Re: Best design for using 8 physical NICs on an ESXi 5.1 host
With 8 NIC's I would do something like this. standard virtual switch 2 nics Mgmt active/standbyvMotion Standby/active your fun starts with the splitting of the remaining 6 nics depending on production...
View ArticleRe: Recovering a lost partition on VMFS-5 volume with GPT
No, I just moved to different machines or used using live CD to recover VMFS partitions but never done any changes...
View ArticleRe: VMware Distributed switch / Hide Network Label / Port Group?
This is one of the reasons that I still use vSS for Management and vMotion and iSCSI/NFS etc and just use vDS for production VM traffic.
View ArticleRe: VMware Distributed switch / Hide Network Label / Port Group?
Exactly. That's usually my preference as well. But it's harder in a 10GbE environment to segment the traffic like that because we usually only have 2-4 uplinks.
View ArticleRe: Console de Sphere en negro
Me contesto yo mismo perdonad.Tenia el firewall de Windows habilitado...
View ArticleRe: Failed VCP5 exam today :(
That book is a very good resource for the VCP exam. just concentrate on your weaker areas, and practice in your lab. now you understand the format of the exam that also helps as it is another worry...
View ArticleRe: Create a VM directory tree in vCenter (with folder exists check)
Hi,your code looks quite fine, and I can reproduce that it runs fine if no folder exists. I get the same error when the folder exists. in your buildFolderTree() function you have to return the folder...
View ArticleRe: What is wrong with my infrastructure ?
when you converted the servers did you run post migration clean up processes? things like clearing our shadow devices etc
View ArticleRe: Storage sensor is disappear in vCenter Client - Hardware Status tab
It solved my problem.Thank you very much.
View ArticleRe: Failed VCP5 exam today :(
Thanks guys. I read the new blue print v2.8 didn't notice anything new from 2.7.I understand these exams are hard for a reason though. They give you a run for their money for sure.I will do my homework...
View ArticleRe: VMware Distributed switch / Hide Network Label / Port Group?
this is where orchestration starts to come into its own, as these issues of human intervention can be circumvented by proper workflow. But I agree that 10GBe and higher is bringing new design...
View ArticleRe: vCenter DR Situation!
notesguru99 wrote: I am replicating the LUNs at the SAN level not vmware. The replication task 'locks' SAN 2 so that it does not present the iSCSI conenctions to the mirrored volumes whilst it is in...
View ArticleRe: What is wrong with my infrastructure ?
I wouldn't P2V a database server personally. I know that you can do it and I know it can be successful, but I'd rather build a new server and migrate the databases to it manually. This will typically...
View ArticleReset a blade or a down virtual server on a blade?
Hi folks - I need help. I'm a second year IT student who took a job as a support tech, mostly outfitting new machines for deployment, end-user support, printer help etc. A couple weeks ago, my (former)...
View ArticleRe: VPN from View Desktop
Not sure what you mean by "Glorified RDP", all remoting protocols that I know of behave roughly the same and need network access.So to answer your question, no. // Linjo
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Re: What is wrong with my infrastructure ?
agreed, but a amalgam of both usually works. whenever I am P2V'ing a DB or Exchange server (read any server with heavy datachange) I get a migration window where I can stop all necessary services. This...
View ArticleProblems with disk array in ESXi 5.1 U1(performance has improved)
HI all, I have installed an ESXi 5.1 U1 build 1117900 host in a HP ProLiant ML350 G6 with an integrated SmartArray P410i (configured with 3 local SATA disks as a RAID5). This storage controller has...
View ArticleRe: VCD Guest Customization fail to complete before vmtools reboots Server
Regrettably we don't log version number. I just see that there is much less logging - this is how I know. As I mentioned before, it's is safe to move out old packages and let VCD regenerated them....
View ArticleRe: VMRC Console black screen
Has someone an other idea ? I searching for about 4 days to fix that problem :-(
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Re: What is wrong with my infrastructure ?
it is not only the P2V machine. we also created brandnew machines on the infrastructure to build a test environment.we only converted the production servers through the vm ware converter.the...
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