ASUS F2A85-V PRO FM2 AMD A85X (Hudson D4) SCSI Passthrough Support
I am looking to build an ESXi 5.1 server (Using the free version) on some lower end hardware (by server standards), for my house, to consoladate two physical machines into a single machine, along with...
View ArticleRe: Thin Provisioned Virtual Size
If I look at a datastore I can see total capacity and how much is free, but isnt the free number looking at how much is currently being consumed by the thin disks and not the potential if all of those...
View ArticleRe: WinPE 4.0 + VMWare Workstation - Hangs "Windows is loading files" booting...
I find that PE 4.0 32bit does work on Windows 8 template but not on the Windows 7 (32 or 64 bit) and older OS templates. Thank you for trying this!
View ArticleRe: Thin Provisioned Virtual Size
I think I found that information by going to the datastore view and then under summary I can see...Capacity:Provisioned Space:Free Space: How do you decide how much you can safely overprovision?
View ArticleBest Practices Regarding Invoke-VMScript
We're using Invoke-VMScript to run batch scripts on our VMs in a blocking manner. Some of these scripts take ~1 hour to run. We're running into issues where randomly we'll see Power-CLI disconnects or...
View ArticleRe: remove-vm doesn't delete from inventory
I think the screenshot didn't get picked up in your previous reply
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Re: Connection between host and VM
Nah, proxy (a stable one) costs money, and it would increase ping as well. Actually, it's way easier (got answer on another forum already): you just have to look into NAT settings in Edit -> Virtual...
View Articleview and data protection
Just a heads up for everyone.... view premier no longer comes with a fully functional version of vsphere for desktops, but now it is scaled down and missing features like data protection. You must buy...
View ArticleRe: VMware Go alarm - Virtual Machine Disk Performance
When looking at these alarm settings in Vmware GO I see that they have predetermined definition settings. If the 75ms is too low of a threshold then you might be better off turning this alarm off and...
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Re: Thin Provisioned Virtual Size
Trial and error. The vCenter datastore usage on disk alarm is your best friend here really. The problem is that this is now under user control, and that makes it very unpredictable. Having the alarms...
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List of Possible Wildcards for QueryService?
Hello all, I know I had this at one point or another, but cannot seem to find it. Is there a published list of wildcards avaliable for Expressions / Query Service... Might have been right in front of...
View ArticleHow to get the ESXi host status that is managed by vCenter by monitoring...
Hi, My vCenter is managing several ESXi hosts, and if the ESXi is down for what ever the reason like power down or network down etc..As we see the ESXi host that is down as inaccessible i.e. red cross...
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Re: Best Practices Regarding Invoke-VMScript
If the script you invoke on the guest is going off for a longer time, you might loose the connection due to a timeout.A solution would be to let the script inside the guest OS send something back on a...
View ArticleRe: Hp switch config question
Gopinath Keerthyrajan wrote:also, with the IP HASH the esx wont 100 % use all the nics... to use all the pnics 100% used.the IP hashes between.. the source mac and destination mac has to be...
View ArticleRe: Hp switch config question
scale21 wrote: LACP isnt used so it was setup for LinkAg and throughput......and it wasnt for load balancing considering that is only affected egressly. LACP and EtherChannel accomplish roughly the...
View ArticleRe: Multiple same size hard drives in VM
I believe I clicked everything but Location, once that was view got the proper SCSI ID thx
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iscsi mulipathing (vmknic status not used)
Trying to understand how I can get both vmkernal nics to show active: This particular host isnt in production yet, and have gotten things to clear up by removing and readding in the past, but I'm not...
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