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vSphere 4u1 - any issues?

krowczynski — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:56:37 GMT

I've updated both of my hosts (Dell R410) with VUM with no problems.
Everything went fine!

MCP, VCP

What happened to forum?!!

etung — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:21:06 GMT

Just noticed. Multiple Widen clicks keep expanding it.

Right, in increments of 50 pixels. Minimum width is approximately the (current) default size.

Does VMware Player 3.0 require VT?

jmattson — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:43:03 GMT

Almost all 64-bit AMD CPUs (except for the very earliest ones) support segment limit checks in 64-bit mode. This allows the virtual machine monitor to share a single virtual address space with the guest OS, yet still protect itself from the guest OS without the overhead of page-level protection. Segment protection for the virtual machine monitor is crucial to the success of our binary translation technology.

No 64-bit Intel CPU supports segment limit checks in 64-bit mode. Therefore, we can't use binary translation with 64-bit guests on Intel hardware.

VC4: Overview performance could not be loaded

HughBorg707 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:13:23 GMT

Ahh, I was hoping that would work for you.

I've run into the problem here and there so I wasn't sure if it was a gateway, dns, or SQL issue... or just a random mix of all of them.

Regards

HP BL460c G1

Anton V Zhbankov — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:15:23 GMT

This document is a detail page for the Community-Supported Hardware/Software List.

Tell Us About the Product

Vendor	HP
Product	BL460c
Product Version	G1
Tell Us About the Configuration You Tested
VMware Infrastructure	ESXi 4.0, ESX 4.0, ESXi 3.5u4, ESXi 3.5u3, ESXi 3.5u2, ESXi 3.5u1, ESXi 3.5, ESX 3.5u4, ESX 3.5u3, ESX 3.5u2, ESX 3.5u1, ESX 3.5
Configuration Tested
Integration Method
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Submitter	Anton V Zhbankov
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Community-Supported Hardware/Software List

Shortened logins on forum

Anton V Zhbankov — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:23:17 GMT

Robert, I see such behavior on all levels - forum engine does not check if nickname fits text area, it just shortens nick to fixed amount of symbols.

The only place where it is needed - forum topics list and boxes next to comments/posts. Maybe it would be better to check required width dynamically and wrap nicknames? So we'll see
"Anton V
Zhbankov"

instead of "Anton V Zhban..." for example. Funniest thing of all is that shortened nickname in my case is exactly the same length as original one.

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Hide this message

Anton V Zhbankov — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:14:14 GMT

Thank you.

Yes, it uses too much real estate. When I press X-button I want to remove it from my screen. Completely. Not just make it a little bit smaller.

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Issues with AD group

anelyubin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:25:57 GMT

Hi! Could you please post a link to the article where you get this information. Thank you!

FT VM Backup

lamw — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:30:42 GMT

From the look of the thread, the questions around snapshot really pertain to backups and trying to leverage tools such as VCB/VDR which require snapshots for their full image backup to work. Yes you could rely on traditional backup software that does in-guest backups, but it it sounds like more people are interesting in full image backup. Atm, this requires snapshots and since an FT protected VM does not support snapshots, full image backups are not possible ...

You're correct, the only way to backup full FT VMs today is to fully turn off FT, snapshot the VM if you need the VM running while the VM is being backed up (most people probably do it this way) and then remove the snapshot and re-enable FT. Regarding the issue of the failed backup, I would probably create a clean up script that runs every so often checking on these '*special*' VMs and removing any snapshots that may have been left and re-enable FT, it's crappy hack but if you really need to backup full FT VMs, this probably would suffice. All this would be possible leveraging the vSphere SDK in either PowerCLI or even vSphere SDK for Perl but will need to be executed against a vCenter since FT is a vCenter feature so tools such as ghettoVCB would not work

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VMDirectPath

Anton V Zhbankov — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:38:04 GMT

Yes, I thought so, but this image looks confusing.

http://clip2net.com/clip/m19209/1248598394-clip-225kb.png

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Осенняя встреча Russia VMware User Group

krupskij — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:02:24 GMT

Ответил в личку на форуме и на почту

Windows VM reports duplicate IP address

bulletprooffool — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:39:24 GMT

When these each of these VMs is down, I presume you can not ping it . . and of course . .they do not have the same IP as each other.

Is it possibkle that you are patching the vSwitcheson the ESX hosts into different switches for resillience and thephysical switches are not trunked properly? So in other words, each switch sees a NIC, presented with the same Mac?

