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Load OS to template

Hi gurus as you can tell for mey previous post, I am still learning the vmware worls. so go easy on me I have setup a vcenter and now I have vsphere to centralize manage my env., now I know that we can...

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Windows 2012 R2 domain controllers: 2 virtual DCs or one physical DC and one...

I've been researching toward a 'greenfield' vSphere setup.Very modest to start -- domain controllers, several app servers, vCenter appliance and server, probably 9-10 VMs total.The organization I'm...

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Unable to install VMware Tools 4.0 on 12.04 Ubuntu ...

I receive the following message when trying to install VMware tools in Ubuntu 12.0.4 LTS server (64-bit) UBUNTU:/tmp$  sudo ./vmware-install.pl -dThe following VMware kernel modules have been found on...

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Unattended windows guest OS installation on ESX/ESXi

Hello All,I am in need to automate the windows guest OS installation on ESX. I have automated Linux guest os installation using anacond.cfg file in rhel and yast.xml in sles. Is there a similar way...

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SLES VM VMware Tools version status is 3rd-party/Independent

Dear Team, I have three SLES 11 64 bit VMs in my environment, Once I see Summary page of these VMs the VMware Tool is Running (3rd-party/Independent), just want to confirm y it's showing...

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Sync Guest Time with Host is unchecked on DC

Dear Team, All domain will sync time from their DC, but on DC VM Sync Guest time from Host is unchecked then from where DC will sync it's time. regardsMr Vmware

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Live vMotion while performing a P2V operation

is it possible to perform a live vMotion of a VM from one host to another while a P2V is going on?   I setup the P2V for the new VM on the wrong host.  I can wait, of course, until it is completed then...

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Want to chnage flexible adapter into vmxnet

Dear All, I have installed tools on VM and now want to change flexible adapter into vmxnet but only flexible and E1000 adapters showing in drop down list.Please share your comments regarding this...

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winXP

can any one confirm it that which version of Windows will take more resources.if i configured win xp wiht 1 vcpu and 4 gb of memory and win 7 with 1 vcpu and 4gb of memory.which vm will effect more on...

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Single RDM mapped on VM1 then it mapped on VM2

Dear team, I have mapped one LUN on one of the VM1 , after that I have removed that RDM from VM (Remove from VM). not deleting that file. Now I have mapped that same LUN on VM2 , it created new file....

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How can I check if VMware player tools are installed?

I have Linux Mint 16 Petra installed  as a guest on my windows xp host. I have tried numerous times to install tools. I have no idea how to check if tools are in fact installed. There were some issues...

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Can we Install VM Tools on Appliance VMs

Dear Team, I have three Cisco appliance VMs are running but the VMware Tool status is Not Installed. Just want to know can we install VMware Tool on these appliance??? Need ur assistance on the same....

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How to configure Software iSCSI network on ESXi5.1 with Cisco UCS

Hi, I installed ESXi5.1 on cisco UCS. and plan to configure sw iscsi on esxi5.1 The network configuration on UCS:Create two vNIC under vNICs and bind the new vnic to vlan2000.vlan 2000 with be binded...

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Very High CPU usage on Windows 2000 After P2V

I P2V'd 2 DL380G1s to VMware ESX 3.5.  They had 2 Pentium 866's with 2GB of memory.  I P2V'd them to a Dell 6950 running 4 socket 2dual core AMD 8222SE 3ghz's.   This is a Windows 2000 SP4 server...

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Installing new Syslog server in a VM

Dear team, Currently we have physical syslog server, we are in a process to create a new syslog server in a VM.Just want to confirm After creating a new syslog VM what changes I have to do in VC...

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Windows Server 2008 Extend disk

I have a server: Windows 2008 R2 4 discs:disc 0 - OS 60gbdisc 1 - Mailboxes 600gbdisc 2 - logs 300gbdisc 3 - Archives 1.5tb My mailbox disc is filling up so I need to create some more room for it....

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ICMP response rate between a physical Server and a Virtual Machine

Have a question.    We recently P2v'd a Windows 2003 server.   Prior to the conversion, my customer was tracking trends based on ping average response rates.   In general, the physical machine was...

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unable to install VMware Tools on guest Win 2008 R2 server in vCenter Server 5.5

installed Windows 2008 Datacenter Server R2 using vCenter Server 5.5 from iso file on my local network drive. While the guest was powered on Right clicked on the guest vm then clicked on Guest then...

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Pass credentials to guest console to log in to a VM

Hi, I would like to be able to securely store credentials for guest VMs and automatically log onto to the guest consoles using the stored credentials.  Is there a way to do this?  I have tried copy and...

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SNMP timeout after P2v

We just did a P2v of our SolarWinds Orion NPM server.  Afterward, all our Orion NPM nodes lost SNMP connection although their SNMP services still showed Started.   We had to touch all the individual...

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