Re: Trend Micro Deep Security 9
(disclaimer: I'm a Trend Micro Deep Security trainer) Yep, I agree the DSM logs are often too generic and do not help to easily find out problems during deploy, and I can confirm a proper DNS...
View ArticleRe: SQL Server 2012 performance issues running on ESXi5
Hi, can someone explain to me, how will block sizes interfere with performance of your disks.SQL recommends formatting your disks with 64K block sizes. Now VMFS5 only uses 1MB block sizes (can this be...
View ArticleRe: VMRC Console black screen
Same result ! I tried to set the priority of the vmrc plugin and of the firefox plugin container to high.
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.1 and IBM DS4700 SAN
Hi, Yes i'm currently using a DS4700 with HP DL380 G8 Servers without any issues. regards Mike
View ArticleVCD Guest Customization fail to complete before vmtools reboots Server
Hi All, Looking for some help. I am attempting to run a powershell script at post customization. This script works fine if run standalone. The issue I can see from the logs is the vmware tools marks...
View ArticleRe: VCD Guest Customization fail to complete before vmtools reboots Server
Hi Andrii, Thanks for the reply, yes it runs in the post customization. The log is attached, the first part of our script is to copy files using robocopy which you can see starts in the log....
View ArticleRe: Need assistance in choosing between Vsphere ICM 5.1 and Vsphere FT
If you have the option of doing the Fast track course over the ICM I would jump at the chance, you are effectively getting 2 courses for the price of 1.5. there is a lot of slack in the ICM at the...
View ArticleRe: VCenter Service Failing.
how is your vCenter configured? Do you have a local vC database or is it remote, if local you may need to set the vCenter server services startup with a dependancy on the MSSQL instance.
View ArticleProblemilla con discos iscsi - "performance has deteriorated. i/o latency...
Pues eso, dos discos Iscsi se me desconectan y me dejan las máquinas tontas y inaccesibles ... Adjunto foto. Porque puede estar pasando esto?? Problemas con el NAS que me publica los discos Iscsi???...
View ArticleRe: vCENTER LICENSE
Unfortunately no, you will need to upgrade your current essentials licenses to the required full versions. if you just buy a vCenter license if may refuse to accept your vSphere essentials licenses....
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.1 on HP Compaq DC7900
Your software raid is not support and will not work with ESXi, That said if this is just for a lab then make sure that you get a supported controller and NIC card from the HCL and you should be good...
View ArticleRe: Deploying VM's from template using customisation
2013-07-01T12:12:11.051+01:00 [04372 info 'Default' opID=C4CF1FC5-00001035-9-a8] [VmCustomizer] hostVersion = 5.1.0, tools version = 92162013-07-01T12:12:11.067+01:00 [04372 info 'Default'...
View ArticleTrouble with SATA Harddisks ...
These messages are logged in vmkernel.log with WD SATA Harddisks attached to the mainboard-SATA-controller: 2013-06-30T06:15:01.293Z cpu2:2572)<3>ata5: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr...
View ArticleAdding Note
Hi everybody, When i click on "add a note", by default the button "OK" is selected. How can I change that in a way that the agents can directly write their message ? I'm on vSM 9.1 (French version)...
View ArticleRe: SQL 2008 R2 Cluster using RDM in VM
At a high level that is correct, but I would recommend reading the above referenced document as there are a few gotchas in the configuration of MSCS on vSphere
View ArticleStorage DRS recommendation
Hi I've got mixture of data stores VMFS 3.XX and VMFS 5.XX , my intention is to setup Storage DRS and upgrade the VMFS 3.XX to 5.XX .Can anyone please suggest me the best practice. Thanksmumzi
View ArticleRe: No LUN available when trying to add Storage
Why would you want to create a 100MB LUN, infact why would you want a 1GB LUN, remember Shared storage is for placing your guests on. what operating system installs in less that 1GB
View ArticleThinDirect - URL redirection from virtual IE8 virtual IE7
Hi, in a customer we have this situation: - PC with WinXPSP3 with IE6 or IE7- Virtual IE7 used for SAP DWH- Virtual IE8 used for new internal sites We have configured ThinDirect to redirect a couple of...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.1 on HP Compaq DC7900
Hi Tom Thanks for replying. This is my test lab thta I'm building at home. Do you reckon buying a PCI Express Astrotek AT-CPES6 2-ch SATA 3.0 RAID 0,1 Adapter would solve my problem??...
View ArticleRe: I'm seeing cpu freezes at random in most of my VMs ESX4.0.0
what is your pCPU to vCPU ratio?what does CPU Ready state in your Windows VM's (Perfmon State)what is your Storage stack? the thing is there are many variables that could be causing CPU blips, not just...
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