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  If I ask a Cluster folder read-only permissions or a host (for a particular group of users) with the propagate to child objects enabled, when a new virtual machine is created within that folder, the user is able to do much more than R/O.

  I know that we can create a VM (in a different vision) folder with the same R/O permissions, but that guarantee no new virtual machines will have this permission applied if these new virtual machines are not placed in a VM file at creation time.

  It seems that on the new VM creation, the virtual machine is not inheriting the R/O permission in the folder/Cluster host. This is the expected behavior?

  Thank you!

  I believe that the more restrictive permissions apply. I don't have that backwards?

  I should have been more descriptive.  If you have an ad group with say joe in this document, that the group is set to read only role and joe is in another group that has an administrator role, joe becomes and administrator.  If joe is added in as a user rather than a group, then the more restrictive role wins, so you are right.

• How to configure the agent to monitor performance only the vcenter vmware and esx, not need to monitor virtual machines

  How to configure the agent to monitor performance only the vcenter vmware and esx, not need to monitor virtual machines

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• ESXI free Version host failure - how to recover virtual machines?

  Hi all

  I ran a VMWare lab at home with a free version of ESXI 4.1.

  My server does not and I have to reset all the settings management of ESXI and I lost my virtual machines.

  I solved the problem, but I lost the virtual machine.

  When I navigate through the data store I can see the virtual hard disk for my servers.

  Is there a way to recover these virtual machines?

  I guess that I'm not the first to ask this question, so if you could point me to any page with some instruction, it would be great.

  Thanks in advance,

  Fabio

  Welcome to the VMware forums communities.  In each folder of the virtual machine, you should see a VMX file for the virtual machine.  This is the configuration file.  Right-click on it and select Add to the inventory.  Then follow the instructions of the wizard and after the virtual machine market.  If your network configuration is the same as previously, then you should be good to go.

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• Unable to choose the host when you deploy a virtual machine template

  Good Morning-

  I feel that the answer to this is with myself; However, I would ask - I try to deploy a virtual machine model for test purposes and I want the virtual machine must be created on a specific host.  When I start the Wizard "deploy the virtual machine of model", I am only able to select the cluster and not a specific host.   Is it possible for me to be able to select the host to which the virtual machine will be deployed without disabling DRS?

  Thank you very much in advance for the help.

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  What happens if you right click on the host that you want to deploy on the virtual machine to and select deploy from model - but don't forget if you have a DRS activated with anything other that Manuel DRS will select the host on which the virtual machine starts on and it would not be that you deply to--

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• Allocate multiple cores of the only host for CPU on a virtual machine

  Hello

  You don't know if it is possible, but could find is not online.

  An application on my virtual machine uses only a carrot and I want to accelerate.

  Add more cores on this virtual machine is meaningless, to that effect, I would like to allocate multiple cores of the host that will act as a single core on the virtual machine.

  Is this possible?

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  As already stated above, this is not possible, and you have two options:

  1 buy a new CPU with a clock higher;

  2. that your application works with multiple processors.

• One migrated from my virtual machine to another host VSphere and it does not start

  I have a virtual machine that I've initially converted to Hyper-V to host VSphere. After I did it would start very well, but I got up two errors when starting.

  "An IDE controller is found but the VM does not support the option" and

  "A plate supporting the option not found."

  When I looked at the hard drive in the settings it looks like it is not supported. Is it because I badly converted to Hyper-V to VSphere using VMWare Converter?

  But now, I configure VCenter Server and tested a migration of these machines to another host and using the VSphere Client. It does not start now. I get an error message that says.

  "Device 'drive hard 1' uses a controller that is not supported." This is a general limitation of the compatibility of the virtual machine with the selected host ESXi version. »

  Remember that it is the same VSphere host it is running on initially. Any suggestion would be appreciated.

