What is the best hardware equipment for the HP ProLinat DL380 G6 with vShpere...
Hi! I am planning to install an HP ProLinat DL380 G6 with the newest VMware vSphere Hypervisor. There should be 3 virtual machines: 2x Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 1x Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS. 1...
View ArticleIs it possible virtualize a real-time OS in ESXi?
Hello, Is it possible virtualize a real-time OS in ESXi? I want run real-time dependent applications (for example: industrial softwares) in a virtualized environment. What I have to do for reach...
View Articleopenflow in vShere Hypervisor?
I am guessing that the free ESXi Hypervisor does not support openflow or vDS. I am making that assumption as I can not find any information on how to configure it or see anything in the client GUI to...
View Articleis it possible to install esxi hypervisor in dell inspiron 15R??
helloactually I am doing research in dynamic reallocation of virtual machine.I want to know if I want to implement some strategy to allocate VM to diff host then what kind of network is going to be...
View ArticleUpgrade to ESXi 5.5 usb devices unavailable
Hello,I had ESXi 5.0 and virtual machines created and running fine with USB devices assigned to virtual machines and then installed ESXi 5.5 replacing existing installation and I re-added to each...
View ArticleInstall VMware Tools on Ubuntu 12.04
I try to install it by going to guest, install/upgrade vmware tools but I get the attached error
View Articlehow to identify unallocated disks in guest os ?
Hi, I've been asked to recover space in our vmware 5.5 architecture. I've manually identified unallocated raw disks in guest OSes (Linux and windows). I'm looking in an automated way to identify these...
View ArticleESXI 5.5 and Intel I217V/LM NIC ( no network adapter )
Hi All , I have a problem to add network driver to esxi , my system Spec below and version driver that you added System , Lenovo ThinkCentre E93 With Intel I217V/LM Network interface card and...
View ArticlevSphere Host Profile weirdness. (Login Banner has been modified.)
Hello! First summary: vCenter 5.5 u2e, ESXi 5.5 u2. I am having this weird issue on my host profile compliance. I added many setting changes and the banner was one of them. When I view the host...
View ArticleVMware vCenter Lab Manager
Hi, I recall a few years back VMware makes this product that helps with testing and development and I think this product has since been dropped? Has a replacement been made available under a different...
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 ArticleIs there a fix for "The VMRC console has disconnected...attempting to reconnect
Is there a fix for Windows 8 client running the vSphere Client and when you launch the VM, you get the message "The VMRC console has disconnected...attempting to reconnect" ? I am now using Wndows 8...
View Articlewhich esx 5.5 license allows for 16 vsmp
hi experts I have an ESX 5.5 server, with two 8-core CPUs. I have the following license: VMware vSphere 5 Hypervisor Licensed for 2 physical CPUs (unlimited cores per CPU). This means I would have 16...
View Articlemoved vm from esx 5.1 to 5.5 unable to have more then 8 cpu cores
Hi all I had a VM on esx 5.1 that had 8 vcpu cores.I moved it to a new host with esx 5.5. The new host has 16 physical cores so I want my VM to have access to all of them. I fixed the license so now...
View ArticleTransfer Speeds Between Virtual Machines
Hi Had a search for this but cannot find anything.. I believe I read somewhere that the data transfer between 2 vm's on the same host travelled via the motherboard/hard drive and didn't travel through...
View ArticleVM Power Management - Suspend vs Put guest OS into standby
Hi, Can someone explain what's the difference between the options "Suspend the virtual machine" and "Put the guest OS into standby mode and leave the virtual machine powered on" ? Best regards.
View ArticleESXi 5 - Longmode is disabled for this virtual machine.
Hi,I've installed ESXi 5.0.0, 469512 onto a Dell Optiplex 755 with an Intel Core2 Duo E8400 @ 3.00GHz with 4GB RAM. In the BIOS (version A21) I have the following options...
View ArticleFailed to power on virtual machine after delete snaphot
I have an Esxi server free edition. I have made a virtual machine (windows 2012 server R2). Everything was all right up the moment i have take a snapshot. Because it takes me a lot of disk usage, i...
View ArticleCheapest license for standalone ESXi
Hi Community, can't answer the simple question by myself. We have powerful standalone server with only 1 VM that requires 24 vCPUs. Unfortunately ESXi free license has limitation of 8 vCPUs per VM. I...
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Expand size of thin provisioned disk
I'm making semi-final config changes to a new VMware installation that should go live in the next 1-2 weeks. As I loaded data into my SQL VM, I realized that I didn't allow enough space on the data...
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