NSX and physical switches
I am setting up NSX in a test lab with old switches. Other than setting up 1600 MTU on the physical network what else do I need to do on the physical network to make sure it is compatible with NSX?...
View ArticleWorkstation 11 USB 3.0 support
Has anyone been able to connect a USB 3.0 port to a VM guest running Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit OS? USB 2.0 ports work great, but connecting any device to one of the hosts USB 3.0 ports results in the device...
View ArticleHow do I install an instance of Yosemite on VMWare Fusion 7?
Just got a Mac Mini with Yosemite preinstalled. I want to install an instance of Yosemite on my VM running Fusion 7. How do I do that? Do I download Yosemite from the App store? Will doing that create...
View ArticleCreating Datastore capacity reports
I've had a look through the forum but can't find information on how to creating automatic reports (to be emailed) based on Datastores that are near capacity. I could set this within vCenter but would...
View ArticleResource Pool Automation
I'm currently being tasked with trying to automate resource pool allocation in our clusters. Currently our operations team is struggling to size the resource pools automatically, or systems are...
View ArticleClient Integration Plug-in vCenter 5.5
On a fresh install of a vCSA, I cannot get the Client Integration Plug-in to download from the webclient correctly. I tries to install and comes back corrupt. Is there a place that I can download a...
View Articlewindows 2008R2 freezing
Hi, over the last two weeks we have had a number of windows 2008R2 servers freeze. the servers respond to a ping but the application seems to fail. RDC to the servers also fails. when you connect to...
View ArticleMicrosoft - Windows Content pack .. problem with injesting a application log...
I have installed Log Insight 2.6 GA and have tried to ingest an application log file using these parameters on the target server; ; Dynamic file representing the effective configuration of VMware Log...
View ArticleVirtual switch throughput
I've a simple confirmation query.Say I've one standard virtual switch created out of 4 physical nic's, each with 10Gb uplink.Will throughput of that virtual switch be 40Gb or still just 10Gb ?If it's...
View Article"A fault has occurred causing a virtual CPU to enter the shutdown state"...
the vm boots but right after guest loading of bootmgr, vmware stops it (i can see just a flash of the boot screen)if I setup the vm as "other 64bit" or "freebsd 64 bit", it boots ok.if I setup as...
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Strange Printing Issue (bug?)
Hi All,I'm having a strange printing issue from Microsoft Word 2010 within VMWare 7.1.0 running Windows XP and SP3. It happens both when I print to a physical printer and to PDFWriter to generate a...
View ArticleHow do I register all VMX files found in a list of datastores with new names
Hello- I am trying to come up with a way to search through a given list of datastores, and upon each find of a .VMX file, re-add that machine to inventory only I would like to prefix the name of the...
View ArticleIdeal to trunk internal facing DMZ & external facing DMZ VLAN subnets?
More of a network designing questionIs it ideal to trunk Internal DMZ & External DMZ VLAN subnets in order to use just one vswitch ?Technically it is possible but is it an ideal design?
View ArticleHow can I check if the workstation is a Virtual Machine?
Hi All, Please excuse my lack of knowledge, Could you please advise How can I check if the workstation is a Virtual Machine? Regards,Vin
View ArticleCan I use the total resources (cpu/ram) of two esxi hosts if I setup a...
I'm using vCenter 5.1 with two esxi 5 hosts, both exactly the same (Evga SR-2 pc's with two Intel x5670 cpu's in each) except for disk storage. The x5670 cpu has 12 cores if HT is on. So since I have 4...
View ArticleUnmount VMFS volume A general system error occurred: Cannot read the host...
I am getting an error when adding a new iscsi volume. The error is a general system error occured. cannot read the host cache configuation because some other proess is modifying it at this time. any...
View ArticlePowerCLI and ESXi5 hypervisor
Can I use PowerCLI with ESXi5 or ESXi5.5 hypervisor edition?
View ArticleNew VMware Player closes when I shut a VM down. With previous versions there...
Since upgrading to the new VMware Player I can't keep the player open when I close a VM. With the previous version there was a setting under "File", "Preferences" where I could choose to keep it open....
View ArticleUnable to change PATH system variable...
I have an application that needs to set the PATH environment system variable but it does not set it during AppStack provisioning. I even tried changing it manually for testing us both the Registry and...
View ArticleBoot order issue after adding additional SCSI controller.
Hi all, I'm currently building an workflow for adding additional several disks and additional 3 SCSI controller to a given virtual machine. After that the system isn't booting anymore, because the boot...
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