Slow Mouse movement in Server 2008 R2 - Plz Help?
Hi guys, I have installed ESX server 4.1 and have installed two virtual machines that is of "Windows XP" and "Windows Server 2008 R2". The problem was slow mouse movement in both virtual...
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 ArticlevSphere Client Connection Error
I'm trying to log into one of ESX v4.1 servers. When I connect i get the error: Connection Error: The request failed because the remote server 'IP ADDRESS' took too long to respond. (The command has...
View Articlevsphere 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 ArticleWindows 2008R2 snapshot problem on 4.1
I have problem with snapshots on one of my VMs. And what's strange it started only last friday. One of my DC's on Win2008R2 refused to take quiesced snapshot after clod migration from one cluster to...
View ArticleThree VMs with same SID, what to do?
I deployed three Win2008 R2 VMs from the same template and made the mistake of not using customization to change the SID. I have verified using PsGetsid that all three have the same SID. These three...
View ArticleESX 4.1. Disable TCP Checksum offload
Hi All,This is my first post on this forum. We have problems with connection between application server and sql server. Both servers are running Windows server 2008 R2 and are hosted on the same ESX....
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 ArticleHardware monitoring service on this host is not responding or not available
This is the error I get when selecting the Hardware Status tab on any of our vSphere servers in vCenter. The servers were upgraded from ESX 3.5 update 4 and the hardware status was working before the...
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 ArticleLSI logic Parallel, LSI logic SAS, Buslogic parallel (Not recommended for...
Infrastructure:vSphereESX 4Dell R710 Server I'm installing WIN 2003 x64 as a virtual server on ESX 4, when I'm selecting LSI logic SAS & LSI logic parallel it is not detecting hard drive, do I...
View ArticlevSphere Client Can't Connect Over SSH Tunnel
I have a couple of ESX 4.0 servers sitting in a lab on campus, which is usually not where I am. Typically, I set up an SSH tunnel to connect remotely to my network and forward some ports over the...
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 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 Article"the operation is not allowed in the current connection state of the host"
I have recently added a new Nic to an exisitng ESXi 4.1 host, I used this nic for a new vSwitch and enabled a second management network to provide redundancy. The vSphere enviroment includes 2 ESXi...
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 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 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...
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