Hosts briefly disconnecting from vCenter
I have an issue where several hosts will briefly disconnect from vCenter (5.1), causing it to throw a host connection state alarm, but the hosts re-connect just as fast. This has been happening for a...
View ArticleCannot connect the connection server to composer
hi, I installed Vmware view composer on the vcenter server and tried to connect it with connection server. but it fails with the following error. both servers are firewall disabled.and can ping from...
View ArticleHORIZONTAL scrolling of Magic | Mighty mouse
Simple question: run any version of Windows in a Fusion VM. Use a Magic | Mighty mouse which supports horizontal scrolling on the Mac but not in the host VM. How does one implement this in a VMWare...
View Articleadvice for very small installations--where?
I work for an 11-person company that has about 8 dedicated (and small by modern standards) servers today. We have decided to replace our aging servers with virtualized servers on a hypervisor...
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IBM TAM e-sso not working in vmware view 5.2 with PoIP
Hi, with refer to subject i am doing a testing of vmware view 5.2 in my lab, I have found TAM e-sso is not working with PoIP protocol, the same works with MS-RDP. My lab details. ESXi 5.1U1/vCenter...
View ArticlePrevent maintenance mode boot after power failure
I'm running ESXi 4.1 and having an issue with automatically starting my VMs when I bring the host up. Under normal circumstances, it works fine. My particular issue is when I kill the server by...
View Articleconnect-viserver error on 5.1 hosts only
I can successfully connect to vCenter 5.1, vCenter 4.1, and ESX 4.1 hosts with PowerCLI 5.1 release 1, but when I try to connect to ESXi 5.1 hosts using the same credentials I get the error:...
View ArticleVMware Player unrecoverable error: (vmx) VMware Workstation\config.ini missing
Hi,At the moment all my VM's won't start.VMPlayer seems to be looking for C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Workstation\config.ini. But I never used Workstation, and that file is not on my drive.I think...
View ArticleRenaming the Hard Disk in VM Settings?
Is it possible to rename the "name" of the virtual hard disks in the VM Guest Settings? For example, when you add virtual hard disks, VMware defaults to something like:Hard Disk 1Hard Disk 2Hard Disk 3...
View ArticleHigh CPU usage
Hi,I'm new in this vmware world. We are using vSphere Client 4 We have a host machine (2 chips with 6 CPUs (2.4 mhz) and hyperthreading=>24 rcpu ) with 2 vm running asterisk where CentOS is th OS....
View ArticleInsufficient disk space on datastore
Hi all, I am facing a strange problem when I resize a VMDK. When I trying to increase the size of VMDK of a runing VM, it got a error dialog Insufficient disk space on datastore "". I have checked the...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 VM showing 7 CPUs in Device Manager.
Hi, I have 1 windows 2K8 R2 Std VM in our ESX infrastructure, when I right click the task manager it is showing 4 vCPU's but at the same time when I checked the device manager of the VM it is showing 7...
View ArticleUnable to login to VDP restore client
Hi I've just recently started to use the VDP and am trying to test the file level restore functionality.I'm unable to login to the restore client however. On a VM I have a backup of, I open IE and type...
View Articlewhat is the difference between vcloud and esxi
Hi every oneI am required to set up a private cloud for my organization. I am dealing with vsphere esxi5.1 for more than one month. I made virtual machines and installed different os on each of the...
View ArticleE-mail Filter.xml file problem
Hello everybody, I have edited Templates and the Filter Rules in emailFilter.xml file. Attached you can find the screenshots.And I've cancelled couple of alerts but haven't got any e-mail? We're using...
View ArticleVDP creating multiple user sessions
Greetings, I noticed that the VDP appliance creates multiple user sessions per appliance.I've been seeing this on the GUI client under Sessions.Is this normal behavior?I note at least 5 Active...
View Articlevmware dhcp crossing over interfaces
I'm trying to set up a virtual lab to test network services. The topology looks like vm-dhcp-server vm-client |...
View Articleclipboard syncing erratically doesn't work
for as long as i can remember, clipboard syncing of the OSX clipboard to my XP vm's clipboard has been erratic. i made a Screen Recording demonstrating the clipboards being out of sync and attached...
View ArticleStruggling with Windows 2008 R2 PKI, Self-Signed Certificates & iPad View...
Background: I was tasked to create an isolated VMware View test lab so that higher-ups could see how they could access dedicated VMs as well as how their developers could re-set linked clones...
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