PCI Passthrough - Link width issue (PCIe 8x Gen2 device seen a 4x Gen1 device)
Hello,we have a Supermicro X8DTH-i Board with Xeon X5560 and a Mellanox IB Card (PCI Express 8x) and we wished to pass the device dedicated to a VM with Linux (kernel 2.6.38) After compiling OFED it...
View ArticleVMs with RDMs
Hi Hopefully not being stupid. Scenario several VMs with large RDM disks attached. The VM OS disks are in RecoverPoint protected LUNs. So are the RDM disks. However, SRM does not see these...
View ArticleAnyone else experiencing serious problems reading shared folders on mac with...
There are some serious bugs in fusion 4 on lion related to running visual studio 10 under windows 7 . "Permission denied", "Access denied", "Cannot read" errors occur randomly when building large...
View ArticleMinimum permissions in ESXi 5.0, ESX 4.1 U1
Hi, I wanted to create a user with minimum permissions to run with the script. Unfortunatelly the permissions indicated in http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9842 did NOT work for...
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Virtualized Intel VT-x/EPT is disabled for this ESX VM. You will only be able...
I am trying to install ESXi v5 in VMware Workstation v8. When the virtual machine is booting, I get a warning message saying: Virtualized Intel VT-x/EPT is disabled for this ESX VM. You will only be...
View Articleupgrade to vmware fusion 4 now network connections (Airport & ethernet) do...
i upgraded to fusion version 4. now when i open my virtual machines (both windows 7) i have no network connections with either the airport or ethernet. i have uninstalled/rebooted/reinstalled vmware...
View Articleget-scsilun + powerpath = NOT WORKING
hi,apperantly the get-scsilun command does not work with an error of"value cannot be null" this refers to the multipath policy which is set to nothing basically, when powerpath takes over vmware nmp......
View ArticleWindows Experience Index (WEI) problem after instaling VMware Tools
Hi, I'm running a test scenario with Windows 7 Enterprise on a Workstation 8. Unfortunately I'm running into a problem with recalculating the Windows Experience Index needed for Aero effects. When I...
View ArticleESXi Redundant Server Rack
Hello! I would like to setup two ESXi 4 Servers on Dell R710 and the datastores that reside on a virtual iSCSI SAN running FreeNAS/OpenFiler* in two different server cabinet. Idea is if one server/san...
View ArticleSRMv5 'discoverDevices didn´t return a response'
Hi there, i do have a issue with SRM v5 I have installed SRM and the IBM SRA for the SVC successfully and added on both locations the Array Manager. But when i click "Refresh" on the Devices on my...
View ArticleHardware Acceleration on Linux Virtual Machines
why is it that vmware still doesn't support hardware acceleration in linux virtual machines it would be nice to be able to run Fedora 15 with Gnome 3 or Ubuntu running Unity in VMware instead of having...
View ArticleUnable to "Use Windows Session Credentials" to log into ESXi 4.1 348481
I am unable to log into any of my ESXi4.1 Build 348481 servers using Windows Session Credentials. I have searched the discussions extensively and KB but no luck. I have checked all of the DNS entries...
View ArticleMysterious Removal of Datastores - hoping someone can help
Hello All - I am truly hoping that someone can help us unravel the mystery my group is currently trying to resolve.. It doesn't make much sense, but I will do my best to explain in succint terms - Late...
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RSYNC_LINK does not create link when VM has independent discs
Thanks for a very nice script The RSYNC_LINK=1 works very well when backup up VMs!But when an "independent harddrive" is attached to the VM, the symlink is not created. Is there a way fo fix this?...
View ArticlevCenter Virtual Appliance - Deploy servers via templates
I have ESXi5 installed and I have deployed the vCenter via the OVF. This is running without any issues. However I want to clone a VM to templete for future VM creations. However I get the warning...
View ArticleUpgrade ESXi 4.x to ESXi 5.x Comments-Experience
Dear VMWARE-Friend, I tried Upgrading our ESXi 4.x to ESXi 5.x Backup Before UpgradePATH=%PATH%;"C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware vSphere CLI\bin" vicfg-cfgbackup.pl --server server-ip -s...
View ArticleSQL '08 physical -> virtual migration...want to verify specs
We in the process of migrating one of our SQL physical boxes to virtual (with at least one of similar "bulk" coming soon) and I'd like to verify that my end result sounds feasible. Some backgound...
View ArticleSQL 2005 Performance on VMware ESXi 5
I have a server running VMware ESXi 5. I has 2 x 8 core processors and 64GB of RAM. This is connected to a MSA2000 Fibre san which is connected at 1GB. I have built a new Windows 64bit Enterprise...
View ArticleИнструмент для работы с log файлами на хостах ESX/ESX(i)
Здравствуйте. Вопрос к гуру VMware.Подскажите пожалуйста, есть ли удобный инструмент работы с log файлами на хостах ESX/ESX(i).Имеется ввиду не стандартными методами, а вдруг может быть есть чудо...
View ArticleLicense Services
Hello, I was wondering if anyone can give me a hand, I have just upgraded our vcenter server to version 5 from 4. Everything seems to be working great however under vCenter service status my "License...
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