Virtual machine snapshot fails, but only on one host
Hi, Vmware ESXi 5.0.0 768111 Snapshotting directly from Vcenter (with Quiesce option enabled) works fine.But Backup Exec 2012 is using the snapshot technique also and then the snap shot fails: Create...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Performance issue
Hi All, I have performance data missing for few virtual machine in my site. we don't have NTP Server in our environment so i disable the time sync of those virtual machine by last week after that the...
View ArticleImage Level backup for independent disks without installing third party...
Image Level backup for independent disks without installing third party agents/software?...Can it be done?
View ArticleFSMO-roles on physical or virtual DC
Hi. Wehave a HA clusteron ESXi5.1., aWindows 2008 R2domainwith a total of3DC, 2 virtual and1on physical hardware. All three makeDNSand GC.I'm nownotquite sure howI distribute theFSMO rolesto the 3...
View ArticleChecking VT-x enabled from a 32-bit Linux guest running on Esx - 4.1
Hi, Is there a way to probe the Esx 4.1 host from a 32-bit running linux guest to check if VT-x has been enabled in BIOS?I could find several ways of doing this on the Esx host - esxcfg-info, finding...
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Missing VM in ESX 5
Hi, I have very less knowledge in VMWare. I have created a lab environment with ESX 5.0 o VMWare workstation 8.0 and also created a virtual machine on ESX. But the strange thing is the VM will...
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Windows Server 2003 vmdk / Bluescreen / Missing VMX
Hi, We're coming out of the other side of a RAID failure which took a number of machines with it. I'm trying to restore one particular machine which was replicated offsite using SRM. Unfortunately I...
View ArticleBoot Failure
I'm trying to boot a VM with RedHat Linux 6.0 version and keep getting this error . "No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found". I even replaced the .iso but same error. only happening with...
View Articleinfrequent boot to Recovery Console, Windows Server 2008 R2
Hi! When booting VMs running Windows Server 2008 R2, sometime they end up in the Recovery Console. This seems to happen most often after installing Windows updates (but then again, this is probably...
View ArticleOSX Virtualization (Empty disk question)
Hello, I'm quite a newbie in this. I wanted to virtualize OS X Lion on windows, just to mess around and try it out if I wanted tu buy a Mac in the future. I was using this tutorial...
View ArticleCan not add serial port to the physical port
the env is like follows: - 1, physical server HP DL360-G5 2, VMware Esxi 4 3,Guest WindowsServer 2000 - when I want to add a serial port to the Guest OS ,the option of Physical port...
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Deploy W2K8R2 SP1 from template fails adding to the domain
Hi all, I have a really strange issue deploying a W2K8 R2 SP1 from template using an existing or new customization specification. It's driving me crazy!The problem is this:Joining a domain using a...
View ArticlePossible Guest Networking Issue with KB958644 out-of-band patch
Wanted to drop everyone a line about the following issue we recently experienced: Windows 2003 Standard 32-bit SP2 guest VM running some IIS apps and another incident ticketing app. The server...
View ArticleVM with vmxnet3 looses connectivity
Hello, we just switch to 10 Gbit Ethernet. Hosts are connected and we just want to switch the VM´s as well to 10G (vmxnet3). So we installed on a Win7-Testmachine the vmxnet3 Adapter and started the...
View ArticleGuest OS Compatability....
Dear Team, Please let us know SLES11 guest OS is compatible on esx3.5 64607??? also let us know how to check guest OS compatiblility. regardsMr VMware
View ArticleCan't drag and drop VM into folder
Hello, I have organized my VMs into folders, and some of them I cannot drag and drop. The icon is the circle with the diagnoal line through it, and it won't let me release it on the folder. I can't...
View Articlevmwaretools update on SLES10 SP2 fail
Hi all, after a vmware tools update on a VM with SLES10 SP2 and the first rebbot the VM doesn't start... Itremains on a message: Waiting for device /dev/sda1 to appear: ..................not-- exiting...
View ArticleUnable to connect to the MKS:failed to connect to 902
Hello All, I am getting this error when ever I tried to launch open console option in Vsphere client. I have firewall turned off in state and I have create a new rule to accept port 902 and 903 but...
View ArticleFT enabled VM's guest patch level
I need to confirmIf I've a Windows based virtual machine with FT enabled & if I apply Microsoft patches to the primary VM.Will they automatically be replicated over to secondary?Any particular...
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How to automate tools upgrade for multiple manual VMs
Hello all! This is my first post so please go easy... We had multiple reasons to move away from linked clones and go back to manual VMs which brings us back to the out-of-date VMware tools problem....
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