Can we do vMotion between two datacenter if VM is poweredoff
Dear Team, Can we do vMotion between two datacenter (esxi5,x)Can we do SVMotion between two datacenter (esxi5,x) Note: it's not a physical datacenter it's a virtual Datacenter can we do vMotion...
View ArticleSwap on local storage will i able to perform a vMotion
Dear team, I want to migrate vm1 from esxi1 to esxi2 , VM files are stored on shared storage except swap file stored on local storage . just want to confirm will i able to migrate this VM sucessfully...
View ArticleDeleting VM snapshot
Hello,Below are the steps I performed; 1) Took vCenter server snapshot2) Upgrade VMware tools on it and rebooted3) Deleted this snapshot4) Took a new snapshot5) Upgraded hardware. 6) But after that I...
View ArticleHow to delete increased VM disk space
Hi guys,I wondered if someone can tell me how to cancel an added disk space on VM?I have added the space on the vsphere setting of the VM and I didn't yet formatted it inside!thanks,regards,Noura
View ArticleSnapshot usage
I am getting alarms related to excessive snapshot usage when my backup product takes snapshots. What is the risk associated with "excessive snapshot usage" alarms? What should I do differently if I...
View ArticleGuest OS and NTP Time Syncing
Previously there were issues with Guest OSes using VMware tools to sync time with the ESXi hypervisor. Are these issues resolved in ESXi 5.5? Is the current best practice still to use an external NTP...
View ArticleLoad OS to template
Hi gurus as you can tell for mey previous post, I am still learning the vmware worls. so go easy on me I have setup a vcenter and now I have vsphere to centralize manage my env., now I know that we can...
View ArticleUnable to install VMware Tools 4.0 on 12.04 Ubuntu ...
I receive the following message when trying to install VMware tools in Ubuntu 12.0.4 LTS server (64-bit) UBUNTU:/tmp$ sudo ./vmware-install.pl -dThe following VMware kernel modules have been found on...
View ArticleHow to provision a 40GB disk and present to Windows as a 40GB disk
Hi, What is the hack to be sure that a 40GB (or 100Gb or 200GB) disk is provisioned and presented as exactly 40GB (or 100GB or 200GB)? I would like to not have any 39.9GB disks on my servers. Thank you.
View ArticleRunning Analytics workload on VM
I have a requirement come in for some data analytics and I would like to know how feasible it is to run analytics processing on virtual machines. The minimum requirement is 128GB ram and the requestor...
View ArticleCustomization Specification vs Puppet
I am wanting to provision Windows VMs, and customize the guest OS only by assigning Hostnames, Ip addresses, default gateway, DNS servers, DNS suffixes, and that is it. I don't need to provision...
View ArticleIn place upgrade for Windows 2012 R2 from Windows 2008 R2 ?
are there any issues with upgrading the guest OS for a Windows 2008 R2 VM to Windows 2012 R2 ? Is there a document for this ?Thanks!
View ArticleVSphere licenses and running hp VSA
Hi I am in the planning stages for a customer and they've asked us to look at hp vsa vm running within vpshere to present the local storage of each host as shared storage. (2-3 hosts, 4TB storage,...
View ArticleCentOS 7 customisation fails
Hello all of you, I have a serious problem with customising CentOS 7 host and domain name. When I am trying to customise it, everything is alright, there is no error. However, when the process is...
View ArticleBest VM migration method
I need to migrate VMs from vCenter 5.0 to another vCenter running 5.5. Here are two options:1. Use VMware converter to connect to both vCenters, and migrate the VM from one to the other2. Zone and...
View ArticleProtocol settings in OVF deployment wizard
In ESXi 5.5 there is a section "Protocol settings" on the "Setup networks" page of the Deploy OVF Template wizard, but I have never seen any options there. How do you configure an OVF file so that it...
View Articlevirtual machine IP address issue
environment：1 DC server1 DHCPserver3 VMware host configured vsphere HA all virtual machine IP address are static, recently, I found when I restart those virtual machines, then startup,but then can...
View ArticleVMWare Tools Installation Failure. Anyway to force update/install VMWare tools?
I used to use VMware Workstation 10 and recently upgraded to VMware workstation 11. However, every time I try to install newer version of VMware tools, it fails with message saying something like...
View ArticleWindows 8 or 10
Hi I've been tasked with creating a template based on the current Windows 10 tech preview for future deployment when 10 is released this Fall. I've already created the VM in VSphere and installed...
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SCCM + VMware Workstation 7
Afternoon Vmware Crew, I have run into a little problem when it comes to SCCM 2012 and Vmware Workstation 7 playing ball and working together Goal : Create my SOE (within VMware Workstation 7) - Then...
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