  If it works now - is that correct? n ' forget not to award points useful and/or correct

  I removed these entries;

  ide0:0. FileName = 'PIC-JVM-v0001 - 000001.vmdk ".
  IDE1:0. Present = 'TRUE '.
  IDE1:0.clientDevice = 'TRUE '.
  IDE1:0. DeviceType = "cdrom-raw"
  IDE1:0.startConnected = "FALSE".
  ide0:0. Redo = «»
  IDE1:0. FileName = ' / usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/windows.iso '.
  scsi0:0. DeviceType = "scsi-passthru.
  scsi0:0. FileName = ' / vmfs/devices/cdrom/mpx.vmhba1:C0:T0:L0 '.
  scsi0:0.allowGuestConnectionControl = "FALSE".

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  ide0:0.clientDevice = 'true '.
  ide0:0. DeviceType = "cdrom-raw"
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  scsi0:0. FileName = 'PIC-JVM-v0001 - 000001.vmdk ".
  scsi0:0. DeviceType = "scsi-disk" hard
  scsi0:0. Redo = «»

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  See you soon,.

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• Run the script file from a virtual machine

  Hello

  I have a script (c:\script.ps1) I want to run on a virtual machine. Can someone tell me how to do?

  When I want to run the single command on vm I follow these steps:

  > > $cred = get-Credential

  > > Invoke-VMScript - win1 VM - GuestCredential $cred - ScriptText "dir".

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  PS Script is not on the virtual machine, it's on the computer I have installed PowerCLI.

  LucD thanks for help

  I managed to do this way:

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  without out-String I received the error "failed to convert System.Object [] to the System.String type.

• Can [RESOLVED] I install the windows 7 provided with my laptop on a virtual machine?

  I bought a laptop.  This purchase price includes an operating system (Windows 7 Home Premium) I want to use it on a virtual machine instead of on the physical machine.  The host operating system is different.

  It seems impossible to install this OS on virtual machine; I get errors with the activation key.  Here are the things I've tried:

  Create an image of the original hard drive (before it was started), then tried to start the
  Downloaded the ISO of Windows 7 Home Premium digital river and tried to use the activation key on the bottom of the laptop
  Iso boot and go into recovery mode on the original hard disk image

  None of them worked.

  If I have to buy another copy of Windows, can I at least get credit for one, that I never use that I paid for?

  You should be able to use it in a virtual machine, as long as you have another operating system (for example Linux) host.

  d. use with Virtualization Technologies. Rather than use the software directly on the licensed computer, you can install and use the software within the single virtual (or emulated) system on the licensed computer. When used in a virtualized environment, content protected by digital rights management technology, BitLocker or any hard drive full-volume encryption technology is perhaps not as secure as protected content not in a virtualized environment. You must comply with all national and international laws that apply to such protected content.

  Here's what you do, use the Windows 7 Home Premium you downloaded from digital river.

  Boot from the Windows 7 DVD

  Click Install now

  Accept the license agreement

  When the option is displayed to select a type of installation, click (Custom advanced)

  Click on drive Options

  Select the disc/s click on Delete

  Click new

  Click on apply

  Click OK

  Click Format, and then click next to proceed with the installation

  Skip entering your product key Windows 7 and complete the installation.

  When you reach the desktop, click Start, right-click on computer

  Click on properties

  Scroll down to the Windows Activation

  Click the link x days before activation.

  Click on the link that says: "show me other ways to activate.

  Enter the product key

  Click next

  Select the Activation of the phone

  Click Next when you enter your key page

  Select your country

  Click Next, call the number listed

  Be sure to explain your situation to the Appeals Officer.

  Provide the installation generated when ID requested by the call agent

  They give a confirmation ID in return, enter it

  Click next to complete the activation.

  or

  How to activate Windows 7 manually (activate by phone)
   
  1) click Start and in the search for box type: slui.exe 4
   
  (2) press the ENTER"" key.
   
  (3) select your "country" in the list.
   
  (4) choose the option "activate phone".
   
  (5) stay on the phone (do not select/press all options) and wait for a person to help you with the activation.
   
