Best Practice to troubleshoot if facing problem with Single VM.
Dear Team, On one ESX host If i m facing problem with one VM other VMs are running VM, what will be troubleshooting steps regardsMr VMware
View ArticleBest Practice to set a Reservation
Dear Team, Before setting a reservation on a VM what needs to be take into an account, Need help on the same. regardsMr VMware
View ArticleUnable to power on my virtual machine after giving physical memory...
Dear all, I have installed ESXi 5.1 on my physical host which has 4 GB of physical memory, initially I created two VMs without any reservation of physical memory, everything worked fine. Now, I...
View ArticleVHD Size Inconsistencies
My virtual disk is set to a max of 290 GB. In VM Settings > Hard Disk the current size is listed as 232 GB. The size on the host disk (Windows 7) is likewise 232 GB. However, inside the VM (Windows...
View ArticleVMware Tools in CentOS 6 on ESXi 4.1
I have utilized Google to try to find my answer, but looking through several pages hasn't really gotten me to where I want to be. Hopefully I can get resolution and Google picks up on it. I am looking...
View ArticleAttach VMDK to Server 2012 vm
Hi, We're playing around with Server 2012 and we want to explore the Dedupe function. We have an existing Server 2008 R2 VMware machine with two hard drives (one OS and one file store) and I want to...
View ArticleVmware tools compilation - esxi 4.1.0 260247
Hello, I am trying to compile vmware tools on a VM.I have my own kernel from kernel.org, I am currently running 3.3.0. (I don't use packages). I deploy on this VM the kernel headers package, but when I...
View ArticleInstalling VMware tools during VM build
Hi All, I have a sles11sp2 64bit based customised virtual machine targeted to run on ESXi5.0 and greater. The vm is built in an automated fashion using susestudio. It does not have a cdrom drive.I want...
View ArticleWinxp maximums
Dear team, I just want to is there any limit in WINXP VM, for eg we can only add 3gb memory or all vhdds size will not be more than 250gb. can u plz help me with the maximums/limitation of winxp vm....
View ArticleMy raw partition is now looking like a vmdk
MY host system has a 256GB hd. I added a second 160gb hd and created a VM mapped to the 160gb hd. A couple of days ago I noticed that my available disk space on my host system was dropping dramtically....
View ArticleSysprep on Windows 7 VM question
Hello,I am trying to get some clarification if what I am thinking of doing is okay. I have cloned a Windows 7 VM and it will be used as a template for the remainder of my machines. I am aware that with...
View Articleguaranteeing resources?
I'd like to start using vmware vsphere and esxi more for my performance lab. In order to do that if I create a virtual machine with X vcpu and Xgb ram. I would need to know that it is in fact only...
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Multi CPU monitoring on a VM
We are using Vsphere 5, and have a question on cpu monitoring on a VM. We have a VM which has 16 CPU's. I look at performance chart, and for each individual CPU perfromance it shows about 20 %...
View ArticleFUD around LVM in VI
Looking for guidance to cut through the FUD related to LVM in VI envs: FEAR "fsck wiped out the lvm" -UNCEARTAINTY "LVM versions may or may not journal correctly" -DISINFORMATION - "EXT4 or software...
View Articlevmware best practice for copy a virtual machine
Hello I am new to vm, need advice on copying a vm to another physical server. Our admin quit, I am now trying to pick up the pieces. Old server has ESX 4.1 new server has 5.1x On the 4.1 server it...
View Articlekeyboard.typematicMinDelay delays and saving it into an OVF template
Hi Guys, Becaue of the way we connect to a pretty large environment we use jump servers to use the vSphere client. We have had the infamous "repeating key" problem due to the extra hops and it's been...
View ArticleLinux Template
Hi Guys, I am using ESXi 5 and I want create a Linux Template using vSphere Client. The way I understand I have to first create a Linux VM ( I am using OpenSuse) then patch it, convert the VM to a...
View ArticleUsing Annotations vs Custom Tags on Virtual machines
If up until now I have been using annotations to describe properties of virtual machines such as owner, department, creation date, etc., what are the advantages, if any of using custom tags and what...
View ArticleNetworking best Practice
Hi, I'm after some advice on best practice when configuring my LAN. All my servers are virtualised on ESX 4.1 including a sophos UTM appliance. All workstations are physical machines. Currently I...
View Articlemoving files and apps between guest os
My mac is running Fusion 4, with XP64bit as a guest OS. I am planing to upgrade to Windows 7 64bit, I understand its not possible to simply upgrade to the new OS like you can do with Mac OS. In which...
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