Increasing C Drive On Virtual Server
Hi, new member ! We run multiple virtual servers on various ESX hosts, all connected to different LUNs on the same SAN. We use standard images to build each image and the C drive is set to approx...
View ArticleVM Rolls back to last full backup date when crashed
Hello VMware Gurus, Please advise me with below problem One of my VM always rolls back to the last full backup date system state, when the vSphere goes down suddenly due to power failure. It is...
View ArticleIf SSO Server restarted will it disconnect existing Users sessions???
Dear Team, we have installed Windows Update on SSO server , before restarting the same just want to confirm some users are already authenticated with SSO and connected to VC through vpshere client, if...
View ArticlevMotion kicks off sysprep?
I vmotioned a VM today, 2008 R2, and HP SIM sent an unreachable shortly after. This happens sometimes when we vmotion as a ping packet is dropped. Didn't think anything of it, but the owner noticed...
View ArticleI can't run VMware Workstation on Kali Linux. What can I do?
Hi everyone I'm newbie here and with workstation because I'm trying to use it on Kali Linux but I can't. I installed and everything seems ok but when I try to run it appears the following error:...
View Articlevmware error "creating a quiesced snapshot failed because (user-supplied)...
When trying to create a backup of a vm that lives in a VI3 environment, I am receiving the following error from the vm when it tries to suspend the guest OS for the snapshot. I am using NetBackup to...
View ArticleMemory management
I wanted to know what scenario will the Active Guest Memory will be higher than the actual Guest mem utilization inside the guest.I have a VM where active Guest memory as 7.8 GB ( in performance...
View ArticleMove vms from workstation to esxi
I Have some vms I will create in workstation but later need to run on esxi 5.5 -windows 2008,7,and 2012. A few years ago I tried this on a vsphere 4 environment and found it couldn't be done though I...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 Hangs
Hi all, We are running vsphere 5.5 and our hosts are running 5.5.0.1881737. One of our VM's (has the latest VMware tools installed) went down. When I opened the console, the ctrlaltdel screen was...
View ArticleWindows 2008 Enterprise x32 with > 4GB RAM not fully compatible?
I have some Windows 2008 Enterprise x32 SP2 term servers with 20GB of RAM. There were running on ESXi 5.1 with VM version 4. I migrated them to a ESXi 5.5u1 (1892794) host, and updated them to VM...
View ArticleCopying out VM files
Hi there,I'd like to know if I were to copy out a VM into my personal laptop, what files do I need to copy out? I was told that the VMDK files are not enough. hence I'd like to which files exactly?And...
View ArticleAdding 2nd hard drive to VM, getting "media is write protected" when trying...
I created a virtual machine, moved the vmdk file out of the virtual machine directory on the data store to another location on the datastore, then deleted the virtual machine so the vmdk is not...
View ArticleCannot install VMWare tools
Hi, we have an ESXi Server, just upgraded from ESXi 4.1u1 to 5.0.There is an Linux VM running but I cannot install VMWare Tools on it (this wasn't even possible with 4.1U1 and the same error is now on...
View ArticleVmware Service Don't Start
I have a windows 2008 Server on Esx 4.1.0.Yesterday after an aprupt stop of the server , the server restart shows the VMware tools with a cross and so the same for the network icon.While I can ping...
View ArticleVC DB
Hello,VMware recommends to install vCenter into VM.In my case I was running vCenter on a physical server and DB on a separate physical server.Now I want to upgrade to 5.5 so to reduce the cost I want...
View ArticleWindows Server SBS 2008 Re-install Scenario
Currently SBS 2008 is installed as a bare metal installation (Dell PowerEdge). The problem is the server image is in pretty bad shape. SBS console and various snap ins are struggling to open and the...
View ArticleHow to Keep VM driver Always updated
Dear team, In the morning one of the VM found in a hang state, reset the VM now it's working fine, While find the the RCA y its was hanged we have found below Eventlogs , before resetting a VM we are...
View ArticleHow to find RCA if VM found in a Hang state.
Dear Team, One of our engineer found one VM in a hang state to resolve he has resetted the VM, now it's working fine. Please find the attached VMware.log file. , will these logs shed some light y this...
View Articleif VM is hang then task will run or not ???
Dear Team, If VM is in hang state (at console completely blank ) then will I able to perform any task (vMotion / svMotion / Snapshot)??? regardsMr VMware
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MSCS Node Majority - Windows 2008 R2 - Event ID 1135
Hi All, We have currently have setup a Node Majority - MSCS Windows 2008 R2 with 3 nodes and we are experiencing EVENT ID 1135. Where the cluster just stops working. We are running on ESXi 5.0 Update...
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