"Virtual Ethernet card 'Network adapter 1' is not supported..." when...
Hi, We've successfully deployed vMA in our ESX cluster and noticed that when we try to VMotion the virtual machine to another host we get the following warning message: Virtual Ethernet card 'Network...
View ArticleDeploy URL VMA 4.1
Hi, I am used to deploy the vMA directly from the VI Client. For the Version 4.0 the URL is documented : "When you use the vSphere Client to deploy vMA to an ESX/ESXi host, you can enter the following...
View Articletrying to run vmware-cmd
when I try to run vmware-cmd from a putty session on the host the commands work greatbut when I try to do it via vma it tells me Host not foundI have tried by IPFQDNper the cli guide I am...
View ArticlevSphere Client main window periodically jump into foreground
I'm running vSphere Client Version 4.1.0 on Windows 7 Enterprise x64 and Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise, and I'm encountering problem with the client... When I open up a console window on one of the...
View ArticleNeed some help with my cron-fu...
Howdy. So here's my trouble. I've recently upgraded to the vMA 4.1 for my environment. I have several legacy scripts that I'm working on converting to pCLI when I've got time, but for now I need to get...
View ArticleQuick vMA CLI question... host's datastores...
Hello I am wondering if there is a quick and easy command for me to view the contents of the /vmfs folder of a host. I know I would run a simple ls if I was on a console, but in vMA this is not the...
View Articlevifp addserver - Error: Host is not reachable.
I'm trying to add an ESXi 4.0.0. to a freshly installed VMA 4.1. I keep getting "Error: Host is not reachable." after issuing "vifp addserver" command.Issuing vifp listservers" gets me a "Error: No...
View ArticleAdding an Active Directory group to sudoers file
I found an article "virtuallyghetto.com" that describes how to add an AD group to vMA sudoers file. I am getting this message when trying to run certain scripts on ESXi Hosts. I'm assuming this is...
View ArticleHow can I run the vim-cmd on the ESXi target from vMA?
I need to get some vSwitch specific information like - whether the MAC Address Change, Forged Transmits and Promiscuous Mode policies are set to Accept or reject. I can get the information directly...
View ArticlePacket capture of traffic from vMA
I'm deploying a new vMA VM. I have the VM on a different subnet than my regular production network. All is good so far except for when I try to run the "vma-update" command. When I do this I get a...
View ArticleUnable to open /dev/sdb after adding 2nd HD to vMA
I am trying to setup the vMA to use for ESXi SysLogs as outlined here: http://www.simonlong.co.uk/blog/2010/05/28/using-vma-as-your-esxi-syslog-server/ Everything is going fine until I go to format...
View ArticlevMA unable to authenticate via web ui?
Hi there... Have installed the latest vMA in order to get UPS graceful shutdown working but am having a strange problem. It is all setup fine and have followed the instructions to the letter in the...
View ArticleCannot set password when deploying vMA 5.0
Hey all- OK, I've looked around and can't seem to find anybody else with this issue. I've jusy deployed a brand-new insance of vMA 5.0, but I can't deploy it as I am stuck setting the vi-admin...
View ArticlevMA 5 vmware-cmd getguestinfo displayName
I read somewhere that you could retrieve any information stored in the .vmx using vmware-cmd getguestinfo <variable>. I've been playing with this a little, and while it does return a number of...
View ArticlevMA 4.1 Network issue
I have issue with vMA 4.1 , From vMA i am able to ping all host / VCenter but from VC neither I am able to ping or putty vMA
View ArticlevMA 4.1 and non-standard vCenter port
I just set up vMA 4.1, everything is working fine, even got AD auth working. However, when I try to run a command as an AD user, I get this: [vi-admin@vma01 ~][vcenter01]$ esxcfg-mpath -l --vihost...
View Articlefailed to add users
vi-admin@localhost:~> sudo vifp addserver vc --authpolicy adauth --username domain\\administratorError: Failed to add users any idea why im getting error?
View Articlevma 5 root account
i am trying to enable vma 5 root account. I've followed same procedure as with vma 4.1 - root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash is set in etc/passwd and a password has been set for root account. When i...
View ArticlePerl Metric Scripting Question
To start, ultimately, I want these (among other metrics which I have already written the script to collect) to go into a CSV file. I would like to grab the names of the datacenters, and then the number...
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