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Hello experts,

We're trying to backup our exchange server with Veeam backup and replication. We get the following error when trying to backup the exchange server. All other VM's seem to be backin fine on the same host...

Starting guest...

Hi,

I would just like to download VMware Infrastructure Client somewhere...
there are 30 download links on the VMWare site does anyone know a
'Free' download link?

Btw. is there a Version working properly with Vista 64bit?

Thanks 4...

Hi,
After I changed host ip address, the vcenter, which is vm on changed host, cannot be started.
see my past question, http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/Q_24177295.html for host ip change.

I can start vm now but there is a...

Hello,

I have a VMware Server 2.0.1 with one machine that is running, the machine is a Windows 2000 Server with Virtual Hardware Version 7.
It also has 2 SCSI disks on a BusLogic SCSI controller.

Now I installed the ESXi v5 in another...

I am unable to connect to ESXi from vSphere Client through a firewall. I have opened tcp 443 and 902.

What am I missing?

I'm using VEEAM Backup and Replication v5.  It seems that when my Exchange and SQL g backups finish they hang on the snapshot removal for the VM at that moment in time doesn't respond to any client requests...  It usually lasts about 15 mins......

I recently installed VMware Converter 4.0. But I got FAILED: Unable to create a VSS snapshot of the source volume(s). Error code: 2147754773 (0x80042315). See the picture.

I did some research on the website. But still no luck. VSS service is...

Just installed the latest Esxi (4 I believe). What is the default login and password?

I tried "root" with no password at the web interface.  I then went back to the server and manually entered a password. Again at the web interface I tried...

I'm trying to take a snapshot of my 2008 R2 VM that has 4 vCPU's and 16GB of memory so far the snapshot has been hanging at 95% of 2 hours. I tried to connect to the host directl using the vsphere client and vcenter and both should the status at...

I'm  trying to perform the following VM conversion:    

 Converter version: VMware vCenter Converter Standalone client, 4.3.0 build 292238
 Physical machine to be convertered: Windows XP SP3
 Task: Reconfigure and Customize virtual machine...

Hello,
I have trouble with my Dell Precision M6400 and my fresh installed windows 7 and hardware virtualization e.g. VT-x.

I use VMWare Workstation 8 to virtualize some 64-Bit guest systems. This ran all right in the past on my preinstalled...

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2 pcs of HP 146GB 15K 2.5" 6G SFF SAS ENT DP HD disks
4 pcs of 4 x 10/100/1000 RJ-45 NICs (HP NC382I PCI e DP )
BIOS P67 01/30/2011

After installed the ESXi and used SmartStart 8.7 to create the Arrays I wonder which is the proper way...

Hi,

We are going to replace our EMC Clarion SAN. We are looking at IBM v7000 and EMC VNX

We have found the following matrix that compares the two solutions.
...

This weekend I did a cold boot conversion of a Windows Server 2003 R2 server that was running on a HP Proliant DL-360 physical machine to a VMware vsphere 4.0 virtual server.  The conversion was straight forward.  After booting up the new VM I...

I am planning the purchase of a 12 TB raw SAN that will be used with vSphere 5 and two DEll R710 servers for aq virtual implementation. I will be running 6 VM's at first to start and then I will virtualize Exchange 2007 for 150 users (by that...

I have an IBM BladeCenter S chassis with three HS22 blade servers, each with embedded hypervisors that have been upgraded to ESXi 4.1, 260247.
I'm running vCenter 4.1, 258902.

When adding hosts to vCenter, each of them appears with a Red...

I'm in the process of converting a physical windows server 2003 32bit box to a VM. I'm running converter on the VC and I've entered in the admin password account but it gets to where it says it's installing the agent on the remote computer and...

I have an ESX 4.1 Host that can not run more than 1 guest without becoming unstable. Prior to a software update on it's backend storage, it ran 31 guests without issue. I can start and manage 1 guest, though it does feel suffer from poor...

I got to this question

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/Q_26685455.html

from a Google search. I have the same problem but I have just two computers on a home network. I recently purchased a compuert with Windows 7 Home...

I am setting up a small ESX datacenter for my company.  The setup consists of a Dell PowerEdge 2950 connected via iSCSI to a Dell PowerVault MD3000i.  The first Dell 2950 ESX host connected to a 1TB LUN on the MD3000i and created a single VMFS...

Hello,

I've cloned a .vmdk file using vmkfstools -i and now I can't delete the new file. I've tried deleting the new file from the datastore browser and using vmfsktools.

When trying to delete from the datastore browser, I get this message:...

Hi Guys
I just start to work with Acronis True Image Echo Server and I understand that if you take a complete image of your server you can deploy it on a virtual machine. I guess I can create a bootble CD and then run it on the Virtual machine...

I have a virtual machine image that I wan to run from my windows xp laptop.

How can I do that?

I want to leave windows xp on my laptop but be able to open the virtual appliance file.

Since our Citrix Install, been getting the same error. No matter how many times I try building from the begining.

The installation goes fine, but when testing launching an application from the client plugin or web browser I get the following...

Hello, we are running a new install of ESXi 4.0.  Under my VM server -> configuration -> Advanced Settings I have a VMDirectPath Configuration warning that says "Host does not support passthrough configuration".  I've attached a jpg of the...

I took a snapshot of a large VM last night at 7pm. 37 minutes later i decided to remove that snapshot and the vSphere 4.1 client console is showing it is still at 95% as of 2pm the next day. I needed to restart the VM - and after doing so - it...

We are creating a standard build for windows 2008 and windows 2008R2 for remote offices who have different servers and application roles.

I know there are many arguments to what size should be and that you should use permon for further...

can not connect  from Win 7/ 64bit  SP1 ,  VM client console only , other PC no problem ,

Thanks

Under the settings of some of my virtual machines, the provisioned size for the disks are grayed out so I can't make them bigger.  I have read other articles pertaining to this and:

There are no snapshots
The machine is powered down

Those...

Hi There,

Have a major issue seeing an existing iscsi san from a pair of ESX 4 hosts.
When I first set these up I had a fair bit of difficulty in getting it to connect but eventualy I did.
Now I have (though I should have done before, doh)...

Ok,

I've got an old CX500 that I've disconnected from an ESX host, but I left the FC HBA's in.  The ESX host still expects to see the the multiple paths to the CX500 SAN, but, since it's gone... that's not going to happen.

How do I kill the...

Just downloaded the latest VMware converter, and tried to convert a Windows Server 2003 server, but got the error message "Failed to Clone Volume C". It happened at about 10%.

Hey guy's I have been tasked with venturing into the virtual world as it seems to be HOT and the thing that is in our future. So I have Acronis Backup 10.0 with Universal restore. I am in the testing phase right now and what I did is take a spare...

Hello All,

I have tried to extend my c drive on one of my 2003 ts partitions. This has usually worked excellent for me in the past with no issues with other servers, however no matter what I do extpart wont extend the c drive. I keep getting...

I am getting a message on my VMware box: system event log full. it has 512 records and has shut itself down. (the log that is) How can I clear the log? I acknowledged the error and clicked on reset event log. it looked like it was "doing its...

I am not sure why this is happening other then my time-service seems to error out before my users lose connection to the server. They can connect right back but it is kicking them out of their applications that run off the server. We run Sunbelt...

Hello

We are setting up a new XenApp 6.5 farm. The farm is already setup, we added a second server to the farm for use as a template. Everything is running on Vmware.

First we prep the Xenapp server for imaging using the xenapp server role...

I have just started using VMWare ESXI relised early on that I have made my virtual disk to a server 03 install to small. Is there an easy way of increasing the disk allocation by 10gb ??

Thanks

Can someone tell me where I can find the PHYSICAL (not virtual) MAC address of the physical NICs within a ESX 3.5 host?

An have enabled ssh on ESXi and now I want to copy files from my external USB HDD to a folder under root, however, I am unable to mount the USB HDD when consoled in. Any help would be great, thank you

Hi Experts,

Now that VMWare ESXi is free for alll, I'd like to implement it at home. Naturally I don't want to buy an expensive server (i.e. one that is on the HCL list). So the only other option remaining is to roll it myself with off the...

