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So our ESXi hosts are booting from SAN. We've got some methods to migrate the LUNs from the old storage to the new, but politically and team silo's make doing this ourselves appealing. It was suggested that we present the boot lun from one host to another, then mount it as an RDM and do a dd...

Just making sure my observations are correct, because (at least so far) I haven't read it in the documentation. I'm hunting it down now. I can see all of my linked mode appliances in the web client, but I can not see them in the fat client. My guess is this is because of the changes to...

Did what I did last year when I just took a stab and passed the VCAP5-DCD, just went and took the Cloud Infrastructure Design exam. Just because it was half off and a cheap(er) fail, but it was a cheap pass instead. WOOHOO. Celebration time!

So, I got this problem... and it is interesting. NFS3 would be so much easier.. but can't get that easily through a firewall in this situation, SO, NFS4 with TCP 2049 is what I have. My issue is I can mount just fine (old NetApp OS build, its OLD I mean 2008 old). Still, it does mount and I...

Just got the results, I passed. Did way better than I thought I did. Anyway, woohooo!!!

I probably didn't get the error right, but it matters not. We were doing the upgrade on one of our smaller environments, which is a classified environment, so its difficult for me to give much detail. I'm also unable to contact VMware directly, and would have to deal with a third party. Its...

Hopefully I don't get yelled at too loudly. I've done quite a bit of reading, but I want a sanity check. I'm not much into lower end hardware / whitebox type stuff, but it is exactly what I'm going to need. I want to spend sub 800. Case / PSU aren't an issue. I want IPMI, so I'm going...

I'm having an issue on this ESXi server... where firmware updates don't show up correctly as installed in update manager. Other patches appear fine. What is strange to me, is that the firmware is clearly updated, the build number is correct... but no matter how many times I scan it it shows up...

OK so this one makes me crazy. Being that I'm DoD, it is a very high requirement that we have a "consent" banner display at login. We can do this for vCenter logins by using the MOTD feature. ESXi can have this done for SSH logins by hacking around with rc.local to create a banner file at each...

http://blogs.vmware.com/esxi/2011/11/upgrading-to-esxi-5-vs-doing-a-fresh-install.html I've read enough of Kyle's posts to know he's usually competent. This one has me wondering if he has lost it or I have. The whole point of his post is considerations of upgrading vs fresh installs of ESXi...

Since I work for the DoD we have to meet the a lot of crazy requirements for security. In ESXi they use pam_passwdqc.so to manage password complexity, by default it is: retry=3 min=8,8,8,7,6 I need it to be: retry=3 similar=deny max=26 min=disabled,disabled,disabled,disabled,14 The...

So I had an OVF import go south, my laptop here at work decided to be stupid while letting this thing run... so long story short my connection dropped and the import busted. Not that big of a deal, except I cannot delete the folder that it was importing to. There is one file in there... a...

I am reading Duncan and Frank's clustering deepdive. I'm not quite 100 pages in. Pretty much cart before the horse, because I'm reading all this low level technical information without getting to play with basic functionality yet. I got really curious because of all the changes to HA...

I'm going to start the debate on here, if anyone even responds. Lopetive, your input would be invaluable. I've standardized on pvscsi as my primary adapter, across the board and can find NO reason to change it. In fact, every VM uses it, we converted everything to it. There was an issue...

Does anyone know who New Age Technologies is? Any experience using them? Any reputations out there? Just trying to get a feel for this company.

OK so I admit right up front that the most linux exposure I have is the ESX service console, and even at that point I would rather use ESXi... so forgive my ignorance in the forthcoming questions. I also do not care about the back and forth opinions on whether 64k block alignment should or...

Alright, I know you're some sort of storage nerd at VMware.. :) We have an HDS USP V. We're looking at whether or not we want to move to round robin as the PSP... I cannot find any hitachi documentation for the USP V in particular. VMware's compatibility guide shows "FIXED", but I'm...

OK -- I've been through this a couple of times in various situations. I'm no eletrical engineer and in fact can take no credit here. Another active hardforum member and good friend of mine GoodBoy helped, or in reality, did almost all the work. I've searched the forums and around on the...

Please forgive my lack of knowledge with all the new fangled technologies, my brain is all in the virtual world anymore. I hardly work on hardware :o. Seems I've lost a bit of my intuition or something. I started having problems with a 680i evga board. I would get C1 memory errors (a led...

