Starting to Build my Lab
Hello Guys, I will start to build my lab to install VSphere 6 and I need your recommendations about the H/W with low price and height performance.I need just desktop PCs not servers so please help me...
View Articlerunning lower resolution on 4k display in full screen
hello, recently got a new laptop and it has a 4k display. I'm having problems running a lower resolution in full screen on this display. When I have another monitor connected I do not have problems...
View ArticleRe: NFS disk between different VCenters
Hi, thanks for answering. I've tried to disconnect one host from old vcenter and connect to a new cluster in new vcenter, only this one host in that cluster. I can then use "Mount datastore to...
View ArticleRe: VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: Worker #0
Your vmdk is in a bad state - very likely you will not be able to fix the errors with vmware-vdiskmanager -R <vmdk-name>Anyway - try a repair with vdiskmanager.If the current version does not...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.5 host LOCKDOWN mode grayed out
I had the same issue in my development environment. I resolved my issue by updating vcenter to the latest build once i did that i was able to join the esxi host back to vcenter. I believe the rule of...
View ArticleRe: How to install NVIDIA video drivers into a WIN 7 VM setup on the free VM...
NVidia drivers should only be installed when NVidia devices are used.In your VM you dont have NVidia hardware - thats why it installs on your host but not inside your VM.Inside a VM you have a VMware...
View ArticleCheck for Storage I/O Control - Enabled/disabled?
I know just enough to be dangerous in PowerCLI. Can anyone tell me if there is a simple script I can run to check all my datastores to see if SIOC is enabled or not? Just a simple enabled/disabled is...
View ArticleRe: How to install NVIDIA video drivers into a WIN 7 VM setup on the free VM...
Thanks! That makes sense. I did not know about the VM video drivers. V/R
View ArticleWhy does SIOC generate so much traffic on FC LUNs
We have a few 64TB LUNs which we present in a cluster via FC from a stoarge array backed by ZFSWe noticed that the switch reported very high traffic with no VMs running.Digging deeper it turned out the...
View ArticleRe: Workstation Player 12 (and earslier versions) shus down when guest OS is...
vmplayer.exe is a minimal graphical frontend for the commandline-tool vmware-vmx.exe - once you stop vmware-vmx.exe by suspending or shutting down the VM there is no need to keep vmplayer.exe...
View Articlevsphere web client 5.x evaluation mode limits?
Hi Community, I have both enterprise edition license and evaluation license for vcenter, I just want to confirm if there really exists limits in the evaluation mode? I notice that in the web client...
View ArticleRe: Hardening Guide for ESXi 6.0
Thanks likeahoss,All good info, glad for the pointers.
View ArticleRe: Prevent Player for Linux from closing
Why would you want to do that ?Without a running VM keeping vmplayer process alive would be as useful as keeping for example a grep process alive.The vmplayer itself does not require a lot of resources...
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Re: Get-Datastore inconsistently returns RemoteHost for NFS datastores
Check (get-datastore).ExtensionData.Info.Nas.RemoteHostNames # This is slow but gets the job done.get-datastore | select name,...
View ArticleRe: VMware Workstation Player 12 3D Performance Is Very Slow, 6.0.7 is...
>> I have downgraded to VMware Player 6.0.7 & the performance is brilliant.Yes - thats what I would expect. VMplayer reached its peak in performance some versions ago.
View ArticleRe: Vmware creates runs a hidden HTTPS demon on my machine.. How to disable?
bump. Vmware actually opens a wealth of ports on my machine after further investigation... I cant even see these ports without using an elevated query. tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:902 0.0.0.0:*...
View ArticleRe: VDP 6.1 Fall back to non-quiesced backup if quiescence fails
Very disappointed to discover this bug is still in place on the most recent release. If you leave the box checked, which is the default, it will NOT fall back to a non-quiesced snapshot and the backup...
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How do I fetch the value of active client from vSphere SDK
The command (esxcli call) shown in the picture above lists all portgroups and associated vswitch info for an ESX host system. I am wondering how I would obtain value for "Active Client" in the list...
View ArticleRe: USB or Local HDD for new server running ESXi 5.5 Update 3 ?
Hi, Many thanks for your advice. I will make use of the USB as boot device. Is there any blog / KB article mentions the configuration of scratch partition ? Thanks again
View ArticleRe: Prevent Player for Linux from closing
I didn't post looking for opinions about whether everyone else agrees with me. I asked if it's possible, and if so, how. Just because you don't see any need to power a VM off, change it's config, and...
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