w7 guest failed error in Wks8
My Vm stopped with the following message "The operation on file "K:\unliked clone w7 MO_2010\Windows 7 x64-cl2.vmdk" failed." I tried the retry option but it failed and pointed me to a .dmp file which...
View ArticleRe: Try and run two tasks on Converter5-Errors out.
The error I see is a network error:FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion:'The operation experienced a network error' What can I check? I have never had an issue with this before, this is new...
View ArticleChanging Hostname of vCenter and External Sql Server
We have a ESX environment which has a vCenter and an external Microsoft SQL Server database. We do not use Active Directory and we have not moved the environment to Single Sign On as of yet. Our...
View ArticleRe: Custom PdxSerializer in Gemfire 7
FYI, I hit this stack trace again with the class: javax.management.Notification
View ArticlevCenter Appliance loses password?
We have a vCenter 5.1 Appliance VM that seems to lose its Root password every few days and our backups start to fail. We try to log in as Root and get an "incorrect username or password" error. We...
View ArticleCPU inventory data missing on half the hosts
Hi all, I am trying to run a CP assesment for one of my clients and we are running into a issue where the tool will not pull in any CPU inventory data for about half the hosts. The strange thing is we...
View ArticleRe: Server 2008 64 Bit Enterprise Memory usage - Locked Memory
This is exactly our scenario as well. Attempted an upgrade from 4.1 to 5.1 and like most of our other vCenter upgrades it failed to upgrade the database. It was just easier to start over and add all of...
View ArticleRe: Changing Hostname of vCenter and External Sql Server
Check out the following kb articles: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/5850444http://kb.vmware.com/kb/7960893
View ArticleDisallowing a guest to join a network on a ESXi host?
We are relatively new to Vsphere, so this may be a silly question. we have our 6, 5.0 ESXi hosts trunked up to several network switches in our network (all separate VLANs). All ESXi hosts have the...
View ArticleRe: need help with PowerCli script to detach RDM devices not datastores
Are these RDMs still connected to VMs in that cluster ?Do you want to a remove of the RDM from the VM followed by a Detach from the ESXi servers in the cluster ?
View ArticleRe: Changing Hostname of vCenter and External Sql Server
Brian, The actual servers themselves are moving. It's not just the data. I was hoping we would not have to re-create everything since the actual servers are moving themselves and the data is staying...
View ArticleRe: Script to list VM Network
After reviewing my output, it looks like if networkcard0 was not on the Virtual machine it causes a problem with the script. Not sure if there is a way to address this.
View ArticleRe: need help with PowerCli script to detach RDM devices not datastores
These RDMs are removed from the VM. I want to unmount/detach the RDM from the ESXi hosts to prevent APD, before I offline lun on Storage. -Thanks in advance for your help
View ArticleRe: VMs very slow on IBM x3650 M4 with ESXi 5.1
Think we found the problem. Host1 was connected through SAS on Storage Processer A and Host2 connected to Storage Processor B. It seems it works like with EMC storage and the LUNs kept thresspassing....
View ArticleRe: Changing Hostname of vCenter and External Sql Server
A lot of those steps will still apply with the IP address changes. Also check out http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1001493
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Re: Attempting to add custom annotations to an existing 'Export-VMInfo' script
Thankyou sir for the prompt response, it is truly appreciated. Getting back to this today, I tried the snippet of code you suggested, and, at least going against the 4.1 cluster, I didnt get any output...
View ArticleRe: Set-NetworkAdapter for updating to Vmxnet3 on Windows 2008 R2
KB2550978 "0x0000007B" Stop error after you replace an identical iSCSI ...
View ArticleRe: VMware Remote Console access via Firefox 13 gives blank screen
Hi,Web browser support in vCloud Director 1.5http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2005819andSupported web browsers in VMware vCloud...
View ArticleRe: Set-NetworkAdapter for updating to Vmxnet3 on Windows 2008 R2
Hi LucD, I tried scanning for hardware changes, even uninstalling the e1000 device from device manager. Upon hardware scan, Windows reinstalls the e1000 driver. I am wondering if it is even possible...
View ArticleRe: Changing Hostname of vCenter and External Sql Server
Thank you for the articles. Will definitely look them over and apply them during the move next week.
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