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The out of the box settings for looking at things such as stress and capacity need tweaking. I typically modify my policies to reflect the actual hours of the day I have workloads running(why wou... See more...
The out of the box settings for looking at things such as stress and capacity need tweaking. I typically modify my policies to reflect the actual hours of the day I have workloads running(why would I report when I know my servers are all idle?) and to make the idea of stress slightly more or less aggressive depending on what application group I'm working with. There's also quite a bit of bugs in v6 that hopefully get fixed soon. 6.0 was completely broken for me and then I updated to 6.1 which was still broken slightly less. I had to wipe out my entire install and start all over on a fresh 6.1 install but even that is having issues with acknowledged(by VMware) bugs.
In the vSphere thick client, the end-user can do the following- 1. Deploy virtual machine from template 2. Customize using an existing customization specification 3. Use the Customization Wi... See more...
In the vSphere thick client, the end-user can do the following- 1. Deploy virtual machine from template 2. Customize using an existing customization specification 3. Use the Customization Wizard to temporarily adjust the specification before deployment 4. Can modify all settings of the customization and then deploy. In this case, we need to modify the IP settings. In the vSphere web client, the end user can do all of the above outside of modifying the settings of the customization. One can use the "Create new specification from existing one", but this results in the new specification being automatically saved instead of just being discarded as a one-time deal as the thick client does. When setting the customization specification to ask the end-user for an IP, that is it, you can only input the IP. You cannot change the subnet, gateway, or IP. Is there something we are doing wrong? Basically, the one thing we want to do when utilizing the customization specification is change the IP(we do not use DHCP for servers), subnet mask, and gateway. All of this can easily be done in the thick client using the example above. Thanks in advance for any help on this and embarassed if this is a user-error issue.
http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2015/02/17/vsphere-60-breaking-large-pages/http:// http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2015/03/02/what-happens-at-which-vsphere-memory-state/ From my experience, most ... See more...
http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2015/02/17/vsphere-60-breaking-large-pages/http:// http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2015/03/02/what-happens-at-which-vsphere-memory-state/ From my experience, most of the "issue" is because of large pages. When I trick vSphere in to using small pages everything works wonderfully and I can cram many times the amount of virtual machines on the server.
This is a known bug - http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2052917
VMware support came back to me and said it is a known bug in 5.1 and should be fixed in the future. There is also a KB article for this that looks like it was updated July 24th. Not sure if this ... See more...
VMware support came back to me and said it is a known bug in 5.1 and should be fixed in the future. There is also a KB article for this that looks like it was updated July 24th. Not sure if this  is due to me opening the case or that KB has been out there and I never noticed it - http://kb.vmware.com/kb/205291
I'm also having this same exact issue. My 5.0 hosts do not exhibit this issue, only the 5.1 hosts.
Can some of you please do me a favor? Find a VM of yours running on ESXi 5.1, preferably 1117900 and let me know if you are seeing Rx packet loss in the performance stats that vCenter provides. E... See more...
Can some of you please do me a favor? Find a VM of yours running on ESXi 5.1, preferably 1117900 and let me know if you are seeing Rx packet loss in the performance stats that vCenter provides. Every single VM in my environment is reporting packet loss. Virtual machines running on ESXi 5.0 are not reporting this at all. This is also not an issue at the host level as there is no noted packet loss there.
I will be opening a case, but I'm having an extremely annoying issue where the hosts now get stuck int he "Remediating" state despite the upgrade to 5.1 being completed. When this is happening, t... See more...
I will be opening a case, but I'm having an extremely annoying issue where the hosts now get stuck int he "Remediating" state despite the upgrade to 5.1 being completed. When this is happening, the host will keep connecting/disconnecting from vCenter until I cancel the remediation manually.. Additionally, this problem persists through even to the following patches that I am installing after the initial update. Interested to see if anyone else is having this issue.
You are correct(based on my experience) and the following info straight from VMware - VMware vCenter Operations Manager 5.7.1 User Accounts To register vCenter Operations Manager with a ... See more...
