How to start up in single-user or verbose mode INSIDE a virtual machine?
Is it possible to start up in single-user or verbose mode... How to start up in single-user or verbose modehttp://support.apple.com/kb/ht1492 ...INSIDE a VMware Fusion Virtual Machine of Mac OS X...
View ArticleMigrating vcenter 5.0 - 5.1, virtual to physical
Hi all I´m kind of new in the vmware world, a client is asking me to do an upgrade of their vcenter 5.0 to 5.1, the actual vcenter is a virtual machine, and the database in a physical server, so the...
View ArticlevShield Manager VXLAN configuration gone!
Hi,has anyone seen the VXLAN configuration "network preparation" section gone missing? See attached print screen. vCloud Director can still create new VXLAN based port groups and vShield Manager still...
View ArticleVMWorkstation 9.02 - Install of Ubunto 12.10 Server fails
Hi, Vey simple, install of Ubunto 12.10 server fails with a fresh install of VMWorkstation 9.02 downloaded 1 hour ago. Gets to 83 % then all havok starts, CNTRL ALT does not release mouse, system hangs...
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ADAM replication nonsense?
Hi. I work at at technical college with sites in 3 cities. Each city is connected to each other at 100Mbps low-latency connection (think of it as a triangle). We run voice over IP, video over IP, and...
View ArticlePowerCLI Script for VM Disk over 250GB
So you may be mid-planning for your upgrade to 5.x but still adding to your current environment. As you add datastores the question of block size comes up. Here is a script to list any VMs with a disk...
View ArticleVcenter 5.1 Command line installation
Hi Team, I have used the below Command line installation method , but still the parameters are not feeded in to the wizard , can any one help pelase ? d:\Vcenter-Server\vmware-vcServer.exe /S /L 1033...
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This desktop may only be checked out to a 64-bit capable client device
Hi Everyone. I am installing VMware View Client with Local Mode (VMware-viewclientwithlocalmode-x86_64-5.3.0-1042023.exe) on a Windows 7 Client, and while trying to check out a Windows 8 Desktop, I got...
View ArticleIP pools
Why it's ip pools? how works? I configured one ip pool associated to a portgroup and then have enabled DHCP and OVF in a vApp.I created a VM in this vapp and nothings happen.Now what?, my goal is...
View ArticleCA certificates required for 5.1 upgrade/install?
All, I am beginning my discovery to upgrade vcenter 5.1 and have found a lot of information on certificates etc. Are CA certificates now required instead of self signed? Also, if we are going to be...
View ArticlevSphere web client OSX plugin
hi, when will the firefox or safari or chrome plugin for the web client to view the remote console of a vm for OSX be available? The new web client looks great and a perfect sollution for us as a mac...
View ArticleScript for showing VM statistics does not show the correct Cluster name.
I tried to add a column to show which cluster the VM is in, but appearently I did it wrong. The column does list a cluster, but it is the wrong one, and it is the same for all VMs....
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iSCSI Performance Problem under 10 Gbps
We got an new iSCSI SAN (HP Lefthand P4500) running on 10 Gbps.Server HW HP Prolinat DL 380 Gt with 2 CPUs Intel X5660 and 96 GB ram, HP NC550SFP dual Port Lan adaptor. All Server and Networking...
View ArticleQuery Local Users and Creating Local Users
I'm trying to automate the creation of a Local User in ESXi using the Perl SDK. I know how to pull a list of users that have permissions from the host. my $userAccounts =...
View ArticleConfusion on NIC's, VSwitch on Physical and VM's.
As you can tell from the screenshots my host has two NIC's. One is to my 192.168.111.0 subnet and the other is connected directly to my DMZ with an IP of 173.10.155.x. My concern is that when I look at...
View ArticleMigrate FC to ISCSI with ESX 4.0 or ESXi 5
In the near future we or going to migrate from Fiber Channel to ISCSI, and upgrade/migrate from ESX 4 to ESXi 5.1.My questions is, what to do first???I've heard some where that it would be better to...
View ArticleSQL Performance, high guest ram, low active ram VM parameter.
HI All, I have a question. I have a guest OS running SQL 2012. Inside the guest OS it shows memory at 95%, when I lookat the active memory counter or usage in Vmware in shows roughly 2-3GB. The VM...
View ArticlePossible to import/convert image to local drive?
In both VMWare Standalone converter and the Import function in VMWare Workstation I can not figure out how to import to a disk local to the pc Im running the convert on. For example, I have VMWare...
View ArticleHow to determine if xcopy is being utilized for storage vmotions
My array is VAAI and xcopy capable. Is there a way to look back at storage vmotions that happened during a given day, and confirm that in fact xcopy was utilized to allow the array to do the copying...
View ArticleSimcity 2013 & VMWare.
Anyone having any success or could recommend something to help me run the new Simcity better on my Windows 7 Virtual Machine. I have allocated 4GB RAM to the Windows 7 VM. 3D Accelerated Graphics are...
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