Missing Datastore
Hi, I have a disk that I want to recover the VMDK images from. It is seen as a device in ESX 5 but not as a datastore. Can someone suggest a way I get ESX to see the disk below as a datastore? Or a way...
View ArticleGuest Win 7 refresh problem when using remote desktop
I have a Win 7 64 bit host and guest. I upgraded two thing on the host, added a hard drive and upgrade the nvidia card driver to the latest beta driver. I use the guest as my main pc at work. I then...
View ArticleSRM failback failing with failed to recover datastore error
I have two vCenter 4.1.0 servers, one at the protected site and one at the recovery site. I have SRM 4.1.2 installed at each site on seperate servers. vCenter and SRM are installed on W2K8 R2 VMs. Each...
View ArticleLogged out when powering on Virtual Machine
Hey, Has anybody come across this issue before? I try to power on my virtual machine in vmware workstation and I get logged out of my desktop. I am using Centos6 and have been using Vmware workstation...
View ArticlePersona Management and Folder Redirection
For the life of me, I can't get this working right. I have a few different OU's. One in a user OU and one has Group A and one has Group B. Group B has folder redirection setup through MS's...
View ArticlevCenter Operations Standard shows higher network I/O workload than expected
KB2001129: vCenter Operations Standard shows higher network I/O workload than expected Does this also apply to vCenter Operations Enterprise 5.0.x? Only vCenter Operations Standard 1.0.x is listed in...
View ArticleBacking up/Replicating Exchange 2010?
I have a VM with Win2008R2 running Exchange 2010 SP1. I'd been doing nightly backups with the Windows Backup tool. We've since decided that a restore, if needed, would take far too long, so we are now...
View ArticlevAPP export to OVF template fails
Following is my setup vCenter Server 5.0 (vCentre Server Standard license)created one data centreadded one host ESXi 5.0 (installed vSphere Enterprise Plus license) Created a VM installed Ubuntu...
View ArticleInstallation of VMware Inventory service (vSphere 5.1) failed with error
The installation failed at the screen while trying to connect to SSO server with url "https://hostname:7444/lookupservice/sdk/". The error message displayed and advised to look at vm_ssoreg.log system...
View ArticleVMware Fusion 4, 5 vmware-vmx CPU hog > 100% - OsX 10.7.4 2GHz i7 16GB
From what I can tell on these forums, this is happening to other users on these forums, too. -upgraded to Fusion 5-suddenly, (Ubuntu, but probably other) vms hang - one vmware-vmx process takes more...
View ArticleMemory leak of vmtoolsd.exe
I find the memory leak of vmtoolsd.exe in gest os. VMware is Workstation 8 or Workstation 9.Gues os is Windows XP professional SP3 (32bit).Host os is Windows 7 professiional (32bit). When I don't run...
View Articlerepeatedly provisioning error despite provisioning is disabled
This error occurs every minutes for every linked cloned desktop pool. "Provisioning error occurred on Pool [Desktop-Pool-name] because of a configuration problem"The provision is disabled for each...
View Articlevmware 5: no disk space on linux vm after upgrade
I just upgraded to vmware (5.0.1) from version 4... my windows XP and 7 VM's went fine, no problems. I have an Ubuntu 8.x machine and, while it boots, there is zero disk space in it: 11...
View ArticleWin7 activation with "portable" VM (desktop/laptop)?
I've tried to research this issue and not found any solid answers. I would like to share a licensed activated 32 bit Win7 VM between two different Workstation 7 installations on my desktop and laptop....
View ArticleShared Mac Firewire disk only shows up as "file" of KB size.
I'm a Parallels convert. Parallels Desktop 8 was a DISASTER for me, and VMWare Fusion is infinitely better for me. One exception: I have a FireWire drive on my Mac that I need to share with my Win8...
View ArticleView Accelerator (Host Cache) Trouble!
Hi! I use view 5.1.1 and vsphere/esxi is up to date for the 5.0 branch, despite this I really can't get content based host cache to work! I activate it in view administrator, and on the pool and I see...
View ArticleOpenSUSE 11.4 Tools Install Failure
Hi, I'm having some challenges configuring VMware Tools on my OpenSUSE 11.4 guest. I've just upgraded my ESXi server from 5.0 to 5.1. The upgrade of the server went flawlessly, but the problems...
View ArticleSSO HA installation failed
Hello, I had two VC 5.0, they were a linked mode, and I could successfully upgraded my main server to VC5.1. Next I attempted to upgrade my second VC, it reported some linked mode error, then...
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Question on Disk Restore from Incremental Backup
After successfull backup implementation it is time for restore . In the backup implementation I have taken a backup of Virtualdisks, configuration and stored Changed Block information for each of the...
View Articlehow to control sampling of historic performance data
Hello All, I am creating a performance graph for VMs , for which I am fetching historic data from vCenter using Vi java . I am successful in fetching the performance data between the from and to dates...
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