Star Wars The Old Republic (SWTOR) freezes with VMWare Fusion 5
Hi! I am playing SWTOR on VMWare Fusion 5 and the game generally works well. Firstly, I overcame some initial difficulties by reverting from Windows 7 64bit to Windows XP, and installing Quicktime and...
View ArticleUnable to add NFS storage to the Data appliance
Hello, I’m trying to add NFS storage to the data appliance.I followed the documentation, and when I ran the script supposed to mount/add the NFS storage to the appliance, an error saying that the...
View ArticleVMware Virtual Disk Manager - [NFC ERROR] NfcNetTcpRead: bRead: -1
Getting NFC error when trying to download VMDK using VMware Virtual Disk Manager. VDDK version: 5.1.0-774844 Error detail: Creating disk 'C:\BACKUP\VM01_2.vmdk'SSL_VerifyCbHelper: Certificate...
View ArticleVMware Virtual Disk Manager - Received signal 11
Getting error message "Received signal 11" when trying to download VMDK using VMware Virtual Disk Manager (VDDK 5.1.1-1042608). Tried with multiple versions of ESXi (4.1.0-260247, 5.1.0-1065491,...
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VDP integrity check fails
One of my VDP appliances won't run integrity checks. When I try to run an integrity check manually I get the following error. My issue is almost identical to the following...
View ArticleHow are you validating network on new ESXi hosts?
As we have no visibility into our corporate ITs networking configuration, we must trust that they have completely configured everything end to end successfully for any given port. We use, what I...
View Articleperformance tab not working
In vsphere (vmware esx 4.0.0) when I click on the performance tab on any device, host vm etc I get nothing or more specifically on the overview sub-tab: This program cannot display the webpage Any...
View ArticleEsxi 5 update 1/HP DL380g6 with bnx2 driver doesn't load all network ports
Hi,I have a HP DL360 G6 with 4 physical Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T network interfaces.But Esxi v5.0.0 U1 build 623860 only gives me 2 ports: ~ # esxcli network nic list Name...
View ArticleHow can failover vCenter Server 5.1 to Secondary Server in DR mode?
My understanding is vCHB do following step to failover vCenter Server to DR site:1. Stop vcenter server on Primary Server.2. Hide principle network on Primary server.3. Make Secondary Server to Active...
View ArticleListing the virtual center for a given host
Ok, I am sure I am missing something very easy here so I will throw it out and see if any one can help. I am trying to do a report on my hosts listing number of processor sockets, cores, virtual...
View ArticleWhere can I find the libXdmcp RPM package for vCloud director 5.1 install?
Hello everyone, I’m doing my first vCloud director install and am not a Linuxguy at all. In any case my RedHat 6 OS does not include the libXdmcp RPMpackage. I have downloaded and installed...
View ArticleVCenter alarm history
Aloha, Where can I find a history of all alarms triggered?? Mahalo, Bill
View ArticleADD A HOST WIZARD IS NOT RESOLVING THE HOSTNAME ONLY IP (ESXi5.1)
I was able to complete a successful install of VMware-vCenter-Server-Appliance-5.1.0.10100-1123965_OVF10.ova. I was able to login into VMware vCenter Server Appliance web page port 5480 and VMware web...
View ArticleDelete a Custom Property
Hello, I was looking for a way to remove a custom property, like from a menu operation that calls a workflow to "remove" a component and the associated custom properties. I've looked in the CDK...
View ArticleWinXP Guest Performance Issues under Linux Host (Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS) using...
Just wondering if anyone has any hints or tips for improving the performance of a Windows Guest running under a Linux Host. I just upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to 12.04.2 LTS. I had my Windows...
View Articlehgfs file corruption when using different file handles to the same file in...
Hello all, I'm encountering a problem when using shared folders where files that are written to by a single process are being corrupted if another thread in that same process merely reads from the same...
View ArticleHide a Custom Menu Option in UI based on Custom Property
Hello, I'm curious if it's possible to show or hide a custom menu option based on the existence or value of a custom property? (similar to the machineStates filter in the operation config file)The use...
View ArticleLinux Kernel 3.9-4 Guest-VMware Tools fails to install
Host Windows 8Guest Debian Sid VMware Tools fails (as it does in VMWare 9) with following error message: Creating a new initrd boot image for the kernel.update-initramfs: Generating...
View ArticleVDR "trouble reading files, error -3956 (operation failed)" issue
UPDATE : Mistake corrected with red color Hello, I use VDR 2.0.0 with ESXi 5 HA cluster created with 3 hosts and FC SAN acting as datastore.I've tried to backup VM with two vmdks - first 102GB and...
View ArticleFlickering screen using Fusion 5.0.3 on latest 2013 (Haswell) MacBook Air
Hi all, I just got one of the new Haswell-based MacBook Airs and have installed the latest Fusion (5.0.3) on it to run Windows 8 (x86). It installed fine but now I get a large dark area flickering on...
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