ESXi boots after install but Drops to BIOS next reboot
Hi Running ai7-4770k processes on a Asus z87-pro mother board with UFEL turned off.Have added a single new network card. ESXI5.1 seems to install ok and when is does its own first reboot after the...
View ArticleRe: Server Fault 'Invalid Argument' - after upgrade to vCenter v5.1
Hi jbando2000, I installed a fresh vCenter appliance just yesterday, and I am having the exact same problem.Everytime I try saving a VM's settings I get the "InvalidArgument" error.I have no solution...
View ArticleRe: Reporting resource usage per VMfolder
So I'm using this: Get-VM -location "folder" | Select-Object Name, NumCPU, MemoryGB | Export-Csv "C:\CPU_Memory.csv" -NoTypeInformation How can I get the script to calculate the totals for the NumCpu...
View ArticleDoes OVF Export support Windows 2000?
Hello people, Just wondering if OVF Export tool supports exporting Windows 2000 VM's?
View ArticleI needs to know what will be an impact when end to end MTU setup is not the...
Dear Support Team; I have a question about setup iSCSI on vSphere 5.1 and I needs to know what will be an impact when end to end MTU setup is not the same number if i configurevSwitch...
View ArticleRe: ESXi boots after install but Drops to BIOS next reboot
If I try to reboot it again the system drops in to the BIOS setting.When you say BIOS screen, is it the configuration screen in BIOS or boot manager selection screen?
View ArticleRe: Reporting resource usage per VMfolder
The following PowerCLI script will report the total number of virtual CPU's and MemoryGB per VM folder: Get-Folder -Type VM |ForEach-Object { $Folder = $_ $VMs = $Folder | Get-VM $Folder |...
View Articleunable to access file vmdk since it is locked
one of the customized template having issue, unable to deploy the vm using template since VMDK is locked 1) Convert template to VM and tried to power on the VM but its same error 2) Remove from...
View ArticleRe: False Capacity/IO Alerts?
Actually it is not NFS specific, should be valid for any large datastore.That's just the internal description by which the problem have been tracked.
View ArticleRe: unattended/silent install VMware Tools
Have you checked the doc in below link http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-12413?tstart=0& VMware KB: Installing VMware Tools in a Windows virtual machine
View ArticleRe: ESXi boots after install but Drops to BIOS next reboot
Have solve this.Problem was I have not worked with new BIOS and insted of puting on screen it could not find a boot drive had a code for it. AllI had to do was ensure teh UFEI was tuend off then as the...
View ArticleNFS Device Statistics
I'm currently working on validating a new vSphere 5.1 environment predicated on 10Gbit NFS. When I'm using resxtop I can see the device statistics for the NFS volumes (CMD/s, READS/s,WRITES/s,...
View ArticleSNMP ESXi 5 problem
Hi, I'm trying to monitor several things of out ESXis through SNMP. I've enabled the snmp agent with: #vicfg-snmp --server 5.57.230.137 --username root --password 1234 --communities public #vicfg-snmp...
View ArticleRe: Script to output WWN Datacenter Cluster Host
Here is my revised code that gets everything and was checked to work. LucD's works just as well if you want to use his with one caveat that probably won't apply. If you happen to have a host that is...
View ArticleRe: detailed information with start-vm
If you only want to see a message when the start fails, you would be better off with a Try-Catch construct.Something like this $vmName="MyVM"try { $ProgressPreference="SilentlyContinue"...
View ArticleRe: CPU Latency
CPU Latency, i.e. %LAT_C in esxtop, includes: ready, cstp, ht busy time and effects of dynamic voltage frequency scaling, it doesn't include mlmtd though. Note that this is the same as CPU Contention...
View ArticleRe: Shrinking on guest running on SSD drive
Another option is to use sdelete to zero out unused disk space. After doing this compacting the VM should reduce the size as expected. André
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Safe to delete snapshot from failed vdp backup
Hi I had some backups fail last night and on 4 VMs I can see a snapshot that the VDP appliance made during the backup but was unable to remove automatically. (I assume)Since these are some pretty...
View ArticleRe: snapshot script help
Hi Monderick I think I can see where the problem is, where the line $Daysold = Get-VM $GuestName | Get-Snapshot | Select @{N="DaysOld"; e={((Get-Date) - $_.Created).Days}} has been added if the VM...
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