Re: AutoDeploy - Enable stateful installs to a USB disk on the host
In some situations, it is useful to provision hosts with Auto Deploy and to perform all subsequent boots from disk. This approach is called Stateful Installs.Prerequisites and Decide which disk to use...
View ArticleRe: Error: 23038 Setup cannot create vcenter server directory instance
Greetings tdubb123 Seems that your Network service doesn't have enough permission on the root of the drive you’re installing vCenter on.i will explain you now step by step how to bypass this error and...
View ArticleRe: ESXi Deos not sync with Windows DC
Had you join these esxi machines to the domain? if not, try to join them. it will sync to domain controller automatically. if you find this helpful, mark it as correct.Yours,Mar Vista
View ArticleRe: Large vCPU VM performance issue
Increase VM's CPU share to High and check for some time..Yours,Mar Vista
View ArticleRe: Documentation for Reduced and Full Metric Sets
The metrics belonging to the balanced metric profile (aka default attribute package) are published here:...
View ArticleRe: VMrun returns "specified version not found" in ws10
Seems your Vmware VIX is not reading your player or station version , please try to Modify the /usr/lib/vmware-vix/viwrapper-config.txt file and add your version below other player version near the...
View ArticleRe: VDR backups
restart the datarecovery service on your VDR appliance and to do so : Log in to the VDR appliance as root from either an SSH session or directly from the console. The default login credentials for the...
View ArticleRe: Just Installed ESXi5 having connectivity issues
Hi Andy, Have you checked the event viewer?If IP address is fixed, try another, maybe you have an IP conflict in your Network Hope will help.Yours,Mar Vista
View ArticleRe: Best practice to store the System Logs for all of the newly upgraded ESXi...
Hi, To have a Syslog server is more preferable, in any case,Because centralized managing hosts more flexible and comfortable to do.Yours,Mar Vista
View ArticleRe: v-motion with out common storage
This feature is only available in Vmware 5.1 called Enhancement vMotion feature ..with 5.1 you don't have need to shared storage and you can easy use vmotion with all your 3 hostYours,Mar Vista
View ArticleRe: latest version
As of now latest Vmware stable version in 5.1.. Also they have announced Vmware 5.5 ..you can user 5.1 and later can upgrade with new one..simple Yours,Mar Vista
View ArticleRe: Installing esx 5.1 on Thinkserver RD220
Hello, I have checked and Lenovo Thinkserver RD220 is not compatiblewith ESXi 5.VMwareCompatibility Guide: System Search You can also check it in VMware Compatibility Guide:Here is the...
View ArticleRe: Unable to snapshot 2TB drive
Hi, There is a method extending .vmdk files in VMware (CLI command "vmkftools" with -X option).I have not try, but specialists advice it to reduce size of .vmdk files and say that it is...
View ArticleRe: Enabling CBT for all ESX VMs ?
As known VMware acknowledges that CBT could lose track of incremental changes in the event of a power failure or hard shutdown. so its up to you and you dont need to reboot once you enable the CBT and...
View ArticleRe: A little storage space CRISIS
For Investigating disk space on an ESX or ESXi host please check this KB article :VMware KB: Investigating disk space on an ESX or ESXi host Nad let me know if this doesn't help . Good luckYours,Mar...
View ArticleRe: /etc/ssh/ssh_config deleted when ESXi rebooted
That is expected behaviour.ESXi loads completely into RAM when it boots and the filesystem is populated by extracting a bunch of tarballs into RAM during boot. So you either have to include your custom...
View ArticleRe: Sysprep on Windows Server 2008 R2 Template
No the Article above is very correct . but did you reboot the Server after you installed updates ? sometimes it will reboot twice to finish installing all updates and be ready for a further...
View ArticleRe: USB hard drive stops responding
Hello, I have such a problem twice in VMware Workstation.Nothing helps, mount unmount...problem exists.First time it solved after reinstalling VMware Tools.Second time nothing helped, only fresh...
View ArticleRe: vcenter install error - wrong input - either a command line argument is...
it may be related to the SSO install option that you chosen and the fact that the group was local not AD based so switching the local Administrators group for an AD based group will permit you to...
View ArticleRe: Ubuntu guest OS not able to mount windows drive
Hello, Try to install VMware Tools and then check.Hope will help.Yours,Mar Vista
View Article