Re: planning questions
Hi, Regarding your second question, the Multi-Hypervisor Manager can be used with vCenter Server version 5.1 and later. HTH,
View ArticleRe: SLOG VCP5 practice exams still helpful?
They are pretty old which makes me weary of relying on them too much.
View ArticleRe: vSphere Client for Server 2012
At the time, a way of installing the VSphere client was identified: "set the Compatibilty on it to Windows XP SP3 and set the priviledge level to run as administrator.". Only a partial fix as the...
View ArticleRe: Workstation VM backup using snapshots
Don't rely on backups with suspended VM's. I'd suggest you cleanly shut down the VM, copy/backup the VM's folder and then power on the VM again. This ensures a consistent backup which will work even...
View ArticleRe: VSphere5 SDK to manage guest throws GuestPermissionDenied error
No, I haven't heard anything about ESXi 5.1 yet.
View ArticleRe: INTEL Processor
Enable EVC on the cluster - it will force the presented stepping/revision to be the same for all hosts. Its a feature designed exactly for this scenario.
View ArticleRe: How will vCenter Protect handle KB2775511
Can you copy that link for me, and paste it here. I can not find it, only the jave link in the catalog.
View ArticleRe: Cannot connect directly to esxi hosts with vSphere, but can locally...
With physical console access and nothing else my next step would be a password change for root. Changing an ESX host root password
View ArticleRe: How will vCenter Protect handle KB2775511
It doesn't look like microsoft is providing the full URL to the update. When that happens, will vCenter support the update and if so how will it be treated?
View ArticleVi Perl crash with vCenter 5.1.0b
Hi, Our application calls the VI Perl sdk (version 5.0) to communicate with the vCenter 5.1.0b. What we observe is a crash in vpxd process, showing following stack trace: 0000000`11aadbe0...
View ArticleRe: HP custom ESXi 5.x image or VMware ESXi 5.x
Brian, Thanks, Two more questions: I can install ESXi straight from VMware and install the drivers separetely ?Will I download the drivers from vmware.com right ?
View ArticleRe: HP custom ESXi 5.x image or VMware ESXi 5.x
I can install ESXi straight from VMware and install the drivers separetely ?Yes, you can. Will I download the drivers from vmware.com right ?Yes - VMware offers drivers on the same site you downloaded...
View ArticleRe: HP custom ESXi 5.x image or VMware ESXi 5.x
It actually depends on which drivers are missing. If these are drivers required for the installation itself (e.g. NIC or RAID drivers) then you will need to either go with the HP image or create your...
View ArticleRe: Just completed the VCP 5.1 (VCP) bootcamp-now im at home and want to learn
Workstation includes Player, but the best way to decide might be to get the Workstation trial. Use it for the demo period, and then decide if you want all of the functionality it offers or if you can...
View ArticleRe: HP custom ESXi 5.x image or VMware ESXi 5.x
It actually depends on which drivers are missing. http://www.v-front.de/p/esxi-customizer.htmlVery good point André!
View ArticleRe: Storage Questions for Vmotion
So basically I could just use the local storage on the two host and vmotion could work? What are the size requirements in order for it to work? If each server had 2 tb HD's then I could only have 1tb...
View ArticleRe: iSCSI configuration lost after reboot
Yes, I removed them but they appeared back. Anyway, I decided to do clean install and it's working fine now.Thanks for replies !
View ArticleGhost Image won't load when installed to a VM
We have a bootable ghost image that we are trying to load into a newly created virtual machine on a datastore on our ESXi host. I created a new VM with Win7 64 bit as the OS. Once I started the VM, I...
View ArticleError 3946 (Disk Open Failed) on VMware Data Recovery jobs
We currently backup VMs accross three different clusters using multiple VMware Data Recovery appliances. Without much warning, we've begun to have problems with one of the hosts. That host was...
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