Best practice for configuring guest-to-guest communications using VMWare...
I have VMWare Workstation v9 installed on Windows 7 Professional 64-bit platform. I have two RedHat Linux guest VM's installed, networked via NAT (VMnet8 virtual network). The guests are able to...
View ArticleW7 VMWare View 64-bit client don't connect with VDI
Hi guys, I've installed the x64 vmware view client on a W7 and I'm trying to connect to a VDI from it. When I try to open the connection with View server I receive the following error "vmware view...
View ArticleCannot connect to 5.1 vCloud instance from plugin
I am trying to use the vCloud Director plugin and am having an issue getting the login to work.When I give it the credentials, the plugin responds with "API version information failed to be obtained...
View ArticleBlack Boxes on VMware View Windows 7 x64 Desktops (Bitmap Cache Issue)
Hello there, I've come here in the hope that some kind people will be able to give me some advice/pointers for an issue I currently have with our VDI setup, thats starting to seriously grate on me. We...
View ArticleHOL-EUC-04 - No page comes when when connecting to service.rainpole.com
First step of the lab instructs user to open service.rainpole.com from a browser. Nothing comes back when you do thing. Pinging service.rainpole.com does respond. Any idea on how to fix?
View ArticleCustom Key Bindings
I am running Mint Linux on VMWare Fusion 5.0. I want to set a far away key to ungrab the Mouse and Keyboard. something like Print Screen or F6. I want to have all of my keystrokes pass through to my...
View ArticleDifficulty packaging a client application - registry issues?
Our company has a product lifecycle management system that has a client which is dependent upon running Windows XP. Each user runs the client application which establishes a connection to an...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 installation Kickstart EDA
Hi, I am able to install ESXi 5.1 with EDA. I was wondering where are the logs files kept for the installation and kickstart.cfg file? EDA is just an appliance used for ESXi installation. I guess, no...
View ArticleVMRS Cannot Pair
Hi, i have deployed VMRS with SRM 5.0.1.Everything goes fine until i have to pair the VMRS.I got a "VMR Server Generic Error: Unespected Status Code:404" VCenters,SRM and VRMS were configured with de...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Dell MD3200i 2x PowerConnect 6224 iSCSI VLAN Scheme
I am fairly new to ESXi and iSCSI please pardon me for any ignorance. I am really hoping to get some insight from experienced members of this forum. Thanks in advance. My proposed design: 2x Dell...
View ArticleRunning SAN VMs on a different ESX box
Hello I have two ESX servers. One is 3.5 Update 5, the other is 5.0 Update 2. The 3.5 box is the only one in production. I have a VM on a NetApp SAN that is in production and running on the 3.5 box....
View ArticleProblems with MAC addresses after upgrading from 5.0 to 5.1
Hi all, I've just experienced a very anoying problem after the upgrade from vSphere 5.0 to 5.1 succeeded: Some of my VMs cannot be stared due to the fact that their MAC address are NOT in the allowed...
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Disk Provisioned Size Greyed Out
I have a virtual SCSI drive for a Windows 2008 64-bit guest. I have recently run out of disk size and need to increase it. From the online help, apparantely I can increase the size even while the VM...
View ArticleWARNING: NMP: nmp_DeviceRequestFastDeviceProbe
I am currently testing ESXi 4 by adding one ESXi 4 host to our VMware production cluster. The host is a HP BL460c G1 blade running ESXi 4 build 175625 connected to a HP EVA 6000 storage array. The...
View ArticleThe operation failed because no suitable resource was found
Hi All, I have installed vCloud OVF evelation version on my ESXi. I managed to install all compontes, including organzization & VDC.No Error spoted in my settings.I'm getting alwayes when trying to...
View ArticleMemory Errors?
Does anyone know what these warnings indicate? <181>2012-12-27T18:49:42.568Z ESX02.jo.local vmkwarning: cpu0:5118)WARNING: IOMMUIntel: 2371: IOMMU context entry dump for 00:02.0 Ctx-Hi = 0x101...
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VR Server Registration failed
We are close to getting vSphere Replication installed but have hit another error. Hoping someone has seen and solved this one: Step 5. on the vSphere Replication screen in Site Recovery is Register VR...
View ArticleWorkstation 9 - No 3D Acceleration to Guest - Ubuntu 12.04 Host - Nvidia Card
Ok, I've been going at this for some time. Current Installation: Fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04Video card: Nvidia Optimus GT540MVMware: Workstation 9. (Unbuntu 12.04 is the HOST) (Brief history: tried...
View ArticleView ReCompose Stuck on Customizing
Whenever we do a recompose on our View Desktops 5.1.0 build-704644 the desktops get stuck in the customizing state. Normally, 4 or 5 desktops will go through the recompose without issue, but the other...
View ArticleDriver for Intel X540-AT2 and Intel Corporation 4-Port SATA/SAS Controller
Hello together, i'm currently evaluating VMWare vSphere for our company and got stuck on the installation of two devices in an ESXi 5.1 host running on an Intel S2600GZ server board, where both are...
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