Adding VMware Tools to Virtual Appliances
I have virtual appliances in my environment from different vendors. These are mainly SUSE Linux appliances that vendors such as backup software vendors or of monitoring solutions have provided in .ovf...
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 ArticleRegarding Vmware hardware
Dear All, I'm new in implementation of ESX 5.5 & VmWare, Could you please let me know how can i consider the hardware configuration for Virtual machines in Virtual infrastructure.Is it based on per...
View ArticleExpanding the Operating System Partition
After I expand a virtual disk that the VM is using, what is the simplest script I can run inside the guest OS of Windows 2008 Server to expand the partition ?
View ArticleExpanded virtual disk not recognized by OS
I have expanded my thin-provisioned virtual hard disk for a windows 2012 server from 10GB to 40GB. It now shows as 40GB from vSphere Client. However, when I go into "server manager" -> "File and...
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What would you do? Scale Up or Out on the VMs?
No, it's not the ABC show. Would you rather have a few big VMs that are running similar to Windows SBS which has 2 or 3 roles per Windows Server VM? OrYou would rather split the roles to per VM?For...
View ArticleDebian 7 on vsphere 5.1
I am about to deploy debian 7 on vsphere 5.1 as per VMware compatibility guide this OS is supported only on vsphere 5.5, I wanted to know what issues could be faced if we install debian 7 on vsphere 5.1
View ArticleWindows 2008 Reactivation needed when VMs are migrated using storage replication
Hey guys, Anyone experienced this before? can point to a correct KB (vmware / MS)?When VMs are copied to a secondary location (via storage replication) my windows 2008 servers prompted me to reactivate...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2 Remote Desktop Server - Recommended VM Configuration?
We just received two new G8 HP DL 380's with dual 12 core processors and 64GB of RAM each. I plan to setup these servers running ESXi 5.5 and have about 10 Windows VM's on these servers in an HA...
View ArticleLinux VM and VMTools
I have a Centos Linux VM on vCenter5.0 and ESXi5 host. How do I install VMTools on this VM?
View ArticleVMware View Agent
I have created a Windows 7 Enterprise 32-bit virtual machine via vCenter. I ran Windows updates and installed VMware Tools.I installed a legacy piece of softwareI ran the software without any...
View ArticleUSB modem to VM
We have a physical server with a monitoring application that uses a modem to send pager alerts to our On Call Engineer. We want to virtualize this server and our previous Engineer purchased a DigiCom...
View ArticleHow to Reduce the size of the vCenter Server database
Hi Team, We have vCenter 5.1 and Database server as SQL server enterprise 2008 r2, The vCenter Server database size is increassing day by day its a small environemnt with 6 esxi host and less than 100...
View ArticleMicrosoft Windows 2008 R2 Failover Clusters
I have read VMware documents where the options to install Windows 2008R2 Failover cluster can be "in a box" or "Ouside the box" . there is another but I need to have both nodes virtual. In the...
View ArticleWindows virtual appliances
Is there such thing as a Windows (not Linux) virtual appliance that you deploy as an .ovf or .ova? Does anyone have an example of one or what they are useful for?
View ArticleIdentifying VMs deployed from ovf / ova
How can I identify VMs that were deployed from an .ovf or an .ova file? I could edit settings on the vm and look to see if "vApp options" -> Enable is checked, but does that prove that it was...
View ArticleVMware vCenter5 VM snapshots and MS SQL 2008
I have been told that in the past, it was not a good idea to perform snapshots if the VM was a SQL server. However, I believe that was pre-ver5. We have ESXi5.o and vCenter 5. We have a Windows...
View ArticleUnable to edit settings after taking VM snapshot
Hello forum, I have to increase a disk size and number of virtual processors on couple of virtual machines, last week I tool snapshots of these virtual machines. Today when I am attempting to edit...
View ArticleHow to change network adapter type for an Oracle Linux 6 VM in vSphere Web...
How can I change the network adapter type from E1000 to VMXNET3 for an existing Oracle Linux 6 VM which has ESXi 5.0 and later Compatibility in vSphere Web Client? The Adapter Type dropdown is...
View ArticleIf we are doing any changes on VM configuration from edit settings, Is there...
If we are doing any changes on VM configuration from edit settings, Is there any way to track those!!!!!!!!! In vcenter tasks and events it will show as configuration changes but will not show the...
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