vCenter Server Service stuck on Starting
Hello All, I ran in to a problem yesterday. One of my ESXi 5.1 hosts hung up. I had to hard boot it. As a result all the VMs on it were powered off which included my vCenter 5.1 server. AFter I brought...
View ArticleHow do I change NAT's host and router addresses?
I've been using Fusion 5 Pro with vmnet8 like this: Host Address: 192.168.8.101"router" address: 192.168.8.1DHCP: starting on 192.168.8.101 This used to work. But I just formatted my Mac and, as...
View ArticlevCloud Director 5.1 prepare host failed
We have a vSphere 5.1 cluster with 4 hosts mixed with ESXi 5.1 and 4.1. 3 of the 4 hosts are prepared and working in a vCloud Director 5.1 Provider VDC. Recently I upgraded the one left from ESXi 4.1...
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Re: vCloud Director 5.1 prepare host failed
I have since discovered there is a network issue between the host and our vCloud Director server. Waiting for that to be sorted.
View ArticleRe: Writing a file gives a permissions problem
I just ran into something similar today and wrote a guide on my blog on how to work around this. There are a few steps you need to complete, including those listed by freefall above. Here's the post:...
View ArticleRe: Help ! Datastore space issue??
You didn't show your snapshot manager - I'm interested in whether you've burnt space on snapshots. Can you show us what the snapshot manager shows? However, it appears you have a 925GB LUN, with a...
View ArticlePVSCSI w2k8r2 cloning BSOD
Hi All, I'm having a issues cloning windows 2008 r2 vm's with para-virtual scsi controller i get blue screen error 0x0000007b which is a general hardware failure.If i clones other vm's with LSi...
View ArticleRe: General questation about NLB
It's a recurring question here. The short of it is that the caveats on Unicast NLB make it unworkable. You will find Multicast NLB pretty much works "out of the box" if you setup your router with the...
View ArticleUpdate Manager: URL for MS Updates/Patches
Good Morning Peoples, Just wondering if someone can provide me with the URL for the Microsoft Updates site to be used with Update Manager..I'm unable to find it anywhere.. Thanks in advance.. Matt.
View ArticleRe: vmware.service fail on Fedora 19
Ok, this has been solved, at least for me. First, check this page out: Vmware 9.0.x on Linux-3.10.0 patches? Then, the vmblock issue is solved here:...
View ArticleWhere is the "capture movie" menu option ?
Hello,I just found out that the "capture movie" has been removed from the menu option.It was broken since Workstation 9 (Workstation 8 was still ok) and a bug report has been filed when 9 came up.I am...
View ArticleRe: SQL Query for Oracle DB monitoring using vCOPS
correct. the biggest challenge with the SQL Adapter is writing the query in such as way the produces output that is easily consumable by vcops, and maps directly to RESOURCEKIND and RESOURCENAME in...
View ArticleRe: Error #2032 attemting to set base rates
saholton, Did you see any error in the logs? Can you please attach the logs for further analysis? ThanksDiwakar
View ArticleRe: vCenter Server Service stuck on Starting
I resolved this issue. Due to some reason. the NIC on vCenter Database server was disconnected after the crash. vCenter was not able to ping the database. Checked the NIC and all OK.
View ArticleRe: ESXI 5.X 64VcpuS
That is correct the maximum number of vCPUs you would be able to have in a VM is 32 since the maximum number of Logical CPUs you have is 32 - how ever I would not recomend that because the ESXi host...
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Re: VM shutdown after a time running W2003k Server.
HI Andre: 1) I booted in save mode (with and without net support, last well know config) but its same issue, its seems startup, I saw my vm up but suddenly goes down.2) I can't check nothing. Im lost...
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Re: Everytime my host network access changes, Fusion restarts the NAT guest...
nancyz wrote:the VM network will work and will have the same network as your new network.It sounds like you're talking about Bridged networking. Imagine a typical home network setup like this: Laptop...
View ArticleRe: Question about MAC addresses Automatic vs Manual
Once a VM is powered on for the first time, a new MAC address is generated for each virtual network adapter, and this MAC address will persist for the VM. unless yo manually change it, or you manually...
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