Upgrade Vsphere 4 to 5
Currently we have Vsphere 4.x ESX essentials (2 cpu license).I asked my reseller what license I should need if I want to upgrade to Vsphere 5.x I got the following: VMware vSphere 5 Essentials for 1...
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Problem solved. This is rather embarrassing. I was logged in in the host system as a standard user. When I ran Workstation9 from the administrator account, it prompted immidiately after powering on...
View ArticleRe: Getting smashed on vCenter 5.1 SSO Install
OK well I spent about 6 hours banging my head against this, couldn't connect to the SQL server. It ended up being this: When you install SQL 2008 R2 with a named instance (not the default instance...
View ArticleRe: SSH to Esxi access and Lockdown mode
While you may have SSH access disabled, remote vCLI access and PowerCLI access is still possible unless lockdown mode is enabled. If you enable lockdown mode, all remote management of the ESXi hosts...
View Article56 vapp SCOM adapter
Anyone using the SCOM (2k7) adapter? Cant get to the default port 1433 shown as default port.Also need to understand terms: database host which is clustered so which name is this.... server name or...
View ArticleRe: View 5.1.1 Login Latency Issue
I recieved an email from the customer and that they have decreased the linked clones down to under 128 per LUN and they still have 60 sec logins during non-peak times and about 2 minutes around peak...
View ArticleRe: Problem: Ubuntu 12.10 guest on WS 9.0.2 on Win 7 x64 host
Martin Felker wrote: 2) On aa Windows host i fyou sspecify the Guest OS as Ubuntu it will take you through a long llsi screens in which it displays what lit thinks are the defaults you should use....
View ArticleRe: SSO - Single Sign On server separate or all in one?
IMHO, for VDI you can consider both a dedicated cluster and maybe also a dedicated vCenter Server.Considering that HCL is more strictly (between VMware components) you can manage separated from the...
View ArticleRe: Problem: Ubuntu 12.10 guest on WS 9.0.2 on Win 7 x64 host
I would say that I am disappointed that my original post is 6 days old and I've still gotten no response from any VMware official, or any pointer to official VMware info on this subject. But, to be...
View ArticleRe: USB Headset and Sound
What's interesting, I cannot get my Guest to even recognize my headset if plugged into a USB 3.0 port, though it's regonized on my Host. It's probably the drivers in my Guest OS, which the link you...
View ArticleRe: How many paths?
Its extremely dependent on the nature of your storage array and on how your networking is done. We'd need that information to give a reasonable guess. A bare minimum would be 4 in this configuration,...
View ArticleRe: ESX servers and Memory Types
LPhilippe06 wrote: I want to use 2 IBM servers as esxi hosts in a cluster: CPU - 2 x 2.53 Ghz Quad-core Xeon - E5630 it supports 1066 MHz RDIMMS CPU – 2 x 2.60 Ghz Xeon 8-Core Xeon E5 it supports 1600...
View ArticleRe: Problem: Ubuntu 12.10 guest on WS 9.0.2 on Win 7 x64 host
Thank you, mfelker and Matthias for your posts.
View ArticleRe: Upgrade Vsphere 4 to 5
Essentials as well as Essentials Plus is only sold in Kits, where each Kit includes one license for vCenter Server for Essentials as well as 6 CPU licenses (for up to 3 hosts with 2 CPUs each. Btw. if...
View ArticleRe: Setting up backup network - What type of port Group
If you wanna isolate network then you better do vSwitch/port group for your virtual host and vCenter physical host connect to this same network via a second NIC. Thay might be best practice.
View Articledatastore getting disconnected
ESXi overtime lost access to files in datastores. It never happened all at once It started with 1 datasore and slowly affected more and more. All other esx serveres were unaffected. The datastore did...
View ArticleThinApp Script Recursive-DFS error
I have been using the recursivereg script for a while and it works pretty good. I know what to take my thinapp directory and put into a DFS replication environment. The issue I have is when I turn on...
View ArticleGemfire unresponsive in test environment
Our company is running two separate networks internally for company operations; one network is for testing and the other is for production. The production network has access to the the public internet...
View ArticleRe: How many paths?
Yes, the iSCSI target. I guess I'm looking for a general answer to figure it out in the future. But I'm happy to answer any other questions to make it more specific. Let's say it's an EMC VNX....
View ArticleRe: Выбираем систему хранения
Без обид, Антон, но было бы смешно увидеть от тебя предложение IBM Storwize v3000 или HP 3PAR
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