Identifying Risks in P to V migration
I'm looking for help on strategy and planning relative to a P2V project. What are all the things that I need to think of when identifying risks related to servers that are potential P2V candidates?...
View ArticleVM overview performance charts/data don't match the advanced charts/data for...
VM overview performance charts/data don't match the advanced charts/data for the exact same time period. Why is it? What I saw was that i viewed the past 1 month performance data on the Overview...
View ArticleDetailed description of windows perfmon counters (VM Memory and VM Processor)
Recently took a class and found VMware offers a couple windows countesr. I'm looking for a detailed description of what each metric is. I found some basic things on vmwares site how to get to them,...
View ArticleManual start of iddle memory reclamation / forced memory ballooning.
Hi, vEXperts and vGurus. Is there any way to force idle memory reclamation or inflate ballon manually inside VM? There are some Windows VMs I have on a ESXi host and there is a lot of unused memory...
View ArticleProblem with Microsft Cluster : error 1038 - 1036
HI, I have setup a Microsoft cluster using the vmware guide. Everything work find except that I get errors every morning about reservation of a cluster disk lost, ressource not respond to a SCSI...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Blue Dump
Hello,I need to know how to troubleshoot a virtual machine throwing blue dump. There are 2 VMs, when I power it on, it throws blue dump for less than second and restarts/shuts down. So there is no...
View ArticleWindows 2012 STD resource recommendations
We are about to deploy a few Windows 2012 R2 Standard VM. One will be a general File Server. The second will be a WEB Server and the third is to be a SQL2008 Server. Can anyone give me a...
View ArticleSocket and core value
Dear Team, I want to create one VM where we need to set 16 cores. I have query related to cores and socket. what will be the number of virtual socket needs to selectand what will be the number of cores...
View ArticleWant to know the Disk Usage
Dear Team, If I see check disk usage performance for one production VMs it show the below Latest 67640 KBpsMax : 798919 KBps just want to know how do I convert above value in mbps regardsMr VMware
View ArticleMaintaining compliance with Puppet / Chef
Can I use a configuration management tool like puppet or Chef to actually install Windows Updates on Existing Windows server VMs to keep them in compliance, or do I need another tool do to this?Thanks!
View ArticleFree tools for automating Windows Updates
Are there any free tools for automating Windows updates of Windows VMs?
View ArticleGettting networkusage alert
Dear Team, whenever my VM disk usage is high then I m getting "Network disk usage" alert, when I check the network usage for that VM then it s not more that 300KBps just want to know when I m getting...
View ArticleHow to calculate Max Disk Usage
Dear team, I want to know how to calculate max disk usage for one host. to calculate max disk usage metric what points needs to take into account. need ur assistance. we have cisco ucs b 00 blade...
View Articleis cpu hot add available on red hat linux 5 , 32 bit os ?
is cpu hot add available on red hat linux 5 , 32 bit os ?the vm is powered off and when i check in edit settings, there is no field for cpu/memory hot plug. and vm HW version is 8.
View ArticleMany delta vmdk files causing large amount of storage
Dear All, Some VMs in my system, beside the original vmdk file created at first, there are some delta vmdk files: ...-000001.vmdk, ...-000002.vmdk, ... although I removed all snapshots on those VMs....
View ArticlePreventing Snapshots
How can I prevent anyone, anywhere from taking a snapshot of a given VM, regardless of their permissions in vCenter? Do I have to use role permissions on this, or can it be set in the .vmx file or...
View ArticleLimit snapshots on only one virtual disk of a VM
Can I prevent snapshots from being taken on only one virtual disk of a VM, but allow them for other virtual disks, if that virtual disk has already been created?
View Articleprefered log file to troubleshoot specific issues
Dear Team, Request you to let me know if I am facing below issue which log file we have to refer. Converter => which logs we have to refer (preferred log file)SAN (DAtastore issue) => which log...
View ArticleIndependent Disk Caveats
I would like to create some independent persistent disks to prevent them from being affected by snapshots, and save space on the array.What are the possible drawbacks / caveats I need to be aware of...
View ArticleP to V - ESX 5.1 - Windows Server 2003 + SQL Server
Good Morning:I am having a bear of a time P to V a Windows Server 2003 that has SQL Server 2005 running with multiple instances. The bottom line, I have a ESX 5.1 environment and attempting to bring in...
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