vSphere Client freezes when trying to control VM
I have a Dell Precision T5500 running ESXi 5.0. It has two Intel Xeon E5507 CPU's and 8 GB Ram. Whilst running just one VM which is setup to have 4 cores and 2GB of Ram I find that if I click off...
View ArticleHow to Compact the VMDKs with window guest
Dear , I have a problem in manage vmware system storage, i use ESX 5.0 host and IBM storage attact directly to it and was mounted, my VM was created with 200GB HDD (thin provisioning). Some recent...
View ArticleJust passed with minor experience!
Hi Everybody,I just passed the VCP510 exam today and wanted to share my thoughts and experience with anyone else looking at tackling it.I know there are a lot of other posts (and entire websites) with...
View ArticleProblem starting Virtual Machines after upgrade 4.0 --> 5.1
Hi guys, Recently I upgrade my ESXi box from 4.0 to 5.1.After some vague problems (see: http://communities.vmware.com/message/2179808#2179808 ) the server seems to be running stable now.This morning I...
View ArticleHow to restore Guest OS
Hi Friends! Host: Windows 8 Guest (External Hard Drive): Windows 7, server 2003 & VMware WS 9 (My Documents - Virtual Machines - windows 7 and server 2003) - Guest OS installed to an External Hard...
View ArticleStart-vm via PCL fails for invlaid host state
Hi, We are seeing some odd behavior during VMhost maintenance mode. First would be a feature/functional change to the evacuation of images...Move all powered off images first to reduce startup failure...
View ArticleData Import Wizard
I am trying to import Customers to my Dev system using the DIW on Infra v8I'm getting the following error:An error occured loading the data file.Item has already been added. Key in dictionary: "Key...
View ArticleSize of Virtual Machine in Finder is Double the Size of VM Within Fusion
I'm running a Windows 7 Home Premium virtual disk in Fusion Professional 5.0.2; the host OS is 10.8.2. The size of the sparse disk is set to 40 GB. After defragmenting Windows and cleaning up the...
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Understanding the EULA/License
Hi there, I hope to find some clarification regarding the EULA of VMware ESXi Installable (new free version). The EULA says: " (ii) use the Software and each Licensed Additional Module solely...
View ArticlevCloud API - How to get only public catalogs or only organisation catalogs?
Hello, I want to get the public or the private catalogs from an organisation.There is a method (getCatalogRefs() from class com.vmware.vcloud.sdk.Organisation) that gives all the catalogs. Is there a...
View ArticleTime taken to move datastore between luns
Hello there I need to move a 466Gb VM between datastores using vCenter. I don't have vStorage Motion, so will need to power off the VM first and then Migrate | Change Datastore. However, so that I can...
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Add a SOAP host results in java.lang.NullPointerException
Hi there, get an error on trying to add a SOAP host with the Add a SOAP host workflow. I tryed few different ways to get the SOAP host added, but non is working. Also I saw here different posts within...
View ArticleAll the vmware player freezes
Hi, I'm running vmwplayer in Windows 7, virtualizing a Linux (Ubuntu 10.04) and it goes pretty good, except, some times that the whole virtual machine freezes, the screen goes black and I can't do...
View ArticleChanging config save frequency in 5.1
I've read that by default ESXi 5.1 saves it's config to disk every 10 minutes by default. I'm running off a USB memory stick so would like to lower the frequency of this, especially as the config isn't...
View ArticleНе работает Nic Teaming
Всем привет!Сделал Nic Teaming, при отключении любого порта на свитче (через управление) падает связь с хостом. Что не так?
View ArticleLimiting Secure Remote Access via Active Directory
We've just implemented remote access in our View 5.0 environment, using View Client 5.2. All is working quite well, but we need to limit who can use this from the outside to management staff only. We...
View ArticleProblemas con vmware view 4.1 y terminales EVGA "pcoip"
hola todos, espero se escuentren muy bien Tengo una consulta en mi entorno tengo vmware virtual center 4.1 y vmware view 4.6 estoy cambiando mis terminales wyse q trabajan por RDP a terminales pcoip...
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Unable to upload to catalog
Hi community I can’t upload images to catalog on our new Cloud Director 5.1.1 installation. Certificates should be in place and I’ve tried multiple browsers, OS and Java Versions. It simply timeout...
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Moving Win7 XP Mode into ESXi 3.5???
I found an official VMware KB (2014936) how to do this with VMware Workstation. I have read some other things online for different (slightly similiar) scenarios where people suggested using VMware...
View Article5.0.2 - VMware has encountered an error an has shutdown Windows
After installing the 5.0.2 update, the system is cycling through this error.Windows starts (from crash state) then runs normally for a few minutes, then throws the above error and stops.Thee do not...
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