Best Practice to troubleshoot if facing problem with Single VM.
Dear Team, On one ESX host If i m facing problem with one VM other VMs are running VM, what will be troubleshooting steps regardsMr VMware
View ArticleBest Practice to set a Reservation
Dear Team, Before setting a reservation on a VM what needs to be take into an account, Need help on the same. regardsMr VMware
View ArticleUnable to power on my virtual machine after giving physical memory...
Dear all, I have installed ESXi 5.1 on my physical host which has 4 GB of physical memory, initially I created two VMs without any reservation of physical memory, everything worked fine. Now, I...
View ArticleVMWare backup
Hi, I am a total newby to VMWare. I have question which I know will can be answered quickly. I am an ISP, and I host 4 servers with an ISP that uses VMWare. I need to put 80gb data on one of the...
View ArticleBlue Screen DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESSOR_EQUAL Stop: 0x000000D1 during snapshot
Server blue screen of death during Snapshot with quiesce option enabled. DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESSOR_EQUAL Stop: 0x000000D1. Snapshots with quiesce option disabled appear to be completing with no problems....
View ArticleEnabling network for VM
Hi, I have installed VMWare for my Windows 7, and I have installed an OS in the VM (Red Hat 6). However, my concern is how do I enable networking for the VM so that it will be accessible from the...
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Get a error after convert exchange from physical pc
Physical PC: Windows 2003 SP2 + Exchange 2003 SP2VC: Vsphere 5.1Converter: 5.1 1, Converting in progress , didn't get any error.2, Got a error pop-windows as the attached picture when start...
View ArticleHow do I determine if I am running on a VM?
I've come to a dead-end I appreciate your help. I am running my .Net C# app on windows 7 OS on a VM and want my C# code to determine whether I'm running on a vmware VM or a physical host. Right now I...
View Articlesetting up sockets and cores in VM
I am new to this company I now work for. As I review their vSphere5 VM settings I came across this situation: ESXi5 host has 2 sockets , each with 4 cores. A VM has been created with its vProc...
View ArticleCannot unmount or Delete Datastore LUNS
Hi, I am in a situations where I need some help. I have ESXI 5 running Vsphere 5 with 10 Blades and two clusters, running about 100 + VM's. I have shutdown/decommissioned some VM's and want to release...
View Articleusing a vmdk to create a vm
I think i made a mistake and would like to know the options to fix (or to avoid for future).Corporate IT sent me a baseline vmdk image to use for building vm's. I copied to a directory i called VMDK on...
View ArticleWindows 2008 templates
It's been awhile but I thought that when I was working vSphere 4.1 that a Windows 2008 template did not have to be sysprep'd . Seems I recall that there was no need to copy the Sysprep files to the...
View ArticleWindows 7 Template Help (i am sure this is out there somewhere)
Okay so i am having all sorts of problems with making a working windows 7 template. (THANKS MICROSOFT) So i am not sure what is wrong or what I need to do to fix this but, (see attachment) I created an...
View ArticleInstalling VMware tools during VM build
Hi All, I have a sles11sp2 64bit based customised virtual machine targeted to run on ESXi5.0 and greater. The vm is built in an automated fashion using susestudio. It does not have a cdrom drive.I want...
View ArticleP2V Windows 2008 Domain Controller
We have a Windows 2008 Domain Controller that we would like to virtualize. In the past, DCs were not recommended for P2V operations but I understand that with windows 2008 and recent Converter...
View Articlewin8 os is supported on esx4.1
Dear team, please let me know si win8 VM / Guest OS is supported on ESX4.1 260247 (ESX4.1 U1, ESX4.1 U2, ESX4.1 U3 etc) regardsMr VMware
View ArticleStep by Step procedures to create VM AD Domain Controller with Windows 2008 R2
Hello. I'm planning on upgrading a physical Windows 2003 SP2 server to a Windows 2008 R2 VM. The plan is to create a new VM for the Windows 2008 R2 server. It will replace the old 2003 server that...
View ArticleP2V Windows 2003 Read-only DNS server
Since my server was only a member server with DNS, I performed a P2V with Converter and all seems well. I know that if it was a Domain Controller this may not be the method I would have used....
View ArticleWindows 2008 VM NIC Offload settings
Trying to find somebody that actually understands the offloading in a virtual environment. My company by default states they want all the offloading disabled for physical and virtual servers. I...
View ArticleConfigure big HPC VMs without pinning NUMA node
Hi. I'm trying to configure two or more VMs with 8, 16 or 32 vCPUs on a 4 socket DELL r820 with 64 logical CPUs. I've configured the first VM with 16 vCPUs with:cpuid.coresPerSocket =...
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