Remote Install - Loses network connection
I have a client that I've logged into via LogMeIn. I installed VMware Workstation 9.0.2. And before I even setup my VM, I restart the computer and it absolutely loses the network connection. In other...
View ArticleUbuntu 12.04 Customization on VCD 5.1.2 - DNS Servers not set
Hi there all VCD 5.1.2 with ESXi 5.1 and VCenter 5.1. When deploying Ubuntu 12.04 based vApp templates we notice that the DNS Servers are not set.With this release of Ubuntu the DNS servers are...
View ArticlePassed the VCP-510!
Glad that's over and thanks to all the community for their support and knowledge! Best community in the world!
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I have just passed VCP5 exam
Welcome everybody, I am very happy and I have studied hard to pass.We will be in touch as I am now part of vmware community Best regards,Marcin
View Articlecontent pack : Bar colors in Graph & enable & E-mail JSON tags for Alerts
Hi, I am writing a content pack. I am facing following issues. Can anyone help me how to solve them or provide link to documentation to write the content pack. #1 I would like to render different...
View ArticleHow to shrink OS in vsphere 5.1
Whats the best and easiet way to shrink my windows 8 file since its getting so big? I havent even installed any software on it and its like at 12gb for no reason.
View ArticleNew To Distributed Switch Clarification required.
Hi All I need some clarification. Just created a distributed switch, in my lab, which was created without any issues. I have 2 hosts in my lab Host A and Host B. There were no vmkernel ports to...
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vCenter is not responding correct
Hi,I've upgraded vCenter 5.0 to vCenter 5.1 U1a all is good, expect for the fact that when I eg. try to mirage a VM or set some settings on the cluster I get an error : The request failed because the...
View Article'Hardware Status' not updated for months
ESXi 5.0.0We've got 2 ESXi hosts in a clustered high-availability environment. Recently we noticed that the Hardware Status for both the hosts isn't updating. On both hosts I've restarted the CIM...
View ArticleBest Raid Practice
Hello, I'm somewhat new to the vmware world. Here is a breakdown of our system. we have 3 Dell R610 on 1 Md3200 with 15000K drives 24 drives totalwe currently have 40 VM's. now is it best practice to...
View ArticleWorkstation 9 - Slow network performance between host and guest
I am running windows 8 on the host and installed Workstaion 9 trial. Then installed windows 8.1 as a guest system. I am getting slow, really slow network between the two. If i send files to and from...
View ArticleHELP! vmware won't mount vmfs volume
We recently had a hard disk failure in an esx 4i free host. Long story, but for some reason the failure of a single disk managed to take out the entire raid 5 volume (so much for resilience!)(There is...
View ArticleUpgrading a 32 bit VM to 64 bit
I am trying to upgrade Windows Server 2008 (32bit) to Windows Server 2008R2 (64bit)The CD drive is connected to the Server 2008R2 ISO.When prompted I selected the Upgrade Option. I receive the message...
View ArticleVMware Tools crashing
When I open my Win8 Enterprise VM in the Fusion Tech Preview, VMware Tools seems to load, but then crashes (or exits) silently. This breaks copy/paste from the host which is very irritating....
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Hangs after a few hours to a few days of running
Hi, i am hoping someone can help with the crurrent issue I am faced with The build machine we are using for ESXi 5.1 is as following Gigabyte GA-970A-D3 motherboardAMD FX-8350 (Eight Core) CPU32GB...
View ArticleBest Practise - Which SCSI Controller for Windows 2012
Hi, We are building a new environment for Windows 2012 servers and was wanting to know what the best practise is for the SCSI controller for Windows 2012 servers. Ive had a look on the net but i cant...
View ArticleZimbra Credentials
I am trying to setup Zimbra on vCloud Usage Meter. I have tried to enter the Zimbra admin, but that does not seem to work. If I enter a Linux user, that seems to be accepted, but it never reports any...
View Articleafter doing a failover and failback -- replicated datastore
So I have a question of the state of the datastore where my vms are on after doing a array based failover and fail back. I did a reocvery failover of a few vms, and then did a reprotect and finally...
View ArticleCrash when running Baldur's Gate II on Win XP VM
iMac 2011 27", running Mac OS X 10.8.4, 20GB RAM. VM Running Windows XP, assigned 2GB of RAM and one processor core. I installed Baldur's Gate II, started it up, graphics were off-center (lower...
View ArticleEvent Viewer being flooded with VMWare Tools [Warnings]
I have began deploying VMWare Tools to all my VMs within the network. Install goes fine and a day later my one co-worker makes me aware of an immediate increase in log traffic, I go and review event...
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