Sitemap of all KB URLs, please?
Hi, Can I have a list of all KB URLs published so far on the Knowledge Base section? You can personal message me this. I am in the process of creating a mobile version of the knowledge base for Ipad...
View ArticleHow do I get "nslookup" to work ?
VMWare Fusion 4.1.4 running on Mac OS X 10.7.5 with a generic CentOS 5.8 VM Network setup is NAT I need to have commands like "nslookup" work for the work I would like to do with this VM. I set up a...
View Articlehow to create testing virtual machines with ip addresses different from my VLANS
I am new to Vmware Lets say my Esxi servers ip is 192.168.1.5. I want to create two Testing Virtual machines with ip addresses 171.15.170.6 and 171.15.170.7 These two virtual machines should...
View ArticlePull out Notes Field
what would be the easiest way to just pull a single word out of the notes section. Assuming there is alot of stuff in the notes section and I wanted to just pull out if it said "Production" notes:...
View ArticleCan't post in vCenter
I found that I cannot post a question in the vCenter forums, but every other one. Can anyone explain why?
View ArticleRemoving VMware Completely when Installer Fails -- HOW ??
I had VMware Workstation 8 working fine on a Windows 7 64-Bit machine. I bought Workstation 9 and tried to install it, and it said it had to uninstall version 8. Well, it failed. Now I cannot install...
View ArticleCannot change VDP vCentre Registration Username
I need to change the account used by VDP for vCentre Registration. I'm trying to do this via : - vdp-configure configuration screen- Click to modify vCentre configuration- Enter the root password-...
View ArticleScript to send email when value si too hight
Hi all, i search mean to send email when value is too hight. for exemple, we have script running and show kavg of esx, when this value on avegrage 1 min is more than predefined value email is send. is...
View ArticleWin32 exception detected, exceptionCode 0xc0000006 (disk error while paging)
I am trying to restore a VMware image I saved on Friday. It was working fine then. Now I see in the logs the errors below. How can I fix this? 2012-12-17T13:10:34.624-08:00| vmx| I120: Progress 38%...
View ArticleUpdate Manager 5.1 SSL Certs problem
I have my virtcenter 5.1 SSLs replaced and they appear to work well, but I am having issue replacing SSL certs for Update Manager. I have stopped the Update Manager service, replaced the...
View ArticleA general system error occurred: Invalid argument
Hi Everyone Right now I am trying to make a copy of a Virtual Machine and to customize the settings on the unit for deployment. Right now my code is as follows (Note: I cleaned some of the values...
View ArticleCapture Movie records black frames
Hi All, I want to Capture a Movie of installation activities in a Windows 8 Guest OS running in VMware Workstation 9. Whenever the mouse is not moving completely black frames are recorded until I move...
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Weird freezes/long pauses when using Windows guests newer than XP.
Hello. I don't know if it is my setups/machines or what. I notice if I idle in Windows guests (English and localized; 32-bit Vista to 64-bit 8; only one guest running at a time; using the latest VMware...
View ArticlevCenter 5.0 to 5.1 upgrade / install
DON'T DO IT! This is my advice if you want to upgrade from vCenter 5.0 to 5.1 - forget it! We have just spent two days trying to get SSO to allow us logon through AD accounts and it just won't work for...
View ArticleFailed ESXi 5.0 to 5.1a. Purple screen: Boot Image is corrupted.
Hi, I tried to upgrade our ESXi 5.0 host on a Dell R610 to 5.1 using Update Manager. I get below purple screen Error message: The system has found a problem on your machine and canot continue.Could not...
View ArticleReport to list VMHosts and status of VMotion NICS
Hi I'm trying to put together a script the reports the status of my VMotion nics. I've tried the following code but it does not give me the status of the VMotion nics: et-DataCenter $DC | Get-VMHost |...
View ArticleSRM Test Recovery AD/DNS vs Failover AD/DNS recovery
I read: http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-11517 and it appears for an actual SRM failover DDNS should handle the failover VMs starting up with a new IP (using SRM IP Customizer) using an AD/DNS...
View ArticlePCIE SDCard Reader
Hello, I have a problem using my PCIexpress Realtek SD Card Reader on my Ubuntu 12.04 Virtual Machine on my Laptop.I would like to use the SD Card under my ubuntu machine to be able to make partitions...
View ArticleCannot Quiesce Vcenter snapshot
When I perform a snapshot on Vcenter 5.0 SP1 by unchecking (disable) "Snapshot the virtual machine's memory", and setting (enable) "Quiesce guest file System", I get the error "Create virtual machine...
View Articlehigh cpu utilization on one cpu in an SMP configuration
Hi, We have a file server running 2008 R2 SP1 with 8 CPUs (4x2 cores) with vmxnet3 network adapter.We are troubleshooting high cpu utilization on one cpu.We're speculating that DPC paritioning is the...
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