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the mac address changes if you copy and I'm pretty sure that's one of the triggers for reactivation

make sure the disk is (or convert it to) thin provisioned. sdelete -z in the guest then vmkfstools --punchzero from the esxcli. https://miketabor.com/shrink-thin-provisioned-vmdk-disk/

can you run "cat /var/log/vmkernel.log | grep vector" from the cli on the host with the pass-thru video card? Post the results if there are any (do this after you reboot the VM)

You could try https://www.ntlite.com/

are you seeing any dropped packets either in esxtop or in your firewalls?

Have you updated the virtual hardware of the VM's and VMware Tools yet? Just to let you know, the 1950's aren't supported by anything above 5.1u3...

Synology 1813 with 5 bay expansion. 6x 600GB 10k raptor drives for VMs, 2 120GB SSD for cache, 5 3TB WD Red for static storage.

if you set any type of cores per socket (less than 9 vCPU), you'll bypass the vNUMA scheduler and ESXi will stick the VM to a NUMA node http://virtechgeek.com/2013/06/07/understanding-numa-and-virtual-numa-vnuma-in-vsphere-vm/ any more than 8 vCPU and vNUMA is automatically turned on another...

AMD's FirePro line also supports vSGA/vDGA http://www.fireprographics.com/vdi/hypervisors/vmware/ as far as cost, you can build a cheap server that will support 30+ virtual desktops for around $2500 - or use desktop components to go cheaper but you're still going to drop at least $800 on a...

more than likely the virtual hardware was changed after the snapshot. Consolidate the virtual machine snapshots and try again.

you could try to stop the update service, rename/delete the datastore.edb file, remove the contents of the "download" folder, and restart the update service/reboot the server. That should wholly reload Windows update and force it to re-cache all the needed updates. I've had to do that a couple...

I just want to confirm your running some 180 databases from 7 VM with 1000+ users on 12 15k SAS spindles in a raid 10 that produces around 1400 IOPS (assuming 4k IO, 50% read, 50% write, and 10% cache hit) from the drives alone - not counting any caching from the SAN itself? I'm going to go out...

here ya go http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2013/10/does-corespersocket-affect-performance.html

CCA is not as comprehensive as the VCP. If you passed the VCP then studying for any of the CCA's should be a breeze. http://citrixxperience.com/ has some free study guides and some you can pay for. I used the site to help prepare for my CCAA.

As someone who is currently working on my VCDX-DT, I'm personally doing it because I want to stand out among my peers (and the distinction of being one of the first desktop branded VCDX's). I have a "million" people I work with that all "know" VMware and when you're employeed by a VAR with those...

You'll find that screwing with the IOPS per path setting could give you an increase in IOPS, but it ends up being under very specific workloads: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2010/03/30/whats-the-point-of-setting-iops1/ And to answer the question about round robin: use it, you won't regret...

If it's worth anything, VMware recommends installing it in a virtual machine and if you haven't happened to notice, the vCenter Server Appliance is the wave of the future. I'd say within a few more releases, VMware will be moving away from a Windows based vCenter server. That, on top of the...

Here's what I've been doing at our company... you don't have to read the article, but check out the background of the picture. http://www.ohio.com/lifestyle/crystal-clinic-expands-operations-1.407936 That's a 23" class LG Monitor with zero client built in mounted to the wall. Our doctors are...

looks like your vcenter can't grab the health data from one of your hosts (10.0.20.150), Not sure if that has anything to do with your problem, but it couldn't hurt to fix it. what's the hostname of your esxi server? I read something about the name of the esxi server affecting the tomcat...

Yeah, like REDYOUCH suggested, check the firmware version on the zero client (I've had a lot of success with 4.03 on Tera2 EVGA zero clients - but some USB HID device problems on 4.1) and the View agent version in the VM. Check the logs out on both the zero and vm to see if there are any weird...

anything interesting in the logs?

I've not personally messed with infiniband but I read the same article you did about the whole kit-and-kaboodle for less than a grand. What you have to understand is that Fibre Channel/Ethernet/Infiniband/etc are all just pathways to shared storage. Just like the data bus on your motherboard...

what are your requirements for up time? Can the VM be shut down to move it? What version of vsphere is the client running?

are you planning on rebuilding the server after you purchase the 4th drive? Seems that paying $50 for that last drive and building the RAID now would save you some headache in the future.

No, there's no way to change it. By design it's meant to be a remote hard reset so that a help desk person (or the end-user themselves in some cases) could "reset" the virtual machine if something in the OS hangs.

There isn't any way that ESXi is going to see and mount and NTFS formatted DAS (direct attached storage) that I know of. I'm not sure why you would want to back up the VM to direct attached storage formatted in NTFS in the first place (other than portability) but at this point don't you get...

The class will give you a good amount of knowledge if you're a sponge but I would plan on reading/doing more afterwards if I were you. I personally bought and read Scott Lowe's Mastering vSphere 5 and read that cover to cover twice, took notes and built/played with a small virtual lab before I...

however, according to kb article 2037409 http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2037409 it states: which would nullify any issue with different scsi controller's in the first place if you used a brand new virtual machine during the...

I am so confused... where did changing the scsi controller come into play? I never said anything about changing the hardware. We are talking about totally changing the base VM from one virtual machine to another. Pool1: VM01-XP --> VM01-XP Snapshot --> replica-<blah blah> --> linked-clones...

That just doesn't make sense. I can understand if you upgrade an existing virtual machine from Windows XP to Windows 7 then recompose, but not if you choose a brand new different base VM with Windows 7 then recompose after that. What information would be in the ADAM or composer database that's...

that's rather odd. you might want to check your references http://pubs.vmware.com/view-50/index.jsp?topic=/com.vmware.view.administration.doc/GUID-FDEFFAA9-08F2-40F9-83D3-2E7C654BE3B1.html

Your options are pretty limited based on how View handles MAC addresses on linked clones. This is a good read for that http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=1952 so if you're using a floating assignment pool, you'll have to set the VM to use a statically assigned MAC by editing the .vmx file. If...

under "Inventory" (select your host) --> "Configuration" tab --> "Storage" --> "(your iscsi datastore)", does it say "Hardware Acceleration: Supported" in the bottom "Datastore Details" window?

you're running the lastest DSM right?

right. The single NIC should be in it's own vSwitch still

did you check the counters on the switch in your bladecenter? and the counters on the switch your bladecenter is connected to? I would just go back through the network topology checking each port and it's setting until you find the culprit.

have you tried http://labs.vmware.com/flings/boomerang ?

Here you go. Review's of just about any NAS that's worth it http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-charts/view

if you use shared storage (ie. a NFS or iSCSI datastore) you can unregister the VM from one server and register it on the other