vCD 1.5 to 5.1 upgrade & roll back plan.
I am currently running a vCD 1.5 environment which I need to upgrade to 5.1 but want to make sure I have a way back should I encounter any issues with my environment afterwards. I have an idea on how...
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Re: Clone VM using existing CustomizationSpec and changing ComputerName property
Ben, here is what i came up with after i wrote this morning, and it looks very similar to what you just posted. mySpec.Customization = itmSpecItem.Spec; CustomizationSysprep winIdent =...
View ArticleRe: I haveserver ESXi 4.1- it failed to restart unless network connections...
Are you having issues restarting ESXi or guest VMs or both? Not following you...
View ArticleRe: Converted physical PC->VM will not uncapture mouse
All I can think of is that there are some left over drivers from the physical systems still in place. Please compare the drivers for the mouse and display with those of a working VM. The mouse driver...
View ArticleRe: Server 2012 doesn't reboot
I am running about 10 WS2012 on vSphere 5.1 and I do not have this problem but I have som information for you. When you choose shutdown/reboot your RDP session closes and the server will start to...
View ArticleRe: Extending VM Harddisk using $extendedCapacity
What is the operating system of the vm which harddisk you try to extend? Because the only supported operating systems in PowerCLI 5.1 Release 2 for extending a hard disk with the Set-HardDisk cmdlet...
View ArticleInvalid Virtual Machines
Last Thursday our datacenter had a major power outage. We were able to bring everything back online however there are a handful of VMs which are showing up as invalid with no wayt to power them on. We...
View ArticleRe: Multiple Nics over one vSwitch (no TF)
Personally if it were me I'd stick with hardware vlan/switch/routing and not involve or complicate the connections within the vswitch as they weren't intended for such unless your using Distributive...
View ArticleRe: Stack overflow Powercli 5.1 Release 2 and PowerCLI VUM 5.0
According to the VMware vSphere Update Manager PowerCLI 5.0 Release Notes you need:RequirementsTo use Update Manager PowerCLI 5.0, you need to have installed the following software:.NET 2.0 Service...
View ArticleVM anti virus tool
Hi Guys, I just want to know how to configure Symantec anti virus with VM. do i hve to use vshield with it. please suggest any documentation for configuring symantec antivirus to the VM. regardsVINAY
View ArticleRe: VCAP5-DCD version 5.0 or 5.1
I don't see much difference between 1.7 and 2.2. At least the objectives and links look the same to me unless I missed something. So i'm assuming it's still 5.0 features.
View ArticleRe: Converted physical PC->VM will not uncapture mouse
From the Department of Utterly Random Ideas: Does your converted VM by any chance have mouse "pointer trails" enabled? If so, try turning that option off. We have had a few users report that enabling...
View ArticleRe: Invalid Virtual Machines
Hello and welcome to the communities. http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003742 contains some information on this that might help.
View ArticleRe: vCloud resource requests and approval
An approval system can be accomplished using Blocking tasks and vCenter Orchestrator. Basically Orchestrator would listen for tasks to create or clone vApps, and the tasks would not run until a manager...
View ArticleRe: I haveserver ESXi 4.1- it failed to restart unless network connections...
I have Installed the File server on that and whenever I try to restart it its not restaring and when I remove it from the network it works . Trouble restarting the VM on that Esxi Host.
View ArticleRe: VM anti virus tool
You can install Symantec's Antivirus product in a VM just like you would a physical machine - there will be no difference. Or, are you specifically looking to use vShield and the agentless setup?
View ArticleRe: I haveserver ESXi 4.1- it failed to restart unless network connections...
Windows 2008 (32-bit or 64-bit)? What virtual machine hardware version is the virtual machine? Are the VMware Tools installed? What type of virtual ethernet adapter is in the VM currently?
View ArticleRe: What are the log files to look in a PSOD of ESXi 5.0
If you think you have a memory problem and can take the host out of production, it would be worthwhile to run a memory test such as this - http://www.memtest86.com/.
View ArticleRe: Can vCloud be licensed and used for portions of a cluster?
When you create a provider vDC inside vCloud Director you typically map this to an entire DRS cluster on a vCenter server. In your case, you could create a small 2 node cluster and map this to a...
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