Should VMWare Workstation 7 work on a Windows 8 host?
I recently upgraded my host machine to Windows 8 and I get "Insufficient Memory" errors when I attempt to run Windows guests on VMWare 7.x.x. Is it possible to get this scenario to work if I'm to...
View ArticleRe: V5.1 Vcenter best practices?
Seems to me that you are decreasing, rather than increasing availability in creating a separate cluster for vCenter and infrastructure VMs. I have never thought 2 host clusters were a "best practice."...
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Re: Boot from a "live CD"?
Have a look at Select a Startup Device and to boot from USB you'll need to use the Plop Boot Manager 5.0. Other options are to add the following to the Virtual Machine's .vmx configuration file....
View ArticleRe: Should VMWare Workstation 7 work on a Windows 8 host?
At the present time, the only version of VMware Workstation that is officially supported on a Windows 8 Host is VMware Workstation 9.x. Other then that the only suggestion I have would be to...
View ArticleRe: P2V Question
Thank you, I have read the best practices but they do not specifically answer my questions around handling iscsi.
View ArticleRe: ESXI Monitor VM
Hi, As per my knowledge there is no inbuilt app/tool to help you with the same.However Virtual machine monitoring feature will help you upto an extend. VM Monitoring restarts individual virtual...
View ArticleRe: P2V Question
Hi , I have a question here >The local server drive for the SAN storage consists of 3 spanned volumes.Can you please explain the same?
View ArticleHow to protect VDP
Hi Everyone Just wanted to know whether there is a good way of protecting the vDP appliance. We are worried that it is the only thing giving us access to our virtual machine backups. Does it have any...
View ArticleRe: PCI Passthrough of µPD720201 USB 3.0 Controller w/ ESXi 5.0u2
Thank you very much for the post! I was having trouble with a Renesas USB 3 card in that it would work when I passed it through to a Windows 7 VM, but it wouldn't work when I passed it through to a...
View ArticleThinking about SAN chunk size
I did some Googling about SAN chunk size and VMFS 5 and found precious little information. In choosing a chunk size for VMFS 5, should the block size, or the sub-block be the primary consideration? I...
View ArticleRe: invalid host after registering vmx file
there may be something happening to vmx file - we saw this problem sometime back - where if the SAN storage went offline for a few seconds and would come back online - the vmx file tends to get...
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Re: iSCSI Discovery
I am dealing with the same issue right now. 2 ports on EMC SAN are dedicated to Mirror View and not usable by ESXi hosts. Run dynamic discovery, delete unneeded static targets, and they come right...
View ArticleRe: Error when create AutoPool VMWareVIew
good suggestions about DNS, do you have domain controller 2008? did you try windows 7? same problem? Any read only domain controllers? 1. with windows 2008 DC's I had problems with XP pools because the...
View ArticleRe: SSO and SQL Cluster
I had a long detailed discussion with VMware regarding this. This was the outcome. SQL DB clustered is not a 100%, VMware will give best effort support for that. For vCenter and VUM I know this is a...
View ArticleRe: Error when create AutoPool VMWareVIew
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View ArticleCreate new alarms
HiThis wonderful script was created by LucD. The script creates a new alarm for the host. Does anyone know how to modify it so the script creates new alarm in vCenter level. $esxName =...
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Converted W2K Server installs drivers on logon
Hi All, I used Workstation 7 and File Import to p2v a windows 2000 Server. On first logon of the vm, windows is trying to install lots of drivers, i.e. motherboard, dvd, floppy, EISA Programmable...
View ArticleRe: Thinking about SAN chunk size
I did pretty extensive testing on this a couple years ago. Was unable to identify any notable difference for normal workloads - mostly because guest IOs are passed through to the array untouched.
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