Freeing disk space error
Hello: First of all i want sorry if my english it´s not the right one. We have a vmware Esxi 5.5 with several virtual machines. One of them "the main one" this morning was off. With the following error...
View ArticleReducing vCPUs 1 at a time or in multiples of 2
Hey Everyone, When we are adding or removing vCPUs is there a best practice around incrementing/decrementing by 1 at a time or 2 at a time? I suggested removing 1 vCPU from an 8 way box and there was a...
View ArticleWill $public_ipv4 and $private_ipv4 variables ever be supported for VMWare?
Hi, I'm trying to test quickly setting up a cluster of VMs where the IP address it is assigned by DHCP is the one it will keep when I install it to disk, however I can't use the $private_ipv4 for...
View ArticleMemory Error
Hello,I am running Ubuntu and ipython notebook v3 python v 2.7.6. on VMware Workstation 10. When I run a fitting routine, I am getting a memory error. I have set memory to 18GB of 24GB allocated to...
View ArticleHow to get the complete path of a VM in vcenter using API?
I would like to get the complete path of a VM. Is there any vCenter API call for that?
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Does Upgrading VMware Tools require View Agent Update
We are running View 6.1 + vSphere 5.5 u2D. We are using Linked Clone desktops. We want to update VMware tools on our parent image and I wanted to know if it is still recommended that you update the...
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Bug: Infinite recursion in vmware-tools-vmxnet-common postinstall trigger if...
I've encountered an interesting problem installing package vmware-tools-vmxnet-common in some special (maybe even abnormal) conditions:In my case, enviroment variable TMPDIR pointed to non-existing...
View Articleopen-vm-tools update ?
Does anyone know when open-vm-tools on the http://packages.vmware.com/packages/OS will be update to support cut-copy-paste ? Specifically I'm looking for SLE12/x86_64 which currently has version 9.4.10...
View ArticleSelf-Configuration and the OVF Environment
I'm looking for a linux script to set ip address help me please
View ArticleWorkstation 11.. Can't get VM to recognize USB Stick with win 10?
I literally have been banging my head against the wall for past couple of weeks trying to get my VM to recognize my usb stick. I had done it a couple of months ago with no issues and nothing with my...
View ArticleBest way to upgrade VMware Tools in a 24/7 environment
Greetings, I was hoping to be able to make a poll, but it seems that option isn't available. So I guess I'll just ask in a regular discussion: what do you use to update your VMware Tools? We're...
View ArticleExpand space available to Linux OS
I cloned a VM from a template.The template had a single 40GB virtual disk.The template had a /tmp directory 5GB is sizeI went into vsphere client and made the virtual disk 100GB. There is still only...
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Linux fdisk "No Free Sectors Available"
I have increased the size of my virtual disk from 40 to 200GB. This is ext 4 on CentOS 6.6. I'm runningfdisk -land I get this: fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 214.7 GB, 214748364800 bytes255 heads, 63...
View ArticleAn error occurred while consolidating disks: msg.fileio.lock.
Hi All, In VvCenter client its showing error message "Virtiual Machines disks consolidation is needed." but when i tried to consolidate the VM disks its fails with error messages"An error occurred...
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LVM vs VMDK disks
I am required to separate out my linux partitions (/, /boot, /var, /var/log, /var/log/audit, /home). In a physical environment you would add all your disks to LVM and let it handle the partitioning....
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Use virtual Harddisk with NTFS Volume at two Servers simultaneously
Hi there folks, i'm trying to find the best (& easiest way) for migrating an old rusty fileserver with a lots of vharddisks live to a new server with server 2012. my idea (hope it works) is to use...
View ArticleLimit snapshots on only one virtual disk of a VM
Can I prevent snapshots from being taken on only one virtual disk of a VM, but allow them for other virtual disks, if that virtual disk has already been created?
View ArticleMany delta vmdk files causing large amount of storage
Dear All, Some VMs in my system, beside the original vmdk file created at first, there are some delta vmdk files: ...-000001.vmdk, ...-000002.vmdk, ... although I removed all snapshots on those VMs....
View ArticleAssign My only Public IP to a Virtual Machine (VM)
Hi, I am working both with Esxi 5.5.0 and Endian firewall community edition. I have only one public IP from an ISP. Currently we are using this IP as a WAN interface of an old firewall. My plan is to...
View ArticleCompact a Ubuntu vm with lvm2 installed
Hello I have a Ubuntu 12.04 virtual machine, running on a host with something like Parallels Bare Metal virtualisation software.On my Ubuntu I had LVM (lvm2) installed, I don't know why, maybe while...
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