Re: Virtual Machine redundancy
thanks. yeah...im confused by the trunk as well. I am not sure why it was done. I plan to desolve one going to one of my hosts to see if there is any reason not to just desolve them all and run with 2...
View ArticleRe: syslogs and logs in vsphere 5.1
Thank you. There are some good information in the link. As I read and understand there are a few kind of logs in vSphere:1) syslogs for hosts2) logs ferom vCenter server components on ESi 5.1...
View ArticleRe: successful upgrade instructions for vCenter 4.1 to vCenter 5.0 using sql...
Hi,I'm not sure if it supports the 64bit SQL Express. Check the vSphere 5.1 upgrade guide, it contains details on what versions of SQL are compatible/supported with vCenter 5.1. If you want to use a 64...
View ArticleRe: syslogs and logs in vsphere 5.1
No, vpxa.log and fdm.log are located on the ESXi host. You can find more information about log files at VMware KB: Location of ESXi 5.0 log files André
View ArticleRe: Catch 22, win2000 Guest and VM-Tools
HarryAB wrote: In frustration I just burned a bunch of utilities to a CD and then used that as the transfer medium. It did not need an ISO as the Player could see the CD drive and I was able to then...
View ArticleRe: hgfs file corruption when using different file handles to the same file...
Please reread your own comment.I was replying to your incorrect comment and conclusion. I am not starting any flame war, but giving you an honest update and asking you questions why you arrived at the...
View ArticleRe: Couldn't deploy vSphere Replication OVF
I was logged onto the vcenter serverusing the client and connecting to the server and deploy through there
View ArticleDo you like the web vShpere admin client better than the old C# client?
I know the new web client works on any platform, etc. and I have downloaded the new web apps, because of the plug-in failures, but do you guys really like the new web client better than the old C#...
View ArticleRe: hgfs file corruption when using different file handles to the same file...
Steve, I arrived at my conclusions based on the two-month delay between the reporting of a data corruption bug and your following response:I am the developer for the Shared Folders feature, and I have...
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Re: Couldn't deploy vSphere Replication OVF
error during install was as followswhen I try deployment through web client, it gets stuck at selecting storage cURL error: Couldn't connect to server my server is 2008 R2, opening the web client...
View ArticleRe: Catch 22, win2000 Guest and VM-Tools
Jumper in there a little too fast I suspect Woody. I have no way of adding anything to the win2000.iso so I could not add the Rollup to it. The ONLY way I could do it was to burn the Rollup to a CD...
View ArticleProgrammatically assigning IP information to VMs using vSphere APIs??
I see that this can be done with a customization spec. However, this means adding a good deal of other information about the system using Sysprep. I do not want to change the VMs added by other people...
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Re: Player, win8 and Truecrypt questions?
André, Absolutely correct. Had I waited I would have seen that the VMDK Files is now 47G in size from the original 12G. No matter, as it is on a dedicated USB-3 connected SSD and still plenty left for...
View ArticleRe: syslogs and logs in vsphere 5.1
We set up syslog collector to collect logs but only syslogs. How to collect other logs such as vcenter server logs? Where is it located of vcenter servers logs?
View ArticleRe: syslogs and logs in vsphere 5.1
syslog s are supposed to including logs of all vmware servers including vcenter server?
View ArticleRe: Help ! Datastore space issue??
Spartacus, snapshot manager IS installed by default and it's not unusual to see a person creating a snapshot on day one (as I've said above) - so once again, please check your snapshot manager. If you...
View ArticleRe: vCloud Director 5.1 prepare host failed
I called VMware support and through esxtop, we can see there are some abnormal high number for DVG/cmd on the USB driver. Possibly something wrong with the local embedded USB disk. I am going to retry...
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Re: Script to export Alarms from VCenter to analyze.
Hi James, Glad it helped Please select my comment as answered then people can use it! -S
View ArticleRe: Help ! Datastore space issue??
Josh26 I went into windows and shrunk the 800gb partition from 200gb then exited out of this and powered off the vm and did a rescan of all datastores and my problem was gone along with my spaced...
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