Uninstalling VMTools cause vmware-vmx to crash
Hi, Was trying to reinstall the VMWare tools in a Win8 vm on the July 2012 build and half way through uninstallating it causes vmware-vmx to crash. Happened quite a few times, and eventually it seems...
View ArticleNetApp iSCSI LUN on ESXi
Hi, Please help me with following. I Have multiple iSCSI LUNs from my netapp connected to ESXi server and they are part of a datastore.say/vol/lun1/vol/lun2 In the vCenter I see the names of devices as...
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My VCAP5-DCA experience (hint: bad) :)
I took the VCAP5-DCA test here in Singapore where I'm working this week. This was apparently a huge mistake, since the datacenter where all the actual stuff is executed is simply too far away...
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NIC teaming on blade server using completely different physical nics?
We are still new to virtualization and we are stuck on something. Our one host is on a dell blade server and has 6 total physical nics available to it. Two are directly attached phyiscal nics, and 4...
View ArticleHow to increase vmware-vmx cpu usage?
I know this has to be an odd question. I am running CentOS 5.8 64 bit specifically to play around with Apache hadoop. I am using the Hortonworks 1.0 distribution to install the hadoop ecosystem. On my...
View ArticleVM Image on external drive, seperate VMX's per computer?
I'd like to move a VM I've got between more than one computer, I can run it straight of the VM with the VMX in the same folder, that's no problem... but what i'd like is to have seperate VMXs on each...
View ArticleVMWare Data Recovery not working properly
Hi,I'm using VMWare Data Recovery tool (VDR 2.0 -with Vsphere 5). I'm tried to back up a VM and the VDR said the backup was successfull. But I can't restore the VM. When I checked the log I found that...
View ArticleUnable to get usage reports properly
We're facing problems when getting usage reports. We can't get the reports properly.For example, "memory size" is not correct and sometimes storage capacity and vCPU,CPU values are not the values what...
View Articlevirtual machine restore to original state
For example I have five (5) virtual machines. These are assigned to different users and do their stuff there. Overtime it gets dirty. Is there a way to restore it to the original state every "x"...
View Articlewindows nt 4.0 SP6, freezes in the blue info screen before O/S starts
Hello,I've converted a physical server that contains windows NT 4.0 SP6 to vmware.I've used acronis for making an image of the disk installed.I've used vmware-converter 5.0 for converting from acronis...
View ArticleHow to clean up projects in status "rebuilding"
Hello, when trying to do a rebuild of a project the process hangs (see other tread). In the projects list this causes some entries which cannot be removed anymore (see attached screenshot).How can we...
View ArticleBug Report - Win7 - Vmware 8 - vmwarevmcisocket64.msi Failed
i cant install vmware 8. pls help me!!!
View ArticleCannot register vCenter Server Appliance in vSphere Web Client
Hi, I am trying to install vCenter Server Appliance 5.0. I have gone through the initial steps and deployed the OVF Template etc using vSphere Client. Then I installed the vSphere Web Client on my...
View ArticleFail to add array in SRM 5.0.1
Hi All I'm using HP EVA P6500 and HP DL380 G8 server in my vCenter 5.0.1 When I add array manager , it shows error message "SRA command 'discoverArrays' didn't return a response." Can anyone help...
View ArticlevShield Manager daylight savings time
I've installed the vShield Manager, because I'm using Trend Micro Deep Security. All works fine.Over the vShield Manager web console I can set the date/time.I've set:Time Zone: Europe/BerlinNTP...
View ArticleRetrieving Annotations/Attributes using vCLI
I'm trying to retrieve the custom attributes I've applied to guest VM's programmatically. I can find a lot of resources for doing this using PowerCLI or the SDK, but none for the vSphere CLI (esxcli,...
View ArticleMountain Lion Guest - Screen Sharing Issues
Hi all, Does anybody here has the same problem / experience? I have a Guest VM running Mountain Lion (public Build and newest VMware Tools). When I connect to this VM from an another Mac by using OS X...
View ArticleVMware v. 8 come riconoscere la scheda audio.
Gent.mi, sono un nuovo iscritto alla comunità, complimenti del contenuto ed auguro che sia giusta la sezione. Ho installato la macchina virtuale VMware v. 8 installando il S.O. Windows 7 32 bit....
View ArticleProblems cloning with the VMWare SDK Perl scripts
I am new to the SDK. I loaded the 5.0 version of the SDK Perl scripts. I am trying to clone a VM but I want it to clone to another datacenter and esxihost. I can get it to clone locally if I do not...
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