vc 5.1 thin migrate uses thick!
I've stood up a new 5.1 ua1 VC VM on windows for our dev VI. The VI has some local storage along with an NFS datastore. I have stood up a new 5.1 Data Protection Appliance using thin provisioned disks...
View ArticleVMware Fusion / Windows 8 / Shared Folders / System Hang
Running Fusion 5.0.3 with a Windows 8 Pro -64 bit guest VM. When shared folders are enabled, and ONLY when shared folders are enabled, the system periodically hangs/freezes/beachballs whatever you...
View ArticleBackup Solution with vmdirectpath enabled vm (esxi5.1) ?
Hi, has anyone a working solution for backing up a VM with vmdirectpath (AVM PCI Controller) without shutting down the guest ? may this possible in the future ? any rumors about ?Thanks-Armin
View ArticleSuppress Reboot Message?
Is it possible to suppress the reboot message that appears after an app layer is pushed out to a computer? We were thinking that it would suffice for a reboot when our employees left for the day and...
View ArticleOpenSuse 12.3 host, missing dependency
Installed the Preview on a fresh OpenSUSE 12.3 host. Installation reported no problems but vmplayer UI and Workstation UI fails to start. Starting the UI directly shows that the libart_lgpl_2-2 package...
View ArticlePuerto HTTPS en Host Virtual
Saludos, tengo una duda, tengo una maquina virtual en un vmware ESXI 5.1, la cual tiene una pagina web https (https://192.168.5.10), localmente puedo entrar, pero via internet no, por ahí encontre que...
View ArticleThe initiator could not establish a network connection to the target
Whenever I rescan iscsi hba, I keep getting this message in the events tab Login to iSCSI target iqn...... on vmhba40@vmk2 failed. The iscsi initiator could not establish a network connection to the...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 installation issues
HiI am practically new to VMware vSphere, although I do have a lot of experience with Hyper-V. I am having issues just logging into the vCenter server through the vSphere client (and the web client as...
View ArticleWindows licensing for fault tolerence
I was planning on running 4 VM's in a fault tolerant environment.I'm now reading that I should get 2, Windows server 2008 R2 Ent. licences because they are counted as seperate servers (even though they...
View ArticleKeyboard Not Working after VMWare Conversion
Hello,I'm trying to run a VMware Conversion of an old laptop as a backup. I've run a VMware conversion and converted it to a vm 9 image file. When it gets opened in VMware Player everything works...
View ArticleNo keybord or mouse after convert
I´m trying to convert an IBM X3650 type H5U. The guest OS is Windows 2003 R2 Standard. Mouse and keyboard are USB devices. The machine does not have PS2 ports. After a sucessfull conversion, I turned...
View ArticlePlatform-specific Error 1867
Hello, I'm trying to convert a laptop to a VMware Workstation image and i'm getting the error straight away, A General System Error occurred: Platform-specific Error 1867. I can't find anything about...
View ArticleDatabase Choice for vCenter Server 5 Install on Windows Server 2003
Hi to all.We have a small assisted living healthcare environment with about a dozen sites/servers.One server has 3 VMw4 vms on it.We received two new servers each with ESXi 5 installed. They will host...
View ArticleSoftware re-activation when moving VMs
Hello, I've got a question about moving VMs to different VMhosts. Windows normally detects processor changes and makes you re-activate their software when it detects a change in processor. There are...
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Unable to create appliance for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 64bit [Unable to...
Hello, I try to prepare appliance with RHEL 6.0 64bit (without any other tools) but i have this error :03/06/2013 15:36:36 [info] Waiting for the OS and applications installation process to...
View ArticleError logging in as an Active Directory User
Just getting a dev system set up for the first time. Logging as the default admin user is fine. If I add a local user to the VCAC server, I can add that user to the Administrators group, and the login...
View ArticleIgnore Power Button Events
I am running ESXi 5 on a Supermicro X9SCM and I am trying to figure out how to stop the server from powering down when the power button is pushed. I already changed the BIOS settings from "Instant Off"...
View ArticleCant proviosion data to specific user
Hi When i entitle data to a group everyone is successful except for one user. Error says "ERROR_NOT_PROVISIONED. In the horizon.log in the Service-VA i can read that the email adress already exists.?...
View Articlenot finding eventfilterspec.seteventtypeid method in vim25.jar downloaded...
Hi , I am not finding "setEventTypeId" method API in EventFilterSpec class in vim25.jar . This jar I downloaded from Vmware site for SDK 5.1.Has anybody encountered this issue earlier ? or I am doing...
View ArticleInternet on Windows 95 on VMware Workstation 9
Can someone please help me get the internet to work on my guest Windows 95 OS in VMware Workstation 9?I have it set up to be hardware compatible with vmware 5.The sound works - I found the driver for...
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