Re: ESXi 5 running in Workstation 7 - cant create VMs
If I were to upgrade to Workstation 8 and then open my current VMs and ESXi host from the File, Open menu would it convert them to hardware version 8 or do I have to redo all my VMs?Upgrading to HW...
View ArticleRe: Windows 7 activation problem - solved
So it works when not using "easy install" as André explained earlier. Thanks dlhotka to point to a solution and a.p. to explain it. Even if I did dozen of tests, it's likely that I would not have...
View ArticleRe: poor virtual disk performance in RHEL/CentOS, high in Windows
Hi, Well, I've found out that disk performance is related to VMware iSCSI storage and the way how RHEL/CentOS handles storage I/O. When using VMware local storage instead of iSCSI, performance is...
View ArticleRe: loading EXSi 5
To be able to run ESXi in VMware Workstation or Player your hardware needs to meet certain requirements, e.g. the CPU has to support VT-x and you have to enable it in the BIOS. You also need sufficient...
View ArticleRe: HA + DRS + DPM and "Insufficient resources to satisfy vSphere HA failover"
Hi, Everything is set to automatic. What I've found out is that DRS is obviously allowed to violate HA failover. If some number of VMs are powered on, but has very low load, DRS will all put them onto...
View ArticleRe: poor virtual disk performance in RHEL/CentOS, high in Windows
Thanks for the update on what you have fount on rhel. I was curious to see, although might be irrelevant(because the storage seems to be doing fine) - the values for davg, kavg and gavg. What do they...
View ArticleRe: HA + DRS + DPM and "Insufficient resources to satisfy vSphere HA failover"
Only a thought. Did you configure memory or CPU reservations on any of your VMs? In this case you may have an increased slot size which limits the number of available slots and therefore the number of...
View ArticleNo Parent VM in Select Parent VM window
Hello, I am using VMware ESXi 5.0.0 504890. The datastore is locally attached. I have installed the vCenter / vComposer in a Win 2008 R2 VM and the vConnection in another Win 2008 R2. Now I am trying...
View ArticleRe: Windows 7 activation problem - solved
Thanks for the feedback.Regarding the drivers. The virtual machine/the guest OS is installed on "virtual" hardware. VMware configures/presents this virtual "hardware" to the guest OS in a way that the...
View ArticleWrong keyboard map
Hi all,I built up a virtual machine with Lion as guest OS (I'm running fusion 4 on Lion as a host OS).I realized that my keyboard in the VM is well mapped except for a couple of keys.Same keyboard...
View ArticleFTP list
I need to list the files in a FTP server that accepts connections only from the IP of the physical machine. I use the commands FTPPUT and FTPGET in order to save and retrieve files but I do not know...
View ArticleWrong keyboard mapping in guest OS
Hi all,I', running fusion 4.1.1 on Lion.I built up a VM with Lion too as a guest OS.I realized that my keybord in my VM isn't well mapped.In fact I have a couple of keys which, if pressed, don't...
View ArticleRe: Cant expand a partition in vpshere 5
A partition on a disk (virtual or physical) cannot be split into different parts. This means after increasing the disk the adjacent free disk space is at the end of the disk (behind the last partition...
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Re: Cant expand a partition in vpshere 5
Maybe this explains it better:current partitionsincrease virtual diskmove H: partition to free up space adjacent to G:increase partition G: André
View ArticleDistributed switch and different mapping uplink-vmnic on different hosts...
Hi, Yesterday I've encountered and very odd issue. I have 2 ESX hosts with 5 Gbit NICs (vmnic0 .. vmnic4). I've configured dvSwitch with 5 uplinks (uplink1 - uplink5) mapped to (vmnic0 - vmnic4). I've...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5 network performance is low (I feel)
what could be the probable solution ????
View ArticleRe: Unable to join ESXi5 to 2008R2 Domain - "Errors in Active Directory...
I also bump, tried every tip I found in the net, no way.
View ArticleRe: HELP! Yet another "The parents virtual disk has been modified since the...
Welcome to the Community, there might be a chance to cheat the disk sizes. Before doing anything else, backup the complete folder to make sure you can at least revert to the current state in case...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5 network performance is low (I feel)
I've seen some storage latency on vSphere 5 client event.snapshot is atttaches with this email.please check. Event: Device naa.7675*********************8787 performance has detoriated.I/O latency...
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