Re: Multi-Cell NTP Sync
After your comments I took a look at the esx hosts and noticed that the esx hosts in the mgmt cluster weren't completely in sync, and were pointing to the domain controller which is pointed to the ntp...
View ArticleVM grew to 258GB on datastore formatted with a 1M block size
I have an ESXi 4.1 server (VMFS 3.33) , stand alone, older server, hosting a single VM. When I created the server, I made the local datastore a 1MB block size because the VM would never grow above...
View ArticleRe: How to make hard disk available for diffferent guest OS?
Rather than allocating physical disk space, you'd create a VMFS datastore on the host's disk space and create an additional virtual disk for the VMs on this datastore. Please keep in mind that Windows...
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Re: How to install license?
I click the Inventory icon and I got this:Where do I go from here to install the license? Follow the "Explorer Further" box?
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Re: Info on the use of a defrag utility on the Guest system
Hi balubeto, please find the diffrent diffrence and impact of defrag utility which will help you to take sefl desission.uest Operating System DrivesIt is strongly recommended that you defragment using...
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Re: vSphere Performance Reporting with PowerCLI: Automating vSphere...
Thanks, found it.I wasn't aware it was already on there.I better finish a couple more pages today then
View ArticleRe: Using Powercli I having trouble modifying vm hardware and nic portgroup...
LucD wrote: Yes, you need to do a Start-VM to power it on.In fact the sysprep part of the OSCustomizationSpec will run during the first boot.Well these are linux boxes that I am trying to deploy, when...
View ArticleRe: VM grew to 258GB on datastore formatted with a 1M block size
Where are you getting the 258GB number from - the datastore browser? http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&externalId=1012384has...
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Re: Shrinking vs Compacting
Hi mfelker In single line To reduce the size of the vmdk-files you want to use shrink.Compact only sorts the graintables but has no effect on size.Yours, Abbie
View ArticleRe: Unable to specify directory for Virtual Machine
Yea you can't specify a folder when creating a VM just a datastore. I guess it's not considered a need to organize things at that level and honestly. Organizing is done really in the "VMs and...
View ArticleRe: Using Powercli I having trouble modifying vm hardware and nic portgroup...
Or leave out the RunAsync for now on the New-VM line.
View ArticleRe: VMware Virtual Machine Port Group Loop
My question would be why? Normally the only time you'll have multiple vNIC's on VM's is for different VLAN pathing for such things as Security Firewall, Routing or some other reason along those lines....
View ArticleRe: Multi-Cell NTP Sync
If the Domain controller IS a VM on an ESXi host and tools syncs time ... you are creating a circular dependency. that's another really odd case to be aware of.
View ArticleRe: How to make hard disk available for diffferent guest OS?
Okay, so let me try to understand this. I want to create a file server VM and an Oracle Server VM with a "D" drive for storage. So, what I should do is from the "File Server VM" allow the RAID 1 2TB...
View ArticleRe: VM grew to 258GB on datastore formatted with a 1M block size
From your link... Note: On ESXi 5.x hosts using VMFS5 upgraded from VMFS3, the upgraded volumes inherit the VMFS3 block size. The default block size for new volumes is 1MB. The maximum file size,...
View ArticleRe: How to install license?
After selecting the host on the left (in the inventory):Click the Configuration tab. Click Licensed Features under Software. Click Edit under Licensed Features. Select Assign a new license key to this...
View ArticleRe: vCenter is not responding correct
The problem was the DB. I installed a fresh vCenter server and DB and it worked.
View ArticleRe: Multi-Cell NTP Sync
but yes, it sounds like sync to host and the ESXi host has time issue. The VMs might have vmotioned between hosts, got a new time from Host, and then be off when you look at the guest itself.
View ArticleRe: VM grew to 258GB on datastore formatted with a 1M block size
Upgraded VMFS-5 volumes inherit and maintain the VMFS-3 block size and the size limitations that go along with the VMFS-3 block sizes. Those are listed in the kb. The default block size for new VMFS-5...
View ArticleRe: Lowest supported VMFS Version on ESXi 5.x?
Worth reading : VMFS-5 VMFS-3, What’s the Deal? » boche.net – VMware vEvangelist You will use VMFS3 if you have a vSphere environment which is mix of vSphere...
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