We recently installed a VMware ESX environment. We were going to migrate our first SQL server today to the VMware environment. We have heard that it was a good idea to use the VMware Converte...
Somehow one of my .vdmk files was deleted from the folder. I tried to recover the file with shadow copy but in the middle of the file coming over it errored out saying it cannot copy. Then I...
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This question is about VMware server, but also configuration of the physical network adapters of the Host.
What we have is a dedicated server hosting VMware server. The serve...
What ports need to opened to access Virtual Center on another firewalled network?
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I have reinstalled VMWare server Console ver 1.0.4 build - 56528 on Windows XP Pro
When i try and connect to my Local Host, i get the following error
"There was a problem connecting...
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I've seen several problems that come close but there seems to be a twist here. I have a whitebox asus K8N-DL motherboard, dual opterