Re: Virtual Terminals not working in Fedora 17, Dekstop graphics lock up
Try disabling Accelerated 3D Graphics in the Fedora 17 Virtual Machine's Settings and see if that makes any difference. Have a look at: Enable Accelerated 3D Graphics
View ArticleHP xw8400 workstation, integrated sata raid, and vmware esxi 5.1
Good afternoon I'm trying to install esxi 5.1 natively on a hp xw8400 workstation using the integrated sata raid mode as described here:...
View ArticleRe: Downloading vCloud Director
Hi Nish,Sorry to hear that - yes, sounds like a possible restriction on your account. In your company do you have a VMware support agreement? if so you should be able to get access or get your vmware...
View ArticleRe: Capacity and Performance Trending reports
Very informative response and I agree resource pools should not be used for organizing VMs. I prefer not to use them at all. But this is a customers environment and I can only make recommendations....
View ArticleRe: vmware-cmd removesnapshot running 24 hours +
Thank you both for the response. Sure enough, the delta files were gone, the vmx file was pointing to the proper vmdk and the log file looked like the snap shots had been committed. I powered the...
View ArticleRe: Migrate from embedded database to external database
Hi,Indeed the article you need is here: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1028601 Many tx
View ArticleProblems after upgrading a Windows 7 VM to Windows 8
I'm using VMWare Workstation 9 and am having problems with a VM I upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 8. I purchased the Windows 8 Pro upgrade deal from Microsoft and installed the upgrade in my...
View ArticleRe: Need Advice for Home Lab Setup
Check out Auto Lab at labguides.com Its a great lab for testing. I have been using it on a HP DM1z laptop. I have a Dual Core AMD 1.6 gHz cpu and 8GB of ram. Its a little slow but it works when I am on...
View ArticleRe: VMware GO IE add-on does not install
None of the above works for me. I'll try FireFox, as Simon did.
View ArticleQuestions about Vmware Converter
Hello I have some questions about the VMWARE Converter 1) What OSs does it Support and what OSs cant be Converted ? 2) The Capacity Planner is the tool to prove that OS can be converted or not , right...
View ArticleRe: DUPs (resulting in terrible performance) when using a bridged NIC with WS 9
Sure, port mapping woudl work for things like SSH, but I just didn't want the hassle. I'm thinking the issue might be IP Routing that I had turned on a while back for another experiment, and now am...
View ArticleRe: NEW SRM 5.1 with NETAPP SRA 2.0.1 getting error when enabling the paired...
Dear Muhammed,Thanks for the answer, after mapping the lun to DR esx server in read only mode its working. regards,sarma
View Articlebrownfield installation - is this going to wipe my datastores
hi there, I'm looking to install the VSA but I have existing VMs on the hosts that will form the cluster. I have manually configured the port groups, installed the cluster server and have been running...
View ArticleRe: problem installing VSA cluster service
FYI I extracted the .zip to /home/vi-admin and it worked. Cheers for your help. -A
View ArticleRe: HP xw8400 workstation, integrated sata raid, and vmware esxi 5.1
Hi. The Raid-adapter is probably not on the HCL seems to be a what it commonly known as a "software-raid".Unless someone have hacked a driver (unlikely) then your best bet is to turn off the RAID and...
View ArticleRe: Deleting a Virtual Machine
Screenshot...Delete Option is Greyed out. Logged in as root.
View ArticleEsxi 5.1 + n40L errors
Hello,I am using EsXi 5.1 and followed the instructions in http://blog.davidwarburton.net/2010/10/25/rdm-mapping-of-local-sata-storage-for-esxi/ to mount my hard drives to the VM(Solaris 11)when I ssh...
View ArticleRe: brownfield installation - is this going to wipe my datastores
I didn't install the latest VSA version 5.1 myself yet, but I certainly would not expect this question. Can you confirm it's version 5.1 you are using and that there was no option to select to use only...
View ArticleRe: brownfield installation - is this going to wipe my datastores
Hi Andre, Thanks for replying. The version I've used is VMware-vsa-all-5.1.1.0-859703.iso There was an option to choose the space used - please see the attached screenshot. Cheers, Al
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