trying to create win 7 installation using Win 8 Host but memory not enough??
I am trying to install windows 7 but it keep coming back and telling me I have not reserved enough memory...doesn't matter what I set it to the message still comes back...what Iam I doing wrong...is it...
View ArticleRun OS X 10.9 from a separate partition in a VM?
I've installed OS X 10.9 Mavericks on an external hard drive and I'd like to add that as a guest to my VMware Fusion 5 running on OS X 10.8.4. How do I add it as a new VM?
View ArticleWorkstation 9 - Slow network performance between host and guest
I am running windows 8 on the host and installed Workstaion 9 trial. Then installed windows 8.1 as a guest system. I am getting slow, really slow network between the two. If i send files to and from...
View ArticleList all IP addresses
I am trying to get all IP addresses on a vm and the associated portgroup.$vm.Guest.IPAddress I have the Vlan$vmvlan = Get-VirtualPortgroup -VM $_.Name | %{$_.VlanId} Now if there are more than 1 Vlan I...
View ArticleBest practices... How many nics?
Hey guys, We are currently in the process of adding 2 new hosts (HP BL460c G8) to our 4 hosts (HP BL460c G7) cluster. The hosts have the following configurations : - 12 cores (2x Intel Xeon 6 cores)-...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Migration 5.1.1 High Cpu
Since migrating to a newly built cluster running ESXi 5.1 build 838463 and View 5.1.1 build-799444 we experience high cpu utilization on the esx side. It appears to be related to PCoIP because if I...
View ArticlePartition drives or indiviual drive when running virtual servers?
I'm configuring a HP DL380 G7 server. I'm not sure if I should configure 4 (1TB) hard drives with RAID 1 to have the drives showed up as two separate disks for storage. Or, I should purchase two (2TB)...
View Articleextremely high cpu ready ms
On the realtime chart over a period of 20 seconds I am seeing over 100,000ms cpu ready time. Approximately 70 view workstations all single vcpu. I am trying to understand how this is working in the...
View ArticleFailure to import CSV with ConvertFrom-Csv
I have a script that is designed to record the consumed data of all my virtual machines and create a CSV with the data. The script checks for the existence of a file with the same name as the output...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to prevent SQL transaction full
Hi all,Here's the story.vCenter 5.0, SQL express 2005. Last week, I changed the settings of Log history in vCenter from unlimited to keep 30 days.Then after few days vCenter crashed because the SQL...
View ArticleRecover thick vmdks from raw VMFS
In case you ever need it .... I found a procedure to extract thick vmdks from unreadable VMFS volumes that is fast enough to be useful.I only extract thick provisioned vmdks !!! The procedure only...
View ArticleBilling Policy Clarification Needed
Hello I am trying to understand the difference between billing based on CPU usage vs vCPU count. On the Base Rates tab of a Cost Model, you can see CPU with a metric of GHz and vCPU with a metric of...
View ArticleReporting resource usage per VMfolder
Hi guys, I need to get a report that will look into a vCenter's VM folders and will report back the total amount of RAM used by each folder (provisioned and active ideally), CPU used (MHz) and maybe...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ThinApp that calls a dll with global hooks
Would I be seeing the following error messages if my ThinApp was trying to call a dll with a global hook?
View Article#25drive_c#25
I just noticed that in the Package.ini files of a few Thinapps, references to the "Source=" displays #25drive_c#25 instead of %drive_C%. Would anyone know why? Do I need to change it back to %drive_C%?...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Help! VMWare Fusion causing chain crashes on Lion
Hello everyone! I really need some help. I don't pretend to be an expert by any means, but I can usually solve my own problems by web searching and common sense. However, this one has me really...
View ArticleVirtualisation and CMDB
My company's virtualised server environment consists of VMware ESXi hosts on Cisco UCS blades. In order to assess change impact on our services we would like to build CMDB relationships similar to...
View ArticleDifinitive disk.terminateVMOnPDLDefault
Hi Running ESXi 5.1 Update 1: Looking for the definitive way of formatting the disk.terminateVMOnPDLDefault entry in the settings file. The VMWare KB simply says set it to true. Helpful. A number of...
View ArticleDoubts regarding some interview questions
Hi Guys, Recently attended interview for a good company, they grind me for 3 rounds and then rejected.The questions which I fumbled upon were as follows: 1. If you have 8 ESX hosts in a cluster and 240...
View Article