Best Practice to troubleshoot if facing problem with Single VM.
Dear Team, On one ESX host If i m facing problem with one VM other VMs are running VM, what will be troubleshooting steps regardsMr VMware
View ArticleVolume Shadow Copy VSS disabled but still running
Hey Everyone, Has anyone run into the issue where on a Windows 2008 Server, Volume Shadow copy is disabled but it is still using and taking up more space? I have found both virtual and physical...
View ArticleUnable to power on my virtual machine after giving physical memory...
Dear all, I have installed ESXi 5.1 on my physical host which has 4 GB of physical memory, initially I created two VMs without any reservation of physical memory, everything worked fine. Now, I...
View ArticleWhen to split virtual machine hard disks between different datastores
When is it recommended or beneficial to split my operating system virtual hard disk and my data virtual hard disk for a single VM among two different datastores? What are the impacts of this and what...
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Expanding data disk in vmware esx server 3
Hi, I havebeen askedby a colleagueif I canbe of assistanceto expandd: \ driveon an existingvirtualwindows2003 server. They use:VMwareESXServer3iVersion3.5.0Build110271VMwareInfrastructure...
View ArticleLost local admin password
I can not login to my vm because I lost local admin password is it possible to reset the password wthout rebooting.
View ArticleWhen to split virtual machine hard disks between different datastores
When is it recommended or beneficial to split my operating system virtual hard disk and my data virtual hard disk for a single VM among two different datastores? What are the impacts of this and what...
View Articledelete and recreate same vm
having a difference of opinions. I built a windows2003 vm in our domain and then deleted it from disk. I then recreated a vm with same name and configuration. here is the question: Will Windows AD...
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Expanding data disk in vmware esx server 3
Hi, I havebeen askedby a colleagueif I canbe of assistanceto expandd: \ driveon an existingvirtualwindows2003 server. They use:VMwareESXServer3iVersion3.5.0Build110271VMwareInfrastructure...
View ArticleLost local admin password
I can not login to my vm because I lost local admin password is it possible to reset the password wthout rebooting.
View ArticleEnabling network for VM
Hi, I have installed VMWare for my Windows 7, and I have installed an OS in the VM (Red Hat 6). However, my concern is how do I enable networking for the VM so that it will be accessible from the...
View ArticleCopy/Clone VMs from one ESXi host to another
Hi everyone, I'm new at virtualization matters and I would like to copy/clone VMsfrom one ESXi host to another but I don't know what the best wayto achieve this is. The background is as follows: Two...
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Get a error after convert exchange from physical pc
Physical PC: Windows 2003 SP2 + Exchange 2003 SP2VC: Vsphere 5.1Converter: 5.1 1, Converting in progress , didn't get any error.2, Got a error pop-windows as the attached picture when start...
View ArticleHow do I determine if I am running on a VM?
I've come to a dead-end I appreciate your help. I am running my .Net C# app on windows 7 OS on a VM and want my C# code to determine whether I'm running on a vmware VM or a physical host. Right now I...
View Articlesetting up sockets and cores in VM
I am new to this company I now work for. As I review their vSphere5 VM settings I came across this situation: ESXi5 host has 2 sockets , each with 4 cores. A VM has been created with its vProc...
View ArticleCannot unmount or Delete Datastore LUNS
Hi, I am in a situations where I need some help. I have ESXI 5 running Vsphere 5 with 10 Blades and two clusters, running about 100 + VM's. I have shutdown/decommissioned some VM's and want to release...
View Articleusing a vmdk to create a vm
I think i made a mistake and would like to know the options to fix (or to avoid for future).Corporate IT sent me a baseline vmdk image to use for building vm's. I copied to a directory i called VMDK on...
View ArticleWindows 2008 templates
It's been awhile but I thought that when I was working vSphere 4.1 that a Windows 2008 template did not have to be sysprep'd . Seems I recall that there was no need to copy the Sysprep files to the...
View ArticleWindows 7 Template Help (i am sure this is out there somewhere)
Okay so i am having all sorts of problems with making a working windows 7 template. (THANKS MICROSOFT) So i am not sure what is wrong or what I need to do to fix this but, (see attachment) I created an...
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