Adding Distributions via config-distro.rb
In looking at the Admin manual, there is a high level example of using config-distro.rb to add new distro's, however no examples or pointers to any of the distro URL's.We're interested in deploying...
View ArticleRe: pull out info on who remove vm from inventory
i tried Alan's one-liner but unfortunately it did not pick it up, it does not appear to go back far enough. From the timestamps on the files that make up the VM, it appears it was shut down/removed...
View ArticleRe: ESX 5.1 VM Console refresh is slower than ESX5.0
Still Same issue after adding video ram of 128 MB.
View ArticleRe: configuring vmotion in vcloud 5.1
vMotion is independent of vCloud Director. You shouldn't have to do anything in vCloud Director at all. Just configure the kernel ports as required, and off to the races. If you don't have vMotion...
View ArticleRe: ESX 5.1 VM Console refresh is slower than ESX5.0
Also upgrading hardware version to 9 and vmware tools to current didn't help. We are seeing same issue on multiple hosts which works fine with esx5.0 base without any console issue. You may notice this...
View ArticleRe: Rebuild database from vCenter
Sorry. I am not aware of a tool that would populate the vCloud Director database with the information from vCenter. vCenter doesn't have all the orgnaizational data, metadata, or many other things...
View ArticleRe: vCD VM Thumbnail ICON Update - When
What is the exact build of vCloud and ESXi being used here? I want to check something about this.
View ArticleHow to Set Node's Hostname with REST APIs?
I've been trying to set the VM's hostname when I deploy an application, but have been unsuccessful. The application consists of just the OS - there are no services installed yet Here's one example of...
View ArticleRe: vCloud Director 5.1 Install OS Question
there is nothing stopping you from installing on CentOS. During the installation you will be told that you are using an unsupported OS. Any issues that would arise from the use of CentOS instead of...
View ArticleRe: auto logout of profile after guest shutdown?
You could ssh from Guest to Host and run then a Script that uses vmrun to shutdown/suspend the Virtual Machine then close VMware Fusion and log out. If this was Windows to Windows it's easy to script...
View ArticleRe: pull out info on who remove vm from inventory
For the Get-VIEvent cmdlt there is a MaxSamples options. In the one liners that LucD references they are set to 10000. You can use the following to pull and maximum possible events from your vCenter....
View ArticlevCloud Director Edge Gateway
Hi all, Does "vCloud Director Edge Gateway," "vShield Edge" or "Edge virtual appliance" all refer to same thing? Is there any VMware documents that discuss about this? Thanks!
View ArticleSMBIOS.reflectHost not working
Hello all, I have VMware workstation 9 running on OpenSuse 12.3. I built a VM and loaded Windows 7 in it. I did not initially have "SMBIOS.reflectHost = TRUE" in the vmx file, so WMware of course...
View ArticleRe: Reading / Writing to Network Shares using vCO
Thank you for the help... I seem to have made progress following your instructions verbatim, but I am having the oddest issue at the moment... I can read and write to "a" file I specified...
View ArticleRe: ESX / DATASTORE details in inventory list.
Hello- Good to hear. As for the NumCPU property: that seems to be the number of CPU cores in the VMHost. For example, a VMHost with two (2) 4-core processors should show "8" for its NumCPU property....
View ArticleVmWare Client not going full screen on second monitor
Hi, I have a dual screen setup on my PC which I connect to my ESXi 5.1 server using the vmware client. The client will go full screen happily on my primary monitor, but if I try it on my second monitor...
View ArticleRe: Script to output WWN Datacenter Cluster Host
Rob, You can try the following code. It should be a pretty good starter point at the very least. I don't have a FC HBA in my home lab to work out any kinks with the WWN info so that'll have to wait...
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