VMWare tools 9.2.2 breaks packages in Ubuntu 12.04.2...
VMWare tools does some hackery inside the initramfs dir which causes problems for package management.. Package broken; $ apt-get install mtr Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree...
View ArticleWhat kind of overhead on Hosts from VSphere Replication
Hello, We're currently looking to begin implementing a SRM solution between our two sites. We've opted to initially use VSphere replication rather than Storage replication for cost reasons. One...
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Higher movie recording's FPS?
Hello. Is there a way to get higher FPS to get everything from my VMware Workstation v9.0.2 session (Windows guests and hosts)? I am trying to record that has scenes that show for less than a...
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Could someone fix? "Windows 7.vmx" is not a valid virtual machine...
Hi Everyone, I seem to have what looks to be a pretty common problem. I try to start my windows 7 VM, and I get this error message: "/Users/...../Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows...
View ArticleResource Pools - CPU resources for guest VM's
Hi all, Quick question, I googled around, saw a lot of documents, but I still have this doubt. When I create a resource pool in a cluster of 2 hosts, for example, can a windows guest VM uses CPU...
View ArticleISCSI multipathing and multiple ISCSI SANS in a single ESXi 5.1 cluster
Hi, We have two Dell MD3660i ISCSI SANs.We have a dedicated ISCSI storage network (physically isolated 10GbE switches )We have 10 ESXi hosts in a single cluster each with one dual port 10 GbE NIC...
View ArticleInsufficient Resource Available to perform the HA failover in cluster
Hi, today i got this error from monitoring tool that HA could not perform the failover operation in xxxx.cluster 1. i checked and found that the cluster is having More CPU and Memory available to...
View ArticleVMWare Player Mouse does not snap to a menu
I am using VMWare Player 5 and I open some software and it has drill down type menus. If the menu option I need to click is at the bottom of the screen and the next menu I choose happens to be shorter...
View ArticlePCoIP image quality levels, what's your best practice?
I've just started experimenting with tuning the PCoIP performance of our 300+ desktop deployment. They are primarily general use computer labs so some video (YouTube, etc) is needed so I can't clamp...
View ArticleHow to shutdown powered on VMs by reading a CSV file or just off the Cluster
Hello,I have csv file with the following headers: "Name","Cluster","ESX Host","Datastore"This csv lists all the powered on VMs from a cluster XYZ. How can i read the CSV file and shudown all the VMs...
View ArticleResolution in Ubuntu 13.04 (Retina Display)
I'm trying to use VMware Fusion 5.0.3 in a MacBook Pro with Retina display (15 inches). The idea is to run Ubuntu Linux 13.04 in a virtual machine, but I'm having problems with the screen resolution....
View Articlevmtoolsd.exe User instance doesn't run
Hi, Running VMWare Fusion 4 (latest release 4.1.2) with a Windows 7 Professional guest. The guest machine is part of a Windows domain. I do not have copy/paste/drag-and-drop/unity functionality. The...
View ArticleThe Journey to ITaaS - Defining Great Service
In my role at VMware, I have the privilege of meeting with CXOs from federal, state, and local governments. At some point during these strategy meetings I direct the conversation towards the topic of...
View ArticleAdded SATA drive can't login to vSphere
ESXI 5.1 So I tried to add a SATA drive to run local backups and, after bootup, my vSphere client would not login. It kept on giving me a 'server took too long to respond,' error. I was able to log...
View ArticlevSphere vCenter5.1U1 and SSO on MS SQL 2012
I see in the notes "What's new" for vCenter 5.1 Update 1, that Microsoft SQL 2012 is now supported. Has anyone tried this yet? vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1 Release Notes We are currently in the proccess...
View ArticleConverter unable to create a VSS snapshot of the source volume Error code...
During conversion P2V after 42 minutes 95% the conversion failed as shown in the subject? I tried twice and I obtained the same information at the same time and at the same % Someone know why it is...
View ArticleResetting a host to evaluation mode
I installed ESXi 5.0 a few months and applied the free license. Since then I've upgraded to 5.1. I want to try and "reset" the license so I can get the 60 days eval while retaining the VM's on the...
View Articlechanging vm storage drs automation level
As per http://communities.vmware.com/message/2172311#2172311 I'm using LucD's method, to extract a list of vm's that have vm's turned on function Get-StoragePod{<#.SYNOPSIS Find a...
View ArticleVMware iPAd Client Display/Connection Issues
Hi I haven't found a solution or similar problem to this issue on the forums, so hopefully someone can help. I have installed vCMA (1.2.0.64 Build 502517) and iPad Client 1.2.0 today. Fresh downloads...
View ArticleHow to export into a CSV VMs that are powered on in a cluster
Hello I have the following code but exports all VM that are powered on and off. Is there anyway to export only the VMs that are powered On ? $clusterName = "Whatever"Get-Cluster -Name $clusterName |...
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