VM (Best Practice / Checklist)
Dear Team, is there any best practice or checklist to create a new VM in a infrastructure for eg . Activity / Steps / Checklist / Best PracticeStatus1) Specify “VM Name”Done 2) Select...
View Articlereceiving error message when trying to migrate pc
hello all I have just started using vmware and i wanted to migrate my windows 7 64bit system to my mac. i seem to get an error message and cant seem to get any further. has anyone else had a problem...
View ArticleVM Memory vs Physical
Ok. So I have this argument on going with vendor of a certain network appliance. The vendor claims their product requires 8GB on a physical server, and 8GB on a virtual. Subsequent network stress...
View Articlehigh memory usage in windows os system
Hi all, I am using VMware vSphere 4.1 and I create a VM: 8GBRAM, 8vCPU, when I start a VM and see in the task manager that the memory usage is very high but I don't run any program.Can any body tell me...
View ArticleRhel 6 nic order with 4 network adapter or more
Hi, I'm having problem with NIC order on RHEL 6 VM.When creating 4 NIC's or more, the RHEL will map the last NIC in order to eth0. I.E "Network Adapater 1" is mapped to eth1"Network Adapater 2" is...
View ArticlePlanning vCPU per core
I'm doing some planning around vCPU contention ratios, and I'm curious as to whether there is anything actually published by VMware. I've variously heard that the planning range should be 5 - 8, or 5 -...
View ArticleStornext and fiber connected SAN in ESXi
I want to be able to mount our SAN via fiber on a Windows Server 2008R2 running storenext or Quantum DDN filesystem.Can this be accomplished in a ESXi hosted enviroement as it does in the physical...
View Articleclient OS installation error- operating system not found
hi every oneI have a vmware vsphere installed in the lab. I have created a new virtual machine for my research but I am not able to install a windows OS on that. I tried to add cd/dvd drive to the...
View ArticleWindows Activation Error
First- I am using the same hardware for this but looking to expand usage of the hardware by running ESXi. I have converted a machine from Physical to Virtual and installed ESXi 5.1 and now the system...
View ArticleVmware tools unable to install
Hi when i try to update the vmtools on a vm image iof windows 2008 r2 os it failed all the time to update "the wizard was interrupted before vmware tools could be completely installed." i cannot...
View ArticleVM identifier questions
What's the best value or values to uniquely identify a VM? It appears that the obvious choices - name, DNS name, uuid, instanceUuid, mo_ref - are either not guarenteed unique (uuid), not unique across...
View ArticleUsing VMware Tools GUI to disable time synchronization with host
What is the quickest way for a Windows Server VM being provisioned with VMware Tools installed, to insure that time synchronization does NOT occur with the host? These articles discuss using registry...
View ArticleDoes RDP get modified through the connection server in any way?
Does the View connection server modify RDP when it's brokered through the connection server? I had a user (off shore) say that they're getting better performance from RDPing (8) directly instead of...
View Articlewin7 64bit host and vm workstation 9 settings
I can t seem to get the host configured so the vm (server 2008) will run best in workstation.I am interested in the VM perfoming well and the host (host os) just feeding the vm.win7 pro 64bit, 8GB RAM,...
View ArticleVM System Event Error: The device has a bad block
In my Event Viewer->System logs, I spotted the following error "The device, \Device\Harddisk1, has a bad block." It has occurred several times in the last month, usually in the early morning. For...
View ArticleHow to check Linux VM is synchroize time with ESX Host or NTP Server
Dear team, we have our internal ntp server which we have configured on every esx host , we have installed vmware tools on all guest vm , how to check whether linux vm are synchrizing with esx host or...
View Articlevmware player 4 opensuse 12 vmware tools problems
using vmware player 4 (on windows host) and trying to install vmware tools in an opensuse 12 guest which uses linux kernel 3.7i still get "vmxnet.c:525:4: error: unknown field" errors when running...
View ArticleGuest OS to raw san storage (2TB limit?)
I'm trying to get one of my guest os machines to see a 4TB fibre SAN storage (as a local drive, so guest os can share it).(Esxi 4.1). I'm trying to do this with "Add Hard Disk" - but that may not be...
View Articleesxi installation on dell optiplex 790
hi experts, 1. Tried installing Vmware Native Esxi 5.1 OS on Dell Optiplex 790, Installation Wizard reported no supported network cards found. 2. Tried Installing Dell Customized Esxi 5.1 on the same...
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