Identifying Risks in P to V migration
I'm looking for help on strategy and planning relative to a P2V project. What are all the things that I need to think of when identifying risks related to servers that are potential P2V candidates?...
View ArticleVM overview performance charts/data don't match the advanced charts/data for...
VM overview performance charts/data don't match the advanced charts/data for the exact same time period. Why is it? What I saw was that i viewed the past 1 month performance data on the Overview...
View ArticleDetailed description of windows perfmon counters (VM Memory and VM Processor)
Recently took a class and found VMware offers a couple windows countesr. I'm looking for a detailed description of what each metric is. I found some basic things on vmwares site how to get to them,...
View ArticleManual start of iddle memory reclamation / forced memory ballooning.
Hi, vEXperts and vGurus. Is there any way to force idle memory reclamation or inflate ballon manually inside VM? There are some Windows VMs I have on a ESXi host and there is a lot of unused memory...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Blue Dump
Hello,I need to know how to troubleshoot a virtual machine throwing blue dump. There are 2 VMs, when I power it on, it throws blue dump for less than second and restarts/shuts down. So there is no...
View ArticleWindows 2012 STD resource recommendations
We are about to deploy a few Windows 2012 R2 Standard VM. One will be a general File Server. The second will be a WEB Server and the third is to be a SQL2008 Server. Can anyone give me a...
View ArticleSocket and core value
Dear Team, I want to create one VM where we need to set 16 cores. I have query related to cores and socket. what will be the number of virtual socket needs to selectand what will be the number of cores...
View ArticleWant to know the Disk Usage
Dear Team, If I see check disk usage performance for one production VMs it show the below Latest 67640 KBpsMax : 798919 KBps just want to know how do I convert above value in mbps regardsMr VMware
View ArticleFree tools for automating Windows Updates
Are there any free tools for automating Windows updates of Windows VMs?
View ArticleMaintaining compliance with Puppet / Chef
Can I use a configuration management tool like puppet or Chef to actually install Windows Updates on Existing Windows server VMs to keep them in compliance, or do I need another tool do to this?Thanks!
View ArticleGettting networkusage alert
Dear Team, whenever my VM disk usage is high then I m getting "Network disk usage" alert, when I check the network usage for that VM then it s not more that 300KBps just want to know when I m getting...
View ArticleHow to calculate Max Disk Usage
Dear team, I want to know how to calculate max disk usage for one host. to calculate max disk usage metric what points needs to take into account. need ur assistance. we have cisco ucs b 00 blade...
View ArticleMany delta vmdk files causing large amount of storage
Dear All, Some VMs in my system, beside the original vmdk file created at first, there are some delta vmdk files: ...-000001.vmdk, ...-000002.vmdk, ... although I removed all snapshots on those VMs....
View ArticlePreventing Snapshots
How can I prevent anyone, anywhere from taking a snapshot of a given VM, regardless of their permissions in vCenter? Do I have to use role permissions on this, or can it be set in the .vmx file or...
View ArticleLimit snapshots on only one virtual disk of a VM
Can I prevent snapshots from being taken on only one virtual disk of a VM, but allow them for other virtual disks, if that virtual disk has already been created?
View Articleprefered log file to troubleshoot specific issues
Dear Team, Request you to let me know if I am facing below issue which log file we have to refer. Converter => which logs we have to refer (preferred log file)SAN (DAtastore issue) => which log...
View ArticleIndependent Disk Caveats
I would like to create some independent persistent disks to prevent them from being affected by snapshots, and save space on the array.What are the possible drawbacks / caveats I need to be aware of...
View ArticleConverting a disk from thin to thick with no downtime
Can I convert all disks on a VM from thin to thick without powering off the VM?
View ArticleHow to check total disk space used by VM
Dear Team, I have rec'd one request from customer he request us to share the total disk space used by a VM. I don;t have credentials to check to check total used space. Is there any way without login I...
View ArticleIdentifying VMs deployed from ovf / ova
How can I identify VMs that were deployed from an .ovf or an .ova file? I could edit settings on the vm and look to see if "vApp options" -> Enable is checked, but does that prove that it was...
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