VMWare is a clownish company, and Player has become a joke
As a rule, I will virtually never write a deliberately flaming title. But really, what I write is the truth. I have been unable to update VMWare Tools for Windows for months now. I just tried to...
View ArticleArquivo .vmdk excluido (harddisk), como recuperar ?
Bom dia a todos, Acabei de me cadastrar na comunidade e tenho uma importante pergunta (muito importante para mim). recentemente chegou um servidor aqui na empresa que estava sendo usado em outra...
View ArticleConsolidating snapshots
I am in the need of recovering some diskspace and getting a handle on some of our VM Sprawl. I have several VM's that have multiple snapshots that are showing up as orphaned vmdk's. Many of the...
View ArticleProvisioning vcpu's question
I have a cluster of 12 host. Each host has 2 proc. sockets, 6 cores per socket, 24 Logical procs. I am running ESXi 5.0. This cluster is currently housing 225 VM's (vdi desktops presented by...
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ESXi 5.1 installation - Installs without any problem, but no effect after reboot
I have a bit of an odd issue that I am hoping someone in the community can point me in the right direction on. Background: We have an older ESX host that is not part of our primary production ESXi...
View ArticleHow do I create a "locked.properties" file for View SSL?
- I'm using View Manager 4.0 and I've created a new SSL cert for my thin clients. Its ready to import in the C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\sslgateway\conf folder. We have no security...
View ArticleSSH view RAID configuration command ESXi 5
I have several ESXi 5 servers that have failed HDDs. I want to confirm that the drives are in a RAID configuration before I hot swap the drives as these are critical production servers and can't be...
View ArticleHow many machines do I need and can SQL Express be used for vCloud Director
Hi We are "thinking" of purchasing vCloud Suite standard. We are only going to have about 20-40 VMs total on one host for the intended use of testing software applications. Not all VMs will be on at...
View ArticleView desktop not the same number of vcpu than the parent vm
Hi, I created a Pool from a 4 vcpu (2 cores X 2 sockets). The desktop created only uses 1vcpu... any idea?
View ArticleWeb Console doesnt load
Hi, Ive had this issue before but can not find how I fixed it last time. Basically installed VM Server 2 onto a Win 7 PC but when I try to open the webconsole it fails to open. Tried using pcname /...
View ArticleReuniones del Colombia VMUG
Buenos días: Dado el creciente interés en el mercado con respecto a casi todos los aspectos de lo que conocemos como la "jornada hacia la nube" en la que cada etapa representa beneficios para las...
View ArticleNo special characters with unity
We are running a Ubunt 10.4 LTS guest on Win 7 Pro 64-Bit Host. Everything works nice until we switch on the unity desktop feature. When unity is switched on, we cannot enter special characters like...
View ArticlePersona Management: Make the User Desktop Folder Read Only
So I need to make it so that users cannot save/edit/remove/modify the desktop items of a Windows XP pool. This means I cannot use the group policy item: disable all the desktop. I need the icons to be...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 Tags Not in the Database
It appears that "custom attributes" are being replaced by "tags", which I am certainly a fan of, except I can't find them in my vCenter 5.1 Database. Definitions for custom attributes can be found in...
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Help - Automating the AD-Groups to Roles Assignment for a VM
Hi all, I have this doubt - We are migrating from vSphere 4.1 to 5.1Not through update manager, but by manually adding hosts to a 5.1 build !! Here is the thing, every VM that will be...
View ArticleDigital Signage Application - Multiple Monitor Outputs from Host
Hi all, have used vmware Workstation quite a bit but before I dive into this application, I would like your input. A client of mine wants to use a single PC to drive four digital signage displays...
View ArticleMultipathpolicy change
I know there are several variations of scripts on the community site to change Multipath policy to RoundRobin for all datastores on hosts and those work great, but we are trying to find a way (in one...
View Articlefile sharing help
I want to be able to drag files back and forth between Windows 7 (virtual) and the desktop of my Mac. I forget how to set it up. Can anyone tell me? Thanks, Fred
View ArticleVSA Storage Offline
I have an odd issue with my 2 node VSA implementation - Each host sees both datastores however, each on each host one of the datastores is offline/inaccessible. For each host a different datastore is...
View ArticleGemFire Hangs tcServer Startup in SpringTrader
Hello,I'm trying to get SpringTrader to work in a clustered environment. Changing the bind-address from 127.0.0.1 to the IP of the host results in the below messages in catalina.out. Any ideas? Also...
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