VMware Tools Heartbeat Failure during Snapshot Removal ?
We are using vSphere 5.1 with vRanger 6 for backup. For a particular VM with VMDK file of size around 600GB, we find that we get the "vSphere HA VM monitoring error" whenever the vRanger completed and...
View ArticleHow to reserve part of memory from RAM [ ESXi]
I am using ESXi5.0. Actually the system having 16GB RAM (physical memory). I would like to reserve 4GB memory from my RAM. So that , 12GB out of 16GB will use by vmkernel and rest of 4GB reserved by...
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Server will be discontinued? Why no info here or on product page?
According to this advisory VMSA-2010-0007.1 it reads: "End of General Support for VMware Server 2.0 is 2011-06-30, users should plan to upgrade to the newest release of either ESXi or VMware...
View ArticlePrinting Question
Hi All,Question from relatively new user re VMWare printing.Greyed out printer icon lower right corner VM 9.0.1 screen offers USB printer support for my local printer, which it correctly identifies....
View ArticleDell OMSA VIB not in Dell customized instrallation ISO
Currently after building an ESXi host with a Dell customized ISO, you still have to manually install the OMSA VIB. Is there a reason for Dell not including it in the ISO and if not anyone know if this...
View ArticleESXi 5.0.0 --- Boot image is corrupted.
Due to the hardware failure I had to shutdown my Server with 5 HDD (Raid 5). after restarting I saw this error message: The system has found a problem on your machine and cannot continue.Could not...
View ArticleStorage I/O control benefit with one host only?
I noticed that vCenter offers I/O control option to every datastore available, by default it is not turned on. I started to reading about this, and everywhere is said that this is benefit in clustered...
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Fusion 5.0.2 - OSX 10.8.2 - Windows 8 - Lync 2013 Video Freeze
Question, is anyone else out there running Fusion 5, OSX 10.8.2, and running Office 2013? I'm back on a new MBP retina 15" after using a Lenovo x220 for a year. I've been having a number of odd issues...
View ArticleVMDirectPath and ATI Radeon
I am using VMware ESXi and I am trying to setup a guest that is Windows 7 that will have an ATI Radeon video card passed through to it. I actually had this working on a previous system but I had to...
View Articlevcentre converter standalone 5.0.1: vmware-sysinfo crashes
On my physical Linux Fedora 17 32 bit machine, 'vmware-sysinfo-lin32' segfaults (crashes) when running vcentre converter standalone 5.0.1 to convert this physical machine (powered on machine source...
View ArticleHow to handle aborted backup runs?
we had recently trouble with our filer and had to abort some ghettoVCB backup runs by ctrl-C. we now wonder hot to handle these aborts? as we see it, there are leftovers like snapshots that prevent...
View ArticleMedia Center for Windows 8, How can we PASS Digital Cable Adviser Graphics test?
I just got a new Mac Mini i7. VT is confirmed enabled/working.How do we get Digital Cable Adviser to pass the Graphics test in the VM? (it fails) Should I follow this link or is their a better way?...
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(Solucionado) Problema al montar un datastore NFS en interfaz de red dedicado...
Hola a tod@s!! Tengo un ESXi 5.1 con 3 tarjetas de red: Interfaz A para la red externaInterfaz B para la lan internaInterfaz C para Datastore NFS También tengo una QNAP con dos interfaces: Interfaz D...
View ArticleCan we create vdi lab, vcloud lab on workstation 8 or 9
I am planing to create vdi and vCloud two seprate labs on my desktop is it possible to create this on workstation ? my desktop configuration is CPU : i5 1st genRAM : 16 GBHDD : 500Gbvmware :...
View ArticleFaulting application vmtoolsd.exe (2008 R2 64 Terminal Server)
I would love to know if anybody has a fix for this one. I've been getting the below error randomly on various terminal users sessions and can't seem to get it fixed. The only issue seems to be the...
View ArticleLUN sizing and max VMs per LUN
Consider a fiber channel SAN (EMC CLARiiON for example), and the limits around SCSI reservations, queue limits etc. per LUN. What are you guys doing with regards to the number of VMs you are placing...
View ArticleVcenter Server Appliance ....
Buenas, Tengo un esxi 5.0 licenciado, aunque solo tiene vmotion y poco más. Mi idea es montar un Vcenter server appliance 5.0, pero no me deja descargarlo, ya que he entendido que este es un linux y es...
View ArticleMigrate Linked Clone with persistant disk
Does anyone know if it’s possible to migrate a linked clone and persistent disk to a dedicated desktop? A caveat of this also is that the linked clone is in one vcenter and the future dedicated desktop...
View ArticleVCP-510
Buenas, pues nada, he realizado el curso y toca examen. La verdad es que no creo que sea sencillo y lo que si me gustaria es obtener examenes tipos, preguntas frecuentes y demas, ya que al fin y al...
View ArticleNetApp storage with FC on Protected site and iSCSI on Recovery site
With a vSphere 5.0 cluster and NetApp and FC protocol on the protected site,another vSphere 5.0 cluster and NetApp and iSCSI protocol on the recovery site,is it supported by VMware the implementation...
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