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Re: Rescue a VMFS partition
Hi LionelM,Service console did the trick - found this helpful article which walked me through it.Example output: VMFS-3.33 file system spanning 1 partitions. File system label (if any): DatastoreName...
View ArticleVcenter server P2V
Hi all, We are upgrading our vSphere from 4.1 to 5.1.We are getting an outside company to do the actual upgrade, but need to P2V the vCenter server. We want to make a virtual server of the vCenter...
View ArticleRe: Host Profile works on all but 2 blades... CP_NO_VALID_PARTITION_FOUND?!
PROGRESS!!!! I swapped the SATA drives with the bad server (13) and a perfectly working server (05). The problem MOVED to the working server! What in the WORLD??! Since I have two misbehaving servers,...
View ArticleRe: AD Plugin for VMWare Orchestrator
Back Again,Having mixed results here. I can get the command working by providing the DN as you described. What I really desired was some flexbility (no having to know the DN for the machine and only...
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Re: Update Manager patch repository
Hi ChrisI88,Once you have upgraded all of your hosts to higher version in your inventory, you should be safe to manually remove the old patches from your hard drive. There is no way to do it...
View ArticleRe: Vcenter server P2V
Sounds good but why are you removing the targeted ESXi host from the vCenter environment?
View ArticleRe: VCAP5-DCD - my experience
No worries Andy, you were taking the DCD too sometime soon, werent you? How's your preparation going?
View ArticleRe: vmmark2.5 Error log "help"
Because my client is physical client, so I am now re-install the loadgen and see. If still nothing counted, Then I will ghost it
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Re: how to use vCloud Director Catalog into vFabric Data Director
Hi, I have the same issue here and got a little update to it. Thanks
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Re: What are the devices, i can connect to Guest OS
Hi Bkm20 ,Welcome to community . Its depend upon the configuration and compatibility .As continuum told specially for graphics card you need external graphics card .That way only you can configured...
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Re: Can I run .vmx Workstation 8 on Workstation 7.x
Hi PreedaS ,You can do that , but need littlbit more effort while converting higher version to lower version. Most of the time its easy to lower to higher version but from higher to lower you have to...
View ArticleRe: Best CPU Allocation
Perhaps I can answer some of the questions for you. A vCPU is basically a core or a hyperthread core. The trick with assigning vCPUs is this: However many vCPUs you assign to a VM have to all be...
View ArticleRe: How to add storage to datastore?
Hi, Did you check here : http://failprevent.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/esx-cli-create-vmfs-and-datastore-on-backend-storage/ 1- Create a Partition Table~ # fdisk...
View ArticleRe: VCAP5-DCD - my experience
Yeah, I'm waiting to see if VMworld pans out for me or not, mostly because of the 75% exam discount, but I think some of the round table/workshop sessions could be helpful too. I finally picked up a...
View ArticleRe: Script to export Alarms from VCenter to analyze.
Hi James, Here is the new version, find the attached below.One thing to note is the script looks for only the alarms with Action set, i.e. SNMP, SendEmail...etc $output = foreach ($alarm in...
View ArticleRe: List VMs with RDMs
Hi, Did you check this previous post? PowerCli to pull RDM info I hope it help. Regards,Julien
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Re: Performance data is unavailable...
Hi MrVmware9423,By default a standalone ESXi host will keep 1 hours worth of performance data. vCenter Server will allow you to capture performance data long term, but if you have just the standalone...
View ArticleRe: Error on vCenter com.vmware.sps.fault.qsconnectionexception
I had no disk capacity left on the vCenter system drive (coincidence maybe), after rectifying disk, bounced the server and the error has not reared its ugly head again.
View ArticleRe: Vcenter server P2V
Like I said it was a plan from elsewhere and adapted to our needs. If removing the ESXi host is not needed then I will remove that from the plan. Updated plan: Verify good full backup of vCenter...
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