Re: Global Session Timeout Doesnt seem to be working
Are you getting this data by clicking on remote session in the View web console and sorting by duration? I am not 100% sure this time is how long they have been connected but maybe how long they have...
View ArticleRe: Problems with disappearing hosts in a cluster.
Are the traceroute discrepancies specific to the ESXi hosts? Is there another machine (physical, laptop/etc) that can confirm this?
View ArticlePowerCLI for media replication with vCloud 5.1
We have several different vCloud instances each housing several distinct vOrgs (each vCloud instance has a Cloudlibrary vOrg for making ISOs available). I'm looking for a way to replicate media from...
View ArticleI was so happy when the script was running, but I made a mistake
I wrote a nice short script to move any VMs that had a thick disk format to a datastore and make it thin. Here is what I have: #Simple line, just getting the VMs with a thick HD and saving it to a...
View ArticleRe: Global Session Timeout Doesnt seem to be working
The Session time listed in the Inventory pages is not the value that the Global Session timeout uses. The Session time is the total time a session has been active on that particular VM. This...
View ArticleRe: ThinApp: Firefox 17ESR w/Flash plug in
In case anyone else runs into this. Here is the steps needed to address the problem. After installing the flash plugin: Disable Hardware Acceleration:Open a flash video > Right click video >...
View ArticleRe: Capturing Multiple App Layers on a VM
To capture an app layer, you need to have the "reference" machine in a pending state. To capture a base layer, you need to have the "reference" machine centralized as a reference machine. It's a little...
View ArticleRe: Problems with disappearing hosts in a cluster.
I've confirmed that other machines hit the second point, where they skip the default router. None of them communicate as regularly to our office as the ESXi hosts, though, so they haven't hit stage 3. -mS
View ArticleRe: VMware View 5.0
rupeshj, You may have already tried this, but here is a KB I found that describes the problem and the solution from VMware....
View ArticleRe: Generally Post-Scripts
The post_migration.bat file should work for XP to 7 migration. It runs after the first reboot and after the 17 or so series of steps while the user is locked out. Can you run the .bat file manually...
View ArticleRe: VSphere client disappears
The upload and download from the datastore used to work on my system. However I had not installed new applications at that time. Since then a number of apps and MS patches have been installed so it...
View ArticlevCenter Statistics Interval and Logging Options
I haven't looked at these settings in a while but we have recently built a new vSphere 5.1 environment so I thought I'd revisit and review . I have generally stuck with defaults modifying the 5 minutes...
View ArticleRe: VT-d support on desktop motherboard
Yes definitely use the add-in card for management. A cheap Intel or Realtek one will do the job. If that card goes down though you lose connectivity to the host as you won't be using Failover etc etc....
View ArticleRe: VSphere client disappears
The post by iw123 above includes a link on how to launch vSpher Client with verbose logging but I didn't find the log particularly helpful. The link is: VMware KB: Verbose logging for VMware...
View ArticleHA with 2 ESXi 5.1 Hosts, What happens when Master Hosts fails
Hi all, I have a cluster with 2 ESXi 5.1 hosts. With HA configured and stating it is protecting the VMs. I shutdown my slave host, to which HA reacted as expected and started the VM's on my master...
View ArticleRe: WS 9 client BSOD
Even though you're running Windows in a Virtual Machine nonetheless generally speaking these are not VMware issues per se. In other words these issues are more Windows related and as such typically...
View Articleenable to log to vcenter server
hii can't log to my vcenter appliance ussing web browser some one can help methanks to all
View ArticleRe: VT-d support on desktop motherboard
You cannot have two devices in two different contexts -- such as one used by VMkernel and one in pass-through -- using the same PCI slot. For example, the dual head NIC is dedicated to the VMkernel OR...
View ArticleEncrypted VM seems to have gotten corrupted (the VMX)
Hello Everyone, I have an encrypted VM that I use on a daily basis and my Linux PC decided to have a bad day and crash. I rebooted and when I rebooted I brought up my VM's again, The one came up just...
View ArticleRe: I was so happy when the script was running, but I made a mistake
Are you sure the datastore objects (returned by Get-Datastore) have a FreeSpaceGB property ?That property was added not that long ago. Or does that first selected datastore has so much free space that...
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