You are correct(based on my experience) and the following info straight from VMware - VMware vCenter Operations Manager 5.7.1 User Accounts To register vCenter Operations Manager with a vCenter Server, you must provide the minimum set of user credentials for that vCenter Server. The minimum privileges required to register and unregister vCenter Operations Manager with a vCenter Server are Global: Licenses and Extension: Register extension, unregister extension, update extension . The user account you use for collecting data with vCenter Operations Manager determines the scope and accuracy of the monitoring data. vCenter Operations Manager does not require administrator privileges to collect data from a vCenter Server. However, the scope of data collected depends on the privileges of the user you assign as the Collection user on the vCenter Operations Manager Administration portal. The minimum privileges required to collect data are Global: Health and Storage Views: View . The vCenter Operations User permission is for an actual user to login to vCenter Operations and utilize the information, but not administrator access. Both of these permissions do not even show up until vCenter Operations is installed. Permissions to allow vCenter Operations to connect to vCenter are completely separate, based on my experience with the product. I have configured a vCenter Operations "collector" user account and given them the permissions listed in the quote above and it works fine. EDIT: Nevermind, I'm a moron that can't read
You've pretty much figured it out. With the way licensing is going on with VMware(specifically the vCloud Suite), the strategy I find worthwhile is utilizing two socket systems with 256 or 384GB ... See more...
You've pretty much figured it out. With the way licensing is going on with VMware(specifically the vCloud Suite), the strategy I find worthwhile is utilizing two socket systems with 256 or 384GB of RAM if CPU is not your limiting resource. This still allows high density, but not so much as throwing twice as many virtual machines on a four socket 512GB of RAM system. I've been down the road of both setups and the four socket systems were pure hell when the host hardware had issue. Without 10GbE at the time, maintenance was also a pain.
I'm not sure you're having the exact same issue as I did, but VMware has a "feature" that you can only find things by searching for them based on how many objects you have in Active Directory. A ... See more...
I'm not sure you're having the exact same issue as I did, but VMware has a "feature" that you can only find things by searching for them based on how many objects you have in Active Directory. A "Feature". Try typing the name in the search field and see if it pulls up. This is assuming you followed the directions on properly configuring SSO with AD. Please also open a support case with VMware and they'll help you out.
Check this out - Go to your license reporting page, select your version of vSphere that is throwing the alarm and then click "Edit..." and set the threshold to zero. Does the alarm stop?
Hmm, I do have the ability to disable the alarm on my end - I agree it isn't a fix to the real issue, but you did say this alarm is making it difficult to accurately monitor health stati... See more...
Hmm, I do have the ability to disable the alarm on my end - I agree it isn't a fix to the real issue, but you did say this alarm is making it difficult to accurately monitor health statistics, so I was offering a solution to get the alert to stop nagging you. The best course of action, in my opinion, is to open a case if you wish for a resolution. Best of luck, wish I could help but I cannot recreate the issue myself.
Open an SR with VMware and the alert can also be disabled.
Gregory, This is a bug. Please update to 5.1 Update 1 where the issue is resolved and there should be no more concern about the template disk being used incorrectly.
You can also do a Force Migrate for the 4.1 to 5.1 update instead of wiping everything out and starting from scratch.
If it's the branch users having issues, I'd evaluate your networking. Local users are just fine?
If by brand new you mean newer CPU architecture, yes, the new stuff would should be faster. If a CPU can do more instructions per clock cycle, it will be faster than one of the same frequency tha... See more...
If by brand new you mean newer CPU architecture, yes, the new stuff would should be faster. If a CPU can do more instructions per clock cycle, it will be faster than one of the same frequency that isn't as efficient. Additionally, new instruction sets may be in the newer CPUs that your applications may or may not leverage assuming you aren't using EVC to hide those instruction sets.
This is exactly right. Use the Socket/Core option in Edit Settings if you want more cores and are restricted by "sockets".