Enable vFRC on Virtual desktop which located on local SAS hard disk in View...
We plan to install new SSD/PCIe SSD on our ESXi 5.5 server to enable vFRC, but all vmdk files of virtual desktops (VM) are located on local disk, not SAN or NAS. Can we still enable VFRC on these kind...
View ArticleRe: Failed .ovf package deployement - Incompatible device backing specified...
In most of the cases there could be some hardware associated with the VM when you first exported the ovf. Now on the destination where you are trying to deploy it may not have that device and its...
View ArticleRe: How to migrate a vCenter 4.1 server and database to a new vCenter 5.5...
vCenter Server has inter-dependencies with other services. Care must be taken to not break any of these inter-dependencies. As with any major change in your infrastructure, good backups are essential...
View ArticleRe: NOT_IMPLEMENTED vmcore/vmm/cpu/fpu.c:452
This is a long shot, but you can try adding the following to /etc/vmware/config on the host: featMask.mockup.cpuid.XSAVEOPT = "Val:0"
View ArticleRe: How to migrate a vCenter 4.1 server and database to a new vCenter 5.5...
Hi Robert, What you wrote sounds very much like one of the four VMware KB articles that I made reference to in my post. As I mentioned at the top of my post, my procedure is heavily based on a number...
View ArticleRe: Failed .ovf package deployement - Incompatible device backing specified...
Hi dGeorgey, Following your advice I checked once again .ovf file with respect to devices included there. It seems the problem with deploying the package to install vm on esxi 5.5 based on the image...
View ArticleVMware upgrade from 5.0 to 5.5
I am very new to the VMware and I have asked to upgrade our exiting VMware 5.0 to the new version 5,5. I am reading all kind of informations on the internet and getting all confused and concerned. Can...
View ArticlevSphere license required for Cisco VIC 1225
Hello, Does anyone knows the vSphere license requirements to use a Cisco UCS VIC 1225 PCI card? This one creates up to 256 virtual PCI devices to separate traffic inside the physical interface. We are...
View ArticleRe: VMware upgrade from 5.0 to 5.5
The full guide is available in vSphere Upgrade Guide: vSphere 5.5 Documentation Center - vSphere...
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Note: Discussion successfully moved from VMware ESXi 5 to vSphere Upgrade & Install
View ArticleRe: [PROJECT] Creating a virtual env with 100+ VMs on a desktop PC
OK here are the details of my project.I aim to create a 2-node cluster with ESXi 5.5 and a number of datastores residing on both HDDs and SSDs. This way I should have some variety in terms of...
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Re: [PROJECT] Creating a virtual env with 100+ VMs on a desktop PC
Right, I've created my 2 ESXi hosts with VMware Workstation. Each has 4GB of RAM and 5 disks, as mentioned above: I'll be using virtual disks directly connected to the hosts for now, later on I'll...
View ArticleRe: Authentication problem after upgrade vcenter 5.1 to 5.5
Was there ever an answer for this? I just upgraded 5.1 > 5.5 and receive same Inv Svc error. It happens regardless of user, except the administrator@vsphere.local user.Thanks.
View ArticleEsxi 5.1 upgrade
Hello All, We have esxi 5.1 on single server model with 5 VM's running. This server is 3 years old,The hardware of the server is going to expire, we are ordered new hardware with latest configuration....
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To migrate them without downtime you will have to use VMware Converter.
View ArticleRe: Esxi 5.1 upgrade
1. Add the existing ESXi host to new HW with vCenter, shared the datastore2. Enable EVC mode, do vMotion. If no shared datastore or vcenter, then you have to have downtime for the change.
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Hello KeymanP, Please correct me if Iam wrong, for vMotion do we need the same type of hardware. Becasue as I mentioned the old hardware is quit old and new server is with latest configuration.
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Hello Zamrota, As your have old hardware, so you have to enable EVC for vMotion, with the same cpu...
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The answer you have chosen is wrong. EVC will not come into picture as you do not have a vcenter.And yes you can use the same license.
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