vCenter Converter unable to see disks on source
I'm working on converting a physical 2008 R2 server to a virtual machine for ESX 4.1. I installed vCenter Converter Standalone 4.3 on this machine and ran through…
I'm working on converting a physical 2008 R2 server to a virtual machine for ESX 4.1. I installed vCenter Converter Standalone 4.3 on this machine and ran through…
I'm starting to plan for an upgrade of VMWare ESX 4.1 U1 to ESXi 5.0 and since ESXi 5.0 makes this possible to do an in place upgrade,…
Installation of Proxmox VE 3.2 on an ESX 4.1 host. Note that KVM in Proxmox VE is not supported due to VT-x virtualization not being supported in ESX…
I got kicked in the face by this again, and I even had the resolution documented internally. Lost 45 minutes looking through logs before I finally search VMware…
The Problem I often use esxtop to review realtime performance metrics of various aspects of my virtual infrastructure. One annoying thing is that I cannot view multiple ESX…
This is a great KB article from VMware worth reposting. I'm going to start analyzing storage I/O more today on all the arrays I have and LUNs. Article…
Dear Valued Customer, VMware is announcing an End of Availability (“EoA”) date for VMware vSphere® ESX hypervisor 4.x and for VMware Management Assistant (“vMA”) versions 1…
UPDATE: I had originally thought I had resolved this by removing/re-adding the adapter. Turns out the issue reappeared this morning. After more researching, I found that it was…
Looking over some of my Windows 2008 R2 servers, I notice via Task Manager that their memory is 90%+ quite often. Using Sysinternal’s RAMMap tool, I can quickly…
Add-PSSnapin VMware.vimautomation.core Connect-VIServer -server 10.10.10.1 -user "user" -password "luser" (get-vm -name "ZEUS").extensiondata.config.extraconfig | sort key | format-table Example Output Key Value DynamicType DynamicProperty --- ----- ----------- --------------- ethernet0.pciSlotNumber…
I received the following error this morning on my vCenter server after a brief reboot for a few Windows updates: Hardware Monitoring on This Host is Not Responding…
I had some temperature spikes in the data center recently that caused havoc and for some reason I never received notifications. I guess this isn't configured to email…
In vSphere Client 4.1, it is documented that to disable the Getting Started tab of VMs, you go to Edit -> Client Settings and untick Show Getting Started…
Came across a great step-by-step article on migrating from standard vSwitch to vNetwork Distributed Switch in VMware vSphere 4.1.x. Zod Chen did a great write-up on his site…
VMware VirtualCenter Service will not start. The VMware VirtualCenter Server service terminated with service-specific error The system cannot find the file specified.. I found that this is because…