Is virtual hard drive different from physical?
C:\Users\admin>vssadmin list writersvssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.Error: Unexpected failure: Catastrophic failure...
View ArticleCan't connect to internet in VMware Fusion
I am running Windows 7 on a VMware Fusion 5.0.2 machine on a macbook pro running OSX 10.8.2. This morning my network adapter stopped being able to connect to the internet. It connects to the network...
View ArticleEaton 9130 + ESXi 5.0 + automated shutdown
Hoping that I can find someone in Melbourne (Australia), or even just anyone in Australia, who is using ESXi 5.0 with Eaton UPS and has successfully configured Eaton's virtual appliance to...
View ArticlevCD VM Customization Event?
HI all, in vCenter there are events for Guest CustomaztionVMware.Vim.CustomizationStartedEventVMware.Vim.CustomizationSucceededVMware.Vim.CustomizationFailedVMware.Vim.VmStartingEvent And that works...
View ArticleVmware View 5 over a Wan
Hi, I have a client that got a little scared with huricane sandy and is considering moving his servers into a datacenter. Before this we where getting ready to test vmware view 5, but it was going to...
View ArticleVMware Tool Installation Failure
VMware Esxi 5.0.0, 821926 We are getting "Setup cannot continue. The Microsoft Runtime DLL installer failed to complete installation" on MS Windows Server 2008 SP2 64bit OS.This is not a fresh copy of...
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Vmware ESXI within Hyper-v (server 2012) networking issue
I am trying to get esxi running within hyper-v and it won't recognize the virtual switch even though I got it setup properly and it works with any other VMs on this system. I only have one NIC but...
View ArticleAbout Snapshot Deleting
Hi, I've a ESXi 4.1 host with a guest OS (CestOS). The total space of the VMFS(data store) partition is 550 GB. Out of 550 only 25 GB is available now. There are 4 snap shot of that guest OS (the last...
View ArticleWindows 8 over PCOIP Successful workaround
First post to the forums, long time troll and have received much knowledge from all your posts. I have found a way to distribute Windows 8 over PCOIP using either a pool or manual. This is obviously a...
View ArticleVMPLAYER and OEM Windows XP
I have a dead Dell machine that was running OEM Windows XP. I built an image of the machine and ran it through VCenter convert to build a VM. When I run the converted image with VMPLAYER, the OS...
View ArticleView 5.1.1 SSL invalid
hi, I have inherited of a half finished View infrastructure. When I go in the View Administrator Web site, in Dashboard, View Components, Connection Servers and Security server, I have a Red Square on...
View ArticleThinapped applications not working properly
I tried to Thinapp both Firefox and Chrome, and ran into severe problems with both. Firefox: Flash causes the browser to hang. From browsing this forum, it seems that this is a very common problem....
View ArticleMove VM from disconnected host to VC
I have an ESXi mixed cluster 4.1 and 5.0U1 with HA enabled. An ESXi 5 host became disconnected due to a storage issue, and an HA event started to failover a couple of the VMs this was unsuccessful I...
View ArticleWindows 8 PCoIP Black Screen
I was wondering if anyone had tried setting up VMware View 5.1.1 with Windows 8 yet?I'm getting the dreaded black screen of death when using PCoIP but not with RDP. After about 10 seconds of black...
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Understanding an HA installation
I am new to the VMware HA configuration and just wanted to be sure I have my thoughts in order. We are looking to do a configuration as shown below: For my test bed, I have 5 ESXi servers, there will...
View ArticleVM with s.o. xp 32bit and Windows 2003 are very slow
Hi all,expose the problemI installed esxi5.1 server poweredge r715 ADM Opteron 6238 processor. the bios of the server is upgraded to the latest version 2.9.0VM with s.o. xp 32bit and Windows 2003 are...
View ArticleAnomaly and Symptom
HI i have attached a picture with description about it. in your Docs is stated that % in symptom is the percentage of Objects that have a particular metric and the metric is violating its normal...
View ArticlevCD 5.1 - Snapshot Error based on Storage Quota
The error that I am getting completely makes sense and maybe this is more of a feature request but I can't find a good way around it currently. Snapshot Error: The requested operation will exceed the...
View Article5.0.1 to 5.1 upgrade: is not an allowed static Ethernet address. It conflicts...
We have several products licensed to MAC addresses in the 00:0c:29 range. As we have moved those VMs from various machines to other machines, we have previously simply set the MAC address to manual,...
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