VMWare Workstation 8 Installation failed
Trying to install VMWare Workstation version 8 on Windows XP-32bit and I am getting the following error: The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a...
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Ciao a tutti, ho fatto la migrazione di una macchina fisica(server 2003) su ESXi ora però volevo aumentare la Ram da 4 a 8 GB, però il tutto è disabilitato dal center.come mai? non posso fare queste...
View ArticleHP Procurve 2510G as HA iSCSI Switch?
Hi All, I have 2x HP Procurve 2510G-24 switches and plan to use it for HA iSCSI connection to Netapp filer. My plan is to: 1] vif 2 NIC on filer, 1 NIC to each Procurve switches at port 1 2] trunk 2...
View ArticleDistributed vSwitch and NET I\O Control
Hi I have the following setup 1 VDS 2 Clusters Cluster 1 = 6 x 1 Gbps Nics per host 2 X Nic in Standard vSwitch for VMotion and MGMT 4 X Nic in VDS for Guest trafficCluster 2 = 2 x 10 Gbps Nics...
View Articlevmnet1 not working after resuming Windows 7 host from sleep
When I put Windows 7 host system into sleep mode and then resume it vmnet1 adapter does not work anymore. Guests won't be able to communicate with the host anymore. A way to fix it is to use the...
View ArticlePoor guest performance running on SSD
Hello and thank you for taking the time to read this. Here is my current situation: Macbook Pro Late 20112.2 GHZ Intel Core i7 8GB RAMOS X Lion VMWare Fusion version: 4.1.3 (730298) I currently have a...
View ArticleWhat are limitations of ESXi free SDK?
We want to do some basic management of VMs using the ESXi SDK, including creating and deleting VMs. Is the free version of the ESXi hypervisor able to be controlled programmatically via the VMware SDK?
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Random PSODs (Purple Screens) on IBM-Hardware
Hi community, we are experiencing random PSODs ( every 3-6 weeks ) on our systems and are at loss what is causing this. The hardware: Two IBM System x3650 M3 (two &Gb SAS HBAs each) connected to a...
View ArticleNew Admin User
My purpose is to create the new user who can manage my ESXi Server.I create the user and set password, assign him to the root group. I also set his permissions to console.I tried to login console with...
View Articlevmclone.pl customization error
Hi, fairly new to using the perl sdk... I am trying to deply from a template using vmclone.pl. It works fine when I don't customize the vm or guest, but when I do I get the following failure when...
View ArticleESX 5 and HP P2000 array
Hi,We have vmware esx5 installed on HP DL380 G7 server.We have recently purchased a HP P2000 disk array and to connect it up to the server we purchased HP P411 HBA.I have set up the array using HP...
View ArticleDomain/DNS servers as vm - with authentication services
So, here is my problem, I have an esxi 5 server which hosts my windows 2008r2 domain controller and dns server the esxi host is a member of the domain, and allows authentication for domain users to...
View ArticleUsb modem device connected to esxi 4.1 not recognized
I'm trying to connect a Vodafone modem usb device to a esxi 4.1. Enabled the pass-through feature in the VSphere client. Added also the usb-controller to the vmware server. But still i can't add the...
View ArticleVMWare Workstation doesn't uninstall itself cleanly under Linux
After deinstallation the following files and directories remain: /var/lib/vmware /var/run/vmware /var/run/vmware-hostd-ticket /var/lock/subsys/vmware /var/log/vmware /tmp/vmware-root /tmp/vmware-$(user)
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Update Manager 4.1 Scan Error of ESXi 3.5 Host
I have a ESXi 3.5 Build 110271 Host which is managed by a vCenter 4.1 Server. When I scan for updates I get errors below :- After investigating on the internet, I have found this article as a possible...
View ArticlevCenter Perl SDK - Check if StoragePod is available
Hi,I am working in an environment where there are both vCenter ESXi4 (DataStores) and new ESX5 (StoragePods).Depending upon where StoragePod is available or not, I need to clone vms accordingly.I am...
View ArticlevCenter Linked Mode for DR purpose: What if the primary node fails?
Hi,I'm investigating on vCenter Linked mode for our Company. Infact, our DR policy is planned to restart everything from COLD (from tape... ok It's bad but is what our business team asked us). Since...
View ArticleVCD-NI problem
Hello guys! Problem is the following.VMs inside Organization network lost internal connectivity when are placed on different ESXi nodes.We use VCD-NI feature in vcloud director. MTU 1524 is set in all...
View ArticleVcenter server database backup
guys, I want to uninstall my vcenter server and reinstall a latest build number version. but i have configured so many things in the cluster. so i need to backup the configuration data and all other...
View ArticleHA and FT Support for 3rd Gen i5/i7
Hi All, First post to vmware but had a quick question.I am wanting to build a home lab to study for the VCP certifications and was wondering with the latest Core i5 3rd gen work with FT and HA? I did...
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