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Running into some issues attempting to install the NVIDIA GRID vib in a stateless environment. I bundled the vib into our deploy image and I can see that the vib is present and that the driver module exists on the host but the driver is not loaded. All of the documentation I have found indicates that you need to install/enable the driver and then reboot the host to have it take effect but that obviously doesn't work in a stateless environment. The vib lists itself as stateless ready also. Anyone run into this kind of issue before and could provide me some insight?

Recently we've seen a number of tasks (clones and storage vMotions) that seem to hang after around exactly an hour, usually when dealing with VM's with large amounts of storage since they tend to take long enough. The clone tasks were nice enough to actually fail in vCenter and just leave us with a snapshot consolidation that couldn't be performed until the process hung on the ESXi host that had a lock on the files was killed (or the host hard powered down). The storage vMotion actually took my VM down completely and totally hung in vCenter.

Opened a ticket with VMware Support after encountering the cloning bug but they weren't any help - in their defense there didn't seem to be anything pa

We are beginning to virtualize Oracle on vSphere, using a brand new HDS array running a tiered storage solution. Our Oracle engineers found some older VMware documentation stating that it is a best practice to have separate datastores and interpreted this as "each disk on the Oracle VM should have its own separate datastore" which, given that the datastores would be coming from the same pool of tiered storage from the same SAN array shouldn't really make a difference - the way I interpret the article is that it wants separate dedicated physical storage for the Oracle VM's which likely isn

We don't use AWS very heavily - we have a product that utilizes AWS to launch a number of EC2 instances for a period of no more than a few hours once every couple of months. The last couple of times this has happened we have had an instance go into an unreachable state and sit around for a few days until I noticed it and terminated it. I wrote this quick and dirty powershell script to detect it but I was wondering is there is a better way to do this via CloudWatch or something like Lambda?

Edit: Format code

$results = aws ec2 describe-instances | Out-String
$instances = ConvertFrom-Json $results
$instances.reservations.count

$sendEmail = $false

foreach ($stateName in 

My girlfriend's parents (older than 59 1/2) want to take money out of their traditional IRA in order to pay off some fairly substantial credit card debt, which given the high interest rates seems like the best decision. Their money is with Wealth Enhancement Group and the people there are telling them that they need to withdraw extra money now to cover taxes. Is that accurate and the IRA custodian need to perform tax withholding? Or should they just be squaring up when they file taxes next year? I would prefer they take only the money that they need to pay off the debt out now, roll the account over to Vanguard where they aren't getting eaten by fees, and then next year take out any extra th

I'm trying to replace the STS signing certificate in Vcenter with an enterprise signed one but have been running into a problem where most of my vcenter services begin showing as "unknown" status after I upload the new cert. I'm following the same procedures that worked for us in 5.1 but no luck here. Can anyone point me to some documentation about the proper way of generating a new JKS file for this situation? The VMware documentation doesn't go into much detail about the specifics.