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Vmware converter 5.x P2V convert issues

Vmware converter 5.x took ages(2 or more days) to convert 500GB or more Physical to Virutal machine over networkafter 5% or 95 to 98% conversion fails..how to do quick conversion without fail??pls...

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Restart VMware Tools service in all LINUX platform.

Dear Team, PLease help me with the command to restart VMware Tool Service in all Linux Platform (RedHat/SUSE/Ubuntu etc) and where it actually get installed, the fodler where it get installed....

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Unable to increase disk vCenter Server 5.0 build 455964

Friends:      I have a VM with 3 disk, 2 of them has greyed out the option to increase disk space. The last one is the only one can I change. I search for snapshots in snapshot manager, but the VM have...

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CommandLine Copy VM from ESX to ESXi

Hi all--  I have an old ESX 3.5 server inherited from an acquisition and our normal Prod ESXi 5.x host.  Both are gig connected but nothing else at that remote site is.  I'm looking for the quickest...

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Clone/Copy VM while running to another datastore

Dear Users, I have searched on the internet about how to clone/copy a Virtual Machine while its running with some sort of task scheduler to a different datastore.This task must be done every day and...

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When to split virtual machine hard disks between different datastores

When is it recommended or beneficial to split my operating system virtual hard disk and my data virtual hard disk for a single VM among two different datastores?  What are the impacts of this and what...

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delete and recreate same vm

having a difference of opinions.   I built a windows2003 vm in our domain and then deleted it from disk.  I then recreated a vm with same name and configuration. here is the question:  Will Windows AD...

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Sound in Virtual Machine - ESX VSphere

Hi all, we are currently experiencing problems playing sound through a RDP connection from VSphere Version 7 XP machines. VMWare tools is installed on all machines, and has even been reinstalled on...

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Add GSM modem usb to vmware

Hi all, I have a host server using ESX 4.0,  and a vmware machine running CentOS server on this ESX server. Now i want to added a GSM modem USB on the CentOS to send and receive SMS. Which steps i have...

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XML file to OVF format

0 I have a xml file which contains details about  processor,memory,logical partition and OS to be installed on Logical  partitions.I want to convert this XML file into an OVF format.The biggest...

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client OS installation error- operating system not found

hi every oneI have a vmware vsphere installed in the lab. I have created a new virtual machine for my research but I am not able to install a windows OS on that. I tried to add cd/dvd drive to the...

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Windows 2003 R2 guest operating system

I recently received a request to install from an SCCM image /PXe boot image the Windows 2003 R2 standard O/s to a new Virtual machine.    When I installed the image it actually turned out to be the...

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vSphere 5.1 - RDM to VMDK

I have some raw mapped data disk I am ready to move to VMDK. What are my best options? Thank you

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Benefits of VMware Tools in Linux

Could someone provide me with a link or details on the specific benefits of installing/running VMware Tools on a Linux guest OS (vSphere 5.x)?  I've found some old posts (from 2006-2009), but none that...

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ESX 4.1 + RHEL + VNX mirror

Hi ! I need help )I I try to configure 2-node cluster on RedHat 6.1:Hypervisor - Esx 4.1Shared HDD - Synchrous luns (mirror view) on VNX mapped to Ghost os as RDM diskBut Ghost OS is started only if...

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RDP8 vs PCOIP

Our users are seeing better performance using RDP8 directly than using the view client to broker RDP

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Restart management agents

I have a clutster with two hosts and one I can't to access it by Vsphere client. I don't know what have happened but the second hosts go out of the cluster and I can't add it again. I'm able run ping...

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Linux file systems becoming read-only

The file systems on several of our guest OSs running RHEL4 have suddenly started becoming read-only.  ESX is 3.0.0.  The two file systems that are usually / and /var.  Both systems are HP DL385 with...

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Convert VMDK in multiple VMDKs

Hi, I've got a VM with a vDisk attached.There are partitions, both are on same vmdk stored (see image attached) Is there a way, I can get each partition on a own vmdk file?Unforunately it's not...

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AD Replication failed when DC moved to another VMWare host

Hello,I have strange problem and hope that someone could help me.  We have four VMware hosts. At this time our DCs are located on the same host.  Everything works great. The problem is when I try to...

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