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Hi, Hoping someone else has had this or a similar problem... Here's what I did. The host is an ESX3.5 host, all up-to-date. I've included all my steps, just as a convenience (I write those type of...
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Dear Team, I am not able to download .vmx file for some poweredon VMs and for other VMs I am able to download. all vms hardware version Is 9 I have noticed that if a vmx file icon look like...
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Hi, I have a really simple question, and maybe I can answer this myself, however am still replicating the symptoms in my lab. My question to you all (because I cannot find anything on the net about...
View ArticleHow to set printer margins in Mozilla Firefox if using a lot of printers in...
Hello, I am using VMware floating assignement linked clones virtual desktops. I am using Firefox version 31. I have a problem with page setup margins. I need to use left 30mm; right 10mm; top 20mm;...
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Dear team, With the help of monitoring tools we have started recieving alerts that one of the VM is in a hang state. Please find the attached artifacts i have collected. To resolve reported issue just...
View ArticleFacing problem while monitoring Snapshot Process
Dear team, I have started deleting snapshot for one of the VM and followed this KB (1007566) to monitor snapsot deletion process In the "Alternate Workaround" Section , at point 11 I m not able to...
View ArticleCentOS 6 experience of hot-add disk,cpu,ram
I was looking for the communities experience of running CentOS6 as a guest on vSphere and particularly regarding the ability to easily increase/decrease disk cpu and ram resources of the guest vm...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Storage Problem
Hi All, I'm having a big problem which is for a one of our virtual machine previous admin has allocated too much storage. I need to remove that space from that virtual machine and reclaim that storage...
View Articlehow to confirm vmdks not mapped to any VM
Dear team, I have ran the rvtools in that i have find some vmdk files as zombie. b4 deleting these file how to confirm that these files are not mapped to any VMs. will it be ok , i have one test...
View ArticleRun a sysprep on a cloned Virtual machine
Hi, I have a setup where I do a continuous remote replication(block level replication) of the VMs. In a situation where source location is down, I will need to bring up the VMs in the remote site. I...
View ArticleUnable to install vmware-tools-foundation on some, not all, RHEL5 guests
We are in the process of migrating from open-vm-tools to the proper VMware Tools packages. I don't recall the reason for our decision to use the former, but it has become necessary to switch to the...
View ArticleEsx 5.0 and vCenter server 5.0 migration queries
Hi All, We have ESXi 5.0 servers and vCenter servers 5.0 between two locations and the same is configured with linked mode. My query is, we have planned to upgrade the vmware from 5.0 to 5.5(both...
View Articlev2p of a windows server
I am planning for a v2p a windows 2008 server, if anyone has any helpful notes, kindly share. Thanks a bunch!!
View ArticleWant to change SCSI Controller from LSI SAS to PVSCSI
Dear Team, We are planning to change the SCSI Controller of all VMs from LSI SAS to PVSCSI , we are scheduling this activity when we do Windows Patching Activity. 1) take VM Snapshot2) Add new VHDD...
View ArticleGuest OS Compatibility
Dear Team, We have mix environment ESX5.1 U1 and ESXi5.5U2. we are palnning to deploy Windows 2012 R2 on ESXi5.1 U1 host , just want to cofirm will I able to migrate 2012 VMs from ESXi5.1U1 to...
View ArticleVMware Tools via Operating System Specific Packages
Hey all, our linux VMs get their VMware Tools through the VMware repository, as described here: Operating System Specific Packages Home Page | United States The 5.1 and 5.0 documentation say you should...
View ArticleMonthly IOPS report for Production VMs
Dear Team, I'm trying to get a monthly IOPS for a single VM or all Production VMs. need ur assistance how I can get this. regardsMr VMware
View ArticleWhile installing Guest OS getting error "Your PC doesn't have a 64bit-...
Dear team, I have installed ESXi5.5 in a VM, and I have created one VM , in that I m trying to install Win2012 R2 STD 64 bit edition. While installing Win2012 I m getting below error. Need ur help to...
View ArticleCreated Golden Template, Need help regarding sysprep
Dear team, I have created one golden template for windows 2012 R2 STD edition. Now all VMs will be deployed from this template. Once new VM is deployed then I will run sysprep.exe then I got these...
View ArticleBest option to extend disk Size
Dear Team, Now I have vhDD2 size of 1Gb I.e. D drive now we are planning to increase the size by 2GB without any downtime. What will be the best option do I increase size for same vHDD2 to 3GB at VM...
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