Windows 2003 R2 guest operating system
I recently received a request to install from an SCCM image /PXe boot image the Windows 2003 R2 standard O/s to a new Virtual machine. When I installed the image it actually turned out to be the...
View ArticlevSphere 5.1 - RDM to VMDK
I have some raw mapped data disk I am ready to move to VMDK. What are my best options? Thank you
View ArticleBenefits of VMware Tools in Linux
Could someone provide me with a link or details on the specific benefits of installing/running VMware Tools on a Linux guest OS (vSphere 5.x)? I've found some old posts (from 2006-2009), but none that...
View ArticleESX 4.1 + RHEL + VNX mirror
Hi ! I need help )I I try to configure 2-node cluster on RedHat 6.1:Hypervisor - Esx 4.1Shared HDD - Synchrous luns (mirror view) on VNX mapped to Ghost os as RDM diskBut Ghost OS is started only if...
View ArticleRDP8 vs PCOIP
Our users are seeing better performance using RDP8 directly than using the view client to broker RDP
View ArticleAD Replication failed when DC moved to another VMWare host
Hello,I have strange problem and hope that someone could help me. We have four VMware hosts. At this time our DCs are located on the same host. Everything works great. The problem is when I try to...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 Offset Question
Dont ask me how and/or why, but we came across a Windows 2008 R2 template that somehow has the incorrect offset (32,256) (if you can explain to me HOW thats even possible that would be awesome) But my...
View ArticleClient virtulisation
Good day, I m asking kindly if you can advice me ,I need to do one project for my company to virtualise all client computer , and I have a datastor if you have an idea how i can do it I will be...
View ArticleVM (Best Practice / Checklist)
Dear Team, is there any best practice or checklist to create a new VM in a infrastructure for eg . Activity / Steps / Checklist / Best PracticeStatus1) Specify “VM Name”Done 2) Select...
View ArticlePlanning vCPU per core
I'm doing some planning around vCPU contention ratios, and I'm curious as to whether there is anything actually published by VMware. I've variously heard that the planning range should be 5 - 8, or 5 -...
View ArticleVM identifier questions
What's the best value or values to uniquely identify a VM? It appears that the obvious choices - name, DNS name, uuid, instanceUuid, mo_ref - are either not guarenteed unique (uuid), not unique across...
View Articlereceiving error message when trying to migrate pc
hello all I have just started using vmware and i wanted to migrate my windows 7 64bit system to my mac. i seem to get an error message and cant seem to get any further. has anyone else had a problem...
View ArticleVM Memory vs Physical
Ok. So I have this argument on going with vendor of a certain network appliance. The vendor claims their product requires 8GB on a physical server, and 8GB on a virtual. Subsequent network stress...
View Articlewin7 64bit host and vm workstation 9 settings
I can t seem to get the host configured so the vm (server 2008) will run best in workstation.I am interested in the VM perfoming well and the host (host os) just feeding the vm.win7 pro 64bit, 8GB RAM,...
View Articlehigh memory usage in windows os system
Hi all, I am using VMware vSphere 4.1 and I create a VM: 8GBRAM, 8vCPU, when I start a VM and see in the task manager that the memory usage is very high but I don't run any program.Can any body tell me...
View ArticleStornext and fiber connected SAN in ESXi
I want to be able to mount our SAN via fiber on a Windows Server 2008R2 running storenext or Quantum DDN filesystem.Can this be accomplished in a ESXi hosted enviroement as it does in the physical...
View ArticleWindows Activation Error
First- I am using the same hardware for this but looking to expand usage of the hardware by running ESXi. I have converted a machine from Physical to Virtual and installed ESXi 5.1 and now the system...
View ArticleVmware tools unable to install
Hi when i try to update the vmtools on a vm image iof windows 2008 r2 os it failed all the time to update "the wizard was interrupted before vmware tools could be completely installed." i cannot...
View ArticleUsing VMware Tools GUI to disable time synchronization with host
What is the quickest way for a Windows Server VM being provisioned with VMware Tools installed, to insure that time synchronization does NOT occur with the host? These articles discuss using registry...
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