USB over IP and vMotion
Are there vMotion incompatibilities if I am using a usb over IP solution, that cause either the vmotion to be stopped or my usb over IP solution to be hindered?
View ArticleBest practices VMware snapshots
Hello Forum, is there any formal document from VMware showing best practices around snapshots? We are having a bit of a discussion at our startup company and we cannot come to a general agreement. If...
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How to configure Software iSCSI network on ESXi5.1 with Cisco UCS
Hi, I installed ESXi5.1 on cisco UCS. and plan to configure sw iscsi on esxi5.1 The network configuration on UCS:Create two vNIC under vNICs and bind the new vnic to vlan2000.vlan 2000 with be binded...
View ArticleWindows XP to be p2v. How to prepare for smooth conversion?
Windows XP based setup (OS+user software + user data) has to be transferred to virtual machine. Fusion will be the operation env. of virtualized Win XP.As for the Windows operating on real hardware...
View ArticleUbuntu Linux: correct procedure for extending disk
Hello,I have many server with Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS.I have 2 Virtual Disk: one for S.O. Ubuntu, second for my data.Many times I need to extend second disk.I follow this guide (VMware KB: Extending a...
View ArticleRDM creation
We have an existing EMC VNXe3200 iSCSi STorage with a total of 4TB disk space.2TB is already been used as VMFS storage for the VMS.It is being used as shared storage for 3 hosts. Client wants to create...
View ArticleESXi 5.5 - Server 2012 R2 - Unable to shutdown after adding to domain
Hi All,I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 virtual machine on ESXi 5.5. When I add it to the domain and it asks for a reboot, I the click reboot and it sticks at 'Notifying services that Windows is...
View ArticleCan't open VM Console in vSphere Web Client 6.0
When I try to open the console of a VM in vSphere Web Client 6.0 in Chrome I just get an hour glass and then it stops and doesn't open. Any ideas?
View ArticleVMCI driver for Linux and Win OS
Hello Community,I Would like to know if there is a KB, document or article can differentiate between VMtools functions when it installed on Linux OS (CentOS)or Win OS respective VMCI driver and vShield...
View ArticleWhat is the best way to clone & sysprep Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH...
People, I have around 60 Windows Server 2008 R2 Identical VMs running as Terminal Server or Remote Desktop Session Host that is used by 15-20 users maximum each VMsin order to accelerate the process...
View ArticleCan multiple VMDKs be put as different partitions on a single disk?
Hello experts, I need your assistance on below questions:1. I created an ova with 3 vmdk files. When I deploy it, it creates 3 disks for my VM node. are the number of vmdk files and disks directly...
View ArticlePowerbroker and VM tools in Linux
I used a 'run script in a guest' VCO workflow to run Powerbroker command to join an AD domain.This workflow, will run the script and then keep checking to see if the script has finished executing.What...
View ArticleStorage DRS Anti-Affinity Rule
Hello,We have vSphere 5.0 U3 I have applied Anti-Affinity rule to couple of Exchange and Citrix servers. I want to know whether this Anti-Affinity rules applies to just configuration files for vmdk's...
View ArticleIs it possible to decrese Size of a VM
Dear Team, I have Windows VM having one vHDD size of 80 GB which contains C:\ drive, we are planning to decrease the size of vHDD to 40GB just want to confirm is it possible to do the same with VMware...
View ArticleVM's running very Slow.
We have Cisco UCS Cluster with 7 blades running ESXi 5.1 and about 130 Windows and Linux VM's. VM's are responding very slow and when i reboot it takes for ever? Any idea.
View ArticleVM console tries to launch using port no 9443 instead of 7331 and timesout
My ESXi host is running 5.5 upd 1.As per the below KB article I am expecting that my VM console would open with port 7331.Instead it tries with 9443 and I receive a connection timeout error.VMware KB:...
View ArticleSecondary guest disk offline after reboot
I hope this is in the right place. So this has happened to me a couple times . First with server 2008 R2 and exchange 2010. My servers replicate offsite using zerto and I was testing failover and...
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Installed Vmware SYSLOG , want to know What logs are forwarded ???
Dear team, I have installed VMware syslog collector on one of the VM and configured advanced setting on all esxi host host , just want to confirm what logs will be forwarded to vmware syslog collector...
View ArticleCustom Single Windows App under Linux
Hi All. Is there any virtual product to deploy single windows application under Linux. I mean to have one binary file under Linux and after run it the windows embedded is started serving only one...
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vmtoolsd.exe is using a lot of threads
Hi All, We're using VMware tools a few years now on our Windows 2012R2 environment.But the last months we get complains from some of our remote desktop users that our servers are slow, memory is full,...
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