Script for virtual disk mapping information
Hello Everyone, In order to get mapping of virtual disks allocated to a virtual machine and disks visible in the Linux OS, I’ve written attached script.Please feel free to use it as per your...
View ArticleCustomization Fedora 25
Hi Community, Recently I've been customizing Linux virtual machines using customization wizard. The customization doesn't seem to work for Fedora 24 or Fedora 25. Other *nix flavors are being...
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Error message after attaching Host profile
Hi, I have 3 identical physical servers, They all should have the same network connections and datastores attached. I added two more hosts (esxi 6.5) to the only one that was alone in the clusterand...
View ArticleVMtools start -> Eventlog Error SideBySide 33 (vmtray.dll, dndcp.dll)
Hello, as soon as the VMWare Tools.exe starts (when a user logs on), 2 SideBySide errors appear in the eventlog. I can reproduce that, by killing and opening the vmtools.exe.The events occur every...
View Articlewhat are the offset hours value for timezone settings of OScustomizationspec?
Here's a link to the oscustomizationspec that lists all the possible timezone values from 0-300. I want to provide a list to my users to select the timezone they want when building a new VM but...
View Articleis recomendations to scalable vCPU count for new VM?
When I create every new VM for general purpose Apps (often not known HW geometry previously), I'm ask myself - how many vCPU should I create and how it must be balanced - more to sockets or to cores?...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Replication
Hello, We have a Dell virtual server running ESXI for our virtual servers. The datastore is on that local machine. Recently, we purchased another virtual server with the same specs for redundancy....
View ArticleQueue Length counter on guest Windows 2012 R2
Hi.I have noticed that Server Work Queue\Queue Length counter value is always 0 (zero).Whatever I do, it doesn't reacts.Does this performance counter works correctly in guest OS? Or should I enable it...
View ArticleSetup Is Starting Windows
So,I want to install Windows XP on VMWare Workstation 12,But the setup hangs at "Setup is starting Windows....",I need help,Because i'll have a trip tomorrow and i need to use VMWare to use the games...
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vSphere 5.5 does not show any information of VMs on Virtual machines tab.
Hi vExpert, I'm using free ESXi host and vSphere client to manage hosts. I encountered the error that vSphere 5.5 does not show any information of VMs on Virtual machines tab as image:The resources of...
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Server 2016 Hyper-V host in vsphere fails to boot
I am trying to create a virtual hyper-v host in my vsphere lab.I have created the Server 2016 standard VM and then added the Hyper-V role.The install completes but on the reboot after the install...
View ArticleWin2008R2 VM - Tools appear as "Not Running"
Hello, we have a 3-node Cluster with 3 x ESXi 6.0 (Build 5050593) managed by vCSA 6.5.0.5300. A Windows 2008 R2 VM in this Cluster (12 x vCPU & 64 GB RAM, Terminalserver with 200 users, ~4 TB...
View Articlethe vm configuration was rejected. please see browser console 6.5
On my new server Power edge T430 i was able to setup an ESXI V.6.5 that came with the server and 3 vm's on the host.I deleted one of those vm's and would like to create a new one but not able...That is...
View ArticleReclaim hard drive space after virtual server removed?
Thru the vcenter, I removed a virtual server and the hard drive space is still being used. What do I do to reclaim the hard drive space? Many Thanks -H
View ArticleError while opening virtual machine. VMX file is corrupt.
I run a virtual machine with an Ubuntu OS since some years thanks to VMware Workstation Player 12. This morning I emptied the Download folder of my Windows 7 system, unaware of the fact that it housed...
View ArticleWindows Credential Guard and Device Guard (Win 10/Server 2016) supported on...
Does anyone know if Credential/Device Guard is supported on a Windows 10/Windows Server 2016 (1607 or newer) guest VM? Primarily on a vSphere 6.x environment I'm reading that those features uses...
View ArticleWindows XP Pro running in VMplayer only loading some websites (Bing, MSN)
Hi,I'm running Windows XP Pro on VMplayer and using Internet Explorer, but cannot connect to most sites - I get the "The page cannot be displayed" error. When I run "Diagnose Connection Problems", I...
View ArticleThe apt key was expired since 2017-07-25
Hello, The apt key for http://packages.vmware.com/packages/ubuntu was expired since 2 days. pub 1024D/04BBAA7B 2010-09-08 [expired: 2017-07-25]uid VMware, Inc. -- Linux Packaging DSA...
View ArticleP2V Windows Server 2012R2 Will Not Boot - Disks Not Migrated Correctly
I've got 20 Windows 2012 R2 servers running in Hyper-V that would best be served by a P2V, due to massive vendor costs to redeploy their apps. Yes, a fresh build is preferred, but for these it is...
View ArticleConverter fails with error code:0x8000423E
Converter fails with error code:0x8000423EFAILED: Unable to create a VSS snapshot of the source volume My OS has 4 partitions two partitions of NTFS and two of FAT32. Does the Converter will create...
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