DHCP not working in XP guest
Greetings -- Need a hand... Been running Vmware Workstation since r8. Upgraded to r9 (9.0.1 build-894247) about a month ago. Ubuntu 12.04, 32bit host. My Win XP guests will not pick up an IP via DHCP...
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I have a somewhat similar issue;VDP deployment (Horrible process, bad documentation)Set your jobs, they are fine untill the machine reboots,then it fails to start its own maintenance and scheduling...
View ArticleRe: ESX 5.0 U2 and VM renames
We had a WebEx and my guy tried adding the same variable.Same undesireable results.
View ArticleRe: ESX 5.0 U2 and VM renames
But Troy... There is a big difference... The rest of us are mere mortals!!!!
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I`m running a guest Ubuntu server 12 vm on a Windows 7 host pc.The host computer ip is 10.0.0.1 and the guest ubuntu is configured as 192.168.21.129 (i dont want to change these ip addresses). I`ve...
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As first thing and generally speaking I would plug and configure all ports on each server and all ports on storage, this means not to connect random cables between ESXi hosts, storage and rest of the...
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Thank you for the write up. I am glad to hear you had success with the move.
View Articlelinux VM freezes, but no clues in "Tasks & Events"
We have an Ubuntu VM on ESXi that occasionally freezes. VM appears to be running from an ESX perspective, but user interactions are frozen. Clearly I have to increase the debug level to the Ubuntu...
View ArticleRe: Attaching a company asset tag
ITScripts information for vCenter Protect can be found in our administration guide, http://www.shavlik.com/assets/docs/ag-prt-8-0-2.pdf. I am not nurse if you are looking for this information for the...
View ArticleRe: Best practices for iSCSI configuration
In terms of storage its EMC VNXe 3100, it doesn't have to withtand a lot of load. ESXi host will be set up in a cluster with virtualize vCenter with SQL Express database. I can't set up vDS as Standard...
View ArticleRe: ESX 5.0 U2 and VM renames
maybe i just got lucky... The parameters are to be added minus the quotes. From there, it seemed to just work. You may try and restart you vCenter Server Service as well. A sceen shot of our changes
View ArticleRe: VMware Fusion 5.0.2 Magic Mouse Lag
Thanks for your reply. Does the problem happen when you use multiple overlapping Windows in Outlook in the VM in Unity mode? Can you shutdown the VM, add this line to the .vmx file...
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For clustering Thick Provision is mandatory and Eager Zeroed is adviced. Differences between them are explained here:...
View ArticleExport list of VDI users, pools, and email addresses?
Is there a way in VMware View Administrator that I can export a table (.csv) of assigned users, their pools and their email address?I see PowerCLI, how do I use that to export informations I need?Thanks!
View ArticleRe: Worksation 7.1.5 Build 491717 Winodows 8
eAs I read the host compatiblity guide the answer is no - it is not suplported. However the guild only goes upl to WS 7.14 - missinig WS 7.15. for some reason I may be reading this wrong -...
View ArticleRe: ESX 5.0 U2 and VM renames
Weird stuff going on here... I coulda SWORE that's what the tech. did and it didn't fly. I re-added the variable and did a hot SVmotion. All file names changed except the .nvram and the .xml files.
View ArticlePerformance
We are having an issue on our VM environment but i am not sure how to understand it so i am hoping someone can help me with that. We have a VMware ESX v4.1 environment that consist of 6 phisical...
View ArticleRe: Best practices for iSCSI configuration
After reading all the articles and some ofthe white papers, the following is the configuration that I am thinking (Assume that my Broadcom card has nic ports assigned as eth0 through eth3 and Intel...
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