Re: ESXi V5.0 U1 - Enable SIOC on production NFS datastores?
Yes. We enabled on all NFS datastores without any issues. You may want to verify your datastore latency prior to enabling. The default sioc setting is 30ms, so in most cases you are fine. Jeff...
View ArticleRe: how vMotion works?
1) You are talking about HA, not vMotion. They are different technologies. 2) VMs will not automatically bounce back to the original host - there's no reason to move them (unless something like DRS or...
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Re: vCenter 4.1 to vCenter 5.1
What about my current virtual machines in production? Will these carry across?When I remove the host it says it will remove my virtual machines.
View ArticleRe: vCenter 4.1 to vCenter 5.1
If you remove a host from a vCenter Server, the details about the host and the VM's contained in it will be removed. Other than that VM's will be up and running fine. Once you have registered the host...
View ArticleRe: Storage Info needed
Thank you for the response so this means that we can create a LUN of 64TB howerver maximum file size will be 2TB only ! is this correct? and we have only one block size of 1MB now -- right ? Thanks
View ArticleRe: vCenter 4.1 to vCenter 5.1
These are the steps I made. Disable DRS/HA. Turned migrated vm's to other host.Enter Maintenance mode.Removed Host2Added Host2 to new vCenter 5.1Added successfully. Now it is showing up empty, I had...
View ArticleRe: Storage Info needed
You can create a LUN size of 64 TB. This is the VMFS volume. But you can only create a VM with a maximum disk size of (2TB - 512 bytes). This is the VMDK created inside the VMFS volume.
View ArticleRe: vCenter 4.1 to vCenter 5.1
Let me get some things clear. Please correct me if am wrong. * After disabling HA/DRS, you manally migrated VM's to other host, from the host you wished to migrate.* Did you exit out of maintenance...
View ArticleМиграция виртуальной машины VMware ESXi 5.0
Добрый день. Необходимо прикрутить виртуальную машину к моему серверу VMware ESXi 5.0.Новая виртуальная машина написана для VMware ESXi 5.0, т.е. разницы в верисиях нет.Закачиваю в хранилище все данные...
View ArticleRe: SRM and Replication technology
vSphere Replication is part of vSphere ESXi 5.1 and is available at all licensing levels except Free and Essentials. vSphere Replication works at the host level to replicate virtual machines from...
View ArticleRe: vmware-cmd getguestinfo - need values for 'variable'
I started this exercise trying to find the guest IP. As I mentioned, using Google I found that the needed variable is 'ip'. However, at this time, that is the only variable i know. My question is:...
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Re: vCenter Opearation Manager Information
Thanks very much "jddias" for valuable info and help .. As you recommended I will go for virtual appliances.
View ArticleRe: vCenter 4.1 to vCenter 5.1
YesThere are 2 Hosts.I migrated all machines to Host1 and then put Host 2 in maintenance mode.Host2 still had some templates on there which I couldn't migrate. I entered maintenance mode on Host2 and...
View ArticleRe: Error 503 in Custom UI
Thanks alot . I restart service and have solved my problem. just a question about emailFilter.XML . for setting email notification I just should change this XML file for myself enviroment?? of...
View ArticleRe: vCenter 4.1 to vCenter 5.1
I just found this!http://serverfault.com/questions/455075/vcenter-5-1-adding-v5-0-host-doesnt-bring-in-templates"Browse to the datastore in which the template is on, find the .vmtx file, right click on...
View ArticleScsi address and null field issues when adding drives
I have got a spreasheet and it requires up to 6 drives to be added to a list of VMs.vmname, hdd1, hdd2, hdd3, hdd4, hdd5, hdd6. I then want to run another command if hdd2 exists lets say its to return...
View ArticlevCenter 4.1 xp x64 to vCenter 5.1 2008 R2
Hi, I want to upgrade out vCenter 4.1 to vCenter 5.1 but the problem is, vCenter is currently installed on xp 64bit.I have setup a new VM running windows 2008 R2 and installed vCenter 5.1 but am stuck...
View ArticleAre there any Public Remote Servers?
.. new to the game .. just installed Workstation 9 .. I would like to try connecting to some Remote ESX or vCenter Servers .. just to see what it's like .. Do you know of a Server Name; user;...
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