W2K8 VM freezes if a mounted ISO is not removed properly
Hello I'm running into some issues about mounting a ISO file to a Win 2008 R2 SP1 VM.If a client is mounting the ISO with the vSphere Client and is loosing it's network connction while the file is...
View ArticleIs DataRecovery in esxi 5.1 worth of money?
Hi, we are still using 4.1U3 and we did not have any reason to upgrade by now. It works perfectly except for one thing - DataRecovery is the weakest part of the whole infrastructure. Lots of sudden...
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Consolidate VMdisk not working
Hi, I have a vCenter & vSphere Essentials licence on 1 esxi host.As backup client I use Veeam. Now I'm getting the warming - VM disks consolidation is needed - as below. I want to execute the...
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VMware Workspace gateway-va URL login Error
I have successfully installed VMware Workspace suites and finished configuration.Done everything till this step:and I tried to use https://gateway-va.cloudseclab.com/hc/login/ (...
View ArticleCreating seSparseFormat linked clones?
Have anyone tried creating seSparseFormat linked clones using vCO 5.1? I followed instructions in William Lam's blog at virtuallyGhetto: Creating SE Sparse Linked Clones Using the vSphere 5.1 API but...
View ArticleVAAI on vsphere standard?
I thought VAAI only cane with vsphere enterprise? I've been running our replacement vsphere cluster in eval mode until just now when we've lost our old 3.5 boxes, so I entered our vsphere keys into...
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best practise ?
hallo everybody,I'm new to virtualization.What I have in mind is to change the operating system on my notebook from WIN XP to WIN 7.I would like install WIN 7 new and to keep WIN XP as a virtual...
View ArticleUpdate Manager
Dear all, when I use the update manager in my vcenter 5.1 server to upgrade my 4.1 hosts ( to 5.1 esxi )and followed by my 60 vm`s do I need to disconnect the san,..???makes no sense to me but I keep...
View Articlecould not connect internet from vmplayer ubuntu
Hi, I installed vm player 5.0 in my windows 7 laptop.I also install Ubuntu 13.0 using vmplayer. But the issue is, I could not connect internet though Ubuntu.I can ping Ubuntu from Host machine(win 7)....
View ArticleОтвалились диски vsphere 4.1
От хоста отвалились замапленные разделы с схд, виден только локальный диск(жму add storage, вижу луны которые были замаплены! Что могло случиться? и как вернуть разделы без потери данных? проблема в...
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Horizon workspace does not work on Android Devices and also not on an iPad 1
Hello All, We have setup Horizon Workspace version 1.0.0.0 Build 1020056. Everything works great from windows endpoints. From windows we can use the windows client and the web client. When testing with...
View Articleovftool: How to override disk naming of ovftool
Hi, Suppose I have a VM "vm1" with 3 disks "[datastore2] k1/k1.vmdk", "[datastore2] k1/k1new.vmdk" and "[datastore2] k1/k1up.vmdk". I can't identify the correct disk, If I import this VM to my local...
View ArticleSet VM hostnames
Hi, Can someone please enlighten me on how to set the hostnames for the VMs during the vApp import. I can only set the ip addresses and do not want to use the default hostnames. In advance thank you...
View Articleinfrequent boot to Recovery Console, Windows Server 2008 R2
Hi! When booting VMs running Windows Server 2008 R2, sometime they end up in the Recovery Console. This seems to happen most often after installing Windows updates (but then again, this is probably...
View ArticleThinapp application that needs to put icon in systray
I am trying to thinapp a product called Supertoast. It pops up a notifcation screen in front of other screens to alert you when a new IM has arrived from Microsoft Lync. I have thinapp'ed the...
View ArticleDirector and multicore
Hi all,a client is asking us to deploy a Windows 2008. He needs 8 CPU (max supported by win2k8) but multicores, the only way to have a physical-like 8CPU-quad cores server .I see that I can perform...
View ArticleOSX Virtualization (Empty disk question)
Hello, I'm quite a newbie in this. I wanted to virtualize OS X Lion on windows, just to mess around and try it out if I wanted tu buy a Mac in the future. I was using this tutorial...
View ArticleVMware view maintaining sessions history?
Hi, In VMware View admin web portal, I can see the number of active sessions for the desktops. However, does VMware View maintain its history of for how much duration what sessions were active in the...
View Articleentering license key in CLI
I am wondering if I can enter my VMWare Workstation 8 license key at the linux command line. The reason I have to do this is that I'm blind and the GUI app to enter the license key is inaccessible....
View ArticleADAM Database
I have a problem with a View Connection Server, View service and VMwareVDMDS won't start. I tried to uninstall view connection server and then ADLS but I have an error : could not connect to the ADLDS...
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