vCenter server corrupted
Still new to the virtual world. I have put in a call to our 3rd part vendor who installed our vCenter. But, I was wondering if someone could guide me in the right direction. We had a power outage...
View ArticleIntermittent Freezing in both Mac OS and Windows With Fusion 5.0.x
Hi, I'm running a MacBook Pro with Retina display. I'm running Windows 7 x64 via Fusion. Mutiple times a day the host OS or Windows will freeze for about 5 seconds. I find that if I turn off Aero or...
View ArticleCome utilizzare con Fusion una partizione BootCamp presente su un hard disk...
Salve a tutti, recentemente ho installato in un MacBook Pro 2008 (4,1) un SSD e ho spostato il vecchio hard disk al posto del masterizzatore DVD, come ho scritto in questo forum: Re: Dischi SSD:...
View ArticleWireless Problems with VMWare Workstation 9
Hello I am running VMWare Workstation 9 on my laptop with a wireless LAN, I have just noticed a problem, everything works fine in the VM's connecting to the internet and collecting email etc. However...
View ArticleScreen motion delay when multitasking
I have a VDI setup with 125 users.I have 2 hosts with AMD Optron Process - 16 CPUs with 2.29 GHZMemory is 256 GB RAM. I have 2 pools allocation , 2GB and 3GB. As such there are no performance problems...
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differences between HW numbers and vmdk versions??
Where can I find something explaining the differences between hardware versions -- particularly HW version 8 and higher?? Does vSphere 5.1 and higher have a different vmdk version than 5.0?? I know...
View ArticleManual vMotion bypasses DRS Anti-Affinity rules
hi, just a really basic one... i know DRS is based on the idea that it looks at the cluster resources and then places vms.... BUT, if you set up an anti-affinity rule to say VM1 can not be kept on the...
View ArticleRemoving Unwanted Hardware from VM, while powered on. -issues
So while trying to work/modify scripts that already exist; to identify and "remediate if possible" unwanted hardware (Serial, USB, etc...) If found some gotcha type issues. *Previous scripts also based...
View ArticleExecute "vmware -l" on multiple hosts at once
Sorry if I posted this in the wrong place, but I looked for the right forum and I thought this was the closest to right that I could find. Recently I was asked to find the system version of esxi that...
View ArticleIs this network configuration makes sense ?
Hello, I have the following set up in an isolated cluster and would like to know your input in the network configuration according to the screenshots given. Thanks for your help
View ArticleMix of virtualized and native addins for office...
In our baseline configuration, we have Office and a document management (Autonomy) client plugin installed. When I package a plugin (for Powerpoint for example) and add an entry point for Powerpoint,...
View ArticleVMWare Workstation 9.0.2 painfully slow
I am attempting to run a virtual machine of a Windows Server 2003 image using the latest version of VMWare Workstation. When I power on the vm it boots up fairly quickly and I am at the login screen...
View ArticleInstalling vmware tools in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 64-Bit
Hi, I would simply like to install vmware tools in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 64-Bit VM from a RPM. I don't want to install kernel files and gcc at all, so compiling is out unless I absolutely have...
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SuSe SLES 11 sp1 installation on VMWare Workstation
Hi Fellow, I'm new to virtualization and I'm trying to install SuSe SLES 11 sp1 as the guest OS inside VMware Workstation. I have the iso image of SUSE SLES 11 sp1 which I have mounted on the CD/DVD....
View Articleit seems like I have to reinstall vmware tools every time I update my OS
5.02 1031769 Win 7 host OS, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS guest OS The guest OS was telling me that it was due for an update and restart, so I restarted it. Now I can't see any of my mounted hgfs folders. So I...
View ArticleIometer workload profiles for Oracle and Sharepoint
What are some good workload profiles to use in iometer for Oracle and Sharepoint, in terms of % read, % write, % random, % sequential, and data size? Thanks!
View ArticleHP Smart Array controller Health Status with non HP Server and ESXi 5
For the upgrade to VSphere 5 of our existing HP Prolient servers we wanted to use newer Supermicro Units but stay with the Hp Smart Array P410i controllers and disks we had before. For this task we...
View ArticleError deploying ova for HP Virtualization Performance Viewer
I am attempting to deploy HP's new vPv tool via ova. The deployment fails with an error indicating (Unable to access file: C:\system.vmdk) and (The remote name could not be resolved:...
View ArticleCant perform Guest Windows Update
Hi there. I am having problems on a ESXi 5.1 host running Windows 2008 R2 guest O/S in that the windows update fails with the error message "An error occurred while checking for new updates for you...
View ArticleTrouble Cloning VM
Background:I work at a university. For each computer class, we want to create a new vDC and within that, create a single new vApp (from a Template). Then for each each student in the class, we want to...
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