Poor network performance on vm guest on same host, vswitch, subnet?
I'm running iperf to get some network performance reading and was wondering what other get in performance between 2 vm guests. As test 1 I have 2 VM (Windows 2008 R2) on the same vswitch and the same...
View ArticlevCenter Storage Views and Hardware tabs error
When clicking on the storage views tab in vCenter I am getting an "internal error has occured" and no information is displayed. Has any ony encountered this error?
View Articlebest hard drives for a virtual server
I am currently using vm workstation 9 at home for personal use and I'm running a windows 8 host with a server 08 with exchange 07 vm (single vm). I have noticed the the hard drives really dont get a...
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Laboratorio di informatica scuola
Salve, un saluto a tutti voi esperti di vmware Espongo subito il mio problema. Nella scuola dove insegno abbiamo un laboratorio di informatica con 24 postazioni allievo, una postazione docente, una...
View ArticleHow to connect network between host (MAC OSX 10.8.2) and Win8 Pro?
I'm not able to connect any network units from the VM running Win8 Pro like I used to do with WinXP. In fact I can't launch any installer downloaded by the host. I also can't install VMWare Tools...
View ArticleHow to debug serial pipe on esxi 5.0?
Hello everyone,I have setup a serial pipe, \\.\pipe\com_1 between 2 virtual machines residing on the same esxi 5 host.1 virtual machine hosts a POS application under windows 2008, and another hosts a...
View Article10GB network VMotion
Hi I am installing ESX 5.1 onto a few HP DL 585 servers with 4 x 16 Core AMD processors and 384GB of RAM. I'm now deploying larger VM guests 16/32/64GB workloads with some SQL VM guests. We use shared...
View ArticlePlug-in installation corrupted (bad plug-in version)
I have vCloud Director 1.5.0.464915 and Orchestrator appliance 4.2.0 build 507353. I mistakenly installed the vCloud Director 5.1 plugin, and of course it didn't work with the earlier Director version....
View ArticleVMRC working example like in 1.5 for 5.1?
Is there a working example similar to the one provided in 1.5 where I can just pass it the host and ticket id and get a basic console popup? I need to replace our old one which was using this prebuilt...
View ArticleConverting QueryResultAdminVMRecordType to VMType
Hello, How can I convert QueryResultAdminVMRecordType to VMType which will repesent single virtual machine instance?Any sample will be useful. Thanks,-AsHwIN
View ArticleMoving Protect to another server - location of patches Server 2008 R2?
Hi, I am moving VMware Protect to another server. I have successfully installed and activated the product. In Server 2003 I knowwhere the patch location was - Documents and settings, All users.... But...
View ArticleHelp reqd with XPMode upgrade
Hi I am using Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit together with VMWare 4.0.4 build-744019 Some time ago I installed XPMode from Microsoft and converted the resulting virtual machine using VMWare VCenter...
View ArticleVMware Update Manager Utility - can't login for SSL re-cert
As part of http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&externalId=2037581 , I am at step 7 where I enter credentials for the...
View Articleunable to enlarge virtual disk
I am using Fusion 5.0.2 and I have a problem to enlarge the virtual disk of my Win 7 image. In advance: I am using a German version so maybe the menu descriptions do not met exactly the English...
View ArticlePowerCLI Distributed Switch Export
I like the export/import feature in v5.1 described in http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2034602 Is there a handy way to automate this with PowerCLI? I am not looking for a generic import export script of a...
View ArticleOption for "SSH Server" for Firewall under "Security Profile" ?
Hi, We have upgraded all ESXi hosts to vSphere 5.1. Question 1=========We observe that for a particular ESXi host, the option button is avaialbe (others are grey). We are able to change start up...
View ArticlePowerCLI script for NFS Datastores
HiI have the following powershell script and this is new to me. What do I need to add to it in order to retrive a weeks worth of IO stats and also have it exported to a csv file.Thanks.$metrics =...
View ArticleAdobe Reader Reporting
Hello, I am currently running Adobe Reader 11.0.1, which as of now is the latest available. Scanning our test systems VM Protect says there is a security update available for Adobe Reader version...
View ArticleFedora 18 and VMWare Workstation 9
If you have troubles installing on the newest Fedora, here is the workaround: vmware-workstation 9.0.1.894247Fedora Core 18 Release (Vanilla) kernel 3.7.2-201.fc18.x86_64 Just do: sudo yum install...
View ArticlevCOPS 5.6 VM Hardware Version
Does anyone know if I can safely update the VM hardware version from 8 to 9 on the two vApp VMs running vCOPS 5.6? The vCenter server and all of the hosts in the cluster are at version 5.1.
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