Re: Workaround for Cisco Nexus 1000v for vEthernet Interface limit
I believe the limit for that version is 216 vEthernet Interfaces per VEM module, and 2048 per 1000v VDS. I think the 1024 limit is for the number of ports in a port group, but with multiple port groups...
View ArticleRe: Disable Automated Floating Pool and Power on Policy
If the pool itself is disabled I believe power ops and provisioning ops can still occur. If provisioning on a pool is disabled no automated operations will be kicked off against VMs. This includes...
View ArticlevSphere 4.1 (ESX) to 5.1 (ESXi) using New Hardware
After reading lots of documentation via the Update Center site and some other posts on this community I wanted to see if the plan I have is ok or is there a better way? I've upgraded 3.5 to 4.1 before...
View ArticleRe: NIC Teaming no vSwitch e na VM Network
Aproveitando o gancho... No caso do vMotion, com duas NICS ativas o trafico vai dobrar? ou sairá apenas por uma interface?
View ArticlevCD 5.1 - VAAI Check-box Grayed Out
Can anyone tell me why the check-box for "Enable VAAI for Fast provisioning" would be grayed out in vCD for my Datastore Cluster? I've check my host and it's supported on all datastores in the DS...
View Articlevmrun quits after logout even when run as root
I'm trying to have a headless VM always running. Right now I run the following command as root using launchd: /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmrun -T fusion start vmname nogui This...
View ArticleRe: Separate dvSwitches for traffic types or use NetworkIO Control with port...
I use NIOC or class based WFQ on the 1000v with 10G links and run converged networking. I run either 2 or 4 10G connections and pass FCoE, NFS, vMotion, management, and guest traffic over all of the...
View ArticleESX Hosts PSOD (Unable to find correlating events via Log Insight)
We have several ESXi 5.0 Hosts that are unexpectedly rebooting (PSOD) and would like to use Log Insight to quickly gauge how rampant this is across the fleet and frequency of occurence. Unfortunately...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 U1 - Primergy RX200S4, Raid0 issue - VD not detected properly
Hi, I tried to install today the ESXi 5.1 U1 custom Fujitsu image on a RX200 S4 server with 2 SATA drives, in Raid0 configuration. The problem: ESXi is not detecting the virtual drive (logical)...
View ArticleRe: Disable Automated Floating Pool and Power on Policy
Thanks Mike. We have to shutdown our View 5.2 environment for electrical power upgrades on our data-center tonight. We will found out what happens when the pool and provisioning are both disable. Dave
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5 shows a datastore with no free space but it's empty
no, none of these worked.Weird as it was working fine till three weeks ago and nothing got changed. I will schedule an upgrade to 5.1 and see if I have better luck.
View ArticleRe-Using the same tile VMs for iterative testing - is this supported? Getting...
I configured a single partial tile, leaving out the standby VM, and the Microsoft Exchange VM. I had a successful end to end run on that tile. I then re-ran the harness a second time (note, in between...
View ArticleRe: VMware Ethernet with Cisco EtherChannel and Trunking Question
You and your network admin should follow the instructions described in these KB articles and not any others if you're unsure:VMware KB: Host requirements for link aggregation for ESX and ESXi VMware...
View ArticleRe: Can't see shared folders in Linux Guest (Windows Host)
So an update... I tried changing the two files in the link you gave. Reinstalled VMWare tools... I DO now have access to shared folders in /mnt/hgfs... THANK YOU! However, drag and drop still doesn't...
View ArticleHow many virtual processors or cores should I assign to my Guest OS in vmware...
Hi Here is my laptop's specs i7 Intel Quad Core 2.4 GHz, 16GB RAM, 1T drive, windows 8 I have to make a lab for my next exam. I need 4 guests on top of one guest on vmware workstation 9. All host and...
View ArticleRe: Re-Using the same tile VMs for iterative testing - is this supported?...
Did you staf ping or regular ping? The command would be "staf OlioDB0 ping ping" from a windows command prompt.
View ArticleRe: VMware Ethernet with Cisco EtherChannel and Trunking Question
1. Yes, edge trunk. This is a best practice for cSphere HA.2. You are fine with the Switchport command3. yep, dot1q to carry multiple VLANs.4. Yes, works fine across cards (of similar types).5. no, the...
View ArticleRe: Cloning PrimeClient to setup Client1-6 to support multiple tiles,...
The VMMARK2.CONFIG file is used by the VMmark harness to configure the benchmark run. The harness runs only on the prime client, so because your Client0 is the prime client, it's the only client that...
View ArticleRe: Cloning PrimeClient to setup Client1-6 to support multiple tiles,...
Only the prime client's VMMARK2.config file get's utilized.
View ArticleRe: Can't see shared folders in Linux Guest (Windows Host)
Okay, I just ran diff on the contents of the vmci.tar and vmhgfs.tar files in VMwareTools-9.2.2-893683.tar.gz (VMware Fusion 5.0.3) and VMwareTools-9.2.3-1031360.tar.gz (VMware Workstation 9.0.2) and...
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