Host: MBP 2012, Guest: Windows 8 (Bootcamp). Issues with Tech Preview
I installed the tech previous couple days ago and here's the list of issues I found so far:- When starting Windows 8 in full screen mode on two Thunderbolt monitors does not tell Windows about the 2nd...
View ArticleSyslog Collector
Hello-Lately a few of our ESXi 5.0.0 hosts have been crashing unexpectedly. In trying to troubleshoot the issues I was told by VMware that since our hosts do not have persistent storage the log files...
View ArticleSnapshot with more than 1 year
We have VMware ESXi 5 migrated from 4.1. Checking space I've found that a former admin trying to test a backup application left a snapshot for a vm. It was created on January 2012. There is only one...
View ArticleOrchestrator vCenter Server Login - Invalid login
I have 5.1.0 build 1123966 installed with Orchestrator on a separate VM.When I go to set up the connection to a vCenter Server, I can log in using the 'Connection Test' button just fine.However,...
View ArticleActive Directory, DNS и vCenter Server в вируальной среде
Добрый день, Дамы и Господа! Получили лицензию на vSphere with Operations Management 5 Standard для трех хостов. Как я помню в кластер vCenter хосты нужно добавлять по полному доменному имени...
View ArticleIssues with VM deployed from an OVF
HI, I have a linux 64-bit VM running on ESXi 5.1.0, I took an OVF of it to deploy it on another ESX (ESXi 5.0.0). The deployment goes fine though with the warnings (as attached). When I power on the VM...
View ArticleImporting VMs
I received a removable disk containing a large number of VMware guests. These need to be added to our corporate vCenter (ver 5) inventory. I can do that by using the vCenter browser to copythe .VMDKs...
View ArticleCollecting Serial Numbers for Linux
For asset management purposes I want to be able to report on serial numbers for Linux servers in VCM. I played with it a bit and this is the best I could come up with is running a remote command which...
View ArticleHOL-INF-06 - step 60 - ALLOCATE RESOURCES TO THE RAINPOLE ORGANIZATION...
Hey all, just a heads up. Got to step 60 on this lab, but the drop down doesn't display the RS-PvDC-VXLAN-NP Network Pool from the drop down list. Was able to go through the rest of the setup for that...
View ArticlevSphere vCenter Upgrade 5.0 to 5.1
I currently am running a small vSphere 5.0 system on a Dell R510 Server with 16GB of RAM and 1 TB of internal storage. There are three VMs and one app: Windows 2003 Server VM running web apps RHEL 6.3...
View ArticleHi, I have 10 Cores on my ESX so how many cores can i assign to a single VM...
Hi, I have 10 Cores on my ESX so how many cores can i assign to a single VM running on the host ?
View ArticleInvalid Query Spec
hello, I am trying to get the Chassis Rack VSphere sample working. After adding both the -ui and -service to the server, I am getting this error. What am I missing? attached is the...
View ArticleDoes VMWare offer an alternative to terminal services in the following...
We have an accounts package called Sage 50 Accounts. It's a pretty horrible single or multi-user application for Windows. Multi-User configuration has you nominate a Windows computer on the LAN, "the...
View ArticleVM Player 5.0.0 USB 3.0 issues
Hello All, I am new to this forum I recently just started at a new company doing programming for the oil and gas industry and I am very green to using VM'sI need a USB toggle to be input in for a...
View ArticleCrash when running Baldur's Gate II on Win XP VM
iMac 2011 27", running Mac OS X 10.8.4, 20GB RAM. VM Running Windows XP, assigned 2GB of RAM and one processor core. I installed Baldur's Gate II, started it up, graphics were off-center (lower...
View ArticleUpgrade from 4.1 to 4.1u3
Hi there, I'm looking to upgrade my esxi hosts from 4.1 to 4.1us before I then upgrade to 5.1 I tried installing VMware-VMvisor-Installer-4.1.0.update03-800380.x86_64.iso by booting the ISO, but it...
View ArticleNested Workflows not executing
I'm getting somewhat strange behavior this morning: nested workflows don't run. There's no error message, but there's no execution token, no log entries, and the node in the "Parent" workflow executes...
View ArticleBest design for 1GB NFS
I have 4 1GB uplinks available from my ESXi 5.1 host to use for NFS. On the array side, I'm using only 1 IP for NFS. There is a 10Gb Etherchannel link between the array and the physical switches....
View ArticleVMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) customized for IBM hardware
I am having trouble finding a document, a guide or a whitepaper on this "IBM Customization". I am looking for information about what the image includes and what features/benefits I get by using it. At...
View ArticlevCAC - SCVMM Integration with Hyper-V 2012
The installation guide (page 50) for vCAC 5.2 refers to some additional requirements for integrating with SCVMM: "Hyper-V servers within an SCVMM instance to be managed by vCAC must be Windows 2008...
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