Windows 7 Pro License
Can I buy a boxed Windows 7 Pro or OEM license and install it in on esxi for vmware view use? We only need about 5 virtual desktops.
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With my-vmware, please make a personal download feed with all the products the account has access to via maybe: RSS, API, FTP? Irritating having to download products again and again in a service...
View ArticleWindows XP VM on OSX missing months of work?
Anybody ever have files go missing on their Virtualized System? Here is the skinny on what happened. I have a user with a VM running Win XP. The Host system's (OSX 10.6) hard drive crashed and it wont...
View Articlewindows host, linux guest, vmware 8 guest network stops at random
I am a long time user of vmware, and have not had problems until now. I have upgraded to vmware 8 (windows 7 64 bit host) and installed Debian 6.0.x linux as guest. Everything works except the guest...
View ArticleJust passed VCP 5 this afternoon
Just passed VCP 5 exam today with score of 400. Not a great score, but finally get it done.The score showed on the screen, however, the test center's print run out of tuner, my exam result didn't get...
View ArticleESXi Shared Storage - EMC vs Dell vs NetApp vs HP
Hi, I am investigating the purchase of a new SAN for our VMware ESXi servers. Current we are using a Dell MD3000i and the performance from host to disks is slow. It is preventing me from running our...
View ArticleHow to get CPU Ready in percentage ?
Hi people, When I read this blog from Mr. Epping http://www.yellow-bricks.com/esxtop/ it seems that the CPU ready is stated in % percentage, while in the vsphere console Performace | Advanced tab, it...
View ArticleVMWare Orchestrator clone question !!
I am trying to clone a VM, use DHCP for IP configs and add the machine to domain. I used "Clone, Windows with sysprep and one nic card", the problem is it does everything but joining VM to domain. Any...
View ArticlevCOPS 5 - difference between logins
Also can anyone clear up which logins should be used and when? The documentation differs between standard/advanced and enterprise versions. As well as the standard/advanced docs always referring to the...
View ArticleSome alternative and fun Cloud API meanings
Hearing different discussions about APIs in general and cloud in particular got me thinking, besides the usual Application Programming Interface meaning, what other options exists including those to...
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Manually Deleted Linked Clone VM's, Recreated but Composer Skipped Numbers
I did a huge rebalance after adding new datastores and all went well... until the last few VM's It appears the account that View uses to communicate with the Composer database and vCenter Server was...
View Articlevcuuid...where does it come from, where does one find it?
Would anyone happen to know how I could obtain the vcuid of each vm in vcloud director php sdk? Correct me if I'm wrong but this is a virtual machines unique id #? So that id will only ever point to...
View ArticleVADP using NBD: what network port on ESX server is used for data transfer?
I've gone through a bunch of VMware documentation (including the API guide) and can't seem to find this documented anywhere. I have an environment where we will be bringing 10GbE ports online on a...
View ArticleRescan all HBA after unpresenting luns is stuck
Hi Running ESXi5 and Vcenter with Isci SAN.Had a few RDM disks presented via the SAN. The RDM have been storage motion to VMDK.Then, the Lun have been unpresented on the SAN and I did a 'rescan all...
View ArticleRD1000
Hi, I have a server with an internal RD1000 tape drive. I would like to have one of the VM be able to recognise the RD1000 and use it as a backup tape.How can this be done? Thanks in advance. Pete
View ArticleHow to apply host patch with VUM Plug-in
HelloI am using VMware vCenter Orchestrator 4.1 with vCenter 4.1 and vSphere 4.1U2s. I have installed vSphere Update Manager Plug-in on Orchestrator and I can see VUM workflows on Orchestrator...
View ArticleHA events after upgrading to vSphere 5
Hi all, Starting to come across some niggling issues since upgrading, I knew this would happen on such a large environment adopting pretty early.The latest is an issue with HA, It seams to be...
View ArticleMount NFS datastore using reference host - DNS or IP
CT-FREAK.NL blog had great post on using script to reference a existing host to mount NFS datastores on new ESX host server. I needed to do exactly that so I used the script from the blog to mount...
View ArticleUse intermediate certificate on vCenter 5
Hi, I wold like to replace the server certificate which needs an intermediate certificate on vCenter 5.* I cannot install the intermediate certificate on client side. Regarding the KB2009313, The...
View Article"OlioWeb restore filestore" takes long time
Hi All,I am running VMmark 2.1.1 for the first time with 8 tiles. During the "VMmark Wkld Setup" of the run, "OlioWeb restore filestore" is taking lot of time (close to 3 hours). However, other...
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