ESXi rescan datastore after reboot
Hi guys, I hope this is an easy one and that I'm just over looking something. Whenever I reboot any of my ESXi 5.1 hosts it doesn't rescan for datastores by itself. It would be really nice for it to...
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This is using a windows xp image. The PC simply boots straight into the view client. I am wondering if you can use the host machines cd/dvd drive and the virtual desktop
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Re: VMware ESXi 5 - vCPU limitations
I'm currently using ESXi 5 free. I just did a test and went thru the menu on creating a new VM and I can select 24 cores. The free license says I'm limited to 8 vCPUs, how come I can select 24 vCPUs?...
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You could use it via USB redirection if it were a USB connected CD-ROM.
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how about the host machines via sata or IDE?I have added the device in vsphere to machine but does not read the disk
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Can the host machine and virtual machine share the cd rom drive via sata or ide
View ArticleRe: ESXi rescan datastore after reboot
Hey Chris, ESX/ESXi actually does a scan and discovery for datastores and LUN's during boot. This can be seen in the boot.gz file that is populated in /var/log of the ESXi 5.x hosts. So it does not...
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No, the only option would be if you connected via the RDP protocol and had drive redirection enabled. It would then present the CD-ROM drive into your VDI machine so you could possibly view data.
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Did you already try to power on the VM?Regarding your setup. It's hard to give you an advice without knowing the exact requirements. I'd probably look more into 2 powerful hosts with multiple CPUs and...
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View ArticleRe: ESXi rescan datastore after reboot
ESXi 5.1 - and these are iSCSI LUNS. The interesting thing is I can use the UI or Powershell to do a rescan and everything works. I am using a custom image from Dell though.
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Thank you. Do you know if there is any documentation out there stating cd rom drive will not work via pcoip protocol.
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Veeam also offers a free version "VeeamZIP" which works gret too, but just offers less options like scheduling backups, ...I wouldn't worry about the configuration. Assuming you did not configure too...
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