VMware Communities: Message List

Apart from the technical maximum limit, there never was a restriction how much physical RAM your hosts could have - what mattered was how much RAM your actually running VMs consumed. But luckily these...

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Console Disconnected

January 17, 2013, 12:45 pm

We are having an issue with trying to launch the VCD Consoles and going into a disconnected state. This is happenine with any VM's that we are accessing. Earlier today i was doing some work on our...

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Re: Moving esx hosts from one vCenter to another

January 17, 2013, 12:47 pm

I think the issue should be HA agent on the old vCenter is still present. If you are able to add the host back to old vcenter try these steps 1) Disable HA/DRS2) Right Click on Host and Disconnect3)...

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Re: HP ESXi offline bundle not working?

January 17, 2013, 12:46 pm

Hahaha, wow that's dodgy!! Hopefully there's a patch soon. Thank you for your suggestions - you were on the right track. Someone responded to my HP forum post with a suggestion to import the vcenter...

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Re: vSphere 5.1 licence policy

January 17, 2013, 12:50 pm

You're right, forgot to mention that one.

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Re: Wireless PCoIP Zero Client

January 17, 2013, 12:52 pm

Could you please let me know what model device you are using for this purpose? Most that I have found are large and would not easily fit on a mobile cart.Thanks.

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RoundRobin Path Selection,but...

January 17, 2013, 12:52 pm

On our ESX 4.x hosts, we currently use 'Fixed' path selection for the storage. However, every LUN currently has 4 FC paths and 2 iSCSI paths. We typically only use the iSCSI in the event of a fiber...

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Re: Datastore capacity regarding free space is not the same in VMware and 3PAR

January 17, 2013, 12:56 pm

I assume the datastore previously contained other VMs which used the disk space!?Anyway, take a look at http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/04/vaai-thin-provisioning-block-reclaimunmap-in-action.html...

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Re: Using the vSphere API to Register a vSphere Client Plugin with VCenter...

January 17, 2013, 12:56 pm

Can you try to unzip the file manually in location that would be used, i.e.C:\ProgramData\VMware\vSphere Web Client\vc-packages\vsphere-client-serenity\<your-package-id>-1.0.0 Unfortunately the...

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Re: How to update a MAC address of a VM using Orchestrator

January 17, 2013, 12:57 pm

Hi, you might want to try this workflow, it generates a new nic from Vcenter on a VM and keeps the rest of the Network Adapter, so ideally you even won't have to change IP Settings in the OS...

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Re: Upgrading 5.0 to 5.1 w/ custom VIBs

January 17, 2013, 1:00 pm

The IBM version didn't work for me either. I ended up using the base ESXi 5.1 install, but had to use ImageBuilder to add the latest drivers for my broadcom cards. I ran into an issue after trying to...

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Safely delete a datastore

January 17, 2013, 1:01 pm

I need to delete for good 2 datastores. I first right-clicked each vm guest using these datastores and selected delete. The datastores now show as empty when browsed. Can I just right click\delete...

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VCenter Update Manager problem

January 17, 2013, 1:03 pm

Hi,Thanks for taking the time to read my post and I am hoping I can get some assitance.I am running into the issue citend in this KB...

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Re: vSphere 5.1 SSO identity source service account permissions

January 17, 2013, 1:05 pm

It needs permission similar to the pre-windows 2000 compatabible access group, so ability to read user attributes, and groups and nested groups. In some environments even a domain admin might not...

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Re: VMCrash ESXI5 on HP DL380 Gen8

January 17, 2013, 1:08 pm

I am being told from vmware that about "30 customers" have reported this issue. They are telling me disabling PCC in my HP Bios may help alleviate the issue

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