Re: vCloud Director 5.1 Install OS Question
there is nothing stopping you from installing on CentOS. During the installation you will be told that you are using an unsupported OS. Any issues that would arise from the use of CentOS instead of...
View ArticleRe: auto logout of profile after guest shutdown?
You could ssh from Guest to Host and run then a Script that uses vmrun to shutdown/suspend the Virtual Machine then close VMware Fusion and log out. If this was Windows to Windows it's easy to script...
View ArticleRe: pull out info on who remove vm from inventory
For the Get-VIEvent cmdlt there is a MaxSamples options. In the one liners that LucD references they are set to 10000. You can use the following to pull and maximum possible events from your vCenter....
View ArticlevCloud Director Edge Gateway
Hi all, Does "vCloud Director Edge Gateway," "vShield Edge" or "Edge virtual appliance" all refer to same thing? Is there any VMware documents that discuss about this? Thanks!
View ArticleSMBIOS.reflectHost not working
Hello all, I have VMware workstation 9 running on OpenSuse 12.3. I built a VM and loaded Windows 7 in it. I did not initially have "SMBIOS.reflectHost = TRUE" in the vmx file, so WMware of course...
View ArticleRe: Reading / Writing to Network Shares using vCO
Thank you for the help... I seem to have made progress following your instructions verbatim, but I am having the oddest issue at the moment... I can read and write to "a" file I specified...
View ArticleRe: ESX / DATASTORE details in inventory list.
Hello- Good to hear. As for the NumCPU property: that seems to be the number of CPU cores in the VMHost. For example, a VMHost with two (2) 4-core processors should show "8" for its NumCPU property....
View ArticleVmWare Client not going full screen on second monitor
Hi, I have a dual screen setup on my PC which I connect to my ESXi 5.1 server using the vmware client. The client will go full screen happily on my primary monitor, but if I try it on my second monitor...
View ArticleRe: Script to output WWN Datacenter Cluster Host
Rob, You can try the following code. It should be a pretty good starter point at the very least. I don't have a FC HBA in my home lab to work out any kinks with the WWN info so that'll have to wait...
View ArticleChange VC VDP is registered with
Hi I am in the process of rebuilding my VC.... my old one is working like a dog, after being fixed by VMWare support. Had issues installing client certificates ... Anyway.. I go to re register the VDP...
View ArticleTrick external media player to work with media manager on xp vm on vista host???
I have a Prismiq player set top box that I can hook up to my network card on my physical vista computer. the media manager software isn't compatible with vista so I have to run on XP. I set up XP on...
View ArticleKnowledge Base Understanding virtual machine snapshots in VMware ESXi and ESX...
Would be nice to have someone who actually doesn't sound totally bored when she's reading the slides out. So bored she gets to a point where she just starts to rush through what she's saying and...
View ArticleRe: How to Set Node's Hostname with REST APIs?
It's a known issue - you'll get that error when a node is empty. We are really sorry for the inconvenience. Workaround is to have at-least one node component in the node. Thanks RagsThis posting is...
View ArticleHow does MO ID value get generated ?
Hi, I'd like to know if MO ID value get never changed once assigned. I think using the MO ID value like "vm-88" can help me to identify a certain virtual machine in the environment.But of cource there...
View ArticleRe: Reading / Writing to Network Shares using vCO
If i were to allow a full directory instead of a file, do I just type in: +r \\192.168.10.120\Shares\Update: Added some debugging lines... perhaps someone who sees this can find something I didn't.......
View ArticleRe: Best design for using 8 physical NICs on an ESXi 5.1 host
Yes. That is the layout I was thinking of. The reason we use two vMotion vmkernels is that this allows 2Gb of vMotion traffic throughput in total. If we only had one vMotion vmkernel then we would only...
View ArticleRe: vCD VM Thumbnail ICON Update - When
vCloud is v5.12 xxxxxESXi is v5.1? as vCenter is v5.1.0 799731 vCD is using Redhat6 x64 server
View ArticleYou know, please information about BitLocker
Hello I believe thattrying tooperateto create aCVDinWindows7. Where thePChas failed, restore the Disaster RecoveryIwasrestoredin the state thatBitLockeris disabled. Thisbehaviororwill thenormal? Also,...
View ArticleRe: vCloud Director 5.1 Install OS Question
Well, I thought that to be the case but worth confirmation. Thanks
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