Attempting to install vShpere client and getting error 1046
I've tried several times including right clikcing the install file and run as Admin. I keep getting a "error 1046: Cannot write value ProductLanguage to"Â a registry location. I'm also logged in as...
View ArticleOffice 2010 virtual Vs microsoft Lync 2010
Hi all, I have a strange comportment between virtual office 2010 and lync 2010. when i work on a virtual office application like word, lync coming in foreground suddently without any reason.. I have...
View Articlehow do I 'hard refresh' a shared directory?
VMWare player 4.0.1 build-528992 I added a file to a shared directory in Windows 7. When I `ls -l` that directory in Ubuntu 11 it looks like: (2nd line)    ls: cannot access item_spec.rb: No such...
View Articleovftool.exe crashes when deploying OVA from Windows 7
I'm experiencing a coredump when attempting to deploy an OVA into vCenter 5.0.0. I have downloaded the OVA to the Windows 7 PC locally and have run the ovftool from that path as follows: ovftool...
View ArticleData Protection - Best Solution?
Hey There, We are looking at putting in a new data protection product in our environment? Looking at Enterprise solutions. Is there any one that is considered best? What to you like/disklike about your...
View Articleremount / as rw on esxi5.0
is it possible to remount the filesystem as read/write?i thought i could do something like:# mount / -o remount,rw-sh: mount: not found not sure what the mount command is in esxi5.0 trying to work...
View Articleoverriding an alert defined at the global level
I have an alert defined globally, on the vcenter object. It is for each host in our environment. I have one host that I would have a differnt action associated with it. How can I do this? I would...
View ArticleHA heartbeats (vsphere 5.0)
i got couple of question on how heartbeat mechanishm work with HA ( vsphere 5.0) After going through documents, ther two types of heartbeating mechanism used (i) network heartbeat (traditional...
View Articlewhy does snapshotmanager not display autoprotect snapshots ?
esxi 5 snapshotmanager does not display snapshots created via Autoprotect IMHO this should be corrected.Autoprotect snapshots should be displayed per default - when this was intoroduced into...
View ArticleMonitoring multiple VM's for performance
Hello all,Just wondering what approach people take when looking to grab performance data for a group fo VM's-these are spread across different hosts. Thanks.
View ArticleNetwork Performance Suddenly Drops
Right now I'm running ESXi on two hosts, every for the last 4 Fridays or so (with the exception of the last two) their have been sudden drops in network performance and its happening again. I want to...
View ArticleIssues making a directory on a datastore (Help!)
I keep receiving the error " vmodl.fault.InvalidRequest" whenever I try to create a directory on the datastore.... I'm really new to the api and am not sure if I am creating the fileManager object...
View ArticleGuid career path
Hello I'm very new on Vmware environment but i want to be make my career on vmware. So anybody let me inform from where i have to start to learn.
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bottleneck in basic network config vsphere 5.0 standalone?
Hi all,I've been running vsphere 5.0 on a single host.We don't have any of the "addons".I noticed when I did a backup (first time), on our fileserver,I saw only vmnic2 shoot up, and the viritual server...
View ArticleStreamed Execution Mode
    Could someone explain to me exactly what this is and how I set this in the package.ini  Â
View Article[VmWare/Win95] Game can not play cd audio
Hi, I have sucessfully installed Windows 95 in VMWare in my Windows 7 host. Sound and every thing plays well (I can plaay audio files)Â but I can't hear audio cds (although the CD seems to be playing)....
View Articlecan we move one of multiple vmdks of one VM to different datastore?
Hi all, vSphere 4.1 due to size issue, we want to move one vmdk from this VM to different datastore? is this possible? Thank you.
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VM with No Internet Access
I have a strange one that has me puzzled. I have two servers in the DMZ. Both setup the exact same way (diff IP address) however one will not get internet access. One is my View security server....
View ArticleExpected performance of OSX guest in Lion host?
I have OSX guest up and running in a Fusion 4.1 on a Lion host machine: 2 GHz i7 Quad Mac mini with 4GB RAM and 256GB SSD. Although all the apps that I need work adequately, the actual OSX window...
View ArticleHelp...virus attack
I need to re-install win7 into fusion4 but I need to keep all my applications and documents.Is this possible and how?Help please.
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