Using VMware Tools GUI to disable time synchronization with host
What is the quickest way for a Windows Server VM being provisioned with VMware Tools installed, to insure that time synchronization does NOT occur with the host? These articles discuss using registry...
View ArticleHow to check Linux VM is synchroize time with ESX Host or NTP Server
Dear team, we have our internal ntp server which we have configured on every esx host , we have installed vmware tools on all guest vm , how to check whether linux vm are synchrizing with esx host or...
View ArticleDoes RDP get modified through the connection server in any way?
Does the View connection server modify RDP when it's brokered through the connection server? I had a user (off shore) say that they're getting better performance from RDPing (8) directly instead of...
View Articlevmware player 4 opensuse 12 vmware tools problems
using vmware player 4 (on windows host) and trying to install vmware tools in an opensuse 12 guest which uses linux kernel 3.7i still get "vmxnet.c:525:4: error: unknown field" errors when running...
View ArticlePerfMon Counter groups - VM Processor and VM Memory
When trying to run PerfMon from my local workstation (Windows 7) against a Windows 2003 or Windows 2008 guest OS (on vSphere 5.1), I can see the Performance Counter groups for "VM Memory" and "VM...
View ArticleGuest OS to raw san storage (2TB limit?)
I'm trying to get one of my guest os machines to see a 4TB fibre SAN storage (as a local drive, so guest os can share it).(Esxi 4.1). I'm trying to do this with "Add Hard Disk" - but that may not be...
View Articlevmware player 4 host trisquel 6 guest vmxnet compile errors
vmware player 4 host trisquel 6 guest vmxnet compile errors aptitude install build-essential linux-headers vmware-config-tools.pl generates errors from vmxnet.c vmxnet_probe_device vmxnet_map_pkt...
View ArticleRestored vm boot problem
Hi, I upgraded our Esxi 4.1 hosts to 5.1. First I backed up virtual machines using ghettovcb script, then installed esxi 5.1 and then restored virtual machines. Problem is that I cannot boot few of...
View ArticleChoose best OS architecture, which is better x86 or x64?
Hi, I want to deliver virtual desktop to office workers and I have limitation on resources, memory and CPU.I need to advise about OS architecture, which has better performance on x64 processor and ESXi...
View ArticleNew ESXi install + Not able to access ESX server to start with vsphere client
Hello All, I am trying to setup my home ESXi lab. I m using Intel Core i7 processor with 32 GB RAM. One inbuilt NIC and one external NIC installed in PCI slot. I have installed ESXi 5.1.0 build 79733....
View ArticleCorrupted Fedora 14 install - how do I access the Linux Kernal Parameters?
Good afternoon! One of our clients recently decided to power of their ESXi 5.1 server via the power button, and since then one of the VM's which is running Fedora 14 developer install hangs when...
View ArticleESXi & sbs 2003 random network issues
i have a PE 2950 with ESXi 5.1 and sbs 2003 installed. It has random network disconnection issues. At least once per day, for maybe 2 to 10 minutes. Seems to vary. A month ago I noticed an error logged...
View ArticleDisable multiple devices via the .vmx file
I'm working on a STIG for a vSphere environment, and I have a question about disabling devices. If I want to disable multiple floppy devices or multiple IDE devices, I am making a line for each...
View ArticleImage Level backup for independent disks without installing third party...
Image Level backup for independent disks without installing third party agents/software?...Can it be done?
View ArticleFormatting Issue
Hi, I have a IBM server x3100M4 Core i3-2100 3.1Ghz 2Gb with a SATA 1TB Simple-swap 3Gb/s Hard Drive. I used to have vmware vsphere esxi and it worked out just fine with windows server and ubuntu...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Performance issue
Hi All, I have performance data missing for few virtual machine in my site. we don't have NTP Server in our environment so i disable the time sync of those virtual machine by last week after that the...
View ArticleFSMO-roles on physical or virtual DC
Hi. Wehave a HA clusteron ESXi5.1., aWindows 2008 R2domainwith a total of3DC, 2 virtual and1on physical hardware. All three makeDNSand GC.I'm nownotquite sure howI distribute theFSMO rolesto the 3...
View ArticleVM with vmxnet3 looses connectivity
Hello, we just switch to 10 Gbit Ethernet. Hosts are connected and we just want to switch the VM´s as well to 10G (vmxnet3). So we installed on a Win7-Testmachine the vmxnet3 Adapter and started the...
View ArticleBoot Failure
I'm trying to boot a VM with RedHat Linux 6.0 version and keep getting this error . "No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found". I even replaced the .iso but same error. only happening with...
View ArticleOSX Virtualization (Empty disk question)
Hello, I'm quite a newbie in this. I wanted to virtualize OS X Lion on windows, just to mess around and try it out if I wanted tu buy a Mac in the future. I was using this tutorial...
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