Quick question re: remote desktop users and domains
Hiya Everyone, Just a quick one really. I am quite happy with most of VDI etc. However what I was taught on the course was in essence: Create machine as you like it,Join it to domain, do the remote...
View ArticleRe: Snapshot "Redolog" Corrupted... Help!
From what you reported, it looks like "Dnn01-000005-delta.vmdk" has an issue. This is the snapshot following 000003 in the chain. Please extract/copy the first 167936 bytes (164 kB) which contain the...
View ArticleCycle Multiple Monitors on VM bootup?
I have a Windows XP SP3 virtual machine running on a Windows 7 32bit host with 8 monitors. Everytime I reboot, I have to click the cycle multiple monitors button over a dozen times to get my preferred...
View ArticleRe: vSphere 5 training
There is vSphere ICM 5.0 available in Albuquerque Jan 23 - Jan 27th and March 12-16. You can purchase the class through VMware direct. Contact Jennifer Goocher at VMware: jgoocher@vmware.com.
View ArticleAssign static IP to guest with NAT Virt Network Adaptor?
I am setting up a *nix VM which I would like to provide out-bound network connectivity, but I want to make its services (e.g. MySQL) only available to my local machine. VMWare Player with NAT assigns...
View ArticleRe: DvSwitch issues
Sjmry1 wrote: yes the vm's could be on the same or different hosts. 1 host in particular causes large packet loss If they are on the same host and on the same portgroup then the Etherchannel / IP Hash...
View ArticleRe: vExpert title doubt
You don't automatically become a vExpert, it's being awarded. There are a couple of requirements which are taken into account (see http://www.vmware.com/communities/vexpert/ as well as the announcement...
View ArticleMemory reclaimation
Hi, I have a couple of questions around memory reclaimation that I'm hoping someone can help with. I think I understand the 4 memory states high - no memory reclaimationsoft - ballooning as host...
View ArticleRe: 2TB HDD - Stuck at 256 GB LUN Size
You might want to wipe the disk and try again with it clean. What sort of plans do you have for the host (production / test / lab)?
View ArticleRe: Virtual Disk Recovery
yep - I know that tool - I also have a mirror of the tool at my site.http://sanbarrow.com/vmdk-tools.html#vdk32 You were lucky that vdk could access the disk - that often fails with vmdks with holes
View ArticleHP CIM Bundle 1.1 Not Providing Hardware Sensors?
We recently installed 5.0 (Build 504890) on a set of new BL490c G7 blades. The "Hardware Status" tab shows absolutely no sensors of any sort. We then downloaded the HP CIM Bundle 1.1 from HP's web...
View ArticleRe: Assign static IP to guest with NAT Virt Network Adaptor?
By default 192.168.x.1 address is used for the virtual host adapter, 192.168.x.2 as the NAT gateway address and 192.168.x.128...254 for DHCP, which means you can assign static IP addresses between...
View ArticleRe: New !! Open unofficial storage performance thread
I'm performing some benchmarking with iometer and our SAN (NexentaStor) and I'm having some puzzling results.. I have a production SAN that's a raid2z pool with (8)15k SAS drives and mirrored 32GB...
View ArticleMemory Reservation on a resource pool - cant set to 0?
Hi All Just a question which i cant seem to answer from a quick google search. Why cant i set the memory reservation amount to 0mb for the settings of a Resource Pool? It seems to be bound to the...
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Re: 2TB HDD - Stuck at 256 GB LUN Size
There are four 2 TB HDDs, three of them are mostly full. I could do this in a couple weeks when I upgrade my other server. Is it possible for me to only wipe that HDD while preserving the other data...
View ArticleRe: Limiting IOPS on a VM
I appreciate the links, but I know what needs to be done and linked it to what I posted originally. I am asking HOW do I set those values programatically? The value in question is set in the vmx file...
View ArticleRe: 2TB HDD - Stuck at 256 GB LUN Size
To me this looks like partition 3 - which should be the VMFS partition - has been deleted at some time!?You may (at your own risk) follow http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1009829 and try to manually recreate...
View ArticleRe: Visual Studio 2010 crashes in Windows XP VM under Fusion
Thanks for trying to help. I applied the patches with no success.I uninstalled the VMware SVGA driver (also tried running in safe mode), still with no success.
View ArticleRe: How to repair vmdk?
Please run "Collect Support Information" from VMware Fusion menu bar -> Help and attach the resulting .tgz file to your next post. André
View ArticleRe: Large virtual disk sizes compared with Suse Studio
One thing you will find useful is to migrate the appliance between datastores of differing block sizes. So: 0. (Edit) Deploy the appliance on one of your datastores (having, say, a 4M block size)1....
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