Re: Can/Should you store old snapshots in a different location or at all?
Snapshots in VMware products are used as chains, i.e. each virtual disk/snapshot is in use. Moving any of the snapshots to other locations would break the snapshot chain and make the VM unusable....
View ArticleRe: Fusion on Mac OS Mavericks 10.9
that strange witch hardware are you using?for me a MacBook Pro mid 2012
View ArticleRe: Move-VM to Blue Folder that Exists Multiple Places
Actually I just found the problem.When I did the blue folder path export it didn't include the DC name and your function requires the DC name in front of the path.Thanks for your reply.. Great...
View ArticleRe: Can/Should you store old snapshots in a different location or at all?
... best practice is to keep snapshots only as long a really necessary. Don't mix up snapshots with backups, they are definitely no substitute for backups! André
View ArticleRe: vCenter inventory missing using web client?
That was it! Thank you so much! It looks like this problem was two-fold. 1. When I installed the Inventory Service on the vCenter server, the software got installed but the windows service "VMware...
View ArticleRe: Export Resource Element (XML/text) from vCO using wf or scripts
I guess you haven't given write permissions to the folder you are trying to write to (in your first code snippet, this is the folder 'C:\Users\Ryan Wade\Desktop\XML'). Could you show me the content of...
View ArticleSpeed and Duplex settings for 10GbE CNA
I have read conflicting information on best practice recommendation for speed/duplex settings for 10GbE interfaces. In this case, we will also be passing FCoE traffic. (1) Is there a compelling reason...
View ArticleRe: Issue with Remove-VDSwitchVMHost
What does this produce ? $dvSw=Get-VDSwitch-Name$vDSName$dvSw.ExtensionData.Config.Host|Select@{N="Host";E={Get-View$_.Config.Host|Select-ExpandPropertyName}},...
View ArticleRe: Flickering screen using Fusion 5.0.3 on latest 2013 (Haswell) MacBook Air
I just tried turning off the graphics acceleration as suggested above, and the problem does seem to have gone away for now.I can use this until we get a fix. Do VMWare actually read these forums, or...
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Weekly vCAC blog summary
dailyhypervisor: "Workflow and script to change CPU's to core's" ClearAsCloud: "How to create an installer using MSBuild/CloudUtil" vCACTeam: "vCAC 5.2 Installation "Gotcha"" Federal CoE: "vCAC...
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Re: Issue with Remove-VDSwitchVMHost
That looks indeed like you discovered a "feature" Perhaps someone from the PowerCLI Dev Team cares to comment ?
View ArticleRe: Cannot connect virtual device ide0:0
My Woody, I certainly had no intention of helping anyone circumvent any license. I could care less about licensing mechanisms because I don't try to avoid them. The ONLY reason I posted a reply here is...
View ArticlePDXSerialization inconsistencies
Hi, We are using ReflectionBasedAutoSerializer to serialize the domain objects between client and server. We are noticing strange behavior, where one request is successfully received by the server....
View ArticleRe: Flickering screen using Fusion 5.0.3 on latest 2013 (Haswell) MacBook Air
I tried that too. I opened a support case. They have requested log files. They have been real good in the past with these kind of issues. I don't think we will have to wait too long for a resolution.
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Re: How to configure Multiple VLAN external portgroup running in ESXi...
Hi Once upon a time ... I tried to connect 2 pc (win-win and win-linux) to build a larger laboratory.Besides not being able to create multiple vlan and send packets over a trunk, I found problems with...
View ArticleRe: Upgrade to 5.1 Web Client loose vCenter Server
When logging in with the admin@system-domain user the Access --> Role Manager "vCenter Server:" dropdown in our environment is blank as well. This looks to be normal and due to permissions...
View ArticleRe: "Change Credential" results in "VcPlugin" is not defined
Has anyone had an issue where the change credentials provides different results? Without editing my schema, users may launch the workflow with identical information and have it succeed or fail. It...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.1 host accepts no network connetctions
I have compiled many of the tips in different pieces of this and other threads to clarify the process for anyone interested, and to save time. NOTE: Check the name of your datastore and replace...
View ArticleExport search results in VC
Sorry simple one but is there a way to export the results from a search which yields a list of VMs? Example, I search for a list of servers with a certain word in their description and get a list of...
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