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Re: VM grew to 258GB on datastore formatted with a 1M block size

Upgraded VMFS-5 volumes inherit and maintain the VMFS-3 block size and the size limitations that go along with the VMFS-3 block sizes. Those are listed in the kb. The default block size for new VMFS-5...

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Re: Lowest supported VMFS Version on ESXi 5.x?

Worth reading : VMFS-5 VMFS-3, What’s the Deal? » boche.net – VMware vEvangelist You will use VMFS3 if you have a vSphere environment which is mix of vSphere...

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Re: How to make hard disk available for diffferent guest OS?

I may have misunderstood your question? I understood you wanted to add the same virtuel disk to both VMs, however I now think this is not your intention!? You can certainly add an additional virtual...

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Re: Using Powercli I having trouble modifying vm hardware and nic portgroup...

Is there a way to do that and have it clone the machines without waiting for it to finish one after another?

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Re: VM grew to 258GB on datastore formatted with a 1M block size

Ok - I got it now. Well, I guess I am screwed. The only thing I can think to do is copy the VM to an external drive, upgrade the host and copy it back. Do you know how this file, at 258GB, can even...

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Re: PowerCLI & SSH.Net

Hey Luc, Yep... SSH is enabled. I can connect with Putty. However, the New-SshSession cmdlet in the module in the article isn't working with ESXi 5.x because KeyboardInteractiveAuthenticationMethod...

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Re: SRA command 'queryInfo' didn't return a response

In order to fix this issue try changing the LOGON type of "SRM service" to use the local administrator account and not the default system account and restart the SRM service. Also have a look at this...

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Re: VM grew to 258GB on datastore formatted with a 1M block size

As vmroyale noted: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2003813You get what you had when you do a straight upgrade. You could try using the datastore browser to download the VMDK-flat file to your workstation / USB...

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Re: How to configure Home PC lan IP'S To Vmware netwrok adapters

Welcome to the Community - It will depnd on how you have the networking configured for the VM - you will need to have the networking configured as bridged which will allow you to configure the IP...

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Best way to move VM from an old Blade environment to a NEW one

Hello, We are going to be moving to a new HPBLC7000 with ProLiant BL460c G7 blades. Currently We are running our environment on IBM Blade center H. The SAN will stay the same as it's fairly new. so...

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Re: is there a way to pass a USB device to the VM from the guest machine...

that's bad news for me . I was building an app that needed to automatically map some phones to specific VM's. Looks like the user has to do it manually now. Thanks for saving my time LucD, otherwise i...

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Clone Windows VM - avoid saving clear text for domain password

When using "Clone, Windows with single NIC" in my schema, it needs a string password to join the domain.  How can I change this to a SecureString or avoid saving the password of a domain user in clear...

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Re: VM grew to 258GB on datastore formatted with a 1M block size

Do you know how this file, at 258GB, can even work on this 1MB block VMFS3 datastore?Where are you getting this value from? 256GB = 262144MB = 268435456 KB Different places (vSphere Client's datastore...

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Re: Failure to import CSV with ConvertFrom-Csv

Ok, what would you recommend changing $data to?  It does work as is and gives the correct number. I did try using     $csvreport =import-csv -useculture -delimiter "," and the array is still blank.

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Re: Best way to move VM from an old Blade environment to a NEW one

Assuming you don't need the old vCenter Server's data (history, events, resource pools settings, permissions, ...) and further assuming the hosts aren't compatible anyway, I'd go ahead and install the...

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Re: VMWare workstation block on virtual machine reboot

I'm not using these software on host, i use only os included software. At the moment i follow this idea, i remove the flag to option "Connect on power on" on virtual cd/dvd virtual drive, and it's...

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Re: Needs to take database backup of the vCenter Server

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2012138 describes the manual way to do the database backup of an MSSQL express edition.  How to schedule and automate backups of SQL Server databases in SQL Server Express -...

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Re: Convert a physical Win 8 Machine with the Vmware vCenter Converter failed

it didn't start without any error-Message

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Re: Does vSphere 5.1 still need a DNS server ?

> Would you please tell me which functions or features of vSphere 5.1 can't work without DNS service ? (exclude AD integration)> or which functions will work better with DNS service, not only for...

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Re: Using Powercli I having trouble modifying vm hardware and nic portgroup...

You could consider using the Start-Job cmdlet to introduce parallelism in the script.See Re: Running a powercli from powershell for how it could be done. There is another method as described by Vitali...

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