Fresh install. Fusion 4, new Macbook Pro, Windows 7 CD, no optical drive
Having trouble in the Fusion Library creating a new virtual machine. I "continue without disc", then open the folder where I copied the entire Windows 7 CD (I have no optical drive and my external CD...
View ArticleUnable to delete datastore after a lun was resized
Hello I have this situation. A couple of months ago. I requested 1.2TB lun to the storage team. I created the 1.2TB datastore and everything works fine. After a couple of days the storage team changed...
View ArticleESX 4.1 Frozen
I came in this morning to find that our Host server running ESX 4.1 was completly frozen. Some guests using CentOS were reporting the disks as read only. Other guests using Windows Server 2008 R2 were...
View ArticleUnable to use second NIC on VM's
I am running VMware Workstation9 and I am setting up a ESXi 5.1 setup VM1 - Windows 2008 - Acting as a DC and NFS StorageVM2 - ESXi 5.1 I have added a second NIC on VM1 and VM2 for IP storage but I am...
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OS X Server virtualization in VMware Fusion: opinions?
I would like to share my experiences with virtualizing OS X 10.6. Snow Leopard Server in VMware Fusion 5. Compared to what Fusion offers in terms of Windows virtualization, the OS X Server...
View ArticleiLife on OS X Server Guest (Fusion 5). Anyone?
I'm trying to run iLife '09 programs (iMovie, iDVD) on a OS X Snow Leopard Server Guest VM.The reason is that I occasionally need iDVD, but prefer not to mess up the host machine with outdated and...
View ArticleGetting Host Hardware Information through PowerCLI
Hello there, I have a list of information I would like to get from some of our hosts. I've tried pulling this through PowerGUI and the VMWare PowerPacks but I'm having an issue with the fact that it...
View ArticleWill vcenter5.1.0b fix windows session authentication?
Can I automatically login to vcenter server with my AD login crendential ( put check mark on windows session authentication )?
View Articlecentos 6.3 32-bit vm doesn't support memory hot-add
Had turn on CPU hot-add and memory hot-add function, can hot-plug CPU, while the memory configuration is gray:
View ArticleUnable to run more than one Linux vm
I am working with a Dell PE1900 server.6 gig ram dual dual core procs and 64bit.When I try to run more than one linux image they both lockup and the Vshere Client will lockup.the only way put is to...
View ArticleHow to get datacentername？
How to get datacentername？ I want to call VMClone method VMClone This sample makes a template of an existing VM and deploy multiple instances of this template onto a datacenterParameters: url...
View ArticleТраблшутинг ESXi
Установлен ESXi 4.0. Последнее время начинает работать не стабильно, перегружался два раза за месяц сам по себе.Полскажите, где логи сервера, что то сам не могу найти.И если есть документация по...
View ArticleVirtual Network Configuration while creating ISA scenario in VMware Workstation
I have been using VMware workstation but have never quite used the Virtual network scenariosMy Workstation version is 9 and following is my scenarioI am testing and learning the TMG 2010 serverMy setup...
View ArticleVR Installation error
I am getting the following error when trying to install Vsphere 5.1 replication. so i can't complete the installation.please kidnle reply.
View ArticleVDDK 5.1 comes with outdated vmware-mount
Download VDDK 5.1 and try to mount a remote vmdk on ESXi - it will fail.If you have a look at the binary for vmware-mount.exe you will see that it is version VMware DiskMount Utility version 4.2.0...
View ArticleVixMntapi_Init returned error code 6
I am using the latest VDDK ver 5.0 on windows 7 64-bit against ESXi host.Prior to this call, I called the VixDiskLib_Init which returned successfully. Here is the code snippet:...
View ArticleESXI v5.1 free - question about updating
Hi, I would like to update my free esxi 5.1 server, but am a bit unsure, could anyone please confirm this is correct way to do this? Also is the patch 2001 including the patch 1001??I have downloaded...
View ArticleIs there any way to change VMWare Tools Settings ?
Hi, We just upgrade all ESXi hosts to Release 5.1. VMs are updated with latest VMware Tools & upgraded to latest Hardware Version. We find that there is no option for us to change VMware Tools...
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Lost my DataStores with unreachable DNS servers
Hi everyone, 1st message on communities I discover that if my 2 DNS servers configured on my ESXi server are not reachable, after a reboot, I lost my local datastore !! Is-it normal? Lastest version...
View ArticleAll Paths vmhba1:C0:T0:Lx is Dead !
There are 3 ESXi 5.1 Hosts in a cluster. For a particluar ESXi Host (Host2), we find that the all vmhba1:C0:T0:Lx paths are dead. On the other hand, we don't get any error message from the SAN / FC...
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