inplace upgrade 2003 to 2008 32 bit
Hi all, I am having trouble doing an in-place upgrade of a VM windows 2003 32 bit to Windows 2008 32 bit. All going well until the last step "Completing upgrade" until 52% then start rebooting and...
View ArticleVMtools Error 14001: side-by-side configuration is incorrect
Hi , I have this problem which basically the VMTools installed but not starting, giving me the error: Error 14001: side-by-side configuration is incorrect. From the vCentre client it is showing: Green...
View ArticleUpdating VMware tools
I have a number of VMware tools out of date. If I have 500 VMs with tools out of date, should I be able to update them all without going inside the guest OS? What are the chances that some of them...
View ArticleVM Hardware Version risks
What are the risks of running a VM at 1. Hardware version 72. Hardware version 8 rather than at 10?Performance loss? Compatibility with important features?Thanks!
View ArticleCan we do vMotion between two datacenter if VM is poweredoff
Dear Team, Can we do vMotion between two datacenter (esxi5,x)Can we do SVMotion between two datacenter (esxi5,x) Note: it's not a physical datacenter it's a virtual Datacenter can we do vMotion...
View ArticleSwap on local storage will i able to perform a vMotion
Dear team, I want to migrate vm1 from esxi1 to esxi2 , VM files are stored on shared storage except swap file stored on local storage . just want to confirm will i able to migrate this VM sucessfully...
View ArticleDeleting VM snapshot
Hello,Below are the steps I performed; 1) Took vCenter server snapshot2) Upgrade VMware tools on it and rebooted3) Deleted this snapshot4) Took a new snapshot5) Upgraded hardware. 6) But after that I...
View ArticleHow to delete increased VM disk space
Hi guys,I wondered if someone can tell me how to cancel an added disk space on VM?I have added the space on the vsphere setting of the VM and I didn't yet formatted it inside!thanks,regards,Noura
View ArticleSnapshot usage
I am getting alarms related to excessive snapshot usage when my backup product takes snapshots. What is the risk associated with "excessive snapshot usage" alarms? What should I do differently if I...
View ArticleGuest OS and NTP Time Syncing
Previously there were issues with Guest OSes using VMware tools to sync time with the ESXi hypervisor. Are these issues resolved in ESXi 5.5? Is the current best practice still to use an external NTP...
View ArticleLSI 53C1030 drivers for WinXP
Guys, I have read somewhere that, it is good to have LSI drivers for win-XP installation. M$ does not provide those softwares in the XP CD, so we need to download them and make a flp image. I...
View ArticleHow to provision a 40GB disk and present to Windows as a 40GB disk
Hi, What is the hack to be sure that a 40GB (or 100Gb or 200GB) disk is provisioned and presented as exactly 40GB (or 100GB or 200GB)? I would like to not have any 39.9GB disks on my servers. Thank you.
View ArticleIs it possible to enable jumbo frames on vmxnet3 under Solaris 10?
Solaris 10 10/09 running on ESX4. VMware tools are installed. ifconfig vmxnet3s0 mtu <value> only works for mtu values of 1500 or less. /kernel/drv/vmxnet3s.conf gives no hints related...
View ArticleRunning Analytics workload on VM
I have a requirement come in for some data analytics and I would like to know how feasible it is to run analytics processing on virtual machines. The minimum requirement is 128GB ram and the requestor...
View ArticleUpgrading Virtual Windows server 2003 to 2008
We currently run VI 2.5 with 3.5 U2 servers in a cluster. I was trying to upgrade (in place) a Windows server 2003 st. to Windows Server 2008. However when doing this the guest becomes unresponsive at...
View ArticleCustomization Specification vs Puppet
I am wanting to provision Windows VMs, and customize the guest OS only by assigning Hostnames, Ip addresses, default gateway, DNS servers, DNS suffixes, and that is it. I don't need to provision...
View ArticleIn place upgrade for Windows 2012 R2 from Windows 2008 R2 ?
are there any issues with upgrading the guest OS for a Windows 2008 R2 VM to Windows 2012 R2 ? Is there a document for this ?Thanks!
View ArticleVSphere licenses and running hp VSA
Hi I am in the planning stages for a customer and they've asked us to look at hp vsa vm running within vpshere to present the local storage of each host as shared storage. (2-3 hosts, 4TB storage,...
View ArticleCentOS 7 customisation fails
Hello all of you, I have a serious problem with customising CentOS 7 host and domain name. When I am trying to customise it, everything is alright, there is no error. However, when the process is...
View ArticleBest VM migration method
I need to migrate VMs from vCenter 5.0 to another vCenter running 5.5. Here are two options:1. Use VMware converter to connect to both vCenters, and migrate the VM from one to the other2. Zone and...
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