Virtual Machine Disk grows extremely due to large vmware.log
Dear all, We have a couple of Ubuntu 10.04 64 bits guests installed on vSphere 5.0 on two separate physical machines (HP DL380 G5).All servers are running OK, except two specific servers, one on each...
View Articlehow to crossover connect 2 multi-NIC ESXi 5 servers with static IPs?
Is it possible to connect two multi-NIC ESXi 5 servers together with a crossover cable? Here is my scenario. I have two ESXi servers with 2 NICs each. I want to connect one port from each box to the...
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I can't install windows 7 on VMware
Hi everybody, I'm a newbie to this technology and I'm having a little problem getting windows 7 up and running, Basically when I try to start up the virtual machine I get this warning and when I click...
View ArticlePXE Booting Vmware View Linux Client w/Ubuntu (Not using LTSP)
This topic has been thrown around in here before but I'd like to start a new discussion on the topic and describe what we do today versus where we'd like to be. Current Situation Today, we're...
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Display driver crash
Hi I am running two VMs on Workstation 9.0. They run DirectX 3D applications. After an hour or more the Display driver on the host crashes. I have a GTX690 from nvidia 3770k i7 CPU, Win7 x64, clients...
View ArticleHealth Status is ESXi 5 with MegaRAID and Dell C2100
I have a new Dell C2100, with two of LSI MegaRAID 9260-8i controllers, the ESXi is version 5.0 build 469512.I was hoping to be able to see controllers/drives raid status from the health status by...
View ArticleChoppy / Stutter / Slow Audio in XP Guest on Workstation 9
I'm having an issue with audio in an XP SP3 guest, which was P2V and then run in Workstation 9 on a Windows 8 host. The windows default system sounds such as startup and shutdown, and playing MP3s,...
View ArticleVMware ESXi Fibre Cards on MacPro
What fibre cards are supported on a VMWare ESXi installed on a Mac Pro?
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VMware Workstation 9.0.1 and Player 5.0.1 incompatible!
Hi all, I bought the last upgarde of VMware 9.0.1 build 894247 that came with VMware Player 5.0.1 build 894247. Both these two tools allow me to create a VM using 1 CPU with 8 cores on my AMD FX 8150...
View ArticleUpgrading VMWPlayer destroys (de)installation permanently
it is a real mess.in short:we were very happy with VMWP 4 for a long time.unfortunately then I yielded to the temptation to upgrade for version 5.the installation of VMWP 5.0 tried to uninstall the...
View ArticleOracle RAC on vSphere4.1 - Performance Problem
Dear Mates, We are seeing performance issues for the Oracle RAC VM's. Oracle Support say that queries are waiting for IO. Below is the environment. 2 node (VM) Oracle RAC setup.1 VM in each ESXi...
View ArticleNeed Help with Workstation 9
I have VMware Workstation 9 installed on my Windows 7 Pro 64 bit PC. I am trying to add Windows XP Pro x86 as a virtual machine on a physical disc. The install goes in with no problems and I am able to...
View ArticleHQ5 adding users
I'm playing around with HQ 5 and have added all my servers using the hqadmin user. I created a couple test accounts, but when I login and hit the Resources tab there's nothing there. The only way a...
View ArticleStrange Error while deploying windows patches- vCenter protect
I have been using Shavlik for almost 2 years and have not come across this error while deploying patches. Scan on the server works perfectly fine. i select the missing patches and start deployement...
View ArticleConnect to Vcenter Problem
Hi, i'm new with orchestrator, have problem with connecting to vcenter. the error was something like this: 'com.vmware.vim.vmomi.core.exception.InternalException Do you have idea with this? Thanks
View ArticleIs there a standalone version of vmware-vdiskmanager for OS X?
Hi, I need to shrink a few virtual disks in .VMDK format sitting on an OS X box. Unfortunately so far I haven't been unable to find vmware-vdiskmanager for OSx -- short of installing VMWare Fusion for...
View Articlecpu usage
Hello! In Hyperic HQ, cpu usage is an instantaneous value or average valuecorresponding interval?For example, I set collection interval as one minute for cpu usageinformation. How to interpret at...
View ArticleStore duplicate files only once to boost compression rates
Microsoft Office, DVDVideoSoft's Free Studio and other software can contain many duplicate files (graphical resources in themes for example), but their installers turn out much smaller than when...
View ArticleLSI 9266-4i cim problem
Having a very strange problem. I have the latest vib installed and everything works fine. I can see the card under the health status using the vsphere client and I can connect from a remote workstation...
View Article$esxcli.software.vib.remove
I'm trying to use this as a guide to remove the Dell VIBs with powershell before a 5.1 upgrade. http://www.virtu-al.net/2012/02/24/removing-the-vcd-agent-from-hosts/ I can't seem to make it actually...
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