Standalone esxi host.  NTP is pointing to a Cisco router set as NTP master.  I see ntp packets hit the router and it xmit's valid time to the esxi host address.  The host doesn't update.

The Cisco is set to peer with pool.ntp.org and is...

Greetings. I am trying to migrate the .vmdk file from a powered-off virtual machine from a VMware Server system to a new VMware ESXi system. I can upload the file to the VMware ESXi system using Datastore Browser, but it appears that ESXi doesn't...

Hi All,

I've just upgraded my ESXi 4.0 into 4.1 and then when I'm about to connect to the server using my existing vsphere client it failed like the following:

The required client support files cannot be retrieved from the server...

I downloaded what I believe to be the HP version of ESXi 5 which should include the HP management agents. I have never used the Vmware HP management agents before. How do i know if they are installed? How can I access the Management web page?...

Hi
Im new to vmware.

What is the difference between vSphere Client  and Vcenter?

Thanks

Hi guys,
Im trying to coldclone a Windows Server 2003 containing a MS SQL 2000 database server into a Virtual Machine.
It has been running for like 20 hours or so, and are stuck at 96% doing "Cloning source volume d: into target virtual...

I'm trying to VM a PC running XP SP2 trough the network, however, I'm getting a error related to ADMIN$ user credentials error.

I'm able to connect using remote desktop, the admin$ share is available, the machines are not in any domain....
...

I have a VM that reboots whenever I try to create a snapshot.  It started when the VM had disks in Independant Non-persistent mode.  This was enabled by accident.  Since then I've changed the drives to Normal mode, however, whenever I try to...

Hey Experts!
I have several *.xva exports from a server.  The XenServer no longer exists, we need to import these VMs into  a  VMware EXSi server.  I did not see a way to directly import them into vmware but i did find the XenConvert utility.  I...

Our problem is with the configuration of Windows NLB on Exchange 2010 SP1 CAS/HT VMware servers in multicast mode for internal traffic…

Create new cluster on Exchange 2010 SP1/W2K8 R2 CAS/HT host Binky. Process completes successfully….
...

I can't seem to download the VMware-viclient.exe from the esxi server we just setup.
The main web page to the esxi opens fine but when you click on the link to download the software, nothing happens.
I double checked the install and all seems...

It seems that I ran out of space on a virtual partition of one of my VM's.  The VM is a Windows 2003 Exchange Standard Edition.  How can I free up space?  Do I need to boot the server in safe mode and free up space?  Below is my error:
...

Hello Guys,

We are in the process of setting up three ESX hosts with a Dell MD3200i SAN.  The Dell SAN has 8 iSCSI ports in total.  I have used 2 ports to connect each host. For e.g.
ESX1 uses Port0 from controller 0 and Port0 from...

I've tried following the steps here: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1001489 to create a VMFS filesystem on a VMFS partition created using fdisk on the ESXi 4 host. ESXi is running on...

I have a DL145 G2 set up with ESXi (latest), it has 4 Virtual Machines, one is a Linux the other 3 are Windows.
I like to configure the Linux VM to be the gateway and one of its NICs (Nic1) to be the gateway and be on a different IP-Range, so...

hello you experts,
I have two ESX4 hosts and a HP MSA3212i storage and will use HA.
If I install vcenter server on a physical machine and this machine crashes totally, what effect does this have on my ESX-configuration. Does this mean that I...

I am attempting to increase the size of a thick virtual disk, however the Provisioned Size field in the Virtual Machine Properties screen is greyed out.  This is not the case with the other guests on the host.  I have one other guest with the...

I am trying to convert a physical server to a virtual image using the VMware converter software and I am getting an error "Unable to create a vss snapshot of the source volumes 2147754767 (0x8004230F)".

I have confirmed that the Volume Shadow...

Hello,

I am trying to make a P2V using VMWare Converter Standalone 5.0. The Physical server is running Windows Server 2003 with SP2 installed.

