Clash of the PoSH / PowerCLI cmdlets
So, I learned today the hard way that by adding the vSphere Powercli snapins to my PoSH 3.0 session on a server 2012 with the Hyper-V role enabled, that there are several cmdlet names that clash by...
View ArticleRe: New-Harddisk Problems
You are mixing parameters from different parametersets for the New-Harddisk cmdlet.In your case CapacityGB and DiskPath can't be used together.
View ArticleRe: Is it somehow possible to prevent the USB connection checkbox? ("choose...
I have similar problem. If I assign all the usb device to the host, is there a programmatic way for the guest OS (vm) to get the usb device from the host?
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Re: Clash of the PoSH / PowerCLI cmdlets
I think you described the problem, more and more of us are facing nowadays, very concise and correctly.Alan will not like me for this , but PowerCLI as a module is the only way out I can see. In any...
View ArticleRe: Hard drive size - 2 specs??
Welcome to the Community - In ESXi 5 the virtual disk size is still capped at 2 TB - 512 B - if you want to present the full 3 TB you will have to present it to the VM as an RDM -
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Re: Debian Squeeze guest idenfication
Really? I've got vSphere Client v5.1.0 build 786111 and I've got it. Actually, just checking one of my machines, if it's got hardware rev 7, it didn't show me Debian 6. I upgraded the VM hardware...
View ArticleRe: Thinapp IE7 running on Windows 7
Lakshman Can you share the project files for IE7? I too am having issues getting it to work on Win 7
View Articlevcp5-cloud or desktop?
i passed the vcp5-dcv last year.do you think it is easier to add vcp5-cloud or desktop to my certifications?thanks.
View ArticleRe: Debian Squeeze guest idenfication
You say you are using that specific client but is your vCenter and ESXi host running on 5.1 ?
View ArticleRe: Need a script for audit purpose
Try something like this $eventTypes="AccountCreatedEvent","AccountRemovedEvent","AccountUpdatedEvent" $start= (Get-Date).AddHours(-1) Get-VIEvent-Start$start-MaxSamples ([int]::MaxValue) |where...
View ArticleRe: Accessing values stored in configuration element
Thanks, no, it's only read only in the subsequent workflows so no issue with that.
View ArticleFast VP + Vmware
Hi there, I'm new here, and I´m new to all this VM stuff, storage, san, etc etc... and I got some questions about VMware and FAST VP. As far as I know I have to move a VM to a LUN on the FAST VP pool,...
View ArticleRe: vcp5-cloud or desktop?
I'd suggest it depends on how much work you've done with vCD and View. You don't have to do the VCP level versions of -Cloud or -DT if you don't want to, you can jump straight to theor VCAP exams if...
View ArticleStorage Report Help
Hello all, I am fairly new to using PowerCLI and I am attempting to make a report that would show a datastore and all the VMs on it, the host they are on and the space used in GB and percent. Maybe in...
View ArticleRe: Using a vSphere Storage Appliance at a remote site
Any input on this question from anyone who is using or knows VSA? Thanks for your input also - this is some helpful information on how your product works. At the current time we are considering only...
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Re: ESXI 5.1 Console (DCUI) diplays Disk Why?
I've attached a sample of what the screen should look like. Someone has run something like this on the host - esxcli system welcomemsg set -m="disk". To reverse the change you can run esxcli system...
View ArticleVMWorkstation v9 - 32 vs 64
This is a simple (stupid) understanding question :The host is running Win7x64 and in the task manager vm*exe are found but some are signaled with a *32 which i reckon mean they run in 32 bit modes-...
View ArticleRe: VMWorkstation v9 - 32 vs 64
The actual Virtual Machine Process is the vmware-vmx.exe executable and runs in 64-bit mode on x64 Windows however the VMware Workstation GUI and other components only run in 32-bit mode regardless.
View ArticleRe: Add/update a license key with powercli script - standalone host
Thanks, that works great.
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