Hello Ee,

I was attempting to download a vmdk file to my pc for the purposes of importing into amazon web services. I realise in hindsight that i need to use the "Export as OVF" file menu option , it will not use the direct vmdk . Here is my current issue though ;

When i go to start back up the vm , I receive " the file specified is not a virtual disk " looking closely , it is not listing the file "type" as virtual disk , so something must have gotten corrupted. Is there a way to correct this ?

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How to access HP D2700 storage and take backup ?
I need to replace the IO module and restore the backup.
Storage is not accessible from server.

I am pretty green when it comes to VMware.  Quite a few years back, I had a consultant come in and help setup / configure some VMware hosts and the vSphere server running in a Windows 2012 server.  The hosts were setup running ESXi 5.5 using the stock image from VMware.  

I am now in the process of trying to upgrade Vcenter and the ESXi hosts.  The two physical hosts are HP Proliant DL380p Gen8 servers.  It appears that that last version of VMware to support this hardware is 6.5 U2.  I believe that I was able to upgrade the vCenter server without any problems.  Now I am attempting to upgrade the hosts and have a few questions.

I noticed that on the VMware site that there is a 6.5 U2 HPE image for my hardware.  Should I use this HP image or should I stick with the stock VMware image?  

Since this is mostly foreign to me, I have been trying to complete this upgrade over the last day or two.  I originally tried to upgrade the hosts using the stock VMware image and encountered an "incompatible" compliance status when scanning for updated against the attached baseline.  The status details stated:

"The upgrade contains the following set of conflicting VIBs:
Mellanox_bootbank_net-mlx4-en_1.9.9.0-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820

Remove the conflicting VIBs or use Image Builder to create a custom upgrade ISO image that contains the newer versions of the conflicting VIBs, and try to upgrade again."

At this point, I stopped and attempted to upgrade using the HPE image for my …

Hi All

I am currently in the process of building a Windows 10 1803 image in both HyperV and VMware horizon. Our Office products are managed by KMC licensing.

I am wondering how to go about pulling down Office updates? due to the KMC licensing the update option that is normally present in a standard licensed version (home user) is no longer present.  When I run windows OS updates no office update come down either.

Usually we push our Office Update's down via SCCM but as this is a base image I want to have the office version as up to date as possible before we deploy the Windows 10 build to our users.  The SCCM client will not be on the base image as you are moving to inTune.

OS build Windows 10 1803 - Office 2016 Updates

Any advice would be greatly apricated.

Thanks

Does anyone have experience with or know a good way to backup virtual machines running on VMWare? But it is a requirement that there be open source software. Partly because I am on a tight budget, but also in principle because I think there is very good open source software in general.  It is also a requirement that it should run on Linux as I do not have a single Windows machine.

I have an environment of VMWare 6.5 hosts running on HP bl460c servers in a c7000 enclosure. All 16 servers have two vmnic's dedicated to iSCSI, and attached to a DS which is dedicated for storage traffic. These vmnic's are bound to vmk adapters which are in turn bound to the iSCSI software adapter on the host. The server nics are connected to Cisco switches via the passthrough interconnects on the enclosure.

For my storage device, I have a NetGear ReadyNAS 4312 with four 1Gb interfaces. I have configured these into dual bonded nics and both bonds are set with Layer 2 LACP modes and configured channel-groups on the Cisco switches. The bonds were assigned IPs, the vmks, were assigned IPs, and the software adapter was configured to discover the iSCSI LUN on the appropriate IP addresses.

During the original configuration, all MTUs in the path were at 1500. All 16 servers saw the storage and it was presented as a datastore to the cluster for which it was intended. All seemed well, but once the VMs were all running on the datastore, we began to have latency issues and significat lag when interacting with the VMs, whether by SSH or the console. As a test, I moved a couple of the trouble VMs to a different storage and the problems were eliminated. I knew that jumbo frames were supposed to be best practice for iSCSI but didn't want to shutdown the entire environment in order to configure and bounce all the switching but after these problems, and reading several papers on the …

2 Windows 2012 R2 Data Center NLB IIS DFS/R URL Rewrite
2 Windows 2012 R2 Data Center Web Farm IIS DF/R
VMware ESXI 6.5

I can not access my web sites externally.   Internally using the VIP of the NLB servers it works.

When I modify my Meraki router to point to the VIP of the NLB no one can access my two sites.

If I change the meraki router to point to the physical address of one of the Web Farm servers that works also.

I need to be able to access my web farms thru the NLB servers

Thank you

Tom

Hi,

I am using vSphere Web Client 6.5 to mange about 20 servers.
I would like to check VMware vSphere Standard (210-AHRT) license status for getting license quotation.

When I tried to check the license status from "Licenses" menu on vSphere Web Client 6.5, it says below:

License provider: All vCenter Server systems
To view and manage licenses, you must have the Global Licenses privilege on the vCenter Server system where this vSphere Web Client runs.


Please let me know how to check the license status.

I also heard that there is flash client?
If so, please let me know the download link for this version.

I appreciate your help.

When i issue a command # esxcli storage filesystem list, I get /vmfs/volumes/598c7ef**-** along with name of the Vmware datastore
i am trying to find which of these belongs to storage's naa.600601
I  issued # esxcli storage core path list and it is listing the multipathing information and get naa number.
In other word i am trying to find the way to match the naa.6666*** with uuid. This way i can go into the storage and increase the space for the LUN .

Dear Experts,

My client has a dell server using ESXi 5.1.

We have setup their new Dell R440 server with customised VMware 6.7 U1 DellEMC.

How do I migrate the VMs from 5.1 to 6.7 U1?

Need to understand Error and solution  if this is issue with Nagios app running on Linux server or if all resulted due to Network Glitch

Error in Alert is
"HOST CHECK_VMWARE_API.PL CRITICAL - Server version unavailable at 'https://192.168.1.17:443/sdk/vimService.wsdl' at /usr/share/perl/5.10/VMware/VICommon.pm line 734"

What all are precautionary actions required to avoid such error alerts ?
Is there nay recommendation before we configure Nagios for N number of alerts /Devices /VMware /vCentere  
How actually load is decided before we configure nagios for monitoring

I am unable to pair the site in SRM

Can we identify Vcentre name from VM(2003 OS)?
We are unable to identify the VM in Vcentres. Kindly let me knows if anyone knows any commands..the server not having PowerShell...