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Re: full screen menu stuck
I've not seen the big black bars at top and bottom for a few days now, but as an extra treat here's a new one I just bumped into. After using a few VMs on this macbook pro today I now had one freeBSD,...
View ArticleIs this project dead?
I haven't seen any updates and a few people posted that the app will not work with vCloud 5.1. It's been a year since vcd 5.1 was announced and the app still doesn't work with 5.1. Has vmware killed...
View ArticleUpdating an existing layer - "layer ID# already exists"
I updated one of my app layers, and chose to select "Update an existing layer" and selected "a minor version". Then I realized that I missed one app that needed to be updated, so I deleted that...
View ArticleRe: Problem with "no available vRAM capacity" ESX5
The vRAM entitlement was introduced with vSphere 5.0, but eliminated some time later. If you are still running an early version of vCenter Server 5.0 you may still be affected. To resolve this you'll...
View ArticleCannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes
Hi ! I'm installing Oracle Rac 110gR2 on Oracle Linux 6 update 4 on VMWare.I created one VM Rac01 server and cloned it to VM Rac02 and created share disk for CRSand voting disk.After edited...
View ArticleUpgrade 3.5 to ESXI 5.0
Yes I know 3.5 is ancient.. for this reason we are finally migrating some old servers.. We have some 3.5 that managed to run all this time remarkably.. We are now upgrading all servers to 5.0. I tried...
View ArticleRe: VMDK Ran Out Of Space - All Other VMDK Drive Shares Become Inaccessible -...
Are you working with thin provisioned virtual disks? In case a thin provisioned virtual disks cannot be increased due to disk space issues on the datastore, ESXi will pause the VM to avoid guest OS...
View ArticleAny options for 2 vCenters?
Is there any option for using one update manager with 2 separate vcenter instances? It seems illogical to create a separate update manager for each vcenter since they will be distributing the same...
View ArticleRe: Unable to run vbscripts during pre/post/un stages
Is there anything in the agent folder logs that suggest any issues? Remote-ExecutionPolicy changed from Restricted to RemoteSigned or Unrestricted on the server running the VBScript agent?
View ArticleRe: local storage vmfs on megaraid, stripe size for best performance
It doesn't matter to ESXi - it matters to your guest OS IO patterns. Those are what should dictate.... But even then, with the exception of synthetic benchmarks, it rarely makes much of a difference.
View ArticleRe: Dynamic Disk Across VMFS-3 and VMFS-5 Volumes
JohnDadesky wrote: Would their be any potential side effects from a dynamic disk spanning drives running on different versions of VMFS?Not for Windows, but if you have a mix of ESX 4 and 5 that could...
View ArticleRe: Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes
Afaik sharing virtual disks is only supported with Microsoft Clusters, which are shared-nothing clusters. I'm not sure how Oracle handles shared disks and whether this will work. You may wan to take a...
View Articlelooking for a report as below
Greeting, I am looking for a report: 1. Information for ASSIGNED number of vCPUs to VM.2. Information for ASSIGNED Memory to VM.3. Information for hours for vm ON vs OFF hours4. Information for...
View ArticleRe: Failed SSH Check
patched to latest edition. start a new run, it stop, I can not find anything in the results folder, what is wrong? thanksnewbie File in c:\vmmark2\tmp\ VMmarkMSG-warnings VMmark Msg::Message TimeOut :...
View ArticleRe: local storage vmfs on megaraid, stripe size for best performance
wouldn't it make sense, the more vm's, the larger the stripe would need to be for performance? I just don't understand the vmfs layer, especially with changes in vmfs5. I would think the more disk...
View ArticleRe: Any options for 2 vCenters?
I suspected someone would say that. Seems like a waste resources but I guess thats the direction for VMs, why build one when you can build 2, patch 2, etc... Thanks for the help!
View ArticleRe: VMDK Ran Out Of Space - All Other VMDK Drive Shares Become Inaccessible -...
Hi Andre, We are using thin provisioning at both the ESX and SAN level. I think you are right in that this must have been what occurred. Obviously thick provisioning the average volume really isn't an...
View ArticleRe: VUM Plugin 5.1.0 service is unavailable
Unfortunately no. Support is working on the problem.
View ArticleRe: Upgrade 3.5 to ESXI 5.0
Hi, It is not possible to upgrade directly from 3.5 to 5.0, you have to do an upgrade to 4.x and then 5.0, But unfortunately 4.x has reached the End of Availability and End of Support Life as of August...
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