Dell R520 and VSA 1.0
Hi Everyone, I recently purchased 3 Dell R520 2U servers ( Each with identical configuration). I picked these above the R510 due to the new Xeon's, and the Dual SD card option to install ESXi on. The 3...
View ArticlePassthrough is configured on One ESX Host, unable to take image backup
Dear team, One one of the ESX host, Passthrough is configured (LSI Logic /Symbolic Logic LSI 1068E) and the same is mapped to one of the VM, we are not able to take image backup of that VM getting...
View Articlenetwork cable unplugged - workstation 8
Running the trial of Workstation 8.0.4 on a windows XP SP3 host, the vm is win XP SP3. Everything installed just fine. Patched and secured the VM Windows XP OS, loaded my application software,...
View ArticleSSL Certificate request for view connection server
Hey guys, Pardon my ignorance here, but when I generate a certificate request for my view connection server (view5), do indicate the internal FQDN of the view connection server (which is my internal...
View ArticleVMware Player 5 and the Android emulator
Has anyone been able to get the Android emulator working without sluggishenes? For me it's possible to run apps with Android 2.x, but debugging is extremly slow. Android 4.x refuses to start when...
View ArticleESX 3.5 Export Guest Settings
I've been tasked with generating a report which contains all of our guests (we have one cluster) and all of their settings. I know I can export the inventory to .htm or .csv, but that doesn't give me...
View ArticleWhere do I get Go?
I don't see where the regular Go is. Everything goes to Go Pro, which is not what I need for now. So how/where do I get Go? Yeah sure, here:https://go.vmware.com/ So where is Go *non-pro* ?
View ArticlevMotion a guest VM on dvSwitch to server with standard switch
Hi all, We have a cluster of Enterprise Plus servers using 100% dvSwitches. Is there any way at all to vMotion a server to ESXi 5 boxes outside of this cluster if the destination isn't on the same...
View ArticleHow can I change the path to the config file for WSX ?
How can I change the path to the config file for WSX ?The default path to the file is %common appdata%\vmware\vmware-wsx\config.Or plan B - how do I start vmware-wsx-server.exe and assign port and...
View ArticlePermissions Combined Differently for Appliances?
Have a vCenter 5 instance with the following permissions set at the root:AD group "vAdmins" granted Administrator rolevCenter server's local Windows Administrators group set to "No Access"vAdmins is a...
View ArticleMultiple windows with IE6 Thinapp
I thinapp'd IE6 on XP and that helped us get migrated to IE8 on XP. Now that we're upgrading to Windows 7, I had to re-create my IE6 Thinapp to accomodate a new applicaiton. One of the functionalities...
View ArticleRestore Snapshot/Delta-File out of the virtual center DB
Hi there, is it possible to recover a deleted snapshot/delta-vmdk-file from the virtual center database?for example: i have a virtual machine, delete the snapshot from c-partition and later, i needed...
View Article5.0.0 build 812388, sound, screen problems - not ready for prime time?
VMware Player 5.0.0 does not seem to be ready for prime time. I could hear no sound (VMware Tools 9.2.0 799703 installed and restarted) until I turned all volumes up to the maximum - host sounds like...
View ArticleThe connection to the remote computer ended
Hi All, Need help very badly, I have View 5.1 setup with connection server in replicated mode, all was fine still yesterday. Now when I tried to connect throuh client getting the error "The connection...
View ArticleVM Network and Management Network share a vSwitch?
A debate between a peer of mine and I working with vCenter 5.0 and ESXi 4.1. Should the Virtual Machine Port Group, VM Network and the VMkernel Port Management Network be on the vSwitch? Or...
View ArticleSet-Datastore cmdlet works against vCenter but not an ESXi host
Hi all: I have a script that is designed to grab local datastores and rename them in series (e.g. if you have one or more datastores named anything in general, it will rename them to hostname-local-#,...
View ArticleVSM/VEM
Hello All, Environment:ESX 4.1 U2vCenter 4.1 U2Cisco Nexus 1000v -> 4.0.(4)SV1(3c) Question: We upgraded all of our VEMs from 4.0(4)SV1(3c) to 4.2(1)SV1(4a). When we upgraded our VSM from...
View ArticleWin7 "....CPU has been disabled ...."
The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. OK - so I understand this message (in principal)But here's the thing. Why would my Windows 7 (64bit) VM work on WS8, WS9 on my PC, or Fusion5 on...
View ArticleSerial Number
Does VCM collect the serial number of physical servers? I would have sworn it did, but can't find it now.
View ArticleHow to connect Multiple iSCSI SAN's?
We've just taken over the support of an environemnt that is setup differently than what we'd normally do. They have everything on one vSwitch, trunked and in seperate vlans. The current SAN they have...
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