vCenter Died
last night out of no where my vCenter server kind of died. i am not sure what has exactly happend but from what i can tell it will not let me sign in using AD, i am able to get into it using the admin...
View ArticleRe: management network, set on host or vcenter?
No they are all virtual machine networks apart from two vmkernel networks, one for management and one for vmotion.
View ArticleHealth Check Report...
Dear Team, We are planning to implement "Health Check Report" in our Virtual Infrastructure environment, following are the details vCenter Version : 4.1.0PowerCLI Version:...
View ArticleRe: ESXI 5.1 on 2011 Mac Mini: Network Dropouts.
The command merely shows the nic installed. Check this post - this might help. http://paraguin.com/2012/01/18/the-mac-mini-vmware-esxi-5-server-part-3-follow-up/ Search for BCM57765
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Re: Get-VDSwitch -Name issue with 1000v
You're mixing parameters from 2 different parametersets.
View ArticleCreating port groups on a vSphere Distributed Switch with PowerCLI
I have a large number of new port groups that I want to create on an existing vSphere Distributed Switch. They will mostly have the same settings with only a few differences. How can I automate this...
View ArticleRe: Nested ESXi 5.1 Purple Screens
Yup, that was it. I thought I could get more efficiency by using a vmxnet3 adapter, but I guess I was being too ambitious. Thanks for your help!
View ArticleRe: bug in VMFS 5 ? - stale data in .sbc.sf
Formatting the disk from the SAN end would provide a clean disk. Just removing/deleting the datastore and adding it back will still show up traces of the old data Here is an example...
View ArticleRe: Creating port groups on a vSphere Distributed Switch with PowerCLI
You can use the distributed switch cmdlets new to PowerCLI 5.1 Release 2: New-DistributedSwitchPortGroup -Name vDS01-VLAN22 -DistributedSwitch vDS01 -VLAN 22
View ArticleRe: Creating port groups on a vSphere Distributed Switch with PowerCLI
How will you be providing the portgroup names ? In a CSV file ?If yes, you could do something like$vds = Get-VDSwitch -Name MyVDSImport-Csv C:\portgroup-names.csv | %{ New-VDPortgroup -VDSwitch $vds...
View ArticleRe: VC-DCA Open Book?
I have passed the vcap4-dca and vcap5-dca. I can tell you that I did not have much time to look into pdfs. I am sure if you are targeted in your search it could be helpful. However, I didn't get into...
View ArticleRe: what happens if "Error saving dvport" is logged
Rebooting the ESXi host makes no difference, you have to migrate the VM or turn it off and change the port group per the kb. This is frustrating as I must have had 30+ machines in this state, all I...
View ArticleRe: Get-VDSwitch -Name issue with 1000v
Ah, i think I got ya. I only need to use portgroup? Get-NetworkAdapter -VM $vm | Set-NetworkAdapter -PortGroup $portgroup
View ArticleRe: Get-VDSwitch -Name issue with 1000v
Just leave out the DistributedSwitch parameter.Get-NetworkAdapter -VM $vm | Set-NetworkAdapter -Portgroup $portgroupYou got that $portgroup earlier in the script, and it implicitely knows which...
View ArticleRe: Nested ESXi 5.1 Purple Screens
The native driver for vmxnet3 in ESXi 5.1 is still somewhat experimental.
View ArticleRe: USB Device not recognized (WD Passport 1T)
Hey WildSoul, Don't worry, dlhotka just replied like that as there are sometimes people here trolling for the competition and apparently it is "high season" on that. I still appreciate your feedback,...
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'localhost' getting removed when using PowerCLI...
I'm try to set a fixed name and IP for my vm using powerCLI and VMware.Vim.CustomizationLinuxPrep. It is successfully setting both, however, it is also removing the "localhost" entry from my hosts...
View ArticleRe: Unable to install VMware Tools on Fedora 18
This is the fix. https://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/3485/vmware-player-f18-kernel-headers Basically you need to cp /usr/include/linux/version.h /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include/linux/ That...
View ArticlevMotion Intel CPU compatibility
Hi all, I'm referencing this document: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1991VMotion CPU compatibility requirements for Intel...
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