vmware.log missing information
Hi!I was wondering if somebody can please enlighten me, I have noticed some of the information is missing from vmware.log file on the VM.For eg: I am investigating if there was any problem on...
View ArticleHow to fix the VMWARE ERROR DOWNLOADING KICKSTART FILE ON Redhat linux 6.0
Hi Team, While deploying RHEL6.0 i am getting error "VMWARE ERROR DOWNLOADING KICKSTART FILE ON Redhat linux 6.0" Please let me know how to fix this issues. Thanksvmware tech
View ArticleWin2008 R2 additional memory resources
I've got a Win2008 R2 server on VMWare 5.5 that has a custom app hard-coded to use half of the memory allocated to Windows Server. Win Server is only taking 8gb from vmware, but I want it to take...
View ArticleHow to differentiate RDM on LINUX, weather its in Physical or Virtual...
Hi Team, Sub: How to differentiate RDM on LINUX, weather its in Physical or Virtual compatibility mode Currently I am working on Product that supports VMware infrastructure. we were using RDM on VMs...
View ArticleHow to know the vendor and model of RDM lun on LINUX with assigned as virtual...
SUB:How to know the vendor and model of RDM lun on LINUX with assigned as virtual compatibility mode Hi Team, if we assign RDM with Physical compatibility mode on LINUX, then we have scsi command to...
View ArticleVMware Tools for Windows 3.x
Hello, I created a fork of VMware Tools for Windows 3.x 16-bit operating systems. Currently these tools include:time synchronization between ESXi host and VMCPU idle supportFAT12 and FAT16 shrink...
View ArticleIn guest VM, how to get files from datastore
Hello My requirement is to download certain files from datastore to guest OS. My guest OS is linux based system. The files I need to download to guest will contain some configuration parameters. If...
View Articlevm disk full shutdown
Hi guys, We are trying to wipe disk device that mounted to vm.But when became one of disk wipe state is %100 then auto shutdown VM.We need slove this problem.Can u help me please.Best Regards.
View ArticleUse VMWare's own VMware Tools, or native open-vm-tools with CentOS 6.6 and...
Is there any advantage to keeping the native open-vm-tools that come bundled with CentOS 6.6 and 7.0, versus removing them and replacing them with the VMware Tools that can be installed through...
View ArticleVMware Client Integration Plugin 5.5 on OS X
I had the client integration plugin working once. Last time I tried to use it, which is probably many months ago, it worked fine.Now when I try to upload files, I receive message from the 5.5 web...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013 and Memory
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2764086/en-us I know this is a Windows section, but wasn't sure where else to ask. Either way with SharePoint 2013, they say to not use Dynamic Memory as it's an...
View ArticleVMware tools for FreeBSD 10.1
Okay, I've finally figured out that the IMT and the KB are way behind including any BSD content. I don't know if there is some bad blood or not, but, here is what I was able to find. 1. VMWorkstation...
View ArticleWin server 2003 VM guest does not boot up
A little background here: I use this backup software "ShadwProtect" to backup my vm guest on one of my ESXIhost and restored it in another site's ESXI host.The first time I boot up, I faced an error...
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vmtoolsd.exe is using a lot of threads
Hi All, We're using VMware tools a few years now on our Windows 2012R2 environment.But the last months we get complains from some of our remote desktop users that our servers are slow, memory is full,...
View ArticleExternal Hdd with Windows XP Question
My dad had a desktop pc crash, the hdd is still good but he purchased another pc and I wanted to know how to go about turning that external Hdd into a virtual machine. I usually run paragon to make an...
View ArticleVM unable to obtain IP Address
In our environment, Virtual machine hosted on VMware was unable to connect to the network showing Limited connectivity error. When we diagnosed, we found that the VLAN in which the VM was associated...
View ArticleNew VM from vmdk, Guest system really required?
The Scenario: I used Terabyteunlimited tools (Copyp2v) to create a vmdk from a physical Win XP Pro machine. Works like a charm. Installed VMware Workstation 10, created a new VM and skipped the Guest...
View Article(vSphere 5.1) Windows 2012 VM running Oracle DB freezes during netbackup...
I'm experiencing OS freezing during netbackup causing heartbeat failure from my application to database, thus causing application to shutdown. After days of troubleshooting, I realise that the disk...
View ArticleVirtual Active Directory PDC Emulator
VMworld Session ID: APP-BCA1373 – Virtualizing AD Best Practices The above link mentions that it is a best practice to have the AD PDC emulator physical, to avoid time skew. Is this still the current...
View ArticleGuest VM with CentOS6 doesn't has thinprint driver on ESX6
Hi all,I have a vsphere 6 environment and when I deployed guest VM with CentOS6(x86_64) and command to install VMware Tools from Vcenter.I can't find neither thinprint service or tpvmlp.conf in the VM....
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