esxi-5 AHA-29320LPE SCSI tape drive status Dead
This is a well known problem with ESXi-4, but I am not finding any information with v5. I have a new ESXi-5 server with an Adaptec AHA-29320LPE SCSI card and an HP Storageworks 1/8 tape loader with...
View ArticleRe: Best Practice to convert Physical to virtual
Dear MauroBonder, Thank you for your replay Kindly see my attachment that illustrat every physical server (OS , Network card , disk drive) information and i want to know how can i convert each server...
View ArticleRe: VCP on vSphere 4 Exam Questions VCP-410 by Eddie Vii?
The exam is copyrighted by VMware and it is illegal to copy the exam questionst - I would suggest contacting VMware and letting them know of that activity - I know VMware takes acts like these very...
View ArticleRe: Errors during VSM Configuration with oracle 11g
Is this a new install or an upgrade from a previous version?A new install will need the new system created with the upgrade.A patch will upgrade the difference fro mthe previous version. It may not...
View ArticleRe: Compatibility Mode
Thank you for the link. While I'm learning from the ground up how to script for ThinApp, Ill add as much information about the problem I'm having with the hope someone who has already mastered this...
View ArticleRe: VMware Workstation 8 can't install on 32-bit Windows?
That worked for me. Thank you so much!
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Re: More disk space needed: Fusion 4.1 Ubuntu 10.04 on Lion (newish MBP)
2. I downloaded GParted and burnt the iso to a CD. (I got gparted-live-0.11.0-7.iso.) When used with a Virtual Machine there is no good reason whatsoever to first burn the ISO Image to Physical Optical...
View Articleunable to obtain hardware information for the selected machine in latest...
I'm trying to create a dedicated user and or role used for cloning from my env to another.I would like to make a role, then be able to apply this role to any user/group against any VM that may want to...
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Re: Installing ESXi on 5.0 with Adaptec ASR-6405E Raid Card.
Yes adding this driver http://downloads.vmware.com/d/details/dt_esxi50_pmc_sierra_scsi_aacraid_51728100/dHRAYnRqZWpiZHAlJQ to ESXi 5.0 does work for the ASR-6405E. Here is a link on how to add it...
View ArticleRe: VCP on vSphere 4 Exam Questions VCP-410 by Eddie Vii?
Hello, JD, Randy Becraft here with the VMware Certification Team. I'm the Senior Program Manager for the VCP exams. I would like to visit with you further about the incident you observed. This is a...
View ArticleNFS and jumbo frame issues?
Hi there, I have a vSphere5 host and it is has 10Gb connectivity to network.I created a volume on netapp storage. My NFS VMkernel and storage sit on a dedicated VLAN.It seems like my connection to...
View ArticleRe: Data Recovery 2.0 and symantec NetBackup integration
VDR and NetBackup are two tools to do the same job. VDR is meant as a standalone way to backup VMware if you don't have a commercial option (like VMware) to do it. So you will never see VDR backing...
View ArticleRe: Nic teaming with ESXi and Cisco port-channel
Ok, so I got it to work, well sort of.By doing a show etherchannel load-balance, it shows the switch is configured for src-dst-ipI brought the nics up one at a time, but after about 15 minutes I lose...
View ArticleRe: VDR and MSSQL transaction log truncation
Short answer: Yes AFAIK, VMware uses the "copy" style of VSS snapshot, not the "backup" style, which means it will not truncate logs when it's done. That means you need to either do it yourself, or...
View ArticleRe: Difference between Hosts and VMs
Thanks a lot for the insightful info and detailed explanation. In this case, I have to create 2 pools, one with floating desktop, one with dedicated. That makes so much sense now. I have another...
View ArticleCdk Desktop SessionTask went unhandled
I installed the ipad app. When prompted for the server I inputed the same server that I did when installing VMware on my personal computer and it works fine. However, I am getting this error message...
View ArticleRe: Nic teaming with ESXi and Cisco port-channel
And the native vlan is configured for a non functional vlan? Here is another great resource to check http://blog.scottlowe.org/2006/12/04/esx-server-nic-teaming-and-vlan-trunking/
View ArticleOracle 64 BIT ODBC connection question with vCenter 5.0 install
I'm running W2K8R2 64 bit and I'm trying to connect to an ORACLE DB so I can install vCenter 5.0. I had the Oracle DBA create the DB, I then went into my ODBC on my vCenter server. I attempted to...
View ArticleRe: InitiateFileTransferToGuest Issues
Thanks for all of your help. For anyone out there the API does work against vCenter. I am embarrased to say that I was looking up vm's by uuid and had the wrong vm's uuid in my code. After many...
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