How much does the Mirage Suite & CVD licences costs?
Hello.I was looking for licence costs in the VMware website and i didnt understand what does 10 pack means ( VMware Online Store - Product Information ). Is that the number of CVDs you can create with...
View ArticleDisk performance issue in the VM cluster node 1 in ESXi5
cluster node 1 is having disk performance issue in the SQL DB when cluster node 1 becomes the Active node. while in cluster node 2 there is no disk performance issue when it becomes the Active node. DB...
View Articlevmware-tools as service on ubuntu guest
Hi, when I start: /etc/vmware-tools/services.sh restart I get: Stopping VMware Tools services in the virtual machine: Guest operating system daemon: done...
View ArticleNAT and Host-Only: Conflicting DNS resolution resulting in "slow internet"!
Hi all, I am running VMware Workstation 9.02 on a Win 7 64bit machine. The guest is Win 8 64bit. Both NAT and Host-Only network adapters are installed (DHCP enabled). VMware Tools are installed. The...
View ArticleAdaptec 7805 PCI Passthrough Issue w/ ESXi 5.1 and Ubuntu 12.04 + Windows...
Hello, I am pretty new to VMware/ESXi but I am taking ESXi 5.1 for a spin (free trial license) to see if it will become the hypervisor of choice for my home server. So far so good, until I wanted to...
View ArticleLogin to VC 5 without AD authentication
Hi All, I have ESXi5.1 hosts and 5.1b VC. If my DC is down then I am not longer able to login to VC via VI Client.I have installed SSO - Inventory Service and then VC. What changes do I need to make so...
View ArticleWindows + Space doesn't work as expect when Command + Space is used on OS X
Since Windows 8, Microsoft has added another official keyboard layout switching shortcut, Windows + Space. I am Thai who also uses Command + Space on the OS X for keyboard layout switching between US...
View ArticleResource Reservation
What is resource reservation in vmware ? Having 2 ESXi in my environment, each has 10 vm's in it.In the 10 vm's, 3 are crtical and they need 3GB rams always. How to achieve this ? Kindly give a brief...
View ArticleMSI Failed Problem - Again!
I guess there's a first time for everything so I findally ran into the MSI failed error on Windows 8. Not sure whether the installation log hs been uploaded but I'm attaching it (zipped of course!)....
View ArticleESXi Host has how many luns presented to it
Hi, I have close to 24 hosts in a cluster. On some of them all luns are presented and on some of them only few of them are presented.I have vms with RDMs and it becomes hard for me to track how many...
View ArticleHow is multi-tenancy enabled within vCloud Director?
Hey, I would like to know, how exactly the multi-tenancy is enabled in vCD. So how are ressources from user a isolated from user b ressources. I think this is about user roles and of course networking....
View ArticleMigracion esxi 4.1u2 a esxi 5.1u1. Problemas de espacio, recomendaciones
Buenas compañeros. Actualmente tenemos nuestro vcenter en un servidor fisico con windows 2008 r2 y un raid 1 de 36GB. El problema que tenemos que para hacer un upgrade a la nueva version 5.1u1a...
View ArticleCondivisione dei Datastore
Un tema che va un po' al di la dello standard :-) Per esigenze di servizio mi è capitato di dover condividere un Datastore tra due cluster che, udite udite, fanno capo a due vCenter differenti (la...
View ArticleHow to improve e-mail download/upload speed of Eudora on Leopard Server over...
How to improve e-mail download/upload speed of Eudora 6.2.4 on Mac OS X Server 10.6.8 (Leopard) over VMware 5.0.3 on Mac with OS X 10.8.3 (Mountain Lion)?The speed is excruciatingly slow (about 20...
View ArticleKeyboard not working properly - Wrong Characters & Caps Lock REVERSED
I have found some weird behavior of the keyboard (Spanish ISO) on Mac OS X Server 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard Server) on VMware Fusion 5.0.3 on OS X 10.8.3 (Mountain Lion): 1. In all cases on Snow Leopard...
View ArticleNetwork Bridged connection question
Hi all,this is my first exposure to Vmware workstation and to his community... i have installed vmware workstation 9 version 9.0.2 build-1031769 . i want to bridge the network,but under virtual network...
View ArticleHow to start up in safe boot or safe mode INSIDE a virtual machine?
How to start up in safe boot or safe mode INSIDE a virtual machine? Mac OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1564 In a Mac, you do it pressing the Shift key until you see...
View ArticleTopology ideas
Hello, I would like to get some ideas before finalizing this topology (see attached): 3 r710 machines storing production vm servers on local disks.A 4th r710 machine is on stand-by for a failure of one...
View ArticleUnable to install VMware Player 5.0.2
Hey,i have like other people problems to install VMware Player.My Host is a Windows 7 64 Bit with the new UEFI Bios and the i use the new gpt format at my host disks.I use Avast 8 too.In the past, i...
View ArticleVcloud SNAT RULES
Hi to everyone,I have built a Vcloud Director 5.1 lab with Vshield 5.1.2 with following spec:one External network pointing to internet with network 192.168.0.0/24 and a VCD network with 172.16.1.0/24...
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