Re: Entertaining way to prepare VCP?
Welcome to the Community - you could build a nested vSphere environment on top of one VMware hosted virtualization platforms like VMware PLayer or Workstation - you can Google for videos and guides on...
View ArticleRe: ESXi Hardening - host services/firewall
Check out the hardening guides http://www.vmware.com/support/support-resources/hardening-guides.html
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remove the gatway addresses for the 192.168.2.x addresses it is not needed since they site on the same segment -
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Is this the exact message in all emails "This vApp will remain powered on for 7 days and will be deleted 30 days after power-off or suspend. You can edit these leases at anytime in the future by going...
View ArticleRe: Very slow guest file delete
Lots of small files will always be slower. How many VMs do you have on that local storage?
View ArticleSSO login issues - timeout
Hello all I have a QA environment that we are testing the upgrade to 5.1u1 (from 5.0). I am unable to login using either the vSphere client or the web client using domain credentials. If I try and...
View ArticleRe: vCloud vApp expiration
I'm pretty sure it is. We are fixing the text in a future version. The text used was static, but the leasing system should work as expected.
View ArticleRe: VMware ESXi Host High CPU Utilization
im confused at the syntax, when i enter esxtop i get a non-stop screen of information. I am thinking to commit something along the lines of esxtop -c -m -p -e -l, would this be correct? But at what...
View ArticleRe: Very slow guest file delete
Have you tried a Shift+Delete to bypass the recycle bin?
View ArticleRe: Entertaining way to prepare VCP?
Thanks for the awnser, but I was asking about something to run inside my vshpere environment. Anything fun
View ArticleRe: can I recover without the protected site being available
thank you very much, will be setting it up for the first time this week, any good sources to check out for an initial install?
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View ArticleRe: VMware ESXi Host High CPU Utilization
To run esxtop in batch mode and save the output file for feature analysis use the command as in in below syntax esxtop -b -d 10 -n 5 >/tmp/esxtstats.csv-d Switch is used for the number of seconds...
View ArticleRe: My options for fault tolerance, nic teaming, and link aggregation
Welcome to the Community - yes you will be able to have the NICs in an active/active configuration - the configuration of the physical switch is going to depend on the nic teaming method you plan to...
View ArticleSoftware to monitor process and do a HA hearbeat?
Let's start with I know I have not really done my homework like I should on this question, but here is it anyway... I have an application (MS Windows) that runs all the time and other processes rely on...
View ArticleRe: Software to monitor process and do a HA hearbeat?
VMware HA cannot monitor a single process in a VM but can monitor the VM so that if it become unresponsive it can restart the VM -
View ArticleRe: Black Boxes on VMware View Windows 7 x64 Desktops (Bitmap Cache Issue)
Yes, and it does. Haven't had a single report of the issue since installing the patch. Geoff
View ArticleRe: can I recover without the protected site being available
not off hand - the VMware documentation is usually pretty good - http://pubs.vmware.com/srm-51/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/srm-install-config-5-1.pdf - if you are a VMware Partner there is...
View ArticleRe: Connect two ESXi Machines via Crossover Cable
Done, however I still cannot ping the other ESXi box. See the attached screenshot. Ignore the red x's on the NICs (no cable is attached there), I'm working on the VMKernel ports.
View ArticleRe: Connect two ESXi Machines via Crossover Cable
Thanks for the fast response! I did, I set it up like this: ESXi1192.168.2.2Subnet mask 255.255.255.0Gateway: 192.168.2.1 Backup:192.168.2.1Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0Gateway: 192.168.2.2
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