhba0 (0:0:31.2) Intel Corporation Ibex Peak 4 port SATA IDE Controllervmhba1...
View ArticleRe: ESXi Crash - No PSOD
Thanks for your help mpx.vmhba0:C0:T0:L0 is showing as the CD-ROM drive and is showing as mounted, however the CD-ROM drive is not being used by any VMs. No BIOS/firmware/drivers/patch updates have...
View ArticleUpgrade plan from ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5.1
Hi all,we are sketching an upgrade plan from ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5.1.The cluster includes 3 Dell R710 hosts and the vCenter server is a Windows 2008 VM.Since we don't want any headaches from a painful and...
View ArticleDisplay host's mac Dock in fullscreen
I'm running a Win87 VM in VMWare Fusion. I have with VM fullscreened spanning multiple sceens. When I full-sceen the VM, the Mac dock in inaccessible.Is it possible to keep the dock on-top of the...
View Articlevm time - changes even when vmtools option is unchecked?
I'm just wondering how this would happen: vms running on a host that was esxi 4.1 - but the server ntp settings had not been configured. Then vms were migrated off to other hosts, and the first host...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.1: vmsvc warning guestinfo RecordRoutingInfo: Unable to collect...
Ran into this as well today with CentOS Minimal 6.3 on vCD 5.1. Looking into it myself. Never seen this one before.
View ArticlevCenter 5.1.0b fresh installation
I'm looking for advice as to what version of vCenter I should install. The latest 5.0.X version on the latest 5.1.X version. Being a new environment, I really didn't give it much thought and just...
View Articlehow to upgrade datastores from vmfs 3.46 to current format?
Just upgraded 4 hosts from 4.1 to 5.1 - everything went great. The datastores are vmfs 3.46 - I figure it would make sense to get them updated. I don't see an option for doing that. Is there a process,...
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