Share Management network with other out-of-band traffic (iLO, etc.)?
Is it common or 'best practice' to put ESXi management network on the same subnet/VLAN as other out-of-band "management" traffic, such as iLO, Onboard Administraotr, Switch Management, etc? Or should...
View Articlesetting up NFS server - 2008R2, sharing out secondary disk - advice on...
I need to set up a temporary NFS server. I was thinking of creating a virtual machine, running NFS file services on it and adding a second hard disk. I have several attached LUNs available, and want...
View ArticleVery slow P2V with Standalone converter 5 without SSL
Hello all, we are trying to P2V a physical server (Proliant G4 with Win2k3, 1Gb lan connexion) to a VM using Standalone converter 5 (destination Proliant G7 with redundant Gb LAN running ESX 4.1).This...
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Bizarre CMD/sec in esxtop far exceed physical disk boundary.
Hi, All I'm testing VDI performance on ESXi 5.1. The machine is IBM X3650 M4, which has two 8 core CPU with 8 disks (15k rpm SAS) in RAID 5. I used esxtop to collect IOPS statistics. When I...
View Articlecan't exit vi on console
I want to enable ssh om my esx 4i on the consolei enter unsupported and edit the inetd.conf file, but when i press escape to exit vi nothing happens so i cant save the filethe only way out of i is to...
View ArticleData on virtual hard disks can be lost?
Hi all. I have a background on Windows Azure, and in that platform a Virtual Machine can be reimaged. When that happens, the data on the Operating System Disk is lost. For that reason you need to...
View ArticleMac Keyboard & Mouse profile not automatically chosen for Mac OS X VM
This has probably been reported, but I didn't find it on the Forums. Easy fix! Fusion 5.0.3 (on HOS 10.8.4) I created a new Mac 10.8 VM. Noted that the keyboard profile was set to 'default', not 'Mac'....
View ArticleApoio da Vmware para profissionais
Amigos, Eu acho que a Vmware devia apoiar mais os profissionais que trabalham com sua tecnologia, vejam a Microsoft, tem N ferramentas e sites que ajudam a comunidade de TI a aprender e a se...
View ArticleHost memory always totally consumed, why?
I have 10 VM's and have allocated each 2048 MB through 'Edit Settings...'. I had assumed that this means, that the maximum amount of memory that the VM will draw is 2048 MB, but if the VM requires...
View ArticleVSphere Client cannot "Connect to USB device"
Just installed VSphere Client (5.1 update 1) on a freshly built W7 x64 system (Intel Haswell) and I'm completely unable to connect any USB devices on the host via the VSphere Client to any of my guest...
View ArticleEsxi Consulenza Napoli Italia
Salve ho un Server Dell con ESXi 5 con un sistema di 5 macchine virtuali, il mio vecchio consulente non si occupa più della ns. infrastruttura e vorrei un azienda ho un esperto Vmware capace di...
View ArticleDatastore on an USB Device
Hello, I had a dream of my home server, now i have bought a server and have my first problem. My Hardware:HP ML110 G7 I hoped that it would be possible to install esxi 5 on an sd card (which works...
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Timed out while doing Export to OVF...
Hi friends I was doing Export OVF template.. of a VM (RHEL6 guest) which is around 60GB from my ESXi5.1 to my laptop. every time i try while in progress around 5% to 6% it is saying that timed out.. as...
View ArticleHands-on Labs blog posts
Hi Everyone, I'm new to the Hands-on Labs team and wanted to let you know that I'm planning to write some HOL-related blog posts on both the Hands-on Labs blog and the vSphere blog. The stuff on the...
View ArticleToshiba Satellite S855D - WIFI in VM(Windows 8)
How about this one, if it is even doable.I just got the Satellite S855D. My first order of business was to trash Windows 8, which, fortunately I was able to do in a unique manner, having pulled and...
View ArticleHow do I re-establish a 'connection' on my Lion server with VMFusion 4?
Dear Forum Users: I am in a PhD program and was sorting 'Folders' for better management and faster access to academic articles. I inadvertently changed a folder named 'WIN 7 Virtual machines' and...
View ArticleHow to make an HP EVA controller visible to a VM?
Folks - I'm trying to figure out how to get a Virtual Machine to "see" an HP EVA storage controller. I am not trying to do an RDM or even "VM Direct Path/PCI passthrough" (though the latter would be...
View ArticleCannot get 3d support enabled in Ubuntu 13.04
Hi, I cant seem to find a solution to this issue. I cant for the life of me figure out how to get the 3d support working for ubuntu 13.04. The option is grayed out. I have tried to search for it...
View ArticleMy VMWare Fusion Will NOT Load - PLEASE HELP!!!!
Yesterday I started my VMWare Fusion software to load Windows XP and everything came up like normal. My Kaspersky Anti-Virus needed updating, as did Windows. After downloading and installing the...
View ArticleHow do I transfer VM to another ESXi server?
Hi, We just bought a child company and they are running 2 VMs on an ESXi server. We bought a new physical server and installed ESXi (latest version) and would like to transfer the 2 VMs to the new ESXi...
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