vifp addserver: failed to add users
All, I've got a weird problem I wish someone could help me with. I have google this and found the error, but all the info is regarding vMA that is active directory enabled and mine is not. I have two...
View ArticleUpgrade Path from VMA 5.0.2 to VMA 5.1.0
I've recently upgraded our ESXi hosts and vCenter to 5.1 -- I see that VMA 5.1.0 is available as a separate appliance deployment (.ovf), but I'd prefer to just upgrade our 5.0.2 installation to 5.1.......
View Articleany way to copy VM disk to another datastore only connected to VCenter,...
Hi This is a little confusion why not connect to ESX host. This is because of the policy! And I was asked to automate the backup jobs. Our manual backup works like: create a snapshot, download the VM...
View Articlevi-fastpass for scripts
hi! How are you? I have a problem for to do script using vi-fastpass. The first i agree all ESXi with vifp addserver.... but later i dont know how to call this function in a script. i´m sure that...
View Articlevmware-cmd register command
I have been running the following command successfully in a script for several months now. vmware-cmd --server 192.168.5.29 --vihost 192.168.5.28 -s register...
View ArticleVMware vMA and free ESXi - which ESXi license do you need so that vMA is...
I'm just evaluating vMA 5.5 with my home-lab of a few free ESXi 5.5-servers and now after reading some documentations I was trying my first few commands in the vMA-machine. So i registered my first...
View ArticleHow to get any VM's hostname using Remote CLI [ESX Server] ?
Hi, I am trying to automate some testing where in i need to depoly some packages on the VM's on the ESX server. I need the hostname information for the same. i know that we can get the Vm location...
View Articlesshd_config + AllowGroups + AD group
I am doing some tests with the AllowGroups settings in sshd_config.We have a security group which contain all our administrative accounts that should have access to the vMA. I only want to allow this...
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 ArticlevMA 5.1 vs 4.1: Slow SSH connections and slow network response
I just deployed the latest vMA 5.1 after attempting vMA 5.0 Patch 2 and being unable to resolve issues with the proxy settings. IMO vMA 5.0 and vMA 5.1 are just simply awful. Anyway, I need some help...
View ArticleSlow vMA - Every vifp command takes 10-15 seconds to run.
The subject says it all. The vMA VM is fast and responsive but as soon and I run a vifp command or an esxcli command against a target it takes ~10 seconds for a result. Any thoughts?
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 ArticleUsing VIMA to shut down an EqualLogic PS5000E SAN
Currently I'm working on setting up a VIMA to handle shutting down hosts in the event of a power failure (Talking to an APC UPS) Has anyone had much experience with Dell/EqualLogic's host scripting...
View ArticleCan't Install VMa
I'm new to VM Ware and I'm trying to install VMa for my education. Currently, I'm running ESXi 4.0 on a Dell PowerEdge. When I try to install VMa, I get the following error when it tries to start:...
View ArticleScripting a few deployment parameters
Does anyone have any success on scripting either of the following two changes in an ESXi deployment? I'm not seeing options for these in the vMA. PowerShell is an option however ideally I'd like this...
View ArticlevSphere SDK Perl - A specified parameter was not correct.
I have been puzzling over this issue for a few days and I hope that this is the correct location for this post. I have been using perl to configure the ESXi 4 hosts once they have been built. But have...
View ArticlePCNS on vma 5
I'm working on setting up PCNS 3 on our ESXi 5 servers. Our servers are in a vmware cluster and I have 1 vma (for 2 ESXi servers) (should I have one vma instance on each host?). Anyhow, how do I...
View Articleis vma4 compatible with vsphere5/esxi5?
Hi,i cannot find any information about it.is there any document, that contains compatibility matrix with vma?In release notes there are information, that vma5 works with vsphere 4, but in the opposite...
View ArticlevSphere Management Assistant (vMA) 5.1 VMware Tools
The vSphere Client is showing that VMware Tools is not installed. Does the VMA need VMware Tools? The vSphere Client Install/Upgrade VMware Tools is not working? I assume I have to do a manual install?
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...
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