How 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 ArticleScripting Memory Reservations
Is there way to use the vMA server to script adding 100 VM's a memory reservation? I have 100 VDI clients that use an Oracle App with Java and using shared memory caused a performance degradation....
View Articlevdf equivalent in vSphere 5.0?
Hi,I have installed Nagios on vMA 5.0, which is useful extension of vMA functionality beyond managing UPS (PCNS) or Adaptec RAID (Arcconf). However, I would like to monitor Datastores (warnings on...
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 ArticleVMA 5.1 Credentials Store
I am working through some issues adding servers with AD authentication. Until I get adauth working, I will temporarily add servers with fast pass authentication. I see this message when doing so. "This...
View ArticleCan't run VMa 64 bit compatability confusion
I've just installed VMA on my ESXi server, but when I start the Red Hat Linux guest OS I get "Your CPU does not support long mode". when I look this up I found the following thread.[...
View ArticlevMA RCLI
Did vMA replace the RCLI appliance? Does the vMA have to reside on the vSphere/ESXi host that it will manage?
View ArticleAdd vcenter- should i see all esx hosts too?
Hello! I've added our vcenter to vma , but when i do a "vifp listservers" i see only the vcenter. Should i see all ESX Servers managed by this vcenter too or have to add all ESX Hosts manually?
View ArticleVMA concept overview question.
Hi, Is it true that VMAusage is common to vCenter, instead that by using VMA we can actually control the ESX/i hosts instead of using vcenter ? Kind Regards,AWT
View ArticleProblem with vdiskcreate.pl
Hello everyone, I have a problem with the VMA when launching the command vdiskcreate.pl comes back to me the following message? $ perl vdiskcreate.pl --server 111.23.42.001 --username root...
View Articleesxcli command does not work as expected
We try to list the preferred path of an device with esxcli nmp device getpreferred --device naa.xxx (as described in http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp_40_vcli.pdf) but we get...
View ArticleNeed dynamic updates on VM's Status... is vMA right for me?
Hi, First of all I would like to say vSphere is amazing. Secondly, my goal is this: To get real time updates about the CPU usage, disk i/o, and memory on a per-VM basis, not just for an overall ESX...
View ArticleFailed Adding Target Servers (hosts! not guests...) to VIMA with sudo vifp...
Hallo, I've 2 ESX hosts: I installed the VIMA virtual machine on one of these (an ESX3i) and i'm able to execute: $sudo vifp addserver 10.0.45.67 (i give the password and everything is ok When i...
View Articlevifptarget: command not found since upgrading
I upgraded my vma appliance from 5.1.0.0 build 782391 to 5.1.0.1 build 1062361 this morning and now when I try to issue the vifptarget command to specify one of the hosts in my list as the target I...
View ArticlevMA 4.0 + Patch1 Still Vulnerable
I put a vMA 4.0 virtual "appliance" in our ESX envioronment patched it with Patch1 through the vMA update process. After submitting the appliance to our Security unit they sent back a list of...
View ArticleUse of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/bin/vmware-cmd line 392 error?
I am getting the following error with vMA 4.0 build 161993: [vc-01]$ vmware-cmd -T esx-08 /vmfs/volumes/4a4d5344-49ca8461-cc25-003048d27c87/SAM/SAM.vmx getstateUse of uninitialized value in string eq...
View Articlecron + vifpinit
Hi, I've added the required server, and by manually running "vifpinit" am able to run commands against it. What I wish to do is have a crontab task do some of the things, and unfortunately there seems...
View ArticleNoob... haha. Need help understanding...
Ok, i've downloaded and have the VMa 4.0 linux virtual machine on my cluster... Now what.... What our goal is, is to get daily reports in our email of information about our VM environment, we...
View Articleinquiry about vmware-vilogd (vilogger daemon)
Does the vilogger daemon not run all the time? I setup the vilogger up to collect logs for all of my ESX hosts and it appears to work, but when I log of the Management Assistant virtual machine and...
View ArticleUpdate vMA without internet access
We are not allowed to let our servers to connect to the internet. Not even a proxy.Is there a way to update the vMA offline?
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