MacBook Pro with Retina - Issues with Windows 7, External Monitors, and...
Hello all, I'm running VMware Fusion Professional 6.0.2 on a new MacBook Pro with Retina. I run a Windows 7 VM, using a custom text size of 150%, in Fusion's Single Window mode at a resolution of...
View ArticleMeaning of BIOS beeps
Where can I locate a table with the meaning of beeps issued by VMware Player BIOS?The KB article 1664 explaind how to disable beep, but I'd rather like to understand the reason because BIOS beeps...Bye...
View ArticlePreferred path to Fixed and balance between 4 paths
I'm using the script below and it seems to be changing the Preferred path to Fixed but it does not spread the LUNs across the 4 Paths. It always picks the same path. Could somebody please tell me what...
View ArticleIs vCommander really a replacement of vCloud Director?
Hi, someone told that vMware has bought vCommander from Embotics and is planning to promote is as a replacement of vCloud Director. So in the future there will be no vCloud Director, only vCommander...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 Web Client shows incorrect inventory
I upgraded my vCenter to 5.5 from 5.1 and it works except the Web Client has incorrect inventory data. It is missing some VMs and has some ghost VMs that don't actually exist. There aren't any error...
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vim.fault.HttpFault when sorting VMs in vSphere Client after 5.1 upgrade
Hello. I have recently completed a upgrade of vCenter from 5.0 > 5.1. I ran into some common teething problems with SSO but things look ok at the moment. I do have one problem that I'd really like...
View ArticleThinApp Getting Error Linking to Non-ThinApp program
Hello, I have an application that I captured using ThinApp Capture 5. The application has been deployed to several desktops and seems to be working correctly, except for one feature. This particular...
View ArticleUnable to save to a mount point folder?
Hi, I'm using a NTFS partition (which has no drive letter) which I've mounted into a directory.It's a 100GB partition on a SSD drive and it's mounted into the following...
View Articlemove a VMDK within (!) a datastore to another folder
Hello, I have a question: Recently we upgraded a number of virtual servers from Windows 2003 to 2012. Actually, in each case we installed a new VM, detached the data disks from the old 2003 VM and...
View Articlereplication monitoring/API?
Hi, We have replication between two data-centers set-up for a couple of VMs. We'd like to be able to see the status of their replication in Nagios (maybe also stand-up alerting?), rather than having...
View ArticleManagement network unavailable outside of management subnet?
For some reason I am unable to manage my esxi 5 server from outside the management subnet. I have 3 vlans configured. 1 for iscsi storage, 2 is default and the 3rd is for all my VMs. I have intervlan...
View ArticleFixing potential upload problems in Horizon Mirage versions 4.0 - 4.3
Last week VMware released a tool aimed towards fixing an issue with uploads not completing for specific endpoints. The tool is available under the public...
View ArticlevCenter 5.0 USB passthrough not working ?
Hello vCenter 5.0 with 7 ESX servers. When i plug my USB 2.0 network card to any ESX server i can see it on that ESX server: ~ # lsusbBus 02 Device 04: ID 0b95:772b ASIX Electronics Corp. Then i...
View ArticleESXTOP in batch mode fails
I have been trying to run ESXTOP in batch mode with little success. I run this command:esxtop –b –n 3600 > /tmp/results.csvCollection starts and the results.csv file is made. I am trying to run...
View ArticleRemediate Oversized VM with Limits?
So I've been letting Operations Manager run for several months and now I'd like to remediate the Oversized VMs. I see several VMs with 8GB or 16GB of memory, but vCOPS is recommending 1GB of memory....
View ArticleESXi 5.1U, Z87-PRO, Adaptec ASR-6805E
Hello, I am posting this to help somebody else to set up an ESXi Server with following hardware: - Intel i7-4770- Asus Z87-PRO- Adaptec-6805E To use on board I217-V Network Card and This particular...
View ArticleWindows 7 VM and Ubuntu VM Question
Hello All: I am using VM Fusion 5 on OSX - have two VMs Windows 7 with Oracle 12 g installed and Ubuntu with WebLogic. I need help to configure these two VMs - so they can communicate with each other...
View ArticleMulti-site vCenter deployment
Hi - and a Happy New Year to all We have a customer with a current ESXi 5.0 installation, possibly going to 5.1. They are multi-site across a large geographical area with around 60 hosts in all, and...
View ArticleHeartbeat installation says incorrect SSO master password when it is not...
Hello,I am trying to implement heartbeat 6.5 in my 5.1upd1 environment and when it gets to the part of asking for the the SSO master password it keeps telling me it is incorrect but it absolutely is...
View ArticleBrowse locally for installation ISO to create a Shared VM?
I would like to create a Shared VM directly from a local ISO rather than create the VM in My Computer and Manage->Share to move the VM However I cannot seem to find a way to browse locally for an...
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