VMPlayer 5.02 Will not play VM Converted VM
Help Please. First time poster. I have successfully converted Windows 8 Notebook (Boot partition and c drive) to VM. Player 5.02 will not play it. Log file attached. First time all was fine and...
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Multi-display reverts to single after unlocking Win7 client
Had an issue today. Left Workstation running in multi-monitor mode across 3 displays. Came back after the client (Windows 7 64-bit) had locked the screen due to inactivity. When I entered my...
View ArticlevExpert: Philip Ditzel
This document is a detail page for the VMware vExpert Directory.Expert InformationNamePhilip DitzelLocationArlington, VAUnited StatesShort Description12-year IT professional specializing in...
View ArticleDirext3D support for VMware Workstation 9 - Windows 7 Pro
Hello all, I am trying to get a game of mine working in VMware Workstation 9 and I have done quit a bit of reading. I have read that you need to add these lines found in this tutorial: Enabling...
View ArticlevCO Web View Autologin
Hello, can anyone provide an example of properly configuring a web view for autologin for user interaction? When I generate a web view URL with the inAutologin parameter set to true via...
View ArticleSamsung Galaxy S connection problems
Greetings, I am trying to connect my Samsung Galaxy S in my Windows virtual machine but however VMachine doesn't even detect the USB and therefore Samsung Kies can not detect mobile. Is anyone able to...
View ArticleTroubles with updating Patches and Updates??
I am using this article to update the esxi 5.1 host I just installed VMware KB: Installing patches on an ESXi 5.x host from the command line In line 6 I type the commands cd...
View ArticleHelp/Suggestions with setup
Hi, I'm new to the community and as well as with VMWare. I'm now supporting the VMWare ESX 4.1.0 in the company using Dell PowerEdge R710 with 8x2.4Ghz CPU, 24GB ram and 4TB HDD. The server runs the...
View ArticleNode passwords
Hi,After deploying a big data cluster, is there a default password for the DataMaster, ComputeMaster, Worker, and client nodes?I want to run the wordcount program for testing and I cant access the...
View ArticleWindows 2008 can not be booted in vmplayer 5
Hi All, I used vCenter Converter to copy Windows 2008 R2 to target machine. Target OS is Windows 7 64 bit.The conversion was successful.Then I tried to start Windows 2008 in Vmplayer 5. A black...
View Articleinstall vCenter 5.1 on same system with (inactive) 5.0.0?
We are now running vCenter 5.0.0 on a Windows 2008 box, and use an Oracle database on the back end. Rather than upgrade to vCenter 5.1, can I shut down the 5.0, and just install 5.1 fresh? My thinking...
View ArticleBest Practise for separating VMs from each other
Hi there,I run a 6 Hosts vSphere 5.1 cluster right now with different customers.We have 4 different Networks, Management, iSCSI, vMotion and VM LAN.Management, iSCSI and vMotion run on own switches,...
View ArticleIBM Tivoli Storage Manager in a VM to backup to tape
hi guys has anyone tried IBM TSM -. Tivoli Storage Manager - in a VM to backup to tape?I think NPIV have to be used. Maybe is not supported but I would like to try o maybe someone has any experience....
View ArticleBest Practise for 25 drives Raid in a HP ProLiant DL385 Gen8
Hello,I have a HP DL385 Gen8 Server with 2 CPU and 16 Cores per Socket and 192 GB RAM.We use VMware vSphere 5.1 Enterprise Plus. As Hardware we use the internal HP P420i SAS Controller and we have 25...
View ArticleInstall 2008r2 on esxi 5.1 ?
I have been searching the articles on the site and knowledge base looking for and article describing how to create a vm and install windows 2008r2 on it . Anyone got one or know of one I would...
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script to add new port groups to a dvswitch
Hi I was wondering if anybody had a script to add new port groups to dvswitches I want to be able to import a csv with the new port group names and VLAN's and have it apply to a dvswitch by the name...
View ArticleWSX and ESX
Are there any plans for WSX to work with ESXi_4.1 (Free Version), in terms of displaying desktops of the VM's run on ESX via WSX?If so, any estimate when that might be available?Thanks!
View ArticleError: The virtual machine is not powered on: [datastore1] blank_4/blank.vmx
I have installed latest vmrun tools on Linux ( downloaded from vmware site). I am using following command but getting this error "Error: The virtual machine is not powered on: [datastore1]...
View Articleexpand vmfs volume online
Thanks all your help. I have a VMFS volume with 200G and 1 vm running on it, I want to expand it by: - expand the lun size from san storage to 500G- expand that VMFS to 300G from vcentre. Is it safe...
View Articleis VMware here vulnerable?
Hi, is there anybody from the VMware experts who know's if VMware vSphere 5.x isvulnerable of this attack: http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/448 best regardsThomas
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