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Re: Fusion 6 Linked Clones - Not such a spectacular feature :(
Even more annoying.... Apparently VMware Workstation 10 does support adding additional hard disks to a linked clone. So Fusion 6 is again not feature compatible with Workstation 10. This is ridiculous....
View ArticleRe: Partition larger than formatted capacity
From the screen shot it looks like the LUN has been resized, but the VMFS datastore has not been increased yet!? Are you saying you saw an error message when you tried to increase the datastore? Which...
View ArticleRe: A little storage space CRISIS
I can confirm the VMs on the disk are using 380gb out of 400gb, but that's not the real space used. All the VM are thin provisioned. Maybe the red alert I had was due to a 'theorical' out of space limit?
View ArticleNew line `n is not working
I'm writing a small file out to a log, and it will hold the names of multiple VMs. I want to make sure that I put the date with the VM names, and then I want a new line for each VM. I tried something...
View ArticleRe: Thinapp starting slow when integrating to horizon manager
Linus: I feel that's what I'm doing in my own screenshots above. Can you carefully examine and help me understand the differences between what you're doing (that works) and what I'm doing (which isn't...
View Articlebackup all looks normal then gets canceled by Administrator???
I have a VDP dedicated to backing up a single mail server. It has run successfully in the past but now fails. Looks like something is stopping backups 1 hour after every run. Anyone see this...
View ArticleRe: Partition larger than formatted capacity
Sorry but there was no error - i lost contact to my datastore everything hangs but not vm's which was on another datastore. After 2 hours i restart iscsi port and bring my environment to work but my...
View ArticleRe: VDP appliance don't show up in VCenter Web Client
Im having the same problem...any update on this?? Kind Regards
View ArticleRe: Apply a host profile to multiple hosts from csv
My .csv file had double quotes, once I removed them everything started working. Thanks for the help!
View ArticleRe: Thin-provisioned LUN capacity Exceeded / The operation is not allowed in...
I have the exact same issue on 5.0 U2. I am pretty sure it is a bug with SDRS clusters and I haven't found a way around it other than restarting the vCenter service. I have seen it several times and...
View ArticleRe: Unable to snapshot 2TB drive
I want to thank everyone for their responses. I really want to thank André for confirming what I thought. I read the articles mentioned and found they weren't able to fix the problem. They just...
View ArticleRe: Partition larger than formatted capacity
Do you have a support contract with VMware?What's the output ofpartedUtil getptbl "/vmfs/devices/disks/naa.60050..."for the LUN (see http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1036609)? André
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# partedUtil getptbl "/vmfs/devices/disks/naa.600507680280812e9400000000000007"gpt78325 255 63 12582912001 2048 1258291166 AA31E02A400F11DB9590000C2911D1B8 vmfs 0
View ArticleRe: VMware Fusion 6: auto snapshot revert when vm shuts down
The thing is, before I added this line there was only the original vmdk file, even after multiple sessions. It is only after that change that the other ones appeared.I notice many crash logs for this...
View ArticleRe: P2V Windows 2008 Domain Controller
I posed the issues and concerns to my boss and he agreed that we probably should just standup a new VM. Thanks.
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How to add additional hard disks to linked clones!
Previously I commented that Fusion 6.0 does not support adding additional hard disks to a linked clone. This is a pretty bad limitation, and it does not make sense. This is supported with VMware...
View Articlevcenter install error - wrong input - either a command line argument is wrong
i am getting the following error when doing a breand new install of vcenter build is the latest build 1235309
View ArticleUSB hard drive stops responding
Server: HP ProLiant ML350p Gen8ESXi 5.1.0 1157734Hard Drives: Seagate RSS Backup+DeskVM USB Controller: EHCI+UHCIGuest OS: Windows 2008 Server R2 SP1 Issue:Having problem with USB Hard drives. ESXi...
View ArticleRe: Partition larger than formatted capacity
This indeed looks like the partition has been resized but the VMFS has not been grown.Without knowing what causes this issue, I would consider is to reboot the host to ensure there's no issue with the...
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Re: Distributed vSwitch usage and migration from normal vSwitch
Well, let's try to address all here... 1. You can only have DVS on the ESX servers with Enterprise Plus licenses. Any other license does not support DVS. Anyway, you can create a DVS where only the...
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