Trouble getting DVD drive working in HP blade enclosure with VMware guest OS...
Hello, I am very new to VMware and am just learning while doing as the saying goes. I am having trouble getting my HP blade enclosure on board DVD drive to connect to the VMware guest OS on any of my...
View ArticleBackup Exec 12.5 issues with VMWare Agent
We just got backup Exec 12.5 and are currently testing with the VMWare agent to do backups. It takes a fairly long time to do the backups. One example is a 20GB VM takes 40 mins and a 50 GB VM takes...
View ArticleVirtual-Physical MSCS (Microsoft cluster servise)
Hi, I have 2 physical Windows 2003 servers (IBM blade / boot from SAN) and MSCS with data on SAN LUNs. Now I won’t to migrate cluster node1 to virtual machine on ESX 3.0.1and to stay cluster node2 on...
View Articlewhere are VM which are in "dicovered virtual machine"
Hi, I've got several farm and in each one I've got a "directory" "dicovered virtual machine". My Pb is that when I go to the datastore in graphical mode or in ssh (/vmfs/volumes/.........) I can't...
View Articlepcnet32,vmxnet information
Hi.. Can anyone please point out to documentation or information material on pcnet32, vmxnet? I am intrested in knowing how these modules help guest machine to communicate with actual NIC card etc....
View ArticleCPU compatible doubt
Hello I have 3 ESX Servers in a cluster with HA & DRS working fine and with the CPU configuration below: Server 1 & 2 (DELL PE 2950)-vendor_id : GenuineIntelcpu family : 15model...
View ArticleVCB Proxy blades frequently hang
Hi, I'm running VC 2.0.2, ESX 3.0.2 and VCB 1.5, all consoles running on Server 2003. We have two VCB proxy servers (one at each of our datacenters) and they are both frequently hanging, causing our...
View ArticleCreating a bootable Ghost DVD
Hi, I hope this is the correct forum. I have received a Ghost image from a guest OS that i need to deploy on a new VM. I'm using ESX Server 3.5i. The problem i have is that i can't get my...
View ArticleNFS mount problem ....Permission Denied
I am running a BUFFALO TERA NAS with NFS. I created the NFS share on this device. (192.168.23.55) Share name: Datastores...Full NFS path:/mnt/array1/DatastoresI want to mount this NFS share on my NFS...
View ArticleDisk Usage Space - Difference between "du" and "df"
Hello Everyone! I use a ESX host(3.0.1), and my local disk reached 100% of disk usage space in "/ ". When i used the "df -h" command, him return for me the status of 100% used. So, I started the...
View ArticleWindows7 RC0 sysprep crash
Trying Windows 7 RC0 released today on MSDN (32 bit version). Using ESX 3.5 Update 3 and VC update 3. Built template vm and working. Can't deploy I don't think with VC and have sysprep customization...
View ArticleMySQL Cluster in VMWare
Has anyone had experience in implementing MySQL cluster in VMware/ is there any better way to achieve High availability for MySQL in VMware.
View ArticleUnable to change the Licnese server
I've recently appropriated an ESX environment which we will call this Environment A consisting of : 7 hosts1 Virtual Center Server also the license server resides on the same box.. I have...
View ArticleESX v3.0.2 Virtual Infrastructure client
Is there a newer release or replacement beyond VMWare Virtual Infrastructure Client 2.0? Even though our server is VMware ESX Server 3.0.2, when you download the client it's still at v2. Thanks
View ArticleError during the configuration of the host: Unable to set Filesystem name"
I renamed one of the datastore and since then I am getting an error saying "Error during the configuration of the host: Unable to set Filesystem name" I have rescan the storage adapter but still no...
View ArticleVMSN files missing from Datastore
We have taken a snapshot of a VM and all the snapshot disks still exists on the Datastore(vm-000001.vmdk) and the VMX file still points to the snapshot disks. When I was checking the Datastore I found...
View ArticleAlarm notification in ESX host
Hi Friends, I would like to configure Alarm notification to send email to my email id if host is down.. Please help me in sending the step by step configuration steps to configure the same.. I tried...
View ArticleCannot customize host name
Error:A specified parameter is not correct: spec.identity.hostNameMy hostName is normal:"pigtails" [Code]protected CustomizationSpec customizeVM(ManagedObjectReference vmRef, String ipAddress, String...
View ArticleRead Only Access to VM in ESX 2.5 MUI
Hope someone there still remember ESX 2.5 ....Does ESX 2.5 provide the Read Only access to manage VM instances via the MUI, I have a requirement to provide a read only access to VMs on the MUI, i.e....
View ArticleTwo ESX 3.x hosts mounting to same VMFS datastore on SAN
I'm running two ESX 3.x servers with virtual center. I know that it is possible to create redundancy or high availability by configuring a clustered environment. For HA to work, both ESX hosts must...
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