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In a previous post I talked about installing a Quadro P620 into my ESXi host so I could attach it to my Plex VM. This worked out great except my Veeam backups started failing. There is a limitation in VMware vSphere where you can’t take a Snapshot of a VM with a PCIe device passed … Read more
I currently run Plex in a CentOS 7 VM (on top of vSphere 6.7) with two 2vCPUs and 2GB of vRAM. When I needed to transcode video to sync it to a mobile device for a trip the process takes a while and consumes a lot of CPU on the VM. I could just add … Read more
Our environment is: vCenter 6.5 U1g (8024368) running on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard VM (we’re moving to an appliance once we go 6.7) vSphere 5.5 7504623, 8 node cluster Since upgrading to the latest vCenter every new VM we clone into our production cluster reports “The virtual machine failed to become vSphere HA Protected … Read more
We’re backing out of a vCloud provider and trying to drag our VMs back into our local vSphere cluster. I’ve used ovftool to export our VMs from vCloud into OVF templates. I then import the OVF into VMware Workstation 14 and from there drag/drop the VM into our vSphere cluster. There is likely a way … Read more
Just did a fresh deployment of the VRM 6.5.1 appliance into vCenter 6.5.1u1 which controls our vSphere 5.5 hosts. Installation and configuration went smoothly but when I went to setup a test replication for a VM I could not complete the setup because none of my datastores were being listed. A reboot of vCenter did … Read more