Network Adapter now showing after clone (Windows 2008 R2)
A machine i cloned can't connect to the LAN, the network adapter section is blank as it doesn't have any network adapters associated to it, i have tried to re-install the drivers, re-installed the...
View ArticleNetwork adapter driver missing after conversion
Hello, I am having a networking issue. I have a Windows 7 Ultimate VM that I converted using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone (VM to VM) so that I could decrease the virtual disk size. When I...
View ArticleOpening OVA file in ESXi 4.1 via vSphere client
Just installed VMWare vSphere ESXi 4.1. Then I installed the corresponding vSphere client on my laptop and connected to ESXi. I have a OVA file. How do I open it in ESXi thru vSphere client app? thanks
View ArticleUnable to loginwith vSphere Client
Hello, I have just finished installing the ESXi 5 server and the vSphere client on the client computer. However, every single time, I am met with a cryptic message: The request failed because of a...
View Articlemigration was canceled because the amount of changing memory for the virtual...
Hi Anyone has seen this error The migration was canceled because the amount of changing memory for the virtual machine was greater than the available network bandwidth. Attempt the migration again when...
View ArticleReclaiming space from deleted VM with thin provisioning disk
Hi,I deleted a vm with a thin disk of 50GB but did not free space on the Datastore. Looking at google I found several documents on how to do if the space is to be released on a vm active, but none when...
View ArticleShould I use LAGs for vSphere hosts?
I have two vSphere hosts (e.g., H0 and H1) with multi-port NICs connected to the same managed switch. I want the VMs on both hosts to have the highest network throughput.1. On the switch, should I...
View ArticleMaintenance mode and graceful shutdown
Dear All, I would like to create a script to shutdown the host (and its guests) when a power failure occure. I find a nice script on the web, and I can see that it put the host in maintenance mode...
View Articlecan VMware OEM License move to other hardware?
We have VMware OEM licenses (purchased from HP).We bought new servers from other vendor so the question is: Can VMware OEM Licenses that are purchased through a hardware vendor (HP) be moved to other...
View ArticleX710 SR-IOV on ubuntu guest on ESXI v5.5
HiI am using X710 Intel NIC cards on HP host with SR-IOV enabled. I am using DPDK igb-uio drivers on a Ubuntu VM on ESXI v5.5. The VF driver on Guest fails to initialize, some times fails with below...
View ArticleList tasks for esxi using c#
HelloI have a single esxi without the use of vCenter. Is it possible to use TaskManager along with CreateCollectorForTasks to retrieve all tasks that are occurring on this one system? Or do I have to...
View ArticleFT and host affinity rules
Hi, Is it possible to force FT to create secondary VM only on certain host? Regards, Kimmo Berghäll
View ArticleError deploying OVF -Permission Issue
I have created a 4 different roles with below privileges for deployment of OVF for developers . But during the deployment of OVF wizard at storage select window I am seeing error " An error occurred...
View Articlewget command returning 404 Not Found error
I am trying to copy a file from a datastore into my one of the directories in my Ubuntu VM. The path to the file in the datastore (datastore1) is,...
View Articleboot from ISO Vmware Vsphere 6.7
Hi, i download and mount the ISO with MagicISO, i dont see a EXE extension. I have windows 7,i download this aplication because i dont have Hyper-V.I tried to use Android Studio and i receive this...
View Articleboot from ISO Vmware Vsphere 6.5 Hypervisor
hi,I am trying to find an option to boot from ISO on my second VM. Due to Hypervisor 6.5 free version limitation I cannot edit it over Vshere client. So I logged in over web interface and there are 2...
View ArticleVMotion and FC shared storage
Hi,I'm looking at VMotion and shared storage, specifically a fiber channel SAN for VM storage, with blade servers at the host end running Qlogic QME2662 IO cards.It's the first time I've put together...
View ArticleSlow vm's
Hi everybody, I’m training for esxi and I'm facing a problem when I create a vm.The vm is super slow, even before entering the BIOS, it takes 10 minutes.I have a good pc on which I run a lab (installed...
View ArticleHow to run Esxi host 6.5 with 2GB memory!
I built a lab on my laptop, everything is running inside VMware Workstation 12 Pro. I installed Esxi 6.5 with 4GB RAM, it's working fine. I am now running low on memory and I reduce my Esxi to 2GB of...
View ArticlevSphere features with USB passthrough
I found the below link from VMware documentation which lists what features are supported with USB pass through and what are not.. There is no mentioned of VMware HA in this.. Was just wondering what...
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