The Converter creates the VM in vCenter and it fails at 1% when trying to convert. The error is...

I have created a thick disk running sbs 2008 on 40 GB and I'm running out of space. Is there a way to expand the virtual disk? There is space enough on the physical hard drive.

Hi there,

Where can I download the VMWare Cold Cloning ISO in order to create a boot CD?

I've got the vSphere Essentials licence.

The stand-alone converter works fine but in this case I need to cold clone a server.

Thanks a lot!

I have a virtual server that ran out of disk space.  The disk is provisioned as thick, not thin.  How can I increase the size of the disk?  Thanks for your help.

what is the quikiest way to copy vmdk files from ESXi? we have roughly 18 vmdk files that range from 40GB to 250GB.  
The hosts are running 3.5 ESXi.

Do you know if we can install CV agent on ESXi hosts and back them up this way?  I need to...

I have just installed VMware vSphere and have a question about SCSI controller types for the guest OS.  The choices are:

BusLogic Parallel
LSI Logic Parallel
LSI Logic SAS
VMware Paravirtual

I'd like to install Windows Server 2003.  Is...

Hi everyone,

We have 4 VMware servers (3 x Windows 2003 and 1 x Windows 2008) on an IBM x3400 server, running ESXI 4.1.0

The Windows 2008 r2 server has stopped booting and continually receives a Blue Screen of Death 0xc00007b, when the...

We need to convert Windows Server 2000 sp4 DC into vSphere. Unfortunately vSphere 4.1 with Converter 4.2 (4.3) is not supporting Windows 2000 anymore (received error code 1603). So we decided first to downloaded vCenter Converter Standalone 4.0.1...

Hello,

I have three ESX Servers running vSphere ESXi 4.1. I have noticed that my ESX server within vCenter Server under events has errors. Not sure where to troubleshoot or how to ensure these servers do not go down.

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Client OS: WinXP SP2
[Potential] Conflicting Software: ZoneAlarm, Blue Coat ProxyClient, VMware Workstation and Sprint WWAN Connection Mgr.

I first attempted to upgrade my Cisco VPN Client 4.x with this version and then I uninstalled 4.x and...

Hello Expert,

I just installed ESXi on my server (tower). Install ok!

Now, I am trying to access it (same subnet) via vSphere Client; but encountering some errors.

when prompted to login, I tried:

http://192.168.0.110
User name: root...

Just today when I tried logging into the vcenter client (VMWare 4) I am getting an error that says: "Error parsing the server xx.xx.xx.xx Clients.xml file".   I was in a few days ago to it.  I am running Windows XP on my client - the vcenter...

Help!

Single ESXi 4.1 Free Host with local datastore only.

This morning I woke to find my DC unresponsive, which of course affected everything else (Exchange etc)

I rebooted the DC but it got "stuck" on the windows splash screen, so I...

Hello experts.

Recently, we had a few power outages that really wrecked a lot of equipment where our backup generator didn't kick over and the UPS solution we have simply ran out of juice which caused our 3 VM hosts to hard down.

For the...

I've got old ghost images that I want to ultimately convert to virtual images. Does any know how to convert .gho (Norton Ghost 2003 files) to .v2i (Symantec System recovery files) or to .vhd (Microsoft Virtual PC 2008 files)?

When i am launching my VM View client I am some time getting the below error. Some times it connects ok. This message is shown intermittently. Is there a PCoIP conenction time out kind of thing or do I have some config issues. Where to look?
DNS...

2 hosts ESX(i) 4.1 which shares the same LUN on MD3200i.
The error recieved on the storage array is below.

Each host is connected in w/ 2 NIC's directly to the iSCSi network.
Here's the layout of one of them.

What is the best way to solve...

Hi Experts,

 I setup 2 new ESXi 4.1 with 10 pNICs. All the pNICSs are connected to the switch and with data.

I have added the 2 servers in the HA cluster and tried to remove from the HA but still its showing the same error.

Please see...

I just purchased two IBM x3650 dual quad core 2.93 GHz  with 24 GB of RAM in each box.  I installed the free Vmware 4.1 hypervisor and configured a few machines on each server.  Everything has been runnig fine, but when I go to check the senors...

