Changing VMware infrastructure from 4.x to 5.x
Hi, I have Six HP ProLiant DL585 G5 server in VMware environment with VMware ESX 4.1.0 build-988178. And additional to that I have purchased 2 New server of same hardware having ESXi 5.xNow I am...
View ArticleHyper-V to VMware
Case = Physical server with Hyper-V crashes. One important Small Business Server was running there as a guest. Bare metal restore (Windows Backup) is available on external disk... Is there a way to...
View ArticleFile Server Access Speed
HI All, I have a File Server VM ( Windows 2008 R2, 1 VCPU, 4 GB RAM, 1 Nic ) This is connect to my iscsi NAS ( QNAP) with 800GB Disk. I got one Crop Share for all the Branch Office Users. Branch...
View ArticleQuais os requisitos para instalação do VMware Tools? (Linux)
Pessoal, apesar da pergunta aparentar uma maior complexibilidade, o que mais preciso saber é de quanto de espaço preciso ter disponível no diretório /tmp do linux para fazer a instalação desta...
View ArticleПроблема с гостевой ОС ESXi 4.1
Здравствуйте, пытаюсь установить гостевую ОС (пробывал Win2003 Standart x86 & Win2008 Standart x86,x64) но что с образа, что с диска результат один и тот же (рис. 2)Когда пробую с образа ничего...
View ArticleHow to down grade ESXi 5.1 to ESXi 4
Hi,I have installed ESXi 5.1 on my system. I managed to install VM server 2008 with no problem. However, when I try to install XP or Windows 7 the system fails to see the SATA hard drive. I consulted...
View ArticleDRS does not work
Hi, I have configured a cluster with 4 vSphere 5 Enterprise hosts,with DRS and HA, but it seems that DRS does not kick in. There are many VMs on one host, so DRS should kick in and start...
View ArticleServer side validation cannot be performed when datastore
We have created a datastore cluster and when I migrate VM's to the datastore cluster I get the message "Server side validation cannot be performed when datastore cluster is part of the destination" I...
View Article.vmdk's across separate storage units
I have a few virtual servers that have at least 5/6 virtual disks currently on one storage unit, currently I have 4 storage units available to use. Would I see an increase in disk performance if I...
View ArticlevCD - How to mount a NFS for transfer area
Hi Our v5.12 vCD is running on Redhat 6, one of the recommended OSs. The existing /data/transfer area is too small and we wanted to mount an NFS area on Server 2012 which is set to allow unmapped unix...
View Articlerecommended vsphere 5 deployment
we are planning to deploy a new vsphere 5 environment in parallel to our current esx 3.5 area.we currently have 3 HP Proliant DL360 G6's with iSCSI HBA's connected to EQUALLOGIC SAN Storage running...
View Articlecan't create vapp: vimserver is unknown to VCD
i receive this error message when i try to create a Vapp in my organisation in the vcloud director"The vSphere object ResourcePool:resgroup on com.vmware.vcloud.entity.vimserver is unknown to VCD"....
View ArticleOrchestrator Login Rights and Permissions
Is it possible to allow users who are not part of the Orchestrator Admin group to login to Orchestrator? If so, how do you set this up? My goal is to provide certain users the ability to log in and...
View ArticleOutlook problem with word documents
Hello We have outlook and word virtualized with thinapp and we have a problem with the word documents includes in a mail when I see with Outlook. We can download the word document and preview in...
View ArticleQuick Question about vCenter Server or vCenter Server Appliance
Hi All, I have the following product:VMware vSphere 5 Essentials Licensed for 1 physical CPUs (unlimited cores per CPU)trying to determine if I need an extra license when deploying a vCenter Server or...
View ArticleNew Storage
Hi, we are changing our storage to a new NetApp. We are now creating our storage design and i wan´t to know if someone could share his experience with the different capabilities to configure the...
View ArticleVCenter 5.1 update 1 upgrade fails with "insert disk 1", now vcenter won't...
I’m having a problem with updating VCenter 5.1 to 5.1 update 1. I downloaded the ISO then mounted it on the VCenter server at our D/R site (it’s not gone “live” yet, so it makes a good test). I opened...
View ArticleAdditional VMDK in VM Folder on Datastore
Hello All, I received a disk space notification from one of my hosts today. When I dug deeper, I found that there are additional .VMDK files that have appeared with my virtual machines. For example,...
View ArticleMount ISO in web interface versus client
I created a restricted access role, vm admin and browse datastore. I can login with this user to the client, browse and mount an ISO without an issue. When I use the web client and try to mount an iso...
View ArticleNoisy neighbor with RDMs
We've got SQL server VM which puts a huge load on storage: 1,5k average commands per second, with 3,5k spikes (as reported by vCenter). It negatively impacts all datastores latency as a result. We are...
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