vsphere client on Windows 7 rc
Has anybody managed to get the vsphere client working on Windows 7, it installed fine but when I try and login to an esx server, I get an error: Error Parsing the server "192.168.1.10"...
View ArticlePlaying games on vmware. The best way to do it?
Hello, I am a little bit new in the whole VMware scene. But really my goal was to have an ESX 4.1 server with virtual machines on it with the purpose for remotely gaming. I heard that de vmware view...
View ArticleESX 4.1 - Unable to Delete Datastore
I have 3 ESX 4.1 servers managed by vCenter ( not clustered ). I have moved all VMs off of ESX1 and am attempting to delete a secondary datastore. The datastore is empty and I have the server in...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008R2 install - device driver is missing
I'm trying to install a Windows Server 2008R2 VM and getting this message in the Load Driver Window. A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing.Reading some posts on Friday indicated it may be a...
View Articleconnecting local CD/DVD drive hangs
Hi! I have seen this problem several times in the last days: When trying to connect my local DVD drive through vSphere Client with a VM, the CD/DVD button shows "connecting..." but never actually...
View ArticleExtend C: Drive
We use gparted to extend our C: drives on 2003 and 2008 servers. I'm trying to find out of there have been any new/better methods to do this with no downtime. Anyone have any good tools? Thanks,Scott
View ArticleVirtual sockets vs Cores per socket
I'm currently running vCenter 5 with vSphere 4.1i When I choose Edit Settings on a VM and highlight CPU it says:Number of virtual sockets:Number of cores per socket: I'm a little confused on what those...
View ArticleAuto power on VM's at Boot
I have just done a stand alone installation of a single ESX 4 server and want to configure my VM to auto boot at power on but can't seem to find the options in the VM properties, can anyone point me...
View ArticleWant to know about vApp
Hi All, Good day!!! I would like to know about vApp in vSphere. I did not understand the exact functionality of vApp even after I had gone thorugh couple of articles in google. Below is what they...
View Article"Unable to connect to the MKS: Cannot connect to host [servernamehere] failed...
Anyone has this problem? I loaded vSphere 4.0 from ESX 3.5 host and all seems working fine yesterday, after resume more testings and this error popped up:"Unable to connect to the MKS: Cannot connect...
View ArticleHelp - virtual center loses connection to esx host machine
Can someone possibly identify what's going on between my vSphere vCenter server and ESX4 host server. For some reason, the vcenter server is reporting that it is unable to connect to the ESX host....
View ArticleIIS performance 50% slower on a VM?
I've got a cluster of IIS Servers that we host our web application on. Recently, we converted several of our web servers from physical machines to virtual machines. By converted, I mean we built a...
View ArticleHow to connect USB Dongel to ESXi 4.1 VM
Hi All, I have many VM's running on the ESXi 4.1 and one of the VM server has the requirement to connect USB Dongle and the software which is installed on it will work once it detect the USB dongle...
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ESXi - Trunking to Cisco switch
Hi, I'm having a bit of trouble creating a trunk to a ESXi v4.1 host. My config on the switch interface GigabitEthernet3/29 switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q switchport trunk allowed vlan 100,300...
View Articlelargest LUN size on ESX 5?
Hello, What is the largest LUN size I can create on our ESX5 test server? I have a SAN with 6TB attached. Thanks
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Unable to extract the OVA file
Hello, i just tried to convert a vm guest (win2003 windows box with 150gb single partition) toan .OVA File. The Export itself was ok, no errors. Run VMware vCenter Converter again to upload the OVA...
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General questation about NLB
Hi ,sorry for my bad Englisch . I have basic questation about NLB in the Vmware . I have two virtual machines with created unicast NLB . I set notification switches off .Now I have trouble with connect...
View ArticleExtend partition of a VM c:\ partition
Dear Experts, We recently installed a product of HP operation manager for windows on a virtual machine having 4vCPU, 4GB Mem and 50GB HDD as C:\ partition. The storage is not local but a SAN. So the...
View ArticleProper settings for disabling Offloading.
Can someone tell me the proper settings for iSCSI NICs to disable the following? Our storage provider would like to see these settings in place. Large Receive OffloadReceive Side ScalingTCP Checksum...
View ArticleThe operation is not allowed in the current connection state of the host
Hi:Earlier this week I powered down a virtual machine. Now I want to power it back up, but I get the error message:"The operation is not allowed in the current connection state of the host." Can...
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