Guest OS Compatability....
Dear Team, Please let us know SLES11 guest OS is compatible on esx3.5 64607??? also let us know how to check guest OS compatiblility. regardsMr VMware
View Articlevmwaretools update on SLES10 SP2 fail
Hi all, after a vmware tools update on a VM with SLES10 SP2 and the first rebbot the VM doesn't start... Itremains on a message: Waiting for device /dev/sda1 to appear: ..................not-- exiting...
View ArticleUnable to connect to the MKS:failed to connect to 902
Hello All, I am getting this error when ever I tried to launch open console option in Vsphere client. I have firewall turned off in state and I have create a new rule to accept port 902 and 903 but...
View ArticleFT enabled VM's guest patch level
I need to confirmIf I've a Windows based virtual machine with FT enabled & if I apply Microsoft patches to the primary VM.Will they automatically be replicated over to secondary?Any particular...
View ArticleP to V - ESX 5.1 - Windows Server 2003 + SQL Server
Good Morning:I am having a bear of a time P to V a Windows Server 2003 that has SQL Server 2005 running with multiple instances. The bottom line, I have a ESX 5.1 environment and attempting to bring in...
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How to automate tools upgrade for multiple manual VMs
Hello all! This is my first post so please go easy... We had multiple reasons to move away from linked clones and go back to manual VMs which brings us back to the out-of-date VMware tools problem....
View ArticleUpgrading drivers within virtual machine?
I have a quick question regarding the upgrading of drivers within a VMware virtual machine. The host server is running ESXi 5.0.0 623860The virtual machine is running VM version 8 with Windows Server...
View Articledisk structure is corrupted and unreadable
hi How to solve this problem, if WIN2008 R2 server installed as a guest VM on vSphere 5.1 reports this message: >>> disk structure is corrupted and unreadable<<< We have already...
View ArticleHello all, sometimes VMs and datastore (ISCSI) get inactive, why so?
Dear all, I experienced a strange problem today, my VMs and ISCSI datastore got inactive, italicized and greyed out, can someone explain me why this happens and what is the resolution for this? Please...
View ArticleTrouble with VM Player
Hi All,I am attending school for networking administration and I was given an external hdd to have Windows 7 on it. We use VM Player at school and are suppose to load it at home. I have to computers...
View Articlechange disk space settings within vmware
Hi, I have done a fair bit of research but haven't been able to find a concise answer. The VM guest OS is RHEL and has disk space of 40GB (checked this via the OS using df -h). Within vSphere when...
View ArticleSelective Network Connectivity Loss after VMotion
We have a mixed cluster of ESXi hosts running 4.1, 5.0 & 5.1 which is in the process of being all upgraded. The issue has been around before the upgrade when the mix was just 4.1 and 5.0s. A...
View ArticleResize C drive (W2K8)
I have two scenarios where I need to resize the C drive of a Windows 2008 R2 VM. I know this question has been asked a lot, and I have searched/read lots of posts. But I want to confirm my...
View ArticleCan't convert virtual disk from thin to thick in 5.1
I am attempting to convert a virtual disk from thin to thick in a 5.1 environment. I shutdown the VM, choose migrate, on "select disk format" I choose "thick eager zeroed". I choose the other...
View ArticleHow to get run once commands to run after sysprep on windows 7?
When deploying from a windows 7 template the VM will sysprep it's self and then auto login with the Administrator account but it just sets there and doesn't run the run once commands that I have that...
View ArticleVmxnet3 ghost nic why vmupgradehelper cant be used successfully
I Have 70 vm's that have the vmxnet3 nic. Every time a clone or disaster recovery copy occurs windows 2008r2 redects the nic and the original is ghosted all ip info is lost. I have found the post sp1...
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Join domain won't work from template with customization
Hello, We would like to deploy Windows 7 from a template. After I deployed the template the computer won't join the domain, everything else works. I created a Customization specification with the...
View ArticleGuest machine processor type not updating per current ESXi host processor
I've a ESXi cluster running with ESXi4.1 & the hardware are mix of Dell PER900/PER910 with Processor types as E74850@2.00GHz & E7330 @ 2.40Ghz with an EVC mode of Intel Merom Gen.If I check...
View Articleinstall VMtools without thinprint components
how can I install VMTools without the thinprint components?
View ArticleIssue with Resizing of the virtual hdd
Hi Team, One of the user asked to expand the drive D size from 100GB to 150 GB for Win OS-2008.I have expanded the virtual disk sucessfully from 100 to 150 GB.Steps to be followed to expand the dsk...
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