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VVOL
Hi My customer wish to implement VVOL solution. They have existing virtual machines which now they wanted to move it to VVOL datastore. What is the best practices/method to move a VM from vSphere...
View Articleport group
Hi everyone, i am new to vmware ,I have a standard switch and ,i need to add a vlan. I have 4 esxi hosts in a cluster.I have logged in to vsphere client. on one of the host(say host1) i clicked...
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vCenter 6.0 and -AllLinked. Supported?
I'm in the process of migration our 5.5 to newly created v6.0 vCenter servers however I noticed that some of the automation scripts that we've written were not working correctly. After a little digging...
View Articleprovisioned space
What does Provisioned Space mean When i click datastore i can see Capacity : 1.50TBProvisioned Space : 761.96 GBFree Space : 807.18 GB
View Articlee1000 and vmxnet3, GPT and MBR?
Hi everyone1. What is difference between e1000 and vmxnet3If i install windows server 2008 (x86) should i go with e1000 or vmxnet3 2. Wht is the different between GPT and MBR? One of my datastore...
View ArticleOA
Hi everyoneI am not supposed to ask this question in this forums but plz help me.I have created a port group with VLAN ID 90 in the standard switch.This VLAN has to be added to my enclosure. I am using...
View ArticleVcenter Appliance and update manager
Can someone confirm, the appliance vs. the vcenter windows does not contain update manager? We have an Essentials license and for the 2 downloads, the appliance appears to have several features missing...
View Articlecalculate resources
Hi everyone, I have a primary site and a DR site.On primary site i have 10 esxi hosts and i am using a third party application and i am replicating few Virtual machines on DR site.The replicated...
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vCenter Event Format
If I use the vCenter SOAP API to pull event data from vCenter 5.5, will I get the event data in EVTX or in syslog format?
View ArticleUpdate Manager patch repository
Does anyone know of a way to remove/delete old patches from the patch repository in Update Manager ? I'm running all ESXi 4.1 and I want to remove all the old ESX 4.0 patches, and other os patches that...
View ArticleMoving to vSphere 6
Current Env:Single Windows vCenter server running 5.0.0.29542 using external SQL DB10 Hosts running 5.0.0 Update 2~250 VMs Objective:1. Upgrade environment to latest version.2. Remove dependency on...
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SQL Server Database maintenance plan consideration
Hi All, Before performing the vSphere 5.5 Upgrade, I just wanted to know what are the recommended steps for the Windows VCenter SQL Server maintenance ? Because from my screenshot below, I cannot find...
View ArticleCan vCenter Server manage a cluster with hosts in different locations?
Can vCenter 5.5 manage a single cluster with hosts that are in 2 separate locations (different buildings on the same campus)? This is for a total of 4 hosts - 2 at each site - and approx. 20 VMs...
View ArticleHyper-converged system are emerging in market
For the last one year i have seen hypercoverged sytems are emerging in market..do any one fell next gen will be software defined datacenter
View ArticleBasic vCenter 6 & Linked Mode Question
I have 2 Windows vCenters with 2 external PSCs in enhanced linked mode. Should I be able to see both vCenters in the thick client the same as I do in v5.5?
View ArticleVDP upgrade issue (6.0 to 6.1.1)
Finally was able to get VCSA upgraded from 5.5 U3 to 6.0 update 1 after spending several hours on the phone with support. I am trying to upgrade two different VDP instances from 6.0 to 6.1.1. One...
View ArticlevCSA 6.0 install failure - unable to connect to ESXi Server
I have the vCSA ISO extracted to local drive and am running it from Internet Explorer as Administrator mode. After allowing the plugin, I click Install.I click Accept, then Next.At this point, I am...
View ArticleInstall a new vCenter Server to replace another one that fail
Hi everybody: I have a doubt, I have an infrastructure composed by two nodes of ESXi 5.1 and one vCenter Server 5.1 mounted on Windows Server 2008 R2 (The windows was located on a physical server) and...
View ArticleControlling HA after complete outage
The other day all my hosts on a distributed switch decided to PSOD in response to a network issue. I rebooted all the hosts and everything came back up but in hindsight, I would like a little more...
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