Re: Virtual Machine backup and recovery.
You first need to list your requirements, excluding any software solutions. You already listed one, that is having an RTO of less than 3 hours for any VM. Depending on the size of a given VM, restoring...
View ArticleWhat is the best VM CPU configuration for SQL 2012
I'm currently setting up a new SQL 2012 cluster running on windows server 2008 R2 and I configured 4 vCPUs with 2 cores for each VM on the cluster, but I would like to know if there is any best...
View ArticleRe: What is the best VM CPU configuration for SQL 2012
Hello and welcome to the communities. Note: Discussion successfully moved from VMware ESXi 5 to Virtual Machine & Guest OS
View ArticleNetworking layout
I threw the below diagram together. Is this a good simple design for redundancy? Will I need another VLAN for VMotion or can I do that on the virtual switch level? Tanks
View ArticleRe: Building a Working MS-SQL Template?
On further testing, the issue is related to QUIET=true being defined in the SQLServerUnattend.ini file while /QS is set on the command line. I also note that the SQL Server 2012 version is SP1, so I'll...
View ArticleRe: Disk Imaging Linked Clones
I don't think that would take any more time than trying to image indivudal VMs and move them over. If all you need from the clone is the profile you could utilizing View persona to move the profile...
View ArticleRe: Question about performance metrics
They're all a little different, but these counters are all coming from the perspective of the hypervisor, looking at resource consumption from the VM world itself. The 5.1 API reference has some better...
View ArticleRe: vMotion Failing On Nested ESXi 5.1
Datto schrieb: A potential issue that has recently come to my attention is that you cannot have more than one ESXi guest per VMFS data store on the physical ESXi host. What are the expected...
View ArticleFailed recomposeVapp call -- orphaned VM, how to delete?
I have intermittently run in a situation in which the recomposeVapp API will fail when adding a VM with exception “Unable to perform this action. Contact your cloud administrator”. The root cause...
View ArticleRe: Red X on network icon
Can you get print screens and as much detail as possible about the environment, the users that see the problem, how long before it comes back after removing the profile?
View ArticleVMware vCenter manifest fails to download.
Hello, Currently I'm trying to upgrade a linux vCenter 5.1a installation to 5.1b. I'm navigating to the web UI and using the update tab, but for some reason can't download the manifest.xml file to be...
View ArticleRe: Failed recomposeVapp call -- orphaned VM, how to delete?
Hi, You can list all VMs in vCD by executing the following query from REST API Query Service: GET /api/query?type=adminVM This should list VMs in all kinds of states. You can also filter by the name of...
View ArticleRe: Help please! The file specified is not a virtual disk
Here are the vmdk files. Thanks,tim
View ArticleRe: Auto Deploy - Unable to properly boot ESXi 5.1 properly on HP Blade Servers
(I edited my original post to correct my earlier information that was based on my current understanding from discussions with HP Support.) After discussing extensively with HP Support, they will...
View ArticleRe: CPU Ready Time
Check the BIOS to see if CPU power saving mode is enabled. If so, switch to static high performance (this doesn't usually require a reboot - configured via iLO/DRAC/etc), and see if that helps.
View ArticleRe: mouse get "locked" inside VM (quick question)
Wsh2, You are very welcome. I know your pain. Addittionally I thought I should put the instructions up for two other purposes. 1. because these blogs have helped me in the past and 2. in case I needed...
View Articlehow to install vCenter Single Sign On 5.1 in HA using hardware load balancer
Hi all,I'm deploying a new vSphere 5.1 infrastructure.I have to install Single Sign On in HA mode behind an hardware load balancer. I just installed the master node and the additional node. Now, when I...
View ArticleRe: Help please! The file specified is not a virtual disk
What I need are the first 1,024 Bytes (starting at Offset 0). The examples on the site I mentioned are meant to extract the .vmdk descriptor which starts at Offset 512, but I'd like to verify the...
View ArticleRe: Microsoft Word and Mathtype - an impossible marriage?
Dear kmgp,thanks for your suggestions. I will try them shortly. In these weeks I almost gave up to it. But I will give it a go again: I never tried the settings you saggest. So you Thinapped MS Word...
View ArticleRe: windows 7 Enterprise WorkPool creation
I have a problem as well. When the process begins everything seems well and then I get an error on the Win7 Virt saying the answer file is incorrect. At first I was using the 64-bit, so I changed to...
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