Осенняя встреча Russia VMware User Group

fribourg — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:24:42 GMT

Это информационное сообщение передано сервером gazniiproekt.ru.

Сервер не смог доставить сообщение электронной почты

Subject: Russia VMware User Group New message: "Re: Осенняя вст ...
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:29:25 -0700

по следующим адресам:

<asukhorukov@gazniiproekt.ru> (gazniiproekt.ru: 450 4.3.0 Mailbox alias cannot be expanded)

Это временная ошибка. Сервер продолжит попытки доставить это сообщение.
Если сообщение не будет доставлено за установленное время, вы получите
повторное уведомление.

View USB redirection and Bitlocker

tomski — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:47:00 GMT

chris, i only get the error if i use "redirect user data", without any separate disk, no problem occurs...

greez tomski

We have new Champion!

DLeid — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:25:39 GMT

Your still my hero and I want to be like you when I grow up, even if you have your own personal anesthsiologist.

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Use custom names instead port numbers

Anton V Zhbankov — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:43:17 GMT

Could you please help me with this issue http://communities.vmware.com/thread/219974?tstart=0

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Strange numbers in VM Flow report

Anton V Zhbankov — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:02:15 GMT

I have VM with Windows File Server and a couple of iSCSI LUNs on external array connected via software initiator from windows.
So, traffic for this file server should be approx 50/50 in/out.

But VM Flow report shows 196GB in / 1.8TB out. How can that be? Almost all outbound traffic is to port 3260, iSCSI.

I have antivirus on this VM, so traffic difference can be explained by antivirus that checks a lot of files. But I suppose there should reverse situation, inbound traffic above outbound. Or I just understand inbound / outbound wrong?

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vShield & VLANs

carlosVSZ — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:57:17 GMT

vShield will work with VLANs. As far as the configuration, if you are installing in a legacy vSwitch using the automated install (see Quick Start Guide) there is no additional configuration required. The automated install will apply the required configuration for the vShield to work with VLANs.

If you are doing a manual install/installing on vDS, all you have to do is configure the Unprotected and Protected port groups in VLAN trunking mode and select the VLAN range. Instructions for this can be located in page 33 and 34 of the Administration Guide (step 4 of the 'Create the Un/Protected dvPort Group" section)

http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vsz_pubs.html

ESX 4 / 3.5 mixed cluster

hmundt — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:23:09 GMT

It is supported, but you should only upgrade the virtual hardware after the cluster is all ESX 4. This means you cannot use some of the new features (like hotplug, PCI passthrough etc.) until then

Темы докладов на летней встрече VMware User Group Russia

Anton V Zhbankov — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:52:45 GMT

Точнее сказать, это неофициальное мероприятие, организуемое пользователями продуктов VMware для обмена опытом при поддержке VMware. Но официального статуса не имеет.

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Встреча VMware User Group Russia 26 июня

Anton V Zhbankov — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:28:07 GMT

Господа и, надеюсь, дамы!

26го июня (предварительная дата) состоится встреча российских пользователей VMware. Пока планируется на вторую половину дня, но если наберется достаточно докладов, то возможно и на целый день.

Темы докладов определяются, еще есть возможность высказать пожелания

Регистрация здесь - http://vsphere.vm4.ru/vmug.

P.S. если кто-то хочет не только послушать, но и рассказать о своем опыте - милости просим!

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FT & Snapshots

AndreTheGiant — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:02:19 GMT

Yes, is the quite the same.
Snap, backup, erase snap.

Andre
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ESXi 3.5u4: Strange health status

bulletprooffool — Wed, 20 May 2009 08:39:39 GMT

Hey Josh - I tried that (in fact it was the very first thing I tried ) - even though ILO returns zero issues, VM still returns a warning

vNIC speed on 10Gbps

ivp2k9 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:10:19 GMT

here are some more results on network throughput of VMWared guests. Again, all "physical" boxes are Dell PE860 with X3220 CPU and Intel e1000 NICs. Testing is performed with iperf-2. All physicalbox-physicalbox transfers (depending on OS for client and server) are 920-950mbit/s.
"WMWared" transfers are measured on the "clientside" between a CentOS5 physical server (client) and a VM (server) running on an identical physical server with VMWare Server2. All VMs feature 1GB RAM and AMD "Lance" 10mbit/s ethernet.

