Re: Standalone ESXi server with IIS VM secure enough?
Welcome to the Community - I would put the management ports of your ESXi server behind the firewall and use a VPN connection to gain access - you would be able to do all the management you will need to...
View ArticleRe: WinXP guest: no usb devices / no arbitration service / no vnetlib.exe!!
Have you tried this configuration with Ubuntu instead of Kubuntu? I don't know the difference between the two, Kubuntu isn't in the supported list for any VM products that I can see. that might be the...
View ArticleRe: vCenter 5 and ESX 4.1
Yes there is a database upgrade going from vCenter 4 to vCenter 5
View ArticleRe: vCenter 5 and ESX 4.1
Cheers David. My DBA is out the office so I will just have to replace vCenter 4.1 with 4.1.
View ArticleRe: VMs and shared vswitches using promiscuous mode
You could create a seperate virtual machine port group for this VM and set the security for the virtual machine portgroup enabling promiscous mode -That will enable promiscous mode for the VMs...
View ArticleRe: Unique CID mismatch issue. Please help.
there is one CID missmatch in your chain when "Windows Server 2008 R2 x64-cl1.vmdk" links to its parent "E:\vm\MCITP_VMs_orig_modify_with_care\Virtual Machines\Windows Server 2008 R2...
View ArticleRe: Thinapp Firefox
No that is what i am currently doing and every so often the sandbox get corrupted and I have to recreate the folder in the user drive. Is there any better solution for saving the bookmarks and history?
View ArticleRe: Increasing the cloning performance
HmmmI started a conversion - noticed that it was very very slow.I then aborted the task - changed the xml and directly after that the problem occured. Nothing else was done in the mean time
View ArticleRe: vCenter 5 and ESX 4.1
When you are ready - a database migration tool is provided as part of the installation package -
View ArticleRe: Impossible to install VMWare Workstation 8 on Windows 7
Hi and welcome I would try this ...open regedit as adminfind the key VMware, Inc - on 32 bit hosts that is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VMware, Inc.it has a subkey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VMware,...
View ArticleRe: Xangati
Here is the VDI webinar you are referring to: Top-5 Best Practices for Virtual Desktop SuccessJoin 451 Group & eG Innovations and learn how to deliver VDI Performance Assurance, User Satisfaction,...
View ArticleRe: Does VMware support running vCenter 4.x in a Virtual Machine configured...
Hi David - Thank you for the quick response. I realize it is possible to configure the vCenter VM to use a vDS but can you point me to a VMware Document that states the Best Practice?I came accross...
View ArticleRe: Listing Contents of a Folder
Hi!There is an action called "getAllVirtualMachinesByFolder" in the Module com.vmware.vc.folder, or if you need it including subfolders, choose the "getAllVirtualMachinesByFolderIncludingSubFolders"....
View ArticleRe: Mailserver workload startup issue - 'unpack sequence too long'
I fixed the staf trust problems and I was able to get the (4) tests to run and show passes. I did see about four 'ds2webdriver.exe has stopped working' errors and a couple more that didn't name what...
View ArticleRe: How do you retrive the datastore name
I found the answer to my question. I found a post that worked perfectly. Below is the fix if you want to read the entire post see http://communities.vmware.com/thread/329848 1. Install VMware vSphere...
View Articlethoughts on "growable" storage (local, non-SAN) in ESXi 5
I'm looking for advice/thoughts on what sort of storage setup I should consider for a small deployment of VMs. I'll try to provide some general guidelines and what sorts of tradeoffs/limitations I'm...
View ArticleP2V Domain Controller 2008 R2
Back in the day I had to P2V some 2003 domain controllers that had other software installed, thus preventing me from the best practice of just promoting VMs to DCs and then decoming the physical ones....
View ArticleRe: Mailserver workload startup issue - 'unpack sequence too long'
It's hard for me to say without additional information. Do you see WRF files in your results directory? You might try zipping up your results folder and attaching it here for me to review.
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