VM Snapshots with Independent/Persistent Disks question
Greetings! We have our vSphere 5.0U2 infrastructure set up so our DATASTORES now are either 1 terabyte or 2 terabytes. I'm setting up a new VM server (with smaller Windows system C: drives) will reside...
View ArticleAutomatically grow Windows Server Virtual hard Disks
I have a windows Server 2008 Vm with an OS vmdk and an application vmdk. When my application vmdk runs out of space, I want to be able to grow the vmdk and the partition inside of it, without having...
View ArticlePXE Booting To Install Windows Guests?
Hi, Is it a common practice to install Windows on guests using PXE booting? If so, how are the windows updates handled? Is there a way to install a pre-updated windows image? THanks,-T
View Articleunable to ping the gateway, need ur assistance
Dear Team,on ESX4.1 U3 host i have created one new VM and installed ESX4.0 OS, provided the local IP range , but not able to ping the gateway, need ur asisstance on the same. PFA screeshot........
View ArticleDiamond SupraExpress 56K serial modem
We have a vendor application that requires the use of their Diamond SupraExpress 56K serial modem. We currently have the application running on a physical server but want to move the application to a...
View ArticleGuest OS Agent not rechable
Hi, I am facing problem in Guest OS when i log off Guest OS i get error in VM View Agent not reachable and i need to restart Guest OS for reconnecting
View Articleupgrade driver for Intel PRO/1000 vNICs?
I was looking to upgrade the drivers installed inside W2K8R2 for the Intel PRO/1000 vNICS installed on some of our guest machines past the 5/28/2008 date by default - i downloaded a package from Intel,...
View ArticleCalculation of "Provisioned Storage" field for a Virtual Machine
I have a VM with two hard disks. Each hard disk was provisioned as a 40GB disk. There are no snapshots. In vSphere Client, the "provisioned Storage" field shows 84GB. How is this provisioned...
View Articleneed help to understand snapshot technology
Dear Team, I have queries related to snapshot, request you to help me on the same. 1) I have one VM (vhDD size of 5GB) and 4 gb is full, Now i have taken a snapshot, one delta vhdd created, now new...
View ArticleHow to monitor network performance
Dear Team, how to monitor network performance and also let me know the important metrics of network. regardsMr VMware
View ArticleExtensible Virtual Machine NFS storage
I would like to create an easy way for a Guest OS to be able to expand its storage. The issues are this: 1. If I give a VM a virtual disk, I can increase virtual disk size when the VM runs out of...
View ArticleWhat is the VMware's best practice about disabling Windows Page file inside...
What is the VMware's best practice about disabling Windows Page file inside the Windows Operating System? Does VMware recommend disabling the Windows Page file?Can anyone assist on this?Thanks,DinRam
View ArticleUrgent Help!!! Unable to upload a file in Guest operating System
Hi, I am trying to upload a file in guest operating system using vsphere 5.1 API. I am getting an exceptionjavax.xml.ws.soap.SOAPFaultException: The operation is not supported on the object. at...
View Articlesetting up alert paging in VMs
I have an application called NetpagerPro that was installed on a server 2003 box. We want to install it on a Windows 2008R2 box. NetPagerPro uses SNPP protocol to send monitoring alerts from our...
View ArticlevMotion between two datacenter
Dear Team, Can I VMotion between 2 different data centers?Can I VMotion between 2 different Cluster?Can I deploy a VM by template in different data centers ?regardsMr Vmware
View ArticlevMotion failed
Dear team, want to all possible causes because of which vmtion process fails regardsMr VMware
View ArticleWindows 2012 VM - Heartbeat vNIC
So we are currently building a medium sized 2012 SQL cluster with always on technology enabled. We have decided to move the heartbeat network to a dedicated set of network cards so as not to...
View ArticleGuest customization gets fail after deply a VM from template.
Hi I have template win server 2008 standard R2(64-bit) ,when i deply VM from that template VM is not booting facing below attached issues .Need help how to resolve ASAP. I did hit on ok on ok button as...
View Articlesetup windows VM fails to accept license agreement during windows configurations
Hi i have deployed VM (2008 standard R2 sp1 64 bit) from a template .when i power its fails to boot ,so i went from command 'msoobe' ,then i see attached screenshot .I agreed license and rebooted ,VM...
View ArticleVirtual machine Resources
For Memory:Are the virtual guest will not hold permanently the allocated resources if its in idle or doesn't have processing but it will utilized again once there is a process in that virtual guest...
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