Advantages of upgrading Virtual Hardware
I have been unable to find any information on VMWare's KB regarding the benefits of upgrading to the latest virtual hardware, which I believe is 9. I know VMWare recommends that those running on ESXi...
View ArticleDoes vCAC support provisioning virtual desktop?
We are trying to configure vCAC accordingly to support some of out internal requests but didn't find much information in the documents. We are hoping if any one of you would be able to help and...
View ArticleHorizon Upgrade
Has anyone upgraded from view 5.1 to horizon 5.2 yet? I have read over the documentation but wanted to know if anyone has hit any snags or has some advice/reminders during the upgrade process? Thanks!
View ArticleConverted VM image throws BSOD upon restart
Hello, I have an VM image that when converted with VMWare vCenter Converter Standalone v5.0.0.0 to a server location, everything runs fine intially but upon the first reboot the VM in ESXi v4 the BSOD...
View ArticleView Disposable Disks, Needed in a floating environment?
Is there any advantage to having the disposable disks in a floating environment that rebuilds after every user logs off? Simply having the floating disks adds significant overhead to my storage needs.
View ArticleCan't join domain
hi..i am using workstation 9.0 trying to add xp machine to my domain on server 2003 all attempts were to no avail,using static or dhcp doesn't matter always prompting domain could not be contacted, i...
View ArticleSRM - Possibility of Auto failover and Auto failback (No manual intervention)
Auto Failover from Site A to Site B with out manual intervention?Auto Failback from Site B to A with out manual interventaion?What will happen if Single virtual machine fails?What will happen if OS...
View ArticleTo CBT or Not
We are upgrading our vSphere environment to 5.1 and are moving away from NetApp volume based backups to Hitachi NetBackup based backups. Our vendor is asking us to enable VMware CBT and I wanted get...
View ArticleView client for chromebook
Is there a timeline for a view client with pcoip support for the chromebook (chromeos)? I know there is the HTML5 one from Ericom but it does not support pcoip and has separate licensing fees whereas...
View ArticleTiming Out Pings / Dropping Packets
We have the following scenario:ESXi 5.0 U2HP Proliant BL460c G7Network Adapters:(1) Emulex NC553i 10GB 2-port FlexFabric Converged Network Adapater(2) Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM57711E/NC532n 10 Gigabit...
View ArticleStorage profiles per harddisk
Hello all, We have a business user who would like to seperate OS disks (put them on SATA) and DB disks on SAS. Now I would rather not manage all these relationships by hand; however, I do see that...
View ArticleHow does the initial SSO identity source browse the Active Directory Tree
I understand that the orginal identity source is automatically configured to use "Authentication type" reuse session. When I add additional identity sources it seems I need to use password. Just trying...
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 ArticleImporting from Parallels
I want to try VMware Fusion to see if it addresses an issue I have with an app under Parallels but I have a concern. In some reading it looks like the Parallels image is rendered unusable to go back to...
View ArticleFiltering items from tasks & events
We use orion software for all of our monitoring, and orion logs into the hosts every 5 mins. This fillts up all of the events section making it unusable. So I am wondering is there a way that I can...
View ArticleVmWare workstation 9 doesn't prereserve host memory for VM
I just upgraded to version 9.02. My PC has 16 GB of memory. It is 64-bit Win7. I set Preferences to "fit all VM memory in to reserved host RAM", and allow it to use up to 13 GB. When I start the VM...
View Articlemoving VM in Datastore browser brakes the config.
Hi, Using ESXi 5.1 (build 1021289) in my lab(no vCenter server). Havdatastore is local. Have a VM Vyatta in root of datastore with 2 NICs - eth0 and eth1. When moving VM via datastore browser to the...
View ArticleUI failure/The session is not authenticated
We encountered an issue recently where our UI workflow stopped working. It was designed to display a list of Clusters that correspond to a Datacenter for user selection. After looking thru the various...
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Install VMware-workstation-full-8.0.4-744019.exe silently
Hi,I am trying to install VMware-workstation-full-8.0.4-744019.exe silently with Custom installation with checking the feature "Enhanced Keyboard Utility". I am not able to make the installation...
View ArticleError message when running script
Getting the following error message when running the script from vMA version 5.1.0.0 build 782391. "Can't call method "storageSystem" on an undefined value at...
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