  (6) explain your problem clearly to the support person.
   
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/950929/en-us

• Several ESXi hosts and need to share virtual machines

  I'm relatively new to ESXi (although a lot of vSphere, using iSCSI storage) and we are making a number of servers in remote site (with a proxy and utility VM to manage the file/print/dhcp) using ESXi. I have my VMs built on the first box and need to copy them off the coast to the other, but I have problems with the command ADD Storage... I can't seem to get the right information and I begin to think I'm missing something basic. Then...

  (1) can map you to the VMFS from another host esxi?

  (2) If you can, where do you find the location on the second machine information to set up the data store on the first machine?

  If it's important, we use Dell PE of the 1950s.

  Also, while I'm here...

  The size of a pain is to change the IP address or the name of the ESXi host area?

  Thanks in advance for any help!

  VMFS is not supported on USB drives.

  You can use FastSCP for example, http://www.veeam.com/vmware-esxi-fastscp.html

  And Yes, there are several devices that could share storage attached to the network locally, but I don't see them as a solution when you want to just copy existing virtual machines to another host ESXi.

• Returns the name of the FQDN for a vcenter based on a given virtual machine

  Slowly, I am working on a set of workflow that will integrate a powershell module, I created.

  For my first stream of work, I'm trying to find all the information I need when a user runs a workflow on a VM orchestrator.

  I understood the cluster so far, but I can't identify the right script object that will give me the full domain name of a host corresponding to this virtual machine vcenter.

  Being new vCO does not help much, either.

  I thought that it would be part of VcManagedEntity, but for some reason, this page translates into a big ol' 404!

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  I thought that maybe it would be part of vm.runtime.parent.parent but my script results in errors.

  Any help would be greatly appreciated!

  Thank you.

  I think that now you are a the right way, the full name of the vCenter server will be localhost, so the answer of vm.sdkConnection.setting.sdkConnection is localhost.

  Maybe this will help you:

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  But the FULL domain name should be the thing you are looking.

  See you soon

• New virtual machine on a VLAN different from existing virtual machines

  Hello

  I am trying to replace one of our physical servers with a virtual machine which must be on its own VIRTUAL local network.  This virtual machine will get channelled through our network to a router belonged to the client who resides with us.  I created a new group of VM ports for the new virtual machine on the standard vSwitch as the rest of our virtual machines are on with id VLAN by default of 0.  I was unable to create an id VLAN for the port group.  I have the virtual machine is set to the tag on all ports of the physical switch that the host is connected to the VLAN.  With this configuration I still can't even ping to the IP address of the physical switch for this vlan.  I feel that I'm missing something simple, but I'm pretty new to networks on vSphere.  If any information let me know.

  Hello

  Have you tried directly to type the VLAN ID in the drop-down list box. This is how to specify the VLAN ID for the virtual machines in a group of ports in the case of Virtual Switch Tagging (VST). By design, you can select a predefined VLAN ID or directly start typing the code.

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• The most effective way to retrieve a number of virtual machines in an org?

  Hi all, what is the most effective way to retrieve a MV of County in an org. I am currently recovering all CDV in an org, then all the vApps, then all of the virtual machines and pushing them into a table, then do a vms.length on the table filled by all virtual machines.

  It takes a horrible time, and there MUST be a better way.

  Open to any suggestion. Thank you

  Good, as administrator of the organization then: (I have not tried as a normal user account)

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  }
  

  It takes a little more code because the ".ORG" field is not available for the non-Admin queryVMField, but the. VDC IS, so we start by retrieving the TDC for the Org, then for each one, ask the number of vm for VDC.

  Post edited by: Burke - had accidentally initialization of orgVMCount as new Array(); -changed second line to 'var orgVMCount = 0;

• How to know from a virtual machine is power off?

  Hi all

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  My level = vSphere4.1

  TKS

  It's strange, that I always find VmPoweredOffEvent entries, even when the user has launched a stop from in the guest OS.

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