Playing 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 U1 Hosts Lock with SD 0:0:0:0 still retrying after 360s
We just upgraded fro ESX3.5 to ESX 4 U1 a few weeks back. We are running on a IBM Blade Center S with HS21-7995 blades and using the SAS RAID Module for Storage. On two occasion all the ESX hosts...
View Articlei have a virtual hdd with 30 gb thick partition
Hi guys, I have v hdd of 30 gb thick partition. i would like to decrease the space from 30 gb to 20 gb thick/thin. How can I do this. Please help, thanks.
View ArticleESX 4 Host disconnected from VC and Can't connect to ESX Host via vSphere client
I Also can't connect to the default Webpage of the ESX Host I have tried to restart the VC agent and the SC with the following commands service vmware-vpxa restart service mgmt-vmware restart I...
View ArticlevMotion background
Hi, When we do a Hot vMotion, what exactly happens at the background. What files is created, what file is moved from where to where, what file is deleted if any applicable? Thanks,jK
View ArticleConsole Window Becomes Unresponsive
Hi All, I am currently in my trial for ESX 4.1 (moving from VMWare Server 2), and I am running into one slight issue that effects 2 of my 5 virtual machines that I can't seem to explain and Google has...
View ArticleESX 4.1.0 Unable to mount NAS
Hey all, I'm currently trying to add a NAS datastore (Ubuntu Samba server) to my ESX machine and am having some issues. I am able to ping the NAS server using vmkping, I have the NFS Client added under...
View ArticleCreate VM image and deploy at customer site
Complete newbie here -- my apologies if this has been answered elsewhere. I have an application running on Linux on a physical server. We have an ESX4 server in our environment running a couple of...
View ArticleVMWare tools ESX 4 for Windows 7 x64
I'm trying to install VMWare tools for Windows 7 x64 on ESX 4. The OS installed just fine, but when I try to load the tools I get almost all of the way there and then get the error: Error: 25030....
View ArticlevServer - tomcat6 memory usage HIGH
I have installed vSphere vServer on a virtual machine with 2GB RAM and I am noticing that Guest Memory is at 99%. According to taskmanager, tomcat6.exe is using 729MB RAM. Anyone know how I can fix...
View ArticleEsx4 very slow throughtput in service console or VCB in nbd mode
I just upgraded to ESX4 and having serious backup problem. Performance went down 4-5 times. Where I had 100-120MB/s now I barely get 20MB/sWe are using VEEAM 3.1 which runs ints backup agent in service...
View ArticleNetwork Uplink Redundancy Lost
I have 3 ESX 4.0 servers in a cluster and one of them is reporting "Network Uplink Redundancy Lost". 2 NICs one the server are configured as a DMZ vswitch. One of the NIC's (vmnic6) "Observed IP...
View ArticleOld vmware-XXX.log files
It seems as if all of the virtual machines on one of my ESX4 hosts do not rotate their vmware.log files. Normally 6 old files are kept but each VM on this host has 73 old log files kicking around. The...
View ArticleCPU ready times - ESX 4.0
HiWould you say a cpu ready time of 300ms is high enough to cause sluggish behavior in an SQL 2000 VM with 2vCPUs? I have not checked the cpu ready time via esxtop as I believe this can not give you...
View Articlehot add memory - windows 2008R2
Hi, Vsphere 4 update 1 - I need toincrease memory on my windows 2008 R2 enterprise box. Is hot add memory supported for windwos 2008R2 enterprise edition? Is hot plug CPU supported?...
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Power down or migrate disconnected VM (on disconnected ESX server)
We've got 4 ESX servers in our infrastructure. After power failure three of them powered on, but one didn't (esx-02).On this host we've got virtual machine called f12-dns-02. Now esx-02 is...
View ArticleMount USB Memory Stick
Hi, I am trying to mount USB Memory Stick on the host ESX 4.1 computer. Dmesg does not show any difference when I run it before and after USB is plugged in. However, I can assign and mount the same USB...
View ArticleCan't Migrate VM
I am having trouble migrating a VM from a datastore. I am trying to decommission this SAN and I have been able to move all other VM's off except one. I am not able to move it powered on on or off....
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NTP Best Practices
Hello, I have the below scenarion, running multiple PDC emulator in diffrent sites with NTP enabled on the parent domain PDC emulator. Is it recommended to sync ESX hosts at each site with its local...
View Articlewindows OEM license in virtual environment
i have a physical server with windows OEM license installed. now i want to install ESX on it and leverage the key to install a windows guest OS.i have found a physical key and virtual key with this...
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