Re: Moving powered off VM to a different host with PowerCLI
I moved your question from VMware ESXi 5 to VMware vSphere™ PowerCLI. You should specify the name with wich the host is known in the vCenter server. Something like:Get-VM -Name vCenter | Move-VM...
View ArticleRe: How to backup ESXi 5.1 VMs
According to the white paper I mentioned in my first post, Trilead supports the free ESXi edition (although with limited features). However, Unitrends unfortunately cannot do VM level backups on an...
View ArticleRe: Running VM on external drive
I don't have firewire on my netbook so I use the regular USB. USB is better than you may think. My VMs run at a close to native speed. The HDD I use is the Western Digital My Passport Gen. 1. Nice HDD...
View ArticleLinux appliance sees only 3 GB RAM (4 GB configured) on 4.1 but all 4 GB when...
Hi, I run a Linux based appliance (32 bit kernel, Linux XXX 2.6.9-89.0.25.EL.P1smp #1 SMP Mon May 10 11:13:23 PDT 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux) on vSphere 4.1 (ESXi installed on VMWare host(. VM is...
View ArticleRe: Moving powered off VM to a different host with PowerCLI
Thanks for responding. Unfortunately I received the same message.The VM I need to move, vCenter, is powered off. vMotion is currently unavailable becase I have two hosts that are currently running on...
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Re: Connecting IBM DS3200 to ESX 3.5 (IBM x3650)
Did you ever get this working? I have the same setup without issues. Actually, I have 3 of these, and two work flawlessly, and the third gives me some disk latency issues, but they all show up as...
View ArticleRe: Moving powered off VM to a different host with PowerCLI
The Move-VM cmdlet uses vMotion. So if you have powered off the vCenter server, then you can not use the Move-VM cmdlet to move it. You could unregister the vCenter server from the old host and...
View ArticleVsphere5.0 UDP packects lost
Hello, i have one Vsphere5.0 server with latest patches installed(release 20dec2012). I have 2 redhat machines installed on it. the network traffic is passing through a vswitch configured with default...
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Cannot resize virtual disk, VM using a 'child' vmdk file.
Version: VMWare workstation 9 Host OS: Windows 7 64bitScreenshots below. I would like to resize my VM from 50GB to 100GB. It seems that VMware workstation 9 is using a child vmdk file for my VM. In...
View ArticleProblem opening VMs from within VMware
I thought I'd ask whether anyone else has noticed this issue with VMware 9.0.0-812388. When I try to open a VM from File\Open, VMware will not open the VM (from the vmx file). Basically, nothing...
View ArticleMacBook w/ SL, WM Fusion & WinXPPro Network lost
When I first loaded Fusion and then installed XP Pro I was ableto get online, down load SW I needed, all worked great. THEN . . . I loaded McAfee, all went down hill from there!On the XP side I am...
View ArticleRe: Missing Drag & Drop and Sound in Fusion 5/Win7
Wil, I'm sorry I didn't get back to you with a log but I had to leave on fairly short notice and didn't want to take a chance of messing up her known state with no real time to fix it before I had to...
View ArticleWorkstation Licence question if swapping to SSD drive
I'm a newbie to VM workstation and enjoying my development labs on my Lenovo laptop. Having recently added a second SSD Drive i now want to switch this to be the boot drive on my Laptop Host. if I do a...
View ArticleRe: Vcenter 5.1 Timed waiting for vpxa to start
Hi the issue has been sorted.I can say it was something simple, but it wasn't as it was a compatibility issue between ESXi and Vcenter Server. It took many days until I realised about it.I...
View ArticleRe: Platform in Green but availability 0.0%?
Has been a very odd situation,There is not a single logical explanation of how I fixed it but I re-installed the software about 10 times until it worked all right.No firewalls or any others, same...
View ArticleRe: Dell GX620 -- Host Disconnected
Hi, stragenly it started working fine after: cd /etc/init.d/ ./mgmt-vmware restart This a a little setup without any duplications, also the resources are reserved, then there are not problems...
View ArticleRe: Workstation Licence question if swapping to SSD drive
Hello and welcome to the communities. if I do a complete re-install does this invalidate the licence with VMWARE? No, you can re-install Workstation on the newly installed OS on the SSD. Just make sure...
View ArticleRe: Linux appliance sees only 3 GB RAM (4 GB configured) on 4.1 but all 4 GB...
What virtual machine hardware version was used in 4.1, and which version is being used in 5.1? http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1014006 might help.
View ArticleRe: Cannot resize virtual disk, VM using a 'child' vmdk file.
Welcome to the Community,I have also tried to use the command line tool to resize the parent vmdk manually, but I am getting 'access denied' permission errorsYou were lucky this didn't work, otherwise...
View ArticleRe: Linux appliance sees only 3 GB RAM (4 GB configured) on 4.1 but all 4 GB...
It is version 7 on both 4.1 and 5.1...
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