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Hi We have a v5.5. vCenter, vSphere, vCloud Director system. vCenter is on Windows 2008 R2. We trialled the VMware Log Insight and felt that the log filtering value was not worth the price being...
View ArticleQuestion about Expandable Reservation??
Hi, I have created the Resource pool in my Environment and set the VM Reservation value as 1024MB with Expandable Reservation option. Also Set 512MB Reservation for VM1 and VM2 respectively and moved...
View ArticleRe: quiescing the guest file system creating two snapshot files
Good morning everyone, I found some information out yesterday. I called VMWare support and was told the following. (The tech is going to followup on part of this but if anyone else can confirm that...
View ArticleRe: quiescing the guest file system creating two snapshot files
Out of curiosity. Are two snapshots created even when creating the snapshot manually?With backup applications this behavior is not unusual. The first snapshot is created for the VM to write the changed...
View ArticleRe: quiescing the guest file system creating two snapshot files
Yes. It creates two files on a manual snap and one created by commvault if quiescing the guest is checked. I guess the cbt question is more if we take a manual snap in between nightly backups. Of if...
View ArticleSeparate SSO servers for small environments?
We have (2)different VMWare 5.1 environments for security reasons. We have (1)vCenter server with 6 hosts and 100 VMs and another vCenter server with 20 hosts and 500 VMs. The only reason we have...
View ArticleRe: Maintenance Mode Question
That's a good point you bring up Frank. I was thinking about turning large pages off to help TPS kick in sooner. What are the recommendations for this?
View ArticleWhat keeps turning off SSH on my hosts?
So inherited an environment running 5.1 (vCenter and ESXi) I have one cluster that is I enable SSH from the security profile, it gets turned back off within a few minutes. This does not happen with new...
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Re: Separate SSO servers for small environments?
HiThere is VMware blog post here regarding when to centralize SSO When to Centralize vCenter Single Sign-On Server 5.5 | VMware vSphere Blog - VMware BlogsFor vSphere 5.5 the VMware recommendation is...
View ArticleRe: Purge data from VCSA 5.5 postgres database (vpx_event & vpx_event_arg...
Couldn't find a clean way to purge some of the table data, so we ended up truncating the whole table. I dumped both the vpx_event and the vpx_event_arg tables for archive purposes and then did:...
View ArticleRe: Separate SSO servers for small environments?
Hi Friend, In addition to "Bayu's" suugestion. 3. You can go for MultiVC environment where multiple VCs are connected to same SSO. & In order to provide HA to SSO, you could configure SSO with...
View ArticleReplacing the VCENER VM with Physical VCENTER
Hi a Customer requested VCENTER to be installed on a VM due to budget limitations he had before but now want to have a physical Server to replace the VM the thing is it has multiple of applications and...
View ArticleRe: Replacing the VCENER VM with Physical VCENTER
I am curious as to the reason/justification in moving back the vCenter Server to a physical machine. Being a VM, it already has all the advantages provided by virtualization, HA, DRS, decouple from...
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Re: Replacing the VCENER VM with Physical VCENTER
correct old school + I dont know why the Customer is convinced that having the VCENTER on Physical Machine removes some complications of having vcenter on VM we tried to convince him with no luck
View ArticleUpdating rules of table vpx_guest_disk in vCenter database ?
Hello everybody, Does anybody know how is refreshed the table VPX_GUEST_DISK in vCenter database ??? My interrogation starts from the reflection that vpx_guest_disk contains 4 interesting columns :...
View ArticleRe: ESXi host shows "not responding" in vSphere web console after 60-90...
Hi There Have you ever found the solution to this problem you had. Im sitting with exactly the same issue. ThanksPaul
View ArticleRe: ESXi host shows "not responding" in vSphere web console after 60-90...
Hi Is windows firewall turned on in vCenter? If yes, can you try turning off to see if the issue persists.
View ArticleWeb Client poor performance in RDP
I'm not sure is much people like my case, we P2V over 70% - 80% of our physical boxes in past few years, most of technicians coming from remote site to support VMs.People usually uses RDP login Web...
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