Just a quick question that I believe I already know the answer to, but let me elaborate below. BTW I'm using ESX 3.5, so no fancy path awareness :< Every LUN I care to worry about is visible to 10 ESX hosts, and 2 VCB proxies. I'm using FIXED pathing per HPs best practice (which I know is...

I just bought a 300gb velociraptor from a local brick and motar (reputable, or well as close to it as one could hope). My problem is... it doesn't look ANYTHING like any of the pictures I've seen. It doesn't have the fins on it I'm used to seeing even on the older generation 36, 74, or 150gb...

I have a problem with our Antivirus solution here where I work. I'm completely baffled, so hopefully someone here can help. The definitions are downloaded via http, via an IIS website hosting the files. One of these files is key to the whole thing. The MIME type for this file is set to...

http://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-DMP-BD35K-1080p-Blu-ray-Player/dp/B001GAOYCS/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1227384826&sr=8-1# I'm not sure if this is the best deal around or not, but please discuss. I'm in the market for one.

First off, I am no web developer. I know some vb.net, but that isn't my problem. I've moved a website to a new server, but when I try to run the website, I throw an exception almost immediately after the login page. It has to do with the ecnryption you can do on parts of the web.config from...

Is there any way to force a log off of windows when a user disconnects? I was looking for actions upon disconnect, like the ability to run a command, and so on. The users are not supposed to use their computers except for company business, and I want to ensure they are not using the vpn to...

I modded mine and put a fan there in the front. I had to take some tin snips to it to remove some stuff that was in the way... Then I had to lap the casing of the 120mm fan I was putting in there so it would slide freely. Took a bit of work, but overall its going to be well worth it. The...

I've about finished this project, so if this particular request isn't possible, then BLEH ;). I need to find out if a windows update session is in progress. I've tried looking all over the client api, but never did find a way to get a result. What I can do is get the last successful...

This is an ongoing, odd problem. I am at a loss with this thing. I tried loading the latest bios revision, p28, and after that the system wouldn't boot anymore after resetting the memory to the specified timings and voltage. For the record, I have an e6600, currently not oc'd, an evga 680i...

Support Request Confirmation - Ticket # ------- Brandon ---- A request for support was made through your Passport account at the Mushkin website. The details of this request are as follows: If you have any questions about your request, we're here for you and help is just a phone call or...

I hope that this isn't something that gets asked an awful lot, and I did try and search around including off site, so if there is easily had information I suck at searching :\. Anyway, according to speedfan this thing is idling at 50c, which to me seems really high. Any input on what it...

Admin, if this is in the wrong place I'm sorry. I wanted to show off this new feature in Vista. Please move it for me if it needs to be.. Vista supports huge icons natively. What I did was to convert my object dock icons (256x256 .png's) into vista's .ico format. www.convertico.com...

Anyone notice the IE desktop shortcut is missing?? A simple google returns the answer, but I figured I'd post it here for the lazy :). I know you can create a new shortcut, but when you right click it would be nice if it worked like it used to without having to open the friggin start menu...

I have been looking for this information for a while. All the rumors drive me crazy, such as they'd be on the same dvd, or both versions will be in the box, or you'll have to call and pay a fee to have them ship the 64bit version to you. According to the compusa website, both versions are in...

Is anyone familiar with the vantec stealth? This power supply that I happen to own is not at all named appropriately. Its the most anti stealth thing on the planet as far as I am concerned. Anyways the fans in it are LOUD most noticeably the rear fan. The air flow coming out of the back...

I am trying to write a simple app that runs in a loop and pings a group of machines. Their hostnames are sequential numerically so I can simply just add 1 to it every time. The problem I'm running into: dim whatever as string = system.net.dns.resolve(hostname).addresslist(0).tostring...

I actually cannot find anything wrong with my code. This is more of a question that might need to go in the operating systems thread. When I run my executable directly it pulls the Eviron("username") properly and the current user is displayed on my label. However when the .exe is renamed to...

I won't get into all the details, but I am using a script where the hostname directly procedes the batch file so it can be %1'd in a loop. Anyways, I have a registry entry using reg add that has %1 in there, that ACTUALLY needs to be %1, NOT the hostname. I'm befuddled on how to prevent it...

Hello, I have 'coded' (if you call vb that ;) an application that uses the windows api to map a drive to a remote computers c$ admin share. Its working fine, but I was trying to make it more capable by allowing the user to select the drive letter. I can't seem to find a way to produce a combo...