Determine ESXi host Guest is Running on from VCenter
Is there a way to poll what ESX and it's hostname a vcenter is hosting a Guest from assuming you had privledges to do it? I'm running VNC ports on my ESX hosts and would like to automate in my perl...
View ArticleRemove-DrsRule issue in 5.0.1?
I'm seeing a strange blow-up when trying to delete "Virtual Machines to Hosts" DRS rules using Remove-DrsRule. This only happens with VM host rules; affinity and anti-affinity rules can be removed...
View ArticleNAT or Bridged VPN Connection to XP Client
Hi! I'm running into a frustrating problem that I can't seem to figure out. The situation is this... I have an OSX (10.6.8) MacBook Pro with VMware Fusion (2.0.8) to run Windows XP Pro (SP3). I am...
View ArticleESX 3.5 LanCard Help
Hi!Can anybody give me a checked-list of the compatibilities lan cards for esx 3.5.I can not get it from the site. I need get a exact model of the card for try to buy it. Many thanks for your time.
View ArticleUsing VMware Remote Console as a remote console and audio/sound redirection
Hi, I have searched the forum and I have mostly seen answers that say ESXi/Vsphere 4.1 does not support a sound card hence no audio. I have tried using RDP and am able to get sound from my guest...
View ArticlePassthrough auth to vS from PowerCLI 5.0.1
I'm trying to get passthrough auth (i.e. equivalent of "Use Windows session credentials") to work to a vS (5.0) host from PowerCLI 5.0.1. From the VI client all is good (I can connect to the vS host by...
View ArticleEnabling 3D support on Ubuntu 10.10 or WHS 2011
I currently have two VM's that I would like to enable 3d support on. It does not matter which one it works on, as long as I can get it to work. I need a VM that can run the XBMC client for automating...
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View ArticleESXi 4.1 Multiple CPU Load
Hi, I was hoping for some help in understanding CPU load with multiple CPU's in ESXi, I will lay out the issue below and would really appreciate some advice We have just virtualised a 2003 Std Terminal...
View ArticleUpdate Manager cmdlets and "Baseline Groups"
Hi all, just wondering.... Within Update Manager (5.0) I have created a Baseline group, containing a upgrade baseline, security patch baseline and an extension baseline. Now I want to remediate our...
View ArticleVirtual Appliance Creation Hardware Requirements
Hi, My Name is Jiju Jacob. I have the following query regarding creating Virtual Appliances and creating Virtual Machines. I use VMWare ESXi 5.0 and VMWare WSSDK with JAX-WS for programmatically...
View ArticleEsxi 4.0 suddenly lost datastore
Server was in normal workmode, my last command was "revert snapshot" on one VM.It fails with strange errors: Revert snapshotAKVL-win2003-2Unable to access file snapshotroot06.02.2012...
View ArticleProtect vCenter VM with SRM?
Hello, I'm looking to use SRM v5 in an off site solution for our customer. The SAN used is an HP P4500, each physical site is its own management group, each management group contains a single two node...
View ArticleProblem in Excel Add-in Application
Hi,I am virtualizing an (Excel Addin) application which has MS Office as dependency. Application is working fine with any version of MSOffice (2003, 2007,2010).But problem is if I capture the...
View ArticlePXE Booting Vmware View Linux Client w/Ubuntu (Not using LTSP)
This topic has been thrown around in here before but I'd like to start a new discussion on the topic and describe what we do today versus where we'd like to be. Current Situation Today, we're...
View ArticleFailing back from a REAL Disaster
So, we are evaluating SRM 5, and so far it all looks reasonable. We have VCenter/SRM installed on a VM at both sides, and can set up replication easily, and testing failover goes well.Currently, as we...
View ArticleDynamically add memory and CPU to a cloud VM while it’s running ?
Can we dynamically add memory and CPU to a cloud VM while it’s running ? I can see in VMware blog that the answer is yes, but how ? I can dynamiclly change memory only when the cloud VM is stopped....
View ArticleAutoProtect causing VMware Tools crash
I have a client running Fusion 4.1 with a Windows XP guest. I (probably foolishly) set up AutoProtect to run each night. Shortly after doing that he started having a crash message from VMware Tools...
View Article481 Invalid Image
Hello everyone and thanks for the help Ok I have the same problem 12 different times when I virtualize the same program. Everytime I try to run the virtualized program I always receive the message...
View ArticleVCenter for accurate memory information?
We have several clusters, each have 8 hosts. Looking at this cluster in VCenter is shows that each of the 7 hosts are at 80% host memory. (each host has 96g ram)However if I look at this "resource...
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