How to split vCenter components?
We're starting clean in a new environment with vCenter 5.1 (u1 b), and trying to agree on a design (and sizing). All servers will be VMs on HP blades. vCenter will manage about 50 hosts and 800 VMs...
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One feature I find particularly useful is the "Lossless" export for vApp templates. This preserves the personality of all of the VMs (UUIDs, MAC addresses, etc.). It is less portable than a "regular"...
View ArticleRe: Displayed "Provisioned Storage:"
Hmmmm....The table "VPX_GUEST_DISK" also has iSCSI mount points. Anyone know how to just get the values of the provisioned size vmdk values? Thanks
View ArticleRe: How to split vCenter components?
50 hosts and 800 VM is not that large of environment - why not simplify things pit vCenter on a single VM and protect with HA?
View ArticleRe: Displayed "Provisioned Storage:"
SELECT VPX_GUEST_DISK.VM_ID, VPX_GUEST_DISK.PATH, VPX_GUEST_DISK.CAPACITY, CONVERT(bigint, VPX_GUEST_DISK.CAPACITY) / 1048576 AS 'Capacity_MB', VPX_GUEST_DISK.FREE_SPACE,...
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If I change my divisor value 1048576 that converts from Byte to MB, and use the conversion straight to GB using 1073741824 then I get the correct SUM if I just total the known vmdk values. Problem is,...
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This link might be helpful Provisioned Storage, Non-Shared Storage & Used Storage in VMware ~ VMware Arena
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Avinash21 that is helpfuland COS is in the right table
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View ArticleRe: orchestrator client workflow execution log erased
This is because you closed the client. The system.logs are sent from the server to the client. If you close the client the logs are not sent.If you want to persist the logs use Server.log. This will...
View ArticleRe: Best physical setup for VSA 3 hosts and 2 switches
You should link the switches . Also you can set the routes to take the path always from switch 2 .
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I installed 5.1u1 powercli. It was a straight install without any options to add VIX.
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Hi, Thanks for attaching your results. It's good that VMmark is running, but there are still things that will need to be fixed here. Here are some things to look at: 1. It looks like the DVDstore...
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View ArticleRe: What privileges are needed to start Update Manager
Hi stratolynne , Welcome to the communites. have you checked below kb ? http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&externalId=1007294 "concentrate the mind on the...
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