CommandLine Copy VM from ESX to ESXi
Hi all-- I have an old ESX 3.5 server inherited from an acquisition and our normal Prod ESXi 5.x host. Both are gig connected but nothing else at that remote site is. I'm looking for the quickest...
View ArticleVMware Tools
I am following http://boerlowie.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/building-the-ultimate-vsphere-lab-part-4-base-template/ and where it states "Open up VMware Tools, go to the Shrink Tab. Click the Perpare to...
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...
View ArticleSound in Virtual Machine - ESX VSphere
Hi all, we are currently experiencing problems playing sound through a RDP connection from VSphere Version 7 XP machines. VMWare tools is installed on all machines, and has even been reinstalled on...
View ArticleAdd GSM modem usb to vmware
Hi all, I have a host server using ESX 4.0, and a vmware machine running CentOS server on this ESX server. Now i want to added a GSM modem USB on the CentOS to send and receive SMS. Which steps i have...
View ArticleXML file to OVF format
0 I have a xml file which contains details about processor,memory,logical partition and OS to be installed on Logical partitions.I want to convert this XML file into an OVF format.The biggest...
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 2003 R2 guest operating system
I recently received a request to install from an SCCM image /PXe boot image the Windows 2003 R2 standard O/s to a new Virtual machine. When I installed the image it actually turned out to be the...
View ArticlevSphere 5.1 - RDM to VMDK
I have some raw mapped data disk I am ready to move to VMDK. What are my best options? Thank you
View ArticleBenefits of VMware Tools in Linux
Could someone provide me with a link or details on the specific benefits of installing/running VMware Tools on a Linux guest OS (vSphere 5.x)? I've found some old posts (from 2006-2009), but none that...
View ArticleESX 4.1 + RHEL + VNX mirror
Hi ! I need help )I I try to configure 2-node cluster on RedHat 6.1:Hypervisor - Esx 4.1Shared HDD - Synchrous luns (mirror view) on VNX mapped to Ghost os as RDM diskBut Ghost OS is started only if...
View ArticleRDP8 vs PCOIP
Our users are seeing better performance using RDP8 directly than using the view client to broker RDP
View ArticleRestart management agents
I have a clutster with two hosts and one I can't to access it by Vsphere client. I don't know what have happened but the second hosts go out of the cluster and I can't add it again. I'm able run ping...
View ArticleLinux file systems becoming read-only
The file systems on several of our guest OSs running RHEL4 have suddenly started becoming read-only. ESX is 3.0.0. The two file systems that are usually / and /var. Both systems are HP DL385 with...
View ArticleConvert VMDK in multiple VMDKs
Hi, I've got a VM with a vDisk attached.There are partitions, both are on same vmdk stored (see image attached) Is there a way, I can get each partition on a own vmdk file?Unforunately it's not...
View ArticleAD Replication failed when DC moved to another VMWare host
Hello,I have strange problem and hope that someone could help me. We have four VMware hosts. At this time our DCs are located on the same host. Everything works great. The problem is when I try to...
View ArticleInstalling RHEL 6 (64-bit) as VM
This is my first installation of a VM on an ESXi host. I'm trying to install RHEL 6 (64-bit) on a host running ESXi 5.1.0. Following the VMWare procedure described in the online documentation I picked...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 Offset Question
Dont ask me how and/or why, but we came across a Windows 2008 R2 template that somehow has the incorrect offset (32,256) (if you can explain to me HOW thats even possible that would be awesome) But my...
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Unable to allocate additional CPUs (Virtual machine has 8 virtual CPUs, but...
Dear Team, I want to allocate 8 vcpu to one of the vm, but it gives following error "Virtual machine has 8 virtual CPUs, but the host only supports 4. The number of virtual CPUs may be limited by the...
View ArticleClient virtulisation
Good day, I m asking kindly if you can advice me ,I need to do one project for my company to virtualise all client computer , and I have a datastor if you have an idea how i can do it I will be...
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