I can not clone my VM
Hi,I am very new to the world of VMware. I setup a host, installed ESxi 5.1, and then from a second PC connected to my host using VM client.Then installed server2008 and now I want to clone this VM so...
View ArticleFew questions about setting up a VM purely from the command line
Hello all, I'm currently working on automating our virtual machine farms using command line tools, but I am looking for some direction on how to modify some paramenters of a VM without having to go...
View ArticleMy first server
Hi guys, I would like to ask for some assistance Theres lots of posts on migrating and moving that i have found to be quite informative, but im not sure i can find one i can use. There seems to be too...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 - LSI 3ware 9650SE driver please
The driver for this controller is found after an exhaustive search through the rediculously incomprehensible hardware compatibility guide,...
View ArticleVMWare Tools Software Update
I have been having trouble getting the update of the VMWare tools installed. The autoupdate fails and says I should contact vmware or sysadmin.If I download and run the exe from...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 host randomly rejecting connections
We recently upgraded to Vcenter 5.1 and built a new ESXi 5.1 host. Today was the first day we tried to create a VM on the new host and we ran into an issue with the console being unable to connect to...
View ArticleTemplate VM patching on vCenter Protect standard
Hi all, Currenctly I'm using VMware vCenter protect standard version for offline patching of VMs.I would like to know whether it supports Template VM Patching or not in standard version. I read the...
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Mountain Lion not recognising ATI Radeon 5450
Hi. I've been testing a Mac Mountain Lion virtual machine and discovered that it's not recognising my ATI Radeon 5450 graphics card. I'm getting an error when opening games and suspect this is the...
View ArticleDisk space in VM and on host
Hi, I have a VM using 2 virtual disks. The disks have a capacity of 20 and 100GB. In the VM the usage of the first is about 11GB and of the second about 25GB (shown by Windows XP explorer). The space...
View ArticleVim Object Reference Not Found
Hi, I am trying to convert VCD vApps vm to vCenter vm trough orchestrator workflow by following code, when I try to run the getVMVimRef() function (off a VM) it throw error “Vim Object Reference Not...
View ArticleIncompatible Hypervisor VMware Player
I use Vmware player in School with students on a Win7 (64 bit). When we want to install a recent Ubuntu, we get the message, that the hypervisor is incompatible. After research this message should only...
View ArticlevCenter Operations Manager 5.7 Blank Dashboard
I've just upgraded my Operations Manager from v5.0.2 to the new v5.7 using the upgrade package (.pak file.) The upgrade process was relatively painless and reported no errors. But now, the Dashboard...
View Articleesxi 5.1 and adaptec 6405
Trying to install esxi 5.1.0 on a server with adaptec 6405, but no disk using the controller is seen from the 'device list menu'While istalling aacraid failed to load. I created the installation log...
View ArticleInternet Explorer 8 and "mailto:" links
Hi, we have a thinapped version of Internet Explorer 8, but mailto: links doesn't open outlook but a message that the right mail client is not installed. ThinApp 4.7.3 IE8 captured on XPSP3. Thanks
View Articlevmware and exchange image question
I have an exchange 2010 on windows 2010 image hosted by vmware esx server 3.0.0I finally got a brand new server with vmware esxi 5.1 on it. I like to move this image to this new server I was womndering...
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VLAN Backed Netwoork Pool
hi, i'll create VLAN backed Network Pools for my vcloud testcase and i'm not sure that i understand all correctly.The Portgroups will be created automaticly with a VLAN ID of the given VLAN Range (e.g....
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IBM V7000 & SRM 5.0 - Failed to create snapshots of replica devices
Hi All I wonder if anyone can help. We have 2 IBM Storwize V7000's - 1 at the Protected Site and 1 at the Recovery Site. We have a test Volume that is GlobalMirror 'repliacted' to the DR side - showing...
View ArticleInstalling Win8 64-bit guest
Hello All; I have VMWare Player installed on a Win7 64-Bit system.I am trying to install Win8 64-Bit OS, and it gave me a few errors.Checking out the link that it gave me, I downloaded the test tool,...
View ArticleNo Username Password for labs??
http://i.imgur.com/Hfyggvo.jpg http://i.imgur.com/9cFZuw0.jpg Hello, i have just started my first lab EDU-ICM-01 and i have not been given any login credentials. I am assuming they are supposed to...
View ArticlevCenter Operations Manager 5.7 is now available
vCenter Operations Manager 5.7 is now available https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/infrastructure_operations_management/vmware_vcenter_operations_management_suite/5_7...
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