Re: Best Practise - Which SCSI Controller for Windows 2012
"LSI Logic SAS" has best performance for Windows family OSes (Vista and above).Also you can use "Paravirtual" on them if you have more than 2000 IOPS."LSI Logic SAS" has better performance on lower...
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That would be substantially better, our security policies dictate that root is never be allowed to login remotely. If you don't go down the zimbra user approach, then you should accommodate for the...
View ArticleRe: after doing a failover and failback -- replicated datastore
Regarding your point on recovered datastores, they actually aren't all that normal. During the recovery process, vSphere resignatures the LUN and it's this need to resignature the LUN that makes...
View ArticleRe: Crash when running Baldur's Gate II on Win XP VM
JonBodner, It's been awhile since I played the Baldur's Gate series. Which version of Baldur's Gate 2 are you running? Is this the classic version or the new "Enhanced Edition"? If it's the classic...
View ArticleRe: Changing VMware infrastructure from 4.x to 5.x
Hi, -- I would say better to use same name and same IP address. -- Correct -- If you dont care about historical data, then proceed with fresh installation. --- You can move the virtual machine from...
View ArticleRe: Migrating VMs from one datastore to another on ESXi 5.1 (free license)
Yes, remove the VM from the inventory, copy the other files over to the new folder (using the cp command or e.g. WinSCP), add the copied VM to the inventory and select "I moved it" when you power on...
View Article'Hardware Status' not updated for months
ESXi 5.0.0We've got 2 ESXi hosts in a clustered high-availability environment. Recently we noticed that the Hardware Status for both the hosts isn't updating. On both hosts I've restarted the CIM...
View ArticleRe: Event Viewer being flooded with VMWare Tools [Warnings]
much appreciated that I will gladly click helpful answer
View ArticleRe: Changing VMware infrastructure from 4.x to 5.x
Mohammed, great so just to be sure I understand fully...if I follow Question 1 and keep the same name and IP I will still need to remove the original vCenter 4.1 off the domain because once I build the...
View ArticleRe: Changing VMware infrastructure from 4.x to 5.x
Hi, -- Yes, you are correct. You need to remove it from domain. Also make sure you have backup of DB. -- No, you have to manually move the VM to newly created datastore after upgrade of virtual...
View ArticleRe: Migrating VMs from one datastore to another on ESXi 5.1 (free license)
Actually, I do have snapshots. I have the following files in the source folder:CUCM-Pub 9.x-000001.vmdkCUCM-Pub 9.x-000002.vmdkCUCM-Pub 9.x-000003.vmdkCUCM-Pub 9.x-000004.vmdk CUCM-Pub...
View ArticleRe: Migrating VMs from one datastore to another on ESXi 5.1 (free license)
The .vmsn files contain metadata and - in case the snapshot was created with the VM powered on - the VM's memory, which is only important if you want to revert to a snapshot. The important data is...
View ArticleRe: Problems with vmrun no opening IE to correct URL -- Need Help!!!!
Okay fair enough. Thanks you've really been a big help! Cheers! Tonté
View ArticleRe: Unable to obtain hardware information for the selected machine -...
You need to use local administrator account and UAC disabled to do P2V on remote Windows, also ensure 'Use Sharing Wizard' disabled.
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Re: Cannot connect to Serengeti Server
I experience the same problem! - > "the output stops after "Starting Avahi daemon [OK]""
View ArticleRe: Problem with Converter Standalone Client 5
From you *multiple* posted even I can see only that your MSVCRT is not the requested version 9.0.30729.4148HTH
View ArticleRe: Changing VMware infrastructure from 4.x to 5.x
I will backup the DB just in case I need to go back to it...for sure. As for VMs, how is it possible to upgrade hardware to 9 first when VMFS-3 doesn't support it? I'm going to have my ESXi 5.1 host...
View ArticleRe: Migrating VMs from one datastore to another on ESXi 5.1 (free license)
For most of my VMs, I just need the latest state they are in. So, should I delete all the snapshots for them in the Snapshot Manager? For three of the VMs, I need all the snapshots. Do I clone every...
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Using Powercli I having trouble modifying vm hardware and nic portgroup when...
Hello, wondering if anyone can help out, i am trying to deploy 1 or more vm from multiple templates, the variables are being imported from a csv file each line is a new VM with specific name, ip,...
View ArticleRe: Using Powercli I having trouble modifying vm hardware and nic portgroup...
I think the way you are doing the customisation part is not the way it should be done.First you adapt the OSCustomizationSpec like you defined in the CSV rowGet-OSCustomizationSpec $_.Customization |...
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