How can I move my vm to another storage?
Hi there, I want to move my VM from my datastore1 of my server RAID5 hard disk to NAS. Is it possible doing this without using vmotion? Thanks for the support.
View ArticleVMware Player 6 hangs on start-up (Windows 7) after Tools update
Hi - I'm using VMware Player under Windows 7, with Xubuntu as my guest OS. I upgraded to v6 last week, and didn't have any problems. I was using it ok initially this morning, then upgraded to the...
View ArticlevMotion Network Design
Hi, My setup have the following components:3 Hosts with 4 NICs for each host1 NAS storage connected to the hosts using iSCSI and NFS 1 switch with 1GB ports speed2 switches with 100MB ports speed I...
View ArticleVSM Designer - Manage screen items with permissions?
Hello, This is the situation: There is a webportal with possibility to request VM's etc, and there is also an option to launch the VM console. I want to disable the option to start the console for some...
View ArticleVsphere replication error : Failed to start offline syncronization
I'm trying to recover a VM use options : Recover with recent changes, but i have an error“failed to start offline synchronization”.I'm use VR 5.1.1 for both Vcenter.Can someone help me please ?
View ArticleVMware Tools skipping X drivers
Hello,I am trying to install VMware Tools on a Linux Mint Debian Edition guest. With a clean install, I am left unable to login to Cinnamon as it complains there is no 3D acceleration. When trying to...
View ArticleHow to disable VMware USB Arbitration Service
Hi, I don't use USB on my VM's can I just disable VMware USB Arbitration Service? "Stopping the VMware USB Arbitration Service service will also stop these services. VMware Workstation Server"How to...
View ArticleWorkstation 10 - Cannot install VMware Tools 3D support for Debian 7.1 or for...
After installing VMware Workstation 10 I was hoping to run Gnome 3 under Debian 7.1 in VMware Workstation, however when installing VMware Tools, I am getting the error message "/usr/bin/xrandr: Failed...
View ArticleP2V and Error 2338
I have addressed this issue once before and thought the problem was that ports were not opened. I am trying to use Converter Standalone from my Windows 7 domain computer to convert a physical windows...
View Articleclipboard syncing erratically doesn't work
for as long as i can remember, clipboard syncing of the OSX clipboard to my XP vm's clipboard has been erratic. i made a Screen Recording demonstrating the clipboards being out of sync and attached...
View ArticleConverter 5.1 - error 2338
Hi, I have several VM's on 2 locations, one datacenter that is managed by us on our site and several VM's hosted on external hosting company datacenter.Our own platform runs for now version 4.3 and the...
View Articleunity menu empty for linux guest
VMware workstation 9.02, Linux64 host and guest. While windows guest unity menu is fine, the linux guest unity menu only reads, "Loading..." and remains empty.I searched the site but found no help....
View ArticleAbout Vmware Storage
Hi All, I am a little confused about this SAN technology. I see NetApp , EMC and Brocade. But I don’t understand the role they play in Storage. Are they Hardware? Storage devices? Or software’s? I...
View Articlecant copy/paste from guest to host
i was searching trying to solve this problem but nothing, the problem is that i cant copy any file from the guest and paste in the host. I try to uninstall the vmware tools and install it again and...
View ArticleUpgrading View 4.6 to 5.2 - need to set Refresh OS disk on logoff set to...
Can anyone please advise me as to what the exact error will be when a OS disk attempts to refresh on logoff during a View Upgrade. Does anyone have a screen shot? Is it simply a "failed operation" or...
View ArticlePassed my VCP-510 exam!! Question about free Workstation license
Yay! I passed my exam yesterday. I got the email today to authorize my certificates etc... I was wondering because the license I received for VMware Workstation is for version 9. I would assume since...
View ArticleP2V error: FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion:...
Got this message when attempting P2v of Windows 2003 SP2 server on Workgroup. Using the IP address and local administrator account to login to server and connecting to vCenter to add the VM to the...
View ArticleLost connectivity to Storage Device
I have an IBM DS3524 Storage Subsystem connected with one fiber channel adapter to an IBM server with ESXi 5.0. I am seeing some large numbers when I run esxtop. My DAV/CMD goes up to 168 or 90 every...
View ArticleFAILED: Unable to find the system volume, reconfiguration is not possible.
While converting a Server 2003 server to an ESX 3.5 server I received this message after 95% Complete. Error Reconfiguration failed. With a status of: FAILED: Unable to find the system volume,...
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