VMCI driver for Linux and Win OS
Hello Community,I Would like to know if there is a KB, document or article can differentiate between VMtools functions when it installed on Linux OS (CentOS)or Win OS respective VMCI driver and vShield...
View ArticleWhat is the best way to clone & sysprep Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH...
People, I have around 60 Windows Server 2008 R2 Identical VMs running as Terminal Server or Remote Desktop Session Host that is used by 15-20 users maximum each VMsin order to accelerate the process...
View Articlevcpu-2| GuestRpc: Channel 5 reinitialized. multiple event locked in...
what is the mening of below entries in vmware.log file 2012-07-25T13:11:21.663Z| vcpu-2| GuestRpc: Channel 5, conflict: guest application toolbox-dnd tried to register, but it is still registered on...
View ArticleStorage DRS Anti-Affinity Rule
Hello,We have vSphere 5.0 U3 I have applied Anti-Affinity rule to couple of Exchange and Citrix servers. I want to know whether this Anti-Affinity rules applies to just configuration files for vmdk's...
View ArticleVM's running very Slow.
We have Cisco UCS Cluster with 7 blades running ESXi 5.1 and about 130 Windows and Linux VM's. VM's are responding very slow and when i reboot it takes for ever? Any idea.
View ArticleVM console tries to launch using port no 9443 instead of 7331 and timesout
My ESXi host is running 5.5 upd 1.As per the below KB article I am expecting that my VM console would open with port 7331.Instead it tries with 9443 and I receive a connection timeout error.VMware KB:...
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Installed Vmware SYSLOG , want to know What logs are forwarded ???
Dear team, I have installed VMware syslog collector on one of the VM and configured advanced setting on all esxi host host , just want to confirm what logs will be forwarded to vmware syslog collector...
View ArticleVirtual Machine guest crashed
Hello, One one of our client servers crashed a few days . The server is running server 2008 r2. The server is a Xendesktop 7 server where multiple users connect to it using Citrix. The server has 12...
View ArticleTasks and events pane is blank/ empty
HiSeveral of my virtual machines have an empty tasks and events pane. I use vcsa, there is enough space in /storage/db. The size of the vcenter server db is appropriate to the number of hosts and vms....
View ArticleSnapshot status from within a VM
Looking for a way to check if there are any snapshots currently on VM I am running in. ESXi 5.5, Guest OS is RHEL6. I can look at things like cpu and memory limits and reservations, plus host swap...
View ArticleVMWare Tools Fails to Install - Guest OS Windows 8.1 - vSphere 6.0
Hi, I am having issues installing VMWare tools on a Windows 8.1 guest. I recently upgraded from ESXi 5.5 to 6 and used the automated upgrade. I logged on to one of my Windows 8.1 VMs and noticed that a...
View ArticleSQL 2000 error while migrating to ESXi 5.1
While moving virtual machines from ESXi 4.1 hypervisors to ESXi 5.1 we discovered that SQL 2000 database services would not start on 5.1 hosts. This issue appeared on several versions of SQL 2000...
View ArticleHow to do a stop/start with list csv/excel
Hello, I've 6 server esx in my compagny, and i would like create a script for stop all vm with specific order. How i can do that? My goal is for the weekend intervention, and i need to stop one by...
View ArticleUpgrade only vmware tools?
Hello everyone,Recently we've been getting BSOD's on server 2012. Microsoft is still investigating, but it seems likely vmxnet3 drivers are involved. As such, we would like to update them. However,...
View Article"ORA-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error" starting Oracle 10 on Win2003 VM
I get the following error when starting Oracle 10.2.0.1 on a Windows 2003 VM running in ESX 3.0.x. Tue Aug 21 16:12:40 2007C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\bin\oradim.exe -startup -sid ora -usrpwd * -log...
View ArticleIs it possible for a guest system to spy host system when using virtual...
Hi all, I want to prepare virtual maschine which will be used to connect through vpn with one of my clients. There are some other programs and devices that I have to install in order all of this to...
View ArticlePXE Boot Solution for VDI
How to PXE boot the Zero Client in Horizon View to access the linked clones using TFTP server. We are planning to use the old desktops as the Zero Clients. We want to boot from the PXE boot to access...
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VMware disk I/O issue with Oracle Linux guest x86_64 and Windows 8.1 host...
Hi All I am using VMware workstation 10. When I start my Oracle Linux 5.6 machine on it, the disk utilization goes to 100% and hangs the whole system. I see only two processes eating the I/O. The...
View ArticleReclaiming disk space after deleting virtual hard drive
Hello forum, I have to temporarily create a 200GB virtual disk and attach to a virtual server. The purpose of the disk is for moving some files across different servers. Once the files have been moved,...
View Article.VMX or Virtual Machine Advanced Configuration Parameters !! VCAP5-DCA Advice...
Hello I noticed that some but not all settings in both .VMX & VM Configuration Parameters are a like ! So:- If it is a two places configuration "if not single place" What will overrides here VMX...
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