Re: Help please! The file specified is not a virtual disk
Do I need to copy the vmware-vdiskmanager.exe to the drive with the VMs first? Run it from a command prompt or launch it directly?Thanks,tim
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There's not any official customer facing documentation available currently. What kind of report are you looking to create?
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Hello, I currently am trying to do some scalability testing with the latest build of vCD 5.1. My goal: Get 1000+ vApps deployed thin provisioned, each consuming about ~5GB thin, 60GB thick. My...
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what are server and location parameters ? can you please specify
View ArticleRe: Help please! The file specified is not a virtual disk
Run it from a Command Prompt. BTW It's located in the Working Directory of VMware Workstation and you can run it from that location.
View ArticleVM created from template retains the same IP address as the source VM(used to...
I created a "ESXi Host VM (say esxi_vm_1)" on a physical ESXi host (IP = 10.20.30.1)The virtual host had DHCP enabled and after successfully creating the VM and powering it ON, it obtained an IP...
View Articlevxlan and internal interface from vm
I have 2 VMs (VM1, VM2) on a ESXi server-1. I want to have these 2 VMs talking so i have created one vnic on each and connected using same port-group and gave them subnet, say192.168.0.0./24. Its...
View ArticleRe: Unity issue
If your Ubuntu VM is running Ubuntu Unity, VMware Unity is disabled because of compatibility problems between the two modes. You can change the VM to use the old-style Gnome or KDE desktop, and VMware...
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Re: SSO Design Question
Hi Wasim, My team is testing a similar deployment within our lab. You are not doing anything incorrectly, the error you are experiencing "Error 20010: Failed to update lookupservice" is an nice feature...
View ArticleMonitoring Adaptec 2405 RAID card on esxi 5.1
Hi, I got an esxi 5.1 server running with an Adaptec 2405 RAID card. Everything work well, except I can't seem to be able to monitor the RAID/Array condition. Meaning, under the status/health pages I...
View ArticleRe: WinPE 4.0 + VMWare Workstation - Hangs "Windows is loading files" booting...
I just duped this issue on Workstation 9 using a clean native guest snapshot (I installed Windows 7 x64 on the guest to rule out guest upgrade issues). I also tried Hyper-V and found they don't have...
View ArticleRe: Vcenter Server Appliance fails with no VT support in nested ESXi 5.1
See if putting the following line into the VMX file of your nested ESXi 5.1 host makes it work for you: vhv.enable = "TRUE" Datto
View ArticleHelp with script to gather cluster info
Hi I know that this is something simple am just can't work it out when I run this script Connect-VIServer "XXXXXXX"$ClusterReport = @()Foreach($cluster in Get-Cluster ){ $esx = $cluster |...
View ArticleNew VM created from template gets the same IP adress of the source VM(used to...
I created a "ESXi Host VM (say esxi_vm_1)" on a physical ESXi host (IP = 10.20.30.1)The virtual host had DHCP enabled and after successfully creating the VM and powering it ON, it obtained an IP...
View Articlevmnic info for the distributedportgroup of type uplink using web services sdk
Hi,I am looking for the api which could give me the vmic name/s attached to an uplink distributed port group.I am using sdk5.1.I am able to fetch the uplinkportgroups for a dvs but i am not able to...
View ArticleRe: Help please! The file specified is not a virtual disk
Hi WoodyZ, My VMWare is actually installed on my C drive (along with that tool), but the VMs are all on my E drive. Will it still work on the file on E if I run it from C? Or is there special syntax I...
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Host shutdown delay
Hi all, I'm just trying to write a VMWare shutdown script that is executed when a HP UPS detects that power has been out for a period of time. The script takes the datacentre out of HA fine, and shuts...
View ArticleVM motion
whether a VM can be motioned from private cloud to public cloud by vCloud automation center, how to setting on vCloud automation center?
View ArticleRe: SSO Design Question
At this point I’m working with Vmware engineers and we are on 4th day…If we are successful tomorrow, I will definetly update you. Reading your posts, I’m afraid on tomorrow’ outcome. I will show this...
View ArticleRe: Help please! The file specified is not a virtual disk
In the Command Prompt, change to the directory the .vmdk file is in and then use the following as an example: "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Workstation\vmware-vdiskmanager.exe" -R "Windows...
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