Re: Get vApp name from UUID
Forgot to ask earlier... have you imported our Notifications Package (found on the Documents tab of this community) ? If not, you are missing out on a LOT of great sample code that helps deal with...
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I'm selecting Reseal, and Shut Down. Don't reset grace period for activiation, don't regenerate security identifiers, and detect non-plug and play hardware are unchecked. I get a message saying...
View ArticleRe: change ip address of all vms
Thanks LucD - that did it using GuestUser and GuestPassword. Now have a working script that uses the invoke-vmscript CMDlet that draws the servers to configure from a CSV file that contains names and...
View ArticleTackling the Visio-esque tasks on the DCD exam
From what I've read on the communities the Visio-like questions on the DCD should be dedicated about 15 minutes each, I'd assume they carry more weight than other questions. My questions for those of...
View ArticleRe: change ip address of all vms
You will have to define these parameters on the function, as parametersFunction Set-WinVMIP ($VM, $IP, $SNM, $GW, $GfU, $GfP){...Invoke-VMScript -VM $VM -GuestUser $GfU -GuestPassword $GfP -ScriptType...
View ArticleRe: SSO in HA mode with LB
If the load balancer goes down then you will not be able to reach the SSO server. SSO requires for the authentication verification of new users session. You would need to place a redundant load...
View ArticleRe: ReconfigVM_Task soap call results in Invalid operation for device '0'
Fix one thing to go back to the original issue. I've resolved the error regarding the unexpected port element, by adding the xsi:type attribute to the elements and setting it to the corresponding...
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Creating Folder Structure
Trying to find a quick way to import all the VM & Templates (aka BLUE Folders) from Site A to Site B. Each Site has its own vCenter with multiple "Datacenters" located inside. I just want all the...
View ArticleRe: Tackling the Visio-esque tasks on the DCD exam
The best advice I can give is make sure you look at all the pages in the exercise - when I took the DCD-4 exam the scenario I did not review all the pages. I also would look at the scnarios but I would...
View Articlecan't boot from SAN
Hi, I have problem with boot from SAN, previously i did CNA emulex driver update. But when i tried to reboot, the host failed to boot from san.When i update driver, the driver installed in hardware or...
View ArticleMounting NFS Datastore - Mounting with random port numbers?
I am mounting an NFS datastore to our QNAP. We opened 111/tcp, and 2049/tcp in the firewalls. When trying to mount, the firewall logs show: Block from $ESXI to $QNAP on port 47110 I can understand the...
View ArticleRe: Tackling the Visio-esque tasks on the DCD exam
This helps weinstein5, do VMware give credit for partially answered questions? I mean if the Design asked you to design a cluster with 2 hosts and assign 2 VM's to each host, but you only designed the...
View ArticleManagedObjectNotFound while registerAgentVm....
Hi, While trying to manually provisioning an Agent VM using registerAgentVM api as below is raising exception: ManagedObjectReference vmMor = new ManagedObjectReference();...
View ArticleRe: Tackling the Visio-esque tasks on the DCD exam
I do not know for sure - but I think so.
View ArticleRe: Creating Folder Structure
The New-Folder cmdlet unfortunately doesn't allow to specify a folderpath for the Location parameter.But you could try something like this...
View ArticlePurple screen crash + symantec
1) Backup Exec 2012 Version 14 crashes entire box (3 vm's) if I try to backup system state on any of the vm. I don't have to back up system state, so turned that off weeks ago, which means I have...
View ArticleRe: Clone production Windows 2003 server
I ran SP2 on the machine, it ran fine. After the reboot I ran the Sysprep from the Deploy.CAB on the SP2 cd, and now it's saying "There is an incompatibility between this tool and the current...
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