How to increase C: partition size
Hi All, we have vm with 20 GB which is sliced like c:10 GB OS d:5GB Page File e:5GB Data. now i would like to increase c: partition size to 20GB how can i do it without using vmware converter. any help...
View ArticleGraphical anomalies with 10.7.3 Vmware Fusion 4.1.1
Anyone find they get graphical distortion after updating to 10.7.3 within a VM? I have to switch between full screen and non-full screen in order to get it to normalise. Host is also running 10.7.3....
View ArticleAdding redundancy to vCenter on a physical server
I implemented vCenter on a physical Windows server in order to manage a vSphere v.5 infrastructure based on 2 ESXi v.5 servers.How can I make the vCenter redundant and fault tolerant, in order to...
View ArticleServer 2008 R2 Hanging/freezing/bottlenecking?
Hi,Im a student working through the Microsoft Sever 2008 Administrator Certificates and have set up a virtual domain for test and research purposes using vmware player. I have 2 domain controllers...
View ArticleAdd RDM disk larger than 2TB
Hi, We have the following hardware : Two HP DL380 G6 servers with SAS HBA controllers SC08e; both servers have ESXi 5.0 installed. The SAS adapters are connected to an IBM DS3300 enclosure with two...
View ArticleView linked clones on ESXi host local disks?
Has anyone used the local ESXi disks as storage for linked clones? It seems to run very quickly this way, and I cant really find a downside to it.
View ArticleHow to find ESX Host (VMHost) IpAddress?
Hi, How to find ipaddresses of ESX Hosts (VMHosts) in a vcenter? I have looked at the http://communities.vmware.com/message/780627#780627 as its related. So i looked at the config.network proeprty but...
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Issues with vCenter 5
Hello together At the moment I'm trying to run the latest version 5.0.2 against our vCenter Server 5. Unfortunately I'm jumping from error to error....
View Articleoracle odbc drivers (32 bits) not supported
Hello, i'm trying to install VUM on a local Oracle 11g Database on a 2008 server 64 bits. As written in the manual, i also installed a 32 bits oracle client (10.2.0.1), created a system ODBC in...
View ArticleVshere 4 VLANS
Hi , Assuming that i have around 20 ESX hosts in a cluster and each host has a vSwitch with different Vlans configured on them e.g ranging from Vlan 1-15 . Lets say i have to put one host in this...
View ArticleApplying SSL Cert to view server breaks client connections
I can run the view clients just fine with the default ssl cert. I have a cert from geotrust and when I apply it to the view server then connections stop. Kinda like the server is offline. Very strange....
View ArticleDoes vCenter 5 support Lab Manager 4?
About to upgrade to ESXi 5 / vCenter 5 and was wondering whether my Lab Manager 4 will survive? I will be going to vCloud but need v5 first. Thanks
View ArticleOVFTool from within PowerCLI
Hi Guys. I have a number of vApps that I need to import into vCenter (4.1). I need to use OVFTool (as i'm working with .ova files - and therefore can't use Import-vApp). At the moment I have a script...
View ArticleBoot-from-SAN on VNX with ESXi5
We're trying to do a scripted install of ESXi5 on UCS. It will be Boot-from-SAN on a EMC VNX, via Cisco MDS fabric. The script works like a champ, and all files appear to load, but once the...
View ArticleConverter 3 license for Windows 2000?
Hi. I'll try to keep this simple :-)I have a vSphere 4 environment (at the moment). I need to P2V a few Windows2000 servers (dont ask!). Only Converter 3 is compatible apparently, I have tried...
View ArticleWhat editions of VMWare have the backup APIs?
I've been looking at vSphere 5 (preferably Essentials as it's cheap and does what we need) but I'd like to check that this has the backup APIs. According to the vRanger page it needs the vStorage API....
View ArticleEdit Host Profiles with PowerCLI
Hi all, I know we have some limitations on what we can do with PowerCLI and Host Profiles. Lately I came to know, thanks to mr. LucD (http://communities.vmware.com/message/1889243 and his own site)...
View ArticleVmware esx 5 sur un réseau public et privé / Vmware esx 5 on a public and...
Bonjour, j'ai deux esx 5 relié par un vsphere server et je souhaite donner à mes machines virtuelles des ips publiques statiques tous en conservant les autres machines sur des ips statiques de réseau...
View ArticleVMWare Player, weird USB behavior
Running VMWare Player v3.1.4 build 385536 on a Windows XP Pro SP3 host. Guest OS is also Windows XP Pro SP3. We have a bunch of "legacy" software programs that we can't yet migrate away from and that...
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