Re: Activating Windows XP after transferring into a VM
No, Safe Mode with Command Prompt does not offer Network Connectivity so that will not do you any good. I'd suggest you temporarily connect the Host directly to the LAN or Router using an Ethernet...
View ArticleRe: HP Flex10 and recommended vDS config for HA and failover?
Thanks, I wasn't sure whether the "overhead on NIOC" as you mentioned outweighed the benefits of having the flexibility compared to using FlexNICs. So I have the following:a bunch of VLANs for data (no...
View ArticleRe: VSS physical adapters with multiple vlan settings
Just create multiple VMNetwork with the vlan id I wan to host and make VMs connect to these VMNetwork? No settings in vss physical adapter layer? That's correct. VLAN tagging is controlled at the port...
View ArticleRe: running script from vSphere CLI
Andre, thank you for your reply. I found the answer. 4. Oct 5, 2012 4:09 PM in response to: shenkmrRe: vSphere 5.1I can confirm that the script can be used with vCenter 5.1 Edit the script. Line...
View ArticleRe: Hardware required for 6-8 servers
you answers are pretty generic but still thanks anyway.somehow it made me regret choosing vm. The lack of support from VM is disappointing.
View ArticleRe: running script from vSphere CLI
As mentioned by the author lamw in the link you posted, it's possible to add 5.1 to the allowed versions. Although this may help to start the script, you may not get the expected output due to a lot of...
View ArticleRe: keep disk as thin move VM to another datastore by powering off
Press CTRL-D to return to the command line and then enter the complete command. Btw. you also missed to provide a leading "/" for the source.Btw. the command shell provides TAB completion, which - with...
View ArticleRe: workstation 8 unable to install vmware tools in ubuntu 12.04
Yes I am sure the installation went fine and inspite of that there is no GUI you can try it at your end in Worksation 8 64 bit try to install 32 bit Ubuntu 12.04how do I go for a command prompt based...
View ArticleRe: Activating Windows XP after transferring into a VM
Garirry wrote: My network USB is disconnected from my VM, and I cannot use bridged connection in my VM because it dosen't work with Wi-Fi USB. As I said before, I want to know if the problem is in my...
View ArticleRe: Partition Alignment
HI Gkeerthy, I agree with WhoodyZ, nice article. We are investigating the partition alignment quite a lot in the last few weeks, we need this information's for a skilled work of a trainee. We knew a...
View ArticleRe: keep disk as thin move VM to another datastore by powering off
Ok! now it started the process, but seems will take long time ...in 8 min only 3% done....this usually takes long time ?
View ArticleRe: VMWare is a clownish company, and Player has become a joke
First of all VMware Player is essentially a free and unsupported product so, no offense intended, take it or leave it! Secondly you've been around here long enough to know you should check the VMware...
View ArticleProblems using vmrun on ESX3.5
Hopefully a quick question because I'm missing something obvious. I am running vmrun version 1.12.1 against an ESX 3.5 Server and am getting partial sucess. If I run: vmrun -T ESX -h http://{ip...
View ArticleMigrate virtual vCenter5.0 to Physical server
Hi Guys, I am in a process to upgrade my vSphere5.0 to 5.1 but before that I would like to migrate my vCenter5.0 (VM on the vSphere5 cluster) to physical server. I know there is no direct upgrade...
View ArticleRe: network poor performance on guest esxi 5
don't forget to install vmtools inside the vm if you want to be able to user vmnext3 virtual network card this will help the vm to access the network. for vmotion if your vmotion network is shared with...
View ArticleRe: network poor performance on guest esxi 5
Hi, Thanks againIam over-commitment the cpu in my lab, Both the two esxi vms have 8 vCPUs.My nested vms, I have 4 vCPUs for Vcenter + 1 vCPUS for Active Directory.My openfiler has 1 Vcpus.I think, I...
View ArticleRe: Workstation 6 Linux - bridge vmnet interfaces to VLANs?
I know this is an old thread but I want to do the same thing with Workstation 9. It difficult to believe no solution exists. I am still looking though.
View ArticleRe: Hyperic & weblogic 10.3.1
(Reviving an old thread.) I have been running HypericHQ 4.6 (server and agent) for a few months and monitoring various metrics on platforms, servers, and services has worked well until now. I was...
View Articleseems likes the delta disk is corrupt
Hello All, I have a VM which had to be hard reset because the storage (FC SAN) hosting the VM became unavailable for a few seconds. In fact I had to hard reset all VMs hosted on that shared storage....
View ArticleRe: Migration to host x.x.x.x failed with error Already disconnected...
here are the vmotion logs from the source when it fails 2013-01-20T15:00:37.200Z cpu12:9141)Config: 347: "SIOControlFlag2" = 1, Old Value: 0, (Status: 0x0)2013-01-20T15:00:37.917Z cpu6:44048)Migrate:...
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