Motherboard has Marvell 88SE9230 Storage Controller... ESXi install can't see...
I'm trying to get ESXi installed on a system with a SuperMicro X9SBAA-F motherboard. I've overcome the "no keyboard" issue (due to all ports being USB 3.0) by installing over IPMI (also tried PXE) and...
View Articlehgfs file corruption when using different file handles to the same file in...
Hello all, I'm encountering a problem when using shared folders where files that are written to by a single process are being corrupted if another thread in that same process merely reads from the same...
View ArticleQuestion with Clustering
Hey guys hopefully this is the right spot for this. Anyway, I'm fairly new to this vmware stuff and i was hoping someone could point me in the right direction. So we are starting to move our servers...
View ArticlevExpert: Andrew Scorsone
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View ArticleFail to lvextend -L +2000G
Hi! I have just expanded my disk (in VMware Workstation 9) from 450GB to 2TB. The expand part worked fine with no errors. Now I want to expand the drive in my Ubuntu 12.04 guest OS and I fail. I don´t...
View ArticleAD Plugin for VMWare Orchestrator
Hi All,Long Time Trawler, first time poster. I am working on self service provisioning workflows for my company. I am trying to use the AD Plugin to Let me Delete a Computer Account From AD. I have...
View ArticlevShield Manager is not registered with the VC x.x.x.x
Hi, running in to a weird problem with a new vCD (latest) install. When trying to add the first vCenter and vSM to the vCD instance, the vCenter will add correctly, but the vSM fails with the error...
View ArticleSet up network Issue: Host Windows 7 and Guest Windows XP and Guest Linux
Folks,Hello. I am using VMPlayer 3. Host OS: Windows 7Guest OS:Windows XP and Oracle Linux 5I need to set up the network and enable Guest OS Windows XP communicate with Oracle Linux 5. In Host Windows...
View ArticleHow do I change NAT's host and router addresses?
I've been using Fusion 5 Pro with vmnet8 like this: Host Address: 192.168.8.101"router" address: 192.168.8.1DHCP: starting on 192.168.8.101 This used to work. But I just formatted my Mac and, as...
View ArticlevCloud Director 5.1 prepare host failed
We have a vSphere 5.1 cluster with 4 hosts mixed with ESXi 5.1 and 4.1. 3 of the 4 hosts are prepared and working in a vCloud Director 5.1 Provider VDC. Recently I upgraded the one left from ESXi 4.1...
View Articlecopy file from vco to guest failure?
Hi I am running VCO 5.1 appliance in a vsphere 5.1 environment. I am attempting to write a file to a guest machine. I have tried using both Local Administrator and Domain Administrator credentials but...
View ArticleUpdate Manager: URL for MS Updates/Patches
Good Morning Peoples, Just wondering if someone can provide me with the URL for the Microsoft Updates site to be used with Update Manager..I'm unable to find it anywhere.. Thanks in advance.. Matt.
View ArticleWhere is the "capture movie" menu option ?
Hello,I just found out that the "capture movie" has been removed from the menu option.It was broken since Workstation 9 (Workstation 8 was still ok) and a bug report has been filed when 9 came up.I am...
View ArticleError #2032 attemting to set base rates
When I select "set base rates" I immediately get a dialog box with "RSL error 1 of 2 Error #2032" with no further explanation. I turned off (complertely) Windows Firewall - problem persists. No...
View ArticlevCenter Server Service stuck on Starting
Hello All, I ran in to a problem yesterday. One of my ESXi 5.1 hosts hung up. I had to hard boot it. As a result all the VMs on it were powered off which included my vCenter 5.1 server. AFter I brought...
View ArticlePVSCSI w2k8r2 cloning BSOD
Hi All, I'm having a issues cloning windows 2008 r2 vm's with para-virtual scsi controller i get blue screen error 0x0000007b which is a general hardware failure.If i clones other vm's with LSi...
View ArticleEverytime my host network access changes, Fusion restarts the NAT guest networks
Every time my ethernet link status changes, Fusion 5.0.3 restarts my NAT network for my Ubuntu 10.04 guest. This causes all of my SSH and NFS connections to freeze for up to 1-2 minutes. This also...
View ArticleDatastores and Networks not visible in the BDE Web Client plugin
Issue: I am trying to add Datastores and Networks using the BDE Web Client plugin, but I am seeing some issues: 1. When I click on Datastores option under the "Inventory list", the + icon is grade out,...
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