Update manger IP address issue
Hi all, I really hope someone can help here. We have 3 ESXi 5.1 hypervisor boxes. They are all external to our office location. They are located in 3 DC's.We run vcenter server on a box within our...
View ArticleMemory not fully usable in allocation pool ?
Hello, we are having some "problems" with Org vDCs which are deployed under the allocation pool model. It is not possible to use the allocated RAM by 100% (or any value close to 100%). When trying to...
View ArticlevCenter appliance 5.0 to 5.1 upgrade
Help all - I've been trying to upgrade my vCenter 5.0 appliance in my lab to 5.1, and am failing miserably. Currently the upgrade fails with this error : 1 [23502](7) ERROR: column "small_icon_url"...
View ArticledeviceType parameter
Question for the experts.My workflow is create simple VM to add CD-ROM, where it will mount the .iso you select.The only user interaction is the VM name and .iso path.Everything was guns and roses...
View ArticleПереключение между ВМ в полноэкранном режиме в VmWare Player 5
Вижу поиском по инету, что я не первый задаю этот вопрос, но ответа нигде не вижу. В версии плеера 4 переключение производилось стрелками (в выпадающей сверху полосе, ее можно было и закрепить...
View ArticleVMware Workstation 9.0.2 не открывает редактор виртуальной сети
доброго времени сутокстолкнулся с такой проблемой после обновления версии программы. после перехода на версию 9.0.2 build1031769 не открывается редактор виртуальной сети.тоесть заходишь в меню...
View ArticleBackup VM´s on a SAN over Ethernet
Dear Community, one of our customers had a three ESXi Hosts running Essentials Plus. This Environment uses shared Storage (a SAN with IBM DS3524). Now he wants to take one host with local storage in a...
View ArticleWhat's difference between 6.5.1 and 6.5?
Hi, Does anyone know what's difference between 6.5.1 and 6.5 and the difference between 6.5 and 6.4? Thanks.
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View Composer 5.2 - SviConfig Options
Hi folks, I have reinstalled an esxi host after a crash preserving local VMFS datastore. There's no shared storage across all 4 esxi hosts, all virtual desktops running on local SSD's.There was about 3...
View ArticleUpgrade vSphere from 4.1 to 5.1
Good day everyone,I am new to VMware and have been tasked with upgrading my company's VMware infrasturcture to v5.1 Presently our vSphere consists of:vCenter 4.164 bit physical serverSQL Server 200864...
View Articlewindows 7 high idle cpu until VM brought into focus
I've seen other treads on this, but no solutions were given other than "check for background processes in the VM" and "suspend instead of letting it go idle". These are not solutions. I have a window 7...
View ArticlePETITION - Native Mac version of the VI Client
Copied from the Fusion forum...here's a better place I think. I'm going to start this old chestnut again... I'm here at VMWorld 2008, Cannes and I got talking to a couple of people. Now I'm not...
View Articlevmkfstools - "The requested operation is not implemented by the server."
Hello everyone ! I have a datacenter and a vCenter controlling this datacenter. What I want is to create a script which automatically creates a certain number of VMs on the datacenter. One of the first...
View ArticleMy options for fault tolerance, nic teaming, and link aggregation
Hey Guys, We are moving to a new datacenter and we have a chance to reconfigure 4 esxi hosts with efficiency in mind. Right now we aren't nic teaming and do not have redundancy. I came into this...
View Articleusing multi monitors with diabled topbar
Hi, i want to use the "cycle multiple monitors" feature with a disabled topbar.I disabled the bar, using pref.vmplayer.fullscreen.nobar = "TRUE" in the preferences.ini.It works all well to the point, i...
View Articlehow to fix a virtual Network Adapter to be the first one (from guest point of...
Hi, I'm sure some of you already got into this problem. I'll give an example right away: I have a VM with 2 virtual network adapters: As seen from the vSphere Client when editing the VM: Network...
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Move-HardDisk Format Change question
Hi, I hope someone can point me in the direction where I'm going wrong. I've got a few disk moves that I'm trying to automate. For the most part they work fine it's just when changing the Storage...
View ArticlevCenter Converter API with Ruby
Hi, In the SDK archive, I have seen some examples how to use the Converter API with Java and dotNet.However, I'm not familiar with those languages and the examples are not use to me. Still I want to...
View ArticleGhost boot/recovery CD
Hello -- I am trying to restore an old windows 98 system. It was backed up by ghost (version 9). I created an empty VM noting that is is a win98 system. When the VM started, it found the Ghost...
View ArticleThe selected base layer was not prepared with the Windows 7 Image Setup tool
hi, I've got this issue : Description:The selected base layer was not prepared with the Windows 7 Image Setup tool. Resolution: Run Windows 7 Image Setup tool on the reference machine before capturing...
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