Re: How to limit number of user sessions on vCenter?
I know this is a really old post, but I've recently ran into an issue where vCenter blocks us at 50 connections via the API. I've added the maxConnecionCount tag set to 100 under vmdb, but we're still...
View ArticleAvamar Gen 4 not taking snapshots of Vcenter or SQL VM's
So in one of our domains that we manage I have an EMC Avamar system backing up our Vcenter which is working fine using Proxies. We have an isolated cluster for our Vcenter server and Vcenter SQL...
View ArticleRe: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon
I wonder if it's my card cards (6450 and 5450) that are the reason DXVA isn't working. Passthrough seems to be working fine otherwise (5.1 U1) but ofcourse I can't passthough USB controllers or HID...
View ArticleRe: Does VCENTER control access to external objects
vCenter controlles access to everything inside of your vSphere client so it controlles access to the ESXi host as well as the VMs.but inside of the VMs it would be the server and/or active directory.i...
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Re: Need help with vSphere PowerCLI script to report on all Thin Provisioned...
An easy way to query all thin provisioned VMDK's is using powerGUI and query the Thin provisioned VMDK, under Best Practice Queries --> Disk QueriesI know that this is an old post, but someone out...
View ArticlevCenter Web Service Authentication Fails
Hello, I am having an issue authenticating to the web service on vCenter 5.0. Here is the situation: Case 1: vCenter 5.1Setup a Windows account in vCenter with read-only permission.The authentication...
View ArticleRe: Does VCENTER control access to external objects
Well this is more of a behind the scenes thing. While Vcenter is the topic it is actually at a hrmm a bad way to say it would be the code level maybe? Basically when VCENTER is deployed you setup a...
View ArticleMigrate but DO NOT restart VMs with HA?
I have a scenario where I want HA enabled, but on certain VMs, I don't want HA to restart the VMs on another host if there is a failure, but I want the VMs accessible. The closest option that I saw...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5 critical Issue
i got /var/run/vmware/tickets/vmtck-52 .XXXXXX Could not be created by the application " hosted-worker" i have been getting this error after configuring SNMP traps on esx for netcool ( monitoring...
View ArticleESX SNMP ISSUE
" /var/run/vmware/tickets/vmtck-52 .XXXXXX Could not be created by the application " hosted-worker" " --- i have been getting this error after configuring SNMP traps on esx for netcool ( monitoring...
View ArticleWindows 7 QuickPrep CMID
I'm having an issue with a couple Windows 7 parents. I have KMS setup. However when I provision new desktops the CMID does not change. I'm using QuickPrep to provision new desktops. I ran this...
View Articleram disk full on ESXi 5.0
Hello,The vmkernel log on my ESXi 5.0.0 machine is full of the following: WARNING: VisorFSRam: 227: Cannot extend visorfs file /var/log/ipmi/0/.sel_header.raw because its ramdisk (root) is full.I have...
View ArticleRe: Question about MAC addresses Automatic vs Manual
Thanks André! that clarifies a lot for me
View ArticleRe: What LUN does an RDM point to?
You can run the command directly from the console (ESXi Shell or SSH) of an ESXi host. André
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.1.0 do not TAG VLAN frames - BUG REPORT
Are you still seeing this behavior? I am seeing similar behavior with esxi 5.1 and a Netgear switch. I'm not convinced it's not a Netgear problem though. I have the management VLAN on the switch (a...
View ArticleRe: Migrate but DO NOT restart VMs with HA?
I'm not aware of an option to do this with HA. What I could think of is to configure the database server service for a manual startup!? André
View ArticleWin 7 64-bit host and Server 2008 SP2 64-bit guest. System periodically slows...
The hardware isi7-2655LE with a QM67 chipset, 8GB memory and 500GB hard drive.The host system is just there to launch the image and I do not want the user to be able to access the host system.Image...
View ArticleRe: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon
I have tried 3xxx, 5xxx and 6xxx cards without DXVA success but I have never tried a 7xxx card. I have a GA-X58A UD3R mobo and have had it running 5 graphics cards at once without issue, 1 was in an...
View ArticleRe: Win 7 64-bit host and Server 2008 SP2 64-bit guest. System periodically...
Welcome to the Community, I'd start troubleshooting with taking a look at the VM's vmware.log to see whether it contains any hints. Often such issues are caused by a connected virtual CD-ROM or Floppy...
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