Today we received an alert from one of our hosts as below. It looks like a severe error could you please explain what it all means and if it is something that we should be worried about, and if not how to clear these....

Target: 10.0.0.22...

I have installled ESXi 5.0 on a computer with an Intel RAID saswt4i card. The computer has a RAID 1 (mirrored) drive.  I am running the vSphere Hypervisor on another computer on my network, a Windows system.  vSphere works fine, I have installed...

This might be a simple answer, I'm pretty new to VMWare and ESXi...

I have been trying to convert my Windows 2000 Server from a physical machine to a VM for a few days now and I finally settled on using Acronis  to convert a backup file (.tib)...

does anyone know where I can download the vmware tools iso file, when I try to install the vmware tools nothing happens.

Failed to initialize migration at source.  Error 195887200.  Necessary module isn't loaded.
The vMotion failed because the destination host did not receive data from the source host on the vMotion network.  Please check your vMotion network...

Hi Everyone,
I was in in the I have a Vsphere clustored environment with 3 ESXI  4 hosts. I recently put on eof the hosts into maintenace mode and found that when I tried to bring it out of maintenance mode that it experienced the following HA...

Hi,

I just installed a new vSphere5 ESXi (licensed) host and I am wondering if there's an APC Network agent for Vmware vSphere5.

I know there's one a version 3 for the Network shutdown for Vmware but the installation procedure seems...

I copied the vmdk file to external harddrive for backup, not realizing it was the initial image, and there were 3 snapshots.  After copied deleted the file from the datastore. VM won't boot up, saying it can't find the file, I copied the vmdk...

Hi Everyone,

I have a ESXI 4.1 that is hosting 5 virtual machines,  and a datastore became "inactive" all of a sudden.  Two of the virtual clients that connect to this datastore is now prompting for lost of connectivity.

However, I can...

We have one ESX 3.0.2 server with access to SAN. In order to increase the capacity of the SAN-based datastore, I bound a new LUN on the SAN, assigned it to the ESX server, added it as a new datastore and formated it as vmfs3, moved all files from...

My question is VERY similar to http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/Q_23588489.html which remains unresolved.

I have two NICs on my host machine (the host is running vista)

I have created a VMware machine using easyvmx at...

Hi,

I have a VMware ESXi V4 box and have set the NTP servers, but ESXi dosen't seem to sync?

Hi all,

I am looking to get a Netapps, or EMC solution for our SAN, I understand the cost is greater then Dell Equalogic, and HP's Lefthand P4000.

High availability, co-lo of second stack to DR site important considerations. value for...

Hi Experts,

 I'm not able to add a NFS Share on my ESXi 4.1. Apparently i was using this share for vDR.  i used to backup all the files to this iOmega-x200i drive and all a sudden it was greyed out. If I try to add it again i get the below...

Trying to use VMWare converter version 4.0.1  build 161434 to copy a W2003 server from one ESX server to another. The W2003 won't boot as it says there's not enough disk space. (I think i've taken too many snapshots).
Anyway the solution is to...

I Have 3 vsphere servers, vcenter 1 live production SAN (Hitachi) & a development network storage setup using an iScsi Cake server.
I previously added the iscsi storage to each Vsphere server and could use it however due to setting the block...

I am trying to do a p2v of a windows 2003 server, with the standalone converter while the server is still on line. It gets to 95% and then i get the following error:

Warning: Unable to update drive letters for the destination volume layout...

I’ve setup a VM cluster with 3 hosts and Lefthand nodes. All worked well (including veeam backup over network) until I let Veeam do a backup over iSCSI. Some VM’s completely crashed some VM’s did backup (small ones) and a number of VM where...

I'm exploring solutions to backup the VMs on our ESXi host.  Could you please advise which software solutions are available?

I have a server that was running VMWare ESXi 4.1 (now 4.0) that is in pre production and I am unable to select add to inventory for VMs from a production server that have been backed up to a NAS with GhettoVCB.

I am able to see the add to...