how do i confirm i have most up to date vmware tools after upgrading from...
I am not finding a lot online about what extactly is vmware tools and how it works so please correct my assumptions here. is vmware tools basically some code that gets installed into a guest os?how...
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Re: using vCO to change the Lease time on a vRA VM
Sorry about that... I got really busy. I think maybe start here? (this is the glue in the middle between conversion of your VM object to Resource object and using the Resource Operations) Run the...
View ArticleWindows 10 Win+G not working?
I have Windows 10 installed both as an upgrade and standalone for the preview program. In Windows 10, when you press [Windows Key]+G it is supposed to bring up a games toolbar. That does not work on...
View ArticleRe: Best Process for P2V for OS X Server (ESX 5.5)
Thanks @dlhotka.I am unable to select 10.10 as a guest OS type since we are on ESX 5.5—will other options work for this? It does not seem to like the InstallESD.dmg from the 10.10 installer app.
View ArticleVHA 5.0.5 - Mac OS X - No Java
I have downloaded and extracted multiple versions of the health appliance to attempt to run the Java app on my Mac. I have tried different Java versions and currently have the latest Java release...
View ArticleUpgrade to Windows 10 NOT possible if you run win7/win8 on a Virtual Machine!
Hi all Just wanted to let you know that Microsoft does NOT have any solution to the known "compatibility issue" that occurs when trying to upgrade an older version of windows to windows 10 by using the...
View ArticleESXi 6.0 causing Dell C6100 XS23-TY3 to hang randomly
Hey,We have 15 Dell XS23-TY3 nodes hosted across 5 Dell C6100 Quad Nodes. They are all running with a vCenter Server Essentials Kit that provides these with fairly basic functionality (no HA) These...
View ArticleRe: Cannot start image due to "Cannot open the disk or its snapshot"
Please report result of vmkfstools -p 0 /vmfs/volumes/53dc38ab-6e9cfdfd-cea6-0019b9ef71fe/Whistler2/Whistler2-000001-delta.vmdkRecovery of snapshots wuth I/O errors is not trivial - do you really need...
View ArticleRe: Windows 10 Win+G not working?
May be a user error. I was expecting the toolbar from anywhere in Windows. It does appear if you are running a game app.
View ArticleRe: Alarm detected saying "vSpare Data Protection 5.5 VDP:[09] Maintenance...
Is the maintenance service running? You can find out what the status of the service is by going to vdp-configure page.
View ArticleRe: Windows 10 Enterprise Unity Issue
Hello, In my previous message, I was indeed referring to the TP of Windows 10 - I didn't know there was a TP of Fusion. I'm using Fusion Version 7.1.2 (2779224). Here's a screenshot of my Mac...
View ArticleRe: Best Process for P2V for OS X Server (ESX 5.5)
I am trying to boot it from the .dmg but getting the “System config file /com.apple.Boot.plist not found” error.
View ArticleRe: VDP - Limit concurrent backups
There was a change on how proxies worked in Avamar 7.1 which I believe VDP 6 is based off of. Previously 8 clients showed up in Avamar\VDP per proxy. It changed to 1 client that does 8 concurrent jobs.
View ArticleRe: Need help with PowerCLI stats collection
Try passing an actual object to -Entity as it expects and not just a string $vmhost = get-vmhost ESXi1 Get-Stat -stat datastore* -entity $vmhost -realtime Now that i think about it. That may be the...
View ArticleRe: View Persona advice
Two file servers utilizing a DFS-R folder pair between them as a landing site for your Persona data should work fine in your scenario. Clustering (via shared storage) with MSCS is messy inside a VMware...
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multiple vcenters - single sso or multiple sso
I got 3 vcenters all located in different geographical sites. Is it best to create 3 different sso domains or just one? If I do just one, then my psc will have to be located in just one site? can i do...
View ArticleRe: vsphere web client
Hello, Can you please upload the Web Client logs? Windows: C:\ProgramData\VMware\vSphere Web Client\serviceability\Linux:/var/log/vmware/vsphere-client/Which version of vCenter are we running here? Is...
View ArticleRe: Kernel 4.2 Breaks vmnet.. (again..)
Just to be clear, I'm no expert in kernel level modifications... in fact, I am quite a noob in this area. But I did manage to workaround this in a super hacky way. In vmnet, the compat_sk_alloc call in...
View ArticleWorkstation 11 - Snapshots corrupt Windows VMs?
Has anyone else experienced an issue with workstation 11 corrupting a VM after taking a snapshot? I've seen some issues with windows 7 (both x86 and x64) and major issues with Win 2012 R2. Immediately...
View ArticleRe: Cannot start image due to "Cannot open the disk or its snapshot"
Hi Continumm, Thanks for your reply. Here is the output from the command below. root@pd2nsc2:~] cd /vmfs[root@pd2nsc2:/vmfs] lsdevices volumes[root@pd2nsc2:/vmfs] cd...
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