Full restore of Server 2008 R2 to vmware workstation 9 from windows backup image
Workstation 9. I am trying to restore a windows server 2008 r2 backup (taken with windows built-in backup) to an existing vmware server 2008 r2 installation. Basically I'm just want to replace the...
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hi when i tried to power a vishield manger i got this error SharedArea: Unable to find 'testSharedAreaPtr' in SHARED_PER_VM_VMX areasome can help me
View ArticlevCenter Single Sign On master password
Hi guys i do not remember admin@system-domain password i wondring how to reset admin's account password i tried to reset password by rsautil command line but i dont remember master password. Anyway to...
View ArticleHow to wipe and do a new install with attached iscsi luns?
I am planning to migrate two esx 4.1 hosts to esxi5.1 by wiping them and doing a clean install. Each host is connected to two iscis sans, with 4 luns from each san attached to each host. Each lun is...
View Article2 virtual hosts cannot ping each other
Hi all, I have this very strange problem with ping command between 2 virtual hosts. What i have done is: installed VmWare Workstation 9installed 2 virtual hosts running Windows XP2 virtual hosts are...
View ArticleFinding the extents of a datastore?
I am trying to extract the name of the extents that each datastore has. When I use the Vsphere GUI Client, I can access it through clicking on a datastore and going to the configuration tab, so I know...
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 ArticleCannot disable "windows key" behavior from Fusion 5
Can someone tell me how to disable the "windows key" function from within a VM running Win 7. For example, what I *used* to be able to do was hit "command-tab" to switch between my VM and other apps...
View ArticleON VIEW CONNECTION SERVER, TRANSFER SERVER STATUS PENDING, The service is not...
Based on some really bad advice, I created a second view connection server in our VDI environment. When it got to the point that I had to add servers, when I added the view transfer server that was for...
View ArticleHelp creating datastore dashboard
Hopefully someone can help point me in the right direction, I'm wanting to create a dashboard to help find VM's with high disk i/o at any given time. I already have my charts on one dashboard so I can...
View ArticleiSCSI over Storage Port or VM Traffic?
In the physical machine we have 6 NICs:0&1 are 1gb NICs on a vSwitch0 with vmKernel port configured for Management 2&3 are 1gb NICs on a vSwitch1 with Vmkernel port configured for vMotion and...
View ArticleThe operation is not supported for the specified parameters
"C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware VIX\vmrun.exe" -T player [command] "D:\Documents and Settings\APB.XP80GB\My Documents\My Virtual Machines\Ubuntu\Ubuntu.vmx" Tried start, stop, list for [command]....
View ArticleTrying to create a VMFS datastore
I can not figure out what I am doing wrong, a very unhelpful error "Undefined subroutine &VmfsDatastoreCreateSpec::type called at /usr/share/perl/5.14/VMware/VICommon.pm line 1501" is thrown when I...
View ArticleМиграция FreeBSD на ESXi 5.1
Доброго времени суток. Мне нужно перенести систему с FreeBSD с UFS на ESXiесть vCenter 5.1 пока я попробовал один вариант - сделал акронисом бекап винта с FreeBSD и развернул его на диск новой ВМ с...
View Article"Change Credential" results in "VcPlugin" is not defined
As part of a change request portal, I need to change AD permissions during the schema to allow the workflow item "Get virtual machines by name" to view the entire vCenter inventory. I do not want the...
View ArticleHelp, VSA down after disconnecting from network
I need some help to understand what has happened to my VSA 1.0 install. I simply disconnected all the VSA & ESX nodes and vCenter from the network at once and then reconnected them immediately...
View ArticleESXI 5.1: Host stops unexpectedly
Hi everyone, I recently built a system to run ESXi and host a bunch of virtual servers. The ESXi host seems to run very well, but about once every 24 hours it appears as if it loses its ability to use...
View ArticleChange vsphere health warnings?
I have an IBM 3690 server. It has a powersupply module that can take 4 canisters, however we only have 2 installed(and we only plan to keep 2 installed). Is there a way for vpshere to turn off the...
View ArticlevCOPS Web Login Fails in Linked Mode if Site Unavailable. Need to Fix
We have 2 sites in linked mode running vCenter 5.1b and vCOPS 5.6. Whenever we isolate the 2nd site and lose contact with the 2nd site ,which is planned, we can no longer login to the vCOPS using the...
View ArticleVMware View 5 Premier Bundle Starter Kit - KMS Licensing
I am implementing View for a small office of about 8 people. I started by building a Windows 7 VM, set a snapshot and then setup my pool. I created a pool of 3 VMs and when they finally got spun up I...
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