Re: ERROR: Unable to connect to the MKS: the operation is not allowed in the...
Power down the VM, right click, remove from Inventory, browse datastore, right click on vmx file of the VM and add it back to the host, power it back on and check. BTW is this VM running on snapshots?...
View ArticleRe: VMware ESXi 5 Free - Memory limitation - boot up
As mentioned before, the physical memory limit is enforced. You won't be able to assign a free Hypervisor license to a host with more than 32GB RAM and it will also stop working (displaying the license...
View ArticleNeed a power-shell script to ..
Hi I need a power-shell script to list all virtual machine in the data-center listing for each vm all the disks and sizes of the disk and type of disk and a free column for comments . We are moving...
View ArticleRe: vmware esxi 4.1
Hola, ver http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/vmware/supportmatrix/hpvmware.html El ProLiant ML150 G6 no es compatible con ESXi 4.x, pero con el clásico ESX 4.0.Pero ¿por qué no utilizar ESXi...
View ArticleRe: The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created
Unfortunately the vSphere Client GUI dosn't allow you to select snapshots as existing virtual disks and by starting the VM with the base disks, the CID (as well as some data) for the base disk was...
View ArticleRe: vCloud Networking Issue
I realize this is not the solution found in this thread, but I came across this discussion due to similar issues and solved the problem by performing an unprepare and reprepare of the vcloud hosts. My...
View ArticleRe: How to build a firewall VM for ESXi 5
Did you already check out the pfSense Wiki? This provides a lot of information, including setting up pfSense on ESXi (see PfSense 2 on VMware ESXi 5 - PFSenseDocs) André
View ArticleChanging Default Disk Format In Add Disk/New VM Wizard?
Hello Everyone, Anyone know if it's possible to change the default disk format selection in vCenter 5.1 (or the vSphere Client/Web Client if that's what's responsible for selecting the current lazy...
View ArticleSQL 2008 R2 Cluster using RDM in VM
Hello,I want to create a SQL cluster using RDM's. I understand that I must use FC for this to work. I have LUNs configured with FC already and I can add the RDM to the first VM. However how to I...
View ArticleRe: SQL 2008 R2 Cluster using RDM in VM
To use the same RDM (not simultaneously of course) from another VM, you need to add the .vmdk mapping file which was created for the RDM when you added the LUN to the first VM. However, there are some...
View ArticleESXi Gateway for iSCSI/vMotion on diff subnets?
Going from ESX4 to ESXi 5.1. We have 2 vswitches. 1. vswitch0 is connected via 4 physical NIC's to 1 physical switch. vswitch0 has a VM port group, a service console and a vmkernel port for vMotion....
View ArticlePXE install ESXI with persistent config
We just setup PXE for ESXI, and thankfully I rebooted the system to move it to the back before it bit me in the ass. So everything installs fine, no problem. But when we reboot, we get "No Active...
View ArticleRe: Changing Default Disk Format In Add Disk/New VM Wizard?
I'm afraid there's no option available to configure your preferences. What you could do is to create a template and clone new VMs from this one, or do scripted VM creation. André
View ArticleNetwork IO Control share calculation confusion
Hi everyone. In the Resource Allocation tab for a DvS there are the built-in system network resource pools and then there are custom ones. I'm a bit confused on the calculation of how bandwidth is...
View ArticleRe: QueryAvailableDisksForVmfs call from Flex client using DAM?
You don't have to use DAM and a PropertyProviderAdapter if you don't want to, it's just the standard way to retrieve data from UI views. You can call QueryAvailableDisksForVmfs from within your java...
View ArticleRe: ESXi Gateway for iSCSI/vMotion on diff subnets?
Hey Mac1978, You do not need to worry about the default gateway as you have two independent switches and as long as you set the correct IP Range etc, it should work fine. You can use vmkping to check...
View ArticleRe: Supid Redundant, CPU Question
Hi, First, setting up 1 vCPU with 8 vCores or 2 vCPUs with 4 vCores each or well ... anything else won't change anything about your problem. This setup is only for licensing purpose. Some products are...
View ArticleRe: Storage Heartbeat Vmkernal port for Equalogic PS array
I was hoping this was answered. I need to 'reorder' my vmk ports as well. I even tried to delete the iSCSI nic to recreate the Storage Heartbeat 1st so it's guaranteed the lowest number as well as just...
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