Re: Zombie VMDK issues.
Interesting. Sorry I overlooked your comments on Veeam. and SDRS. Next time you find orphaned VMDKs, can you share info on their file names and sizes? The file names are different for snapshot VMDK...
View ArticleRe: Horizon View Administrator and Untrusted Certificate
How will you get a non self signed cert if you don't have a CA or want to buy one? // Linjo
View ArticleRe: Host VM files on ESXi drive?
Yes, you can use the local storage in the ESXi host to store your VM's. Once you have everything setup, you would just select the local storage as your storage resource when you create your VM's.
View ArticleRe: While migrate the one datastore to another datastore in same blade it...
Hi Sheikfareeth, are you referring to a storage vMotion operation? Can you provide a few more details?
View ArticleRe: Expanding Memory in Ubuntu
Expanding the Partition/Volume/FileSystem in a Virtual Hard Disk is essentially no different then doing so on a Physical Hard Drive so act accordingly. It will also depend on the FileSystem you...
View ArticleRe: Turning off debug option - in Linux
What about "business as usual" ? In the past turning off debugging by setting an option never worked.So we had to swap the name of the binaries - same story on Linux as on Windows. Create a backup of...
View ArticleWhat is the best way to restore VMs after a server refresh
Hello all, First time poster here. A group of people at my job have their own VMWare environment that they setup a while back. It has 3 VMs up and running on it and they want to bring up a fourth one....
View Articledatastore name still exists after deleted
I deleted a datastore and rescanned all hosts and in vcenter the datastore is gone. but in powercli get-datacenter | get-datastore still shows the name there. Now whenever I try to add a new datastore...
View ArticleRe: Changing multi-path policy to fixed and nominating a preferred HBA
Hi Luc, Thanks very much!. This is on the right lines. I'll see if we can utilse it.
View ArticleRe: How to disable debug info gathering
Open the vmx-file in an editor and make sure that you disable "Thinprint" as Thinprint uses a serial port. In the previous versions sometimes Thinprint was a big performance killer - often the logs had...
View ArticleRe: NT4 shutdown UI problem still present
Newer guest OS have support for ACPI - NT 4 did not have support for ACPI. So shutting down a NT 4 VM while the VM uses virtual hardware of the latest versions will not work. If you really need a full...
View ArticleRe: Horizon View Administrator and Untrusted Certificate
That is my question. Do I have any options? Its not that I don't want to buy one I can't.
View ArticleRe: VMWare Player 5 Silent Install
The attached file "DoForEachUser.vbs.zip" file contains a sample script of how you could add this to your batch .cmd script to implement something for each Local User. I coded it to skip the...
View ArticleRe: Attempting to run VMs located on an external USB 3.0 HD crashes OS X.
FAT32 is the most compatible file system out there :-). But yeah, if you're on 10.8.3, then it definitely looks like it's the NTFS issue. You may experience issues going through the shared folders...
View ArticleRe: VMWare Player 5 Silent Install
You're welcome... also I modified the code so re-download the DoForEachUser.vbs.zip file. See Message was edited by: WoodyZ in the previous reply for reason.
View ArticleRe: Passed VCP5-DCV
Thanks - VCAP5-DCD looks good. One of my colleagues was send and tasked to write the VCDX5-DCV I believe and looking at the requirements is a helluva of a difference beast from the VCAP5-DCD. Now to...
View ArticleView contents of file on ESXi servers?
Anyone know how I would view the contents of a file on all the ESXi servers in our environment? Does Get-Content work with PowerCLI ? I searched and couldn't find a solution. I want to determine which...
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