Unable to reclaim disk space on DataStore after snapshot delete
I had an issue where a VM was running off a snapshot for a long time. I was able to work thru it with the help of someone from the forum and delete or merge the snapshot; I should have a few 100gb free...
View ArticleError Test and Recovery Plans on SRM 5
I'm trying to replicate a local site (Protected site) to a remote site (Recovery Site) with SRM 5, i have an ESXi 5 with vCenter with SRM 5 and SRA to comunicate with a iSCSI SAN Dell EqualLogic PS6000...
View ArticleVMware player setup hangs.
I have bee using 3.0.1 build-227600 with about 7 VMs. Works fine.QNX, Ubuntu.I wanted to install a new debian from scratch. VMware-player-4.0.2-591240.exe hangsmd5 OK. Host is Windows XP Pro SP...
View ArticleUpdate Manager patch repository
Does anyone know of a way to remove/delete old patches from the patch repository in Update Manager ? I'm running all ESXi 4.1 and I want to remove all the old ESX 4.0 patches, and other os patches that...
View ArticleVMware ESXi 4: How to Add VMFS Datastore Using vSphere Client without...
How to Add VMFS Datastore Using vSphere Client without formatting datastore... I have Promise Vtrack M500p conect with SCSI with created raid and full off data... How that i add this datastore without...
View ArticleVMWare Workstation 8.0.2 on Win 7 x64 and "Not enough physical memory..."...
Hello. My virtual machine won't boot up requesting a memory reduction to about 3GB although the host OS has more than 5GB of available RAM (8GB in total).It wasn't always this way. The virtual machine...
View Articleexport-csv formatting
Sorry for the newbie question (and thanks for any assistance) but I have a reporting need to list WWPNs of hosts per cluster.With the below it outputs csv like: Hostname Hba...
View ArticleScript to list ballooning VM's
I search a cmdlet or script to list all vm's were the memctl requests memory.
View ArticleWindows 8 VM
Anyone been successful in creating a VM with the Windows 8 Consumer Review? When trying to boot to the .iso, I get the fish logo and then the 'Your computer ran into a problem and needs to restart'...
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Unable to edit/remove folder from "Datastores and Datastore Clusters".
Hi all, It's a pleasure to joing this community. As my first question I would like to figure out why I'm unable to remove or edit an folder that I created at the "Datastores and Datastore Clusters"...
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Vsphere esxi 5 Port issue
Hi, We are doing a micro vm density test(1 vcpu, 256 meg linux vms) on a very beefy multi-core/large mem ESXI 5 host. We are attempting to see if we can run 400 micro vm's comfortably on this very...
View ArticleAnchoring a VM to a ESXi host with DRS enabled
Hi Everyone, I just had a question about how to anchoring a VM to one host that has DRS enabled. We have a VM that needs to stay put on a host, but I don't want to disable the DRS for all the other...
View ArticleLUN and Volume Presentation for SQL 2000 VSphere 5.0 Hosts
We are in the process of planning the implementation of an HP P4000 SAN. We will be connecting two, ESXi 5.0 hosts to the P4000 via 10 Gb/e Connections. These hosts will run a marid of VMs ranging from...
View Articleeasiest way to create VM backup copy?
Hi I have a stand-alone esxi 4.0 u1 server that hosts 2 VMs for a remote office. I want to upgrade the beast, but as there is no shared storage or redundancy, I'm reluctant to just dive in without...
View ArticlePassed my VCP5... Just in time (I think)
I passed my VCP5 today (I was a VCP4 ) I just want to verify that I do not need the vSphere 5 class since I passed the VCP5 before March, thanks!
View ArticleView Connection server gives new desktop after disconnection
VMware View 4.6 on Server 2008 R2, ESXi 4.1, Windows XP desktops. Anybody seen this? Occasionally, the View connection server is assigning a user a new session every time they disconnect (not...
View ArticlevCenter 5 -- Guest Customization of XP 32bit VM No Resources
Greetings, No resources installed for customizationof a XP 32bit VM clone in vCenter 5.0...I can do other OS's, but not this...on Windows 2008 R2... anyone?? Curtis
View ArticleBoot Configuration for Solaris Vm
Hi, I have created a Solaris 10 VM which contains my application. I have tested the VM in dev and want to now move it to the Test environment for further testing of the application. The application has...
View Articlesciatica stretches and its cool features.
Good Afternoon I'm Adem, I like to read about sciatica stretches and I live in Latvia, these days I'm looking gather knowledge about detoxification diet..
View ArticlevSphere - vCPU - Processors vs. Cores
Why has VMware added the ability to give a VM 2 processors and 2 cores, or 1 processor with 4 cores? In either senario there is 4 cores total.Is there a performance difference is between the two...
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