Installing RHEL 6 (64-bit) as VM
This is my first installation of a VM on an ESXi host. I'm trying to install RHEL 6 (64-bit) on a host running ESXi 5.1.0. Following the VMWare procedure described in the online documentation I picked...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 Offset Question
Dont ask me how and/or why, but we came across a Windows 2008 R2 template that somehow has the incorrect offset (32,256) (if you can explain to me HOW thats even possible that would be awesome) But my...
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Unable to allocate additional CPUs (Virtual machine has 8 virtual CPUs, but...
Dear Team, I want to allocate 8 vcpu to one of the vm, but it gives following error "Virtual machine has 8 virtual CPUs, but the host only supports 4. The number of virtual CPUs may be limited by the...
View ArticleClient virtulisation
Good day, I m asking kindly if you can advice me ,I need to do one project for my company to virtualise all client computer , and I have a datastor if you have an idea how i can do it I will be...
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Installing Guest O/S (RHEL 6) on Virtual Machine
I’m trying to install a guest O/S on a VM that has been configured for RHEL 6. The plan is to use an ISO image from a RHEL installation disk, move the files to a datastore on the vShere and configure...
View ArticleRhel 6 nic order with 4 network adapter or more
Hi, I'm having problem with NIC order on RHEL 6 VM.When creating 4 NIC's or more, the RHEL will map the last NIC in order to eth0. I.E "Network Adapater 1" is mapped to eth1"Network Adapater 2" is...
View ArticleVM (Best Practice / Checklist)
Dear Team, is there any best practice or checklist to create a new VM in a infrastructure for eg . Activity / Steps / Checklist / Best PracticeStatus1) Specify “VM Name”Done 2) Select...
View ArticleUninstall the vCenter
Dear users, We are experiencing to many errors in our environment that it has come to a point I want to reinstall our vCenter by first removing the vCenter from our server and then do a fresh new...
View ArticlePlanning vCPU per core
I'm doing some planning around vCPU contention ratios, and I'm curious as to whether there is anything actually published by VMware. I've variously heard that the planning range should be 5 - 8, or 5 -...
View ArticleiMessage on virtualized Macs
Hi, Im running several Macs on my ESXi5.1 build 799733 (on a Mac Pro). Works great! Only thing that is not working is iMessage.I am not able to login. This works great on my physical mac and on my ipad...
View ArticleVM identifier questions
What's the best value or values to uniquely identify a VM? It appears that the obvious choices - name, DNS name, uuid, instanceUuid, mo_ref - are either not guarenteed unique (uuid), not unique across...
View Articlereceiving error message when trying to migrate pc
hello all I have just started using vmware and i wanted to migrate my windows 7 64bit system to my mac. i seem to get an error message and cant seem to get any further. has anyone else had a problem...
View ArticleVM Memory vs Physical
Ok. So I have this argument on going with vendor of a certain network appliance. The vendor claims their product requires 8GB on a physical server, and 8GB on a virtual. Subsequent network stress...
View Articlewin7 64bit host and vm workstation 9 settings
I can t seem to get the host configured so the vm (server 2008) will run best in workstation.I am interested in the VM perfoming well and the host (host os) just feeding the vm.win7 pro 64bit, 8GB RAM,...
View Articlehigh memory usage in windows os system
Hi all, I am using VMware vSphere 4.1 and I create a VM: 8GBRAM, 8vCPU, when I start a VM and see in the task manager that the memory usage is very high but I don't run any program.Can any body tell me...
View ArticleStornext and fiber connected SAN in ESXi
I want to be able to mount our SAN via fiber on a Windows Server 2008R2 running storenext or Quantum DDN filesystem.Can this be accomplished in a ESXi hosted enviroement as it does in the physical...
View ArticleWindows Activation Error
First- I am using the same hardware for this but looking to expand usage of the hardware by running ESXi. I have converted a machine from Physical to Virtual and installed ESXi 5.1 and now the system...
View ArticleVmware tools unable to install
Hi when i try to update the vmtools on a vm image iof windows 2008 r2 os it failed all the time to update "the wizard was interrupted before vmware tools could be completely installed." i cannot...
View ArticleUsing VMware Tools GUI to disable time synchronization with host
What is the quickest way for a Windows Server VM being provisioned with VMware Tools installed, to insure that time synchronization does NOT occur with the host? These articles discuss using registry...
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