Here are some throughput values:

WinXP x32 SP3 vanila -- 345mbit/s (100% of 1 core eaten by vmware-vmx process on the vmware-server box)
Win2k3SP1 x32 vanila -- 349mbit/s (100% of 1 core eaten by vmware-vmx process on the vmware-server box)
Win2k3SP1 x32 vmware-tools -- 767mbit/s (92% of 1 core eaten by vmware-vmx process on the vmware-server box)
FreeBSD7-i386 GENERIC vanila -- 588mbit/s (100% of 1 core eaten by vmware-vmx process on the vmware-server box)
FreeBSD7-i386 custom vanila -- 708mbit/s (100% of 1 core eaten by vmware-vmx process on the vmware-server box)

None of these values obviously corelates with the speed indicated by guest os lance driver -- 10mbit/s.

Puede ser some mega-optimized VMI-aware guest may actully get close to utilizing a XE (having some 10mbit/s "adapter").

VMFS and deleted files

Anton V Zhbankov — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:28:09 GMT

sfx_pix, I just want to understand how the whole process is organized.

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Problem with links posting

Anton V Zhbankov — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:47:17 GMT

To check if it is a solution...

http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?action=search&deviceCategory=io&productId=1&advancedORbasic=advanced&maxDisplayRows=50&key=&release[]=15&datePosted=-1&ioTypeId[]=6&vid=&did=&svid=&ssid=

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VMware vExpert Award

MariaSidorova — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:59:02 GMT

Это точно!

Оказывается их таких 4

VMware User Group Russia - LinkedIn

Anton V Zhbankov — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:41:04 GMT

Уважаемые коллеги, хочу пригласить вас в группу VMware User Group Russia социальной сети LinkedIn.
Это не замена и не альтернатива данному форуму, а напротив, удобное дополнение.

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Update manager 1.0u4 issues

Anton V Zhbankov — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:19:38 GMT

Problem solved. It looks like it was clean update manager installation, so no information retained.
Just forgot to attach baselines.

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HA agent disabled on diskless ESXi

Anton V Zhbankov — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:30:11 GMT

Problem solved - this is hardware problem with HP USB keys shipped between March 31, 2008 and September 15, 2008.

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How to set memory limit for VM through VI Toolkit?

njain — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:58:18 GMT

For changing the memory settings as reservation, limit and shares for VMs, you will have to use the ReconfigVM method and set these values using the VirtualMachineConfigSpec.

http://communities.vmware.com/message/899235#899235

Thousands of vmware-xxxx.log

Texiwill — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:44:27 GMT

Hello,

Moved to ESXi Forum.

You can limit the number of logs within the VIC under advanced options for each VM. However, it looks like you are having problems removing logfiles. You may have to go into the VMFS and remove the log files by hand. Refer to http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vi35_security_hardening_wp.pdf for assistance on limiting log files.

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Disable TCP Checksum offload

hugopeeters — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:05:43 GMT

Or you can use the VI Toolkit (Powershell) and my script:
http://www.peetersonline.nl/index.php/vmware/modifying-vswitch-offload-policy-with-powershell/

Cannot mount NFS datastore to ESXi Embedded

Anton V Zhbankov — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:07:35 GMT

Yes. This VM works as ISO storage for ESX'es, yum repository for linux and distrib storage for linux and windows vms.
Currently I have 2 ESX'es and 1 ESXi connected - cluster this VM resides on. And now I want to connect ESXi from another cluster.

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Diskless ESXi's and scratchconfig place

Dave.Mishchenko — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:16:24 GMT

You can create a subfolder for each host.

Applications in Unity mode stay off screen

Anton V Zhbankov — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:06:37 GMT

Host: XP SP3 32bit, WS6.5 final
Guest: RHEL5.2
Monitor: widescreen 1440*900

VM enters Unity mode, then I try to start some application, for. ex terminal. Terminal appears at my host task bar, but application window stays off screen. Maximize doesn't change anything. If I press "move" or "resize" mouse cursor jumps to bottom left corner and still nothing changed.

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Oracle VM to VMware conversion

Anton V Zhbankov — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:43:57 GMT

Oracle VM - is Xen-based virtualization platform from Oracle. I have a couple of VM's in this format (i.e. virtual disks) and have no spare servers to install Oracle VM. Guest OS is Oracle Linux as far as I understood.

Main question is how to convert hard disk from this .img to .vmdk? Qemu-img didn't do it right way.

VCB: FC though RDM

Erik Zandboer — Mon, 26 May 2008 12:52:30 GMT

Not having any NPIV supported HBAs; no I have not tried this myself. However, the NPIV feature is no longer experimental, so I suppose it must do something