Purple screen error
Hi, I have a random purple screen problem on a server. I tested memory and CPU stability with memtest86 and prime without errors. I also changed the power supply and disabled the passthroughts. The...
View ArticleMartian Source Messages - Guest OS
Hi All, I have deployed OVF ( CentOS VM image) on ESXi 4.1 server host but found the following martian source messages on CentOS guest OS console after booting completed. Following messeges keep...
View ArticleConfiguring a VM with OS and Apps
Hi to everyone I've read hundreds of pages in many documents and books about virtualizing Exchange 2010 They all discuss sizing for Exchange but there is no mention of the fact that it will sit on an...
View ArticleVMware ESXi 5 Free - Memory limitation - boot up
I'm looking at the Dell R320 server and the recommended memory install is to install the memory in groups of 3. If I have 48GB of memory (3 x 16GB), will the esxi 5 free work or will it complain and...
View ArticleAnother VCO bug?
We recently discovered something involving AD group placement that caused an issue. The AD groups that were assigned VCO permissions were moved to a different OU. We modified the base DN location in...
View ArticleHow to remove missing vShield-FW
Hello,ESXi host was brutally removed from vCenter, but vShield Manager is still displaying missing host, vShield-FW, IP address.Is there any way to remove this broken host from vShield Manager?We...
View ArticleDumb question: Why can't the Transfer server be physical?
It took me a while to figure out today that the Transfer server needs to live as a guest in ESXi. I had built a box just for this. Why can't the transfer server be physical, and why must it reside...
View ArticleVMware Virtual Disk Manager - [NFC ERROR] NfcNetTcpRead: bRead: -1
Getting NFC error when trying to download VMDK using VMware Virtual Disk Manager. VDDK version: 5.1.0-774844 Error detail: Creating disk 'C:\BACKUP\VM01_2.vmdk'SSL_VerifyCbHelper: Certificate...
View ArticleVMware Virtual Disk Manager - Received signal 11
Getting error message "Received signal 11" when trying to download VMDK using VMware Virtual Disk Manager (VDDK 5.1.1-1042608). Tried with multiple versions of ESXi (4.1.0-260247, 5.1.0-1065491,...
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Need help to create Capacity Planning script.
Hi All, We have vCops and I really how I can produce capacity and Performance graphs with a few clicks. However my manager has decided that he would rather present capacity planning data using excel ....
View ArticlevCloud Hybrid Service Offer
Good morning, I'm interested in the vCLoud Hybrid Service offer, but I have some concerns about the support VMWare is offering w/ it. Do you automatically have support for this product when you...
View ArticleView 5.0 to 5.2 - Upgrade or Start Fresh?
I've had numerous, inconsistent issues with VMware View 5 since the get go. Issues mainly dealing with View Composer actions that fail (can't delete VMs, can't modify pool settings, etc.) that VMware...
View ArticleHow do you hide the toolbar of an HTML Editor field by default?
Hi guys, I've added quite a few Text Area extension fields to a request details screen. By default, the HTML editor bar appears for all the fields, and you can click the Hide/Show button to hide it for...
View ArticlePerformance, Management and Recoverability of Datastores
Hi All, We are in the process of restructuring our datastores to take advantage of SRM. We have 60 vm's that have iscsi attached volumes ranging from 20gb to over 3tb. I am stuck on deciding whether to...
View ArticleCreating a DR Site
Hi, I'm new to vmware, so I'll ask maybe a basic question. My company wants to move from physical to virtual system. We are over 20 servers with different roles (DC, Exchange, SQL, File Servers...),...
View Articleperformance tab not working
In vsphere (vmware esx 4.0.0) when I click on the performance tab on any device, host vm etc I get nothing or more specifically on the overview sub-tab: This program cannot display the webpage Any...
View ArticleI can't unmount an NFS share ESX 4.0
I'm trying to unmount an NFS share. When I try it in vsphere I get a message: Error during the configuration of the host: NFS nError: Unable to Unmount filesystem: Busy. When I try in esx:esxcfg-nas...
View ArticleI'm seeing cpu freezes at random in most of my VMs ESX4.0.0
I'm seeing CPU soft lockups in most of my VMs. Some of them freeze completely, some of them require rebooting after a freeze, some of them shake it off and keep running. I'd really like to understand...
View ArticleConnect View Desktop to NFS Storage?
Hi, I have a View desktop and the vSphere 5.client installed. I would like to export an OVF template to a NFS volume but my only choices are local. How would I connect to the NFS volume/datastore so I...
View ArticleInstalling esxi 5.1 on a virtual machine on esxi 5.1, getting "VMWare...
Hi, I am trying to install a ESXi server on a virtual machine in a vSphere 5.1 environment, but keep getting the purple screen with "VMWare requires the Execute Disable/No Execute CPU feature to be...
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