Re: USB passthrough on ESXi 5 to Windows 2008 VM machines
No I haven't tried that yet. Unfortunately, this datacenter is located in another location, so trying another USB device is a little hard right now. I installed the current device earlier this week...
View ArticleRe: vCenter Server is not working After p2v
I belive the KB 1006369 also applies to SQL.. Try to restart the DB services and bring up the vCenter service and see if it start fine.. Make sure you have the VUM serives before you perform the task
View ArticleRe: Ballooning Memory
Hi Frank, Yes, whatever you are saying is right because it will try to reclaim Free pages first then idle pages. but then active pages too if there is a very high contention. Am i right or not?...
View ArticleRe: USB passthrough on ESXi 5 to Windows 2008 VM machines
Well, VMware can be picky when it comes to supported USB devices, not saying yours doesn't work, but to be sure you should try to test with some other USB device. More info:...
View ArticleRe: Unable to retireve DHCP based IP as guest on ESXi 5.1
I have see this issue before if your physical switch is not configured to use DHCP. I am not sure what exactly was done on switch but after ny network engineer enable some setting related to DHCP it...
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Re: Unable to retireve DHCP based IP as guest on ESXi 5.1
Dear all thanks for your answers,Here are some more details about our net. I have a managed switched in my office and all PC's and all my linux workstation are working find with dhcp.So my Switch is...
View ArticleHow to tell if BBWC is installed and working
I've acquired a new ESX environment with a job change, trying to wrap my head around what was done in the past so have a question re: BBWC...vCenter 5.0Host consists of one 3.5, most are 4.1 and some...
View ArticleGuestAppMonitor SDK API in vmware tools in vSphere 5.1
How to test this inGuestAppMonitor SDK API in vmware tools in vSphere 5.1 VM?
View ArticleRe: Ballooning Memory
Hi , If you need indepth information,please do read the article :http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/perf-vsphere-memory_management.pdf Regard'sSree
View ArticleRe: Unable to retireve DHCP based IP as guest on ESXi 5.1
Can your VM ping the DHCP server and connect to port 53 over telnet?
View ArticleRe: 2008 R2 (Auto) WDDM Video Driver update
That script works fine. However! Isn't there a way for the vmtools to install this driver by default
View ArticleRe: 2008 R2 (Auto) WDDM Video Driver update
I dont think so, since vmtools is updated by the iso present in the ESX. One way to update the guest's specific driver is by configuring the update manager to choose the updates for the operating...
View ArticleRe: How to tell if BBWC is installed and working
I believe esxcli storage nmp device list would list about the bbwc in 5.0. In 4.0 or 4.x, installing the management agents should display about the drive controllers in health summary....
View ArticleRe: MSCS, NLB, VmWare vSphere 5 with iSCSI SAN
Did you end up going with the MSCS option with the in-guest MS iSCSI Iniator? I'm just looking at depoying this same setup, wondering how it went?
View ArticleRe: USB passthrough on ESXi 5 to Windows 2008 VM machines
One possible reason might be usb arbitrator. Make sure it is running from this link Also, just to confirm, give lsusb to confirm that the usb device is properly detected. You can also give vmkchkdev -l...
View ArticleCmd line to add ports to a vSwitch on ESXi 5.1
Hi, is there a cmd line to add ports to the existing vSwitch ? I am trying to use a kickstart script and I would first like to add the switch and later add the ports, I don't want to create the ports...
View ArticleRe: how to crossover connect 2 multi-NIC ESXi 5 servers with static IPs?
Is it possible to connect two multi-NIC ESXi 5 servers together with a crossover cable? Yes. you can. I can't figure out how to set static IP addresses on the secondary NICs. Neither have I found a way...
View ArticleRe: Cmd line to add ports to a vSwitch on ESXi 5.1
vcpguy wrote: Hi, is there a cmd line to add ports to the existing vSwitch ? I am trying to use a kickstart script and I would first like to add the switch and later add the ports, I don't want to...
View ArticleRe: Cmd line to add ports to a vSwitch on ESXi 5.1
Ports on the port group. You have to use this cmd to add ports and vswitches - esxcli network vswitch standard add --ports 256 --vswitch-name vSwitch0 I don't need this, I want to modify the existing...
View ArticleRe: Cmd line to add ports to a vSwitch on ESXi 5.1
Okie dokie. I recollect changing the ports in vSwitch by vim-cmd hostsvc/net/vswitch <vswitchX> <No.of ports>. I dont exactly remember the command, since it had been a long time I used it...
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