LUN not reporting correct usage.
Hi, I have a LUN that's not reporting the correct usage after it's been filled up. It's a 2TB LUN which was created as a thick provision in command view (we're using HP SAN) and a thin provsion in...
View ArticleConcerned about 5.1 questions with 5.0 training
Hi all, I've just recently completed my 5 day VCP training course based on vSphere 5.0. Although I've been using vSphere since 3.x days and feel quite confident with it, I'm still going to spend the...
View ArticleGetting error: The capacity of the parent virtual disk and the capacity of...
Hi, I was trying to increase the hard disk space of a 10GB linux vm to a 20GB. I shut down the vm then ssh'd into the ESXi server. From there I ran the command: vmkfstools -X 20G Apatite.vmdk The...
View ArticleHow to monitor vApp cloning and remove vApp if the cloning failed
Hi, How do I monitor vApp cloning process (e.g. whether the cloning is complete or not, whether the cloning fails or not, how much progress has been made)? In case that the cloning fails, how do I...
View ArticleVirtualbox can be nested in a Hyper-V VM but VMware cannot
Host: Windows 8Hyper-V role installedWindows Server 2012 Hyper-V VM There is now some fundemental difference between Virtualbox and VMware in this scenario. Virtualbox and Oracle extensions not only...
View ArticleAbout Snapshot Deleting
Hi, I've a ESXi 4.1 host with a guest OS (CestOS). The total space of the VMFS(data store) partition is 550 GB. Out of 550 only 25 GB is available now. There are 4 snap shot of that guest OS (the last...
View ArticleVMware Fusion 5, UK Keyboard and Windows 8
I cannot get my MBP UK keyboard to work with my Win8 guest. The " and @ keys are swapped and I have yet to find a way of generating a hash. I have tried installing bootcam 3.2 drivers but when I try...
View ArticleVCP5-DV Passed
Passed my VCP5 exam over the weekend. I have various other cisco and linux certs. I think this test was more difficult. Tricky formats on some questions, pick 2 or 3 answers also.I took the stormwind...
View ArticleGetting "vcenter user has not been assigned a role on vshield manager"
Has anyone seen the above error when logging in to vcenter as the domain admin? I am inching ever close to a vCloud deployment and I would really like to be able to access these things from vSphere,...
View ArticleThird Party VMware Studio Alternatives
I’ve been looking for third party alternatives to VMware Studio. So far, the search has come up empty. Does anyone have any experience with third party virtual appliance authoring tools?
View Articleos x 10.8 - vmware fusion 4.1.4 - xubuntu 12.10 guest - unity view
using multiple workspaces in the xubuntu guest - works OK in unity view until I try to move one of the guest workspace apps to a different mission control desktop - which creates a rapid cycling back...
View ArticleWant to create a dedicated nic on each host to complete on-site replication...
I am currently running two ESXi 5.1 hosts and doing replication of two Vms between them for on-site disaster recovery. I am replicating continusiously on the database VM from one host to the other...
View ArticleVirtual machine only using a proportion of allocated memory
I wonder if anyone can help me. My set up: running Windows XP on VMWare Fusion loaded on a Mac. Working fine, until I installed Dropbox. And then I started having Low Memory on Disc errors in XP....
View ArticleVMware Player 4 - Configuration Help
Using VMware player 4.0 build 471780 on a Windows Vista Ultimate computer to run a host-only network, for a Novell Course 3078, that consists of two Linux virtual servers (DA-CORP and DA-IDM) and a...
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Проблема P2V, Unable to reconfigure the destination virtual machine.
Имеется исходная физическая машина под управлением Windows server 2k3 SP1, и vSphere 5.С помощью VMware Converter производится попытка p2v конвертации, процесс останавливается на 98 % с...
View Article32-bit program with 16-bit installer won't install
I have XP Pro (32 bit) guest runing on a VMPlayer 5.0 virtual machine. The host is Vista 64 bit. I just installed it yesterday. Some 32-bbit software that has a 16-bit installer will not load into...
View Articleresxtop is 32bit only?
I've installed the perl sdk "VMware-vSphere-Perl-SDK-5.1.0-780721.x86_64.gz" on centos 6.3-x86_64, supposedly successfully (after a few quirks, such as the UUID needing libuuid-devel). However, resxtop...
View ArticleCannot Install Update Manager 5.1
I'm trying to upgrade my VUM from version 5 to 5.1 but i'm getting stuck at the point in the installer where you enter the credentials for the vCenter server, the installer hangs at this point and...
View ArticleCan we Install CentOS 5.5 on ESX 4.0 208167
Dear Team, Can I Install CentOS5.5 on ESX 4.0 208167 host, will it support the same. regardsMr VMware
View ArticleMigrate existing data from one Operations Manager appliance to another?
Hi All, Just wondering if anyone knows of a method to migrate the data from one Ops Manager appliance to another one? We have a couple of VC's in one appliance that need to be moved into another one...
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