Re: New !! Open unofficial storage performance thread
Yes, it should be set to 8800 bytes. I have it set now and the benchmark is cooking away.
View ArticleVirtual machines residing on NFS storage become unresponsive during a...
I recently encountered a situation seeming to match that described in KB 2010953, Virtual machines residing on NFS storage become unresponsive during a snapshot removal operation. Have any of you seen...
View ArticleDetect on which ESXi version a VM is running from the guest
Hi all,I'm working on Windows automatic installation in our datacenters. I would like to automate the installation of the right version of vmware tools according the vSphere version of ESXi host.We...
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Re: How to Prevent VmWare Player from disabling Shared Folders when moving VMs
I am facing same problems but no get the solutions. Vm are copies form other machine. .
View ArticleRe: How to install the view agent on windows image and upload to connection...
perhaps a refresh or timing issue?
View Article2 Days of performance data / Logs missing
In our lab we have a stand alone VM ESX 5.1 environment. I went to look at some historical Performance Data I saw blank spaces in the graphs. I can not figure out how this would have happened. - Any...
View ArticleChange datastore - insufficient disk space on datastore
Hi everybody, I have a problem with changing store for my VM. My configuration is : - two dell servers ( ESX1 and ESX2) with ESXi 4.1 HA ( cluster )- dell MD3200i ( ISCSI ) storage with 17,6 Tb of...
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Re: What network throughput is possible with WS9 + 10GbE?
Do you bandwidth manager ? liek CBQ ?If you wanna test bandwidth then you have to download multiple thread the testing pc. Single thread may be not use total allocates bandwidth.
View ArticleSafely Removing Replicas from Datastore in vSphere
My appologies if this has been answered multiple times before, but didn't see an answer to my exact question when searching. I'm trying to clear up the datastores and it appears to me that if there is...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.1.0 crashes under heavy network load
I'll give that a try. Someone also suggested I completely disable power management. I also tried running just the VM that's been crashing the host. I ran a command that's been doing it (Freebsd's...
View ArticleRe: Script to Remove HDDs other than HDD1 from VM and re-add it back.
On new-harddisk why are you specifying the actual disk path? Why not specify just the datastore? Try this to get the datastore name and put it on the same datastore: $HDDfile = Get-HardDisk -VM...
View ArticleRe: New !! Open unofficial storage performance thread
Here's the results with bytes 8800 policy set, no significant difference. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++TABLE OF...
View ArticleRe: View PowerCLI no longer working
uninstall and reinstall didnt help. Here is the output PS C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\bin> $Error[0].Exception | Select-Object -Property *Message : Object reference not set to...
View ArticleRe: Issue with combo of VMWare Workstation, .vhd virtual drives, and 4K...
Yeah, I had already read that. 4k drives seem to work OK for storage, but anything virtualization falls apart. Microsoft's tools to create or mount VHDs don't work. Microsoft's backup and defrag...
View ArticleEdit VMware Connection Server Settings
Hello, I have a VMware View 5.0 and I am experiencing an issue with our internal web proxy that has been recently in place. We are using a wpad.dat file for our machines to automatically detect our...
View ArticleDeploying, customizing, and modifying VMs from a csv file
Hello, With a lot of help from Eco91 I have produced the script below. It deploys a series of VMs at the same time, waits for them to boot and perfom an OS Customization, then changes basic networking...
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Re: new vSAN feature -- which versions will get it??
StarWind is not a VSA on a Hyper-V. It does not run inside guest virtual machine rather it runs directly on top of a hypervisor turning DAS into high performance and fault tolerant SAN.So it's already...
View ArticleRe: How to install the view agent on windows image and upload to connection...
I waited 30 minutes and also hit the refresh button several times but nothing happened.So i placed it in the folder called "discovered virtual machine" that was there.i hope that does not mess things...
View ArticleRe: Change datastore - insufficient disk space on datastore
I'm not sure whether I understood the issue correctly. However, what I could think of is that the target datastore may not have been created with the required block size (8MB for virtual disks of up to...
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