Re: Evaluating vCOPS 5.7.1 - did they add a way to exclude specific datastores?
In vCenter put all your local datastores in a folder, called 'LOCALS' (or something else you like) - this folder will also be known by VCOPS (might take 5 minutes). Then in VCOPS create a new policy...
View ArticleRe: Planning a new storage solution
This is not really true. SAS is for IOPS and SATA is for capacity and linear reads and writes. So any software turning random I/O into sequential I/O and doing some sort of the overprovisioning can do...
View ArticleRe: Is this behaviour normal with Master isolation?
I will point one of the developers to this thread. Would you have log files / dumps available?
View ArticleRe: Virtual Hardware/VM Compatibility upgrade issues
I had ~6 Virtual machines mix of Redhat 5.4 and windows 2008R2
View ArticleRe: failed vcenter rinstall
Are you using embedded database or any other database. What version of SSO your trying to install. If its 5.1Update01, did you select dynamic port option (if you have mssql) Make sure your able to...
View ArticleHow to get vSphere Name of a vCloud VM using VMware Tools Api
Hi,is it possible to get the "vSphere Name" of a virtual machine running a script into the Guest VM? ThanksRoberto Dus
View ArticleRe: vcops custom report, datatype & precision
There are some sample XML views/reports bundled with the VCOps vApp. Take a look at UI VM, /usr/lib/vmware-vcops/user/conf/xmlviews Thanks,Alex D.
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How to monitor Failed backups in VDP?
Hi, There has already been some discussions about monitoring Failed backups in VDP, but I couldn't find any appropriate solution. I've checked Alarms Definitions in the vCenter and there is no defined...
View ArticleVMware Player 6
I apologize for the very basic question, but I was unable to locate the answer myself.Given that VMware Player is used for free for personal use, what are the differences between VMware Player 5 and...
View ArticleRe: FAILED: Unable to find the system volume, reconfiguration is not possible.
Okay. FINALLY successful. I ended up using ms-sys on sysreccd to write an XP MBR to disk(0). Surprisingly, that does not automatically revert the system to boot in "plain-old" XP boot.ini mode. After...
View ArticleRe: Error Deploying OVF Template
Hi,Take a look at the following to see if that assists (with 5.1 the handling of cd-roms has slightly changed from previous...
View ArticleRe: Deploy W2K8R2 SP1 from template fails adding to the domain
Hi Jesse, This issue is still not resolved and I did not have a chance to look into again due to other priorities. We currently deploy the vm's through the client when using the customization...
View ArticleRe: Upgrading vCenter Server 5.1 to vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1 when SQL...
Hi Ciaran,Did you perform step "2. Before proceeding with the upgrade procedure, perform a restore of the vCenter Server database"This is needed so that vCenter will also start on the Primary after you...
View ArticleRe: failed A general system error occurred when covert 97% windows 2000 Adv. SP4
Hi,Take a look at the suggestions made in the following thread to see if they assist in resolving your issue:https://communities.vmware.com/message/581218#581218 Many tx
View ArticleRe: vcops custom report, datatype & precision
Thanks, butI had alreadyseen.I needed somethingmorespecific, such as a report withthe CPU loadof VMsgroupedfor each weekof the month.Any other suggestions?ThanksMatrix
View ArticleMove VM between vApps
Hello I'm looking at moving a VM from one vApp to another within the same Organisation vDC. It seems that, rather than a move, vCD is making a clone, registering the clone in the new vApp and then...
View ArticleHyperlink to New Request Template
Appologies I know I had seen something about this a very long time ago but upon searching the discussions I cannot find it.... In v8 we used to be able to send a link to a new request so the customer...
View ArticleVirtual Hardware/VM Compatibility upgrade issues
Hi all, we are about to upgrade the virtual hardware (VM compatibility) on 800 VMs from version 7 to 9 on our vSphere 5.1 environment. I have read about issues with hidden network cards when the card...
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Re: vCOPS integration with vCenter Configuration Manager
Thanks a lot !!!!! ) That was the point of my problem: "For a split install (2 or 3 tier) be sure to point at the VCM database server "
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