VMware - Citrix XenApp 6.5 clone - How to?
Hi I am planning to install my Citrix XA6.5 farm on VI5. Does anyone have a a guide on how to deploy the Citrix application servers? I have created the farm and I am working from the second server and...
View ArticleMAC Pro Raid Card
Hit there, just wanne know if there are any plans in supporting the Mac Pro Raid Card in ESXI 5.
View ArticleiSCSI Storage lost after NICs replaced
Can anyone help with this dilemma.We have 3 identical HP 5.1 ESXi hosts with onboard Broadcom NICs connected via iSCSI to a shared iSCSI storage.All was working fine until system board failure on Host1...
View Articlebusybox Source Code available?
Could someone please provide a link to the VMware busybox source, if it's available? Thanks.
View ArticleSlow NFS DataStore Performance
With ESX 5.1U1, I’m observing slow I/O performance from VMs on NFS database exported from NAS Storage system. With 512KB Sequential Write workload within the VM on a NFS Datastore provides...
View ArticleMajor Snapshot trouble!
Okay, So for some reason in one of my very important VM's I've ended up with 5-9 snapshots on every disk and I cannot get rid of them. I think Veeam is to blame for this but I don't know what to do to...
View ArticleNFS Datastore unavailable
Hey all, I'm trying to find out why when the server running our NFS data store goes through a reboot or goes unavailable for any reason our ESX host data store disconnect and will never reconnect. The...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 install - Boot Drive vs Boot from RAID
Hello, Specs: Dell T420- PERC H710 R5 (4 - 1TB SATA drives)- ESXi 5.1 images on embedded 1GB SD card My main question:I was wondering if it is best that I should add a separate non-raid hard drive to...
View Articleiperf results for Windows 7_X64 much slower than Server 2008_X64
I have a situation with several Windows 7 VMs which are observably under-performing with their network issues. They are all X64 with plenty of RAM and CPU and the vmxnet3 driver. And I know iperf is...
View ArticleESXi 5 esxcli installation of VIBs fails
Well to tell you the thruth it doesnt even start..... I`m trying to install 1000v VIB via CLI directly on the host via SSH. Here is what I get [CODE] esxcli software vib install...
View ArticleISCSI on ESXi 5
Hi I am new to VMWare and learning it now. I have a set a lab in my laptop. Host machine lenovo t410 running on ubuntu 13.04. I have installed ESX on work station 9. Shared the ISCSI tragets from host...
View ArticleConvert/Clone Fat Provisioned disk with snapshots to Thin Provisioned disks
First of is this even possible? I would like to Convert Fat Provisioned disk with snapshots to Thin Provisioned disks. We are running low on disk space on a our data store. I should have made all...
View ArticleIntegrating Dell Workspace with VCSA
Attempting to integrate the Dell vWorkspace suite with the vCSA product but it would appear that there is no /sdk link when browsing. I see the /mod link and can login and browse, how do I get to or...
View ArticleCannot SSH into host with right password for root or other accounts
I've banged my head on this one for several hours. No matter what, I cannot SSH from any other machines on the same local network using the root password or any other new users I've created. This is...
View ArticleHelp with preventing and/or handling ghosted NICs when cloning
I am deploying vms to remote sites using OVA's instead of templates since they are compressed this way. I am looking for a way to prevent ghosted NICs or to deal with ghosted nics. We have to deploy...
View ArticlevCenter Single Sign On master password
Hi guys i do not remember admin@system-domain password i wondring how to reset admin's account password i tried to reset password by rsautil command line but i dont remember master password. Anyway to...
View ArticleVM´s disconected from Network
Hi,we have an issue that seems to apear randomly on different host but it is not reproducible.Today, i rebooted a host because of changes that the netapp VSC does on my host.After that, i move my vm´s...
View ArticleUnable to power on VM with two VMDKs
Hi All, I am using esxi 5.0, one of the vm not powering on due to no space in datastore and also error showed in summary page of vcenter "virtual machine disks consolidation needed". I tried to...
View ArticleHow to group VM's in ESXi ?
I use the free ESXi and I want to be able to group my VM's in folders in the vsphere client (pure cosmetically) I've been using resource pools but that is not a good solution. So what do I need to do ?...
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Bizarre CMD/sec in esxtop far exceed physical disk boundary.
Hi, All I'm testing VDI performance on ESXi 5.1. The machine is IBM X3650 M4, which has two 8 core CPU with 8 disks (15k rpm SAS) in RAID 5. I used esxtop to collect IOPS statistics. When I...
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