Did you know you can call up a graphical dcui while you are ssh'd into your host?Just type DCUINow you can access a black and white sh...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Friday, March 8, 2013
http://communities.vmware.com/message/2207331User Fred Weston had a error when he tried converting his amazon ec2 windows 2008 boxes to Vmware workstation vms. He experienced a BSOD that pointed to storport.sysivivanov posted this answer which was confirmed by Fred WestonYou need to somehow get access to the target disks. You can use VMware Workstation to mount the target VMDK or you can temporarily attach the disk with the Windows directory to another Windows VM (in this case you should open Disk Manager and select Rescan Disks command from...
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Dave.Mishchenko wrote a nice post on the advantages and disadvantages of using in guest iscsi connections vs having your esxi host handle it.http://communities.vmware.com/message/2206774 Advantages- easy to get past the 2 TB disk limit. This was more of an issue in the past as you can get around this in ESXi 5.1 with a physical RDM- required for official support with MS clustering - (see the support protocols section) - http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1037959Disadvantages- the backend storage network is exposed to a guest OS- portability...
Saturday, March 2, 2013
So you want to check your host's version number via powercli?Use this:This is setup for a single host****************************************#thanks ict-freak.nl#adapted from http://ict-freak.nl/2009/06/09/powercli-get-esx-version-info/#host will be the host name you want to check$vhost = Read-Host "Enter the host name you want to check"Connect-VIServer $vhostget-vmhost $vhost | Sort Name -Descending | % { $server = $_ |get-view; ` ...
Friday, March 1, 2013
Nice post here from user: SteveShepherdhttp://communities.vmware.com/message/2203951Received this error while rescanning his storage adaptors:Error while rescanning adapter vmhba36. Error was Unable to scan VMkernel SCSI subsystem for new devices.Sysinfo error on operation returned status : Maximum allowed SCSI paths have already been claimed.Problem:His count of the scsi paths was no where near 1024, which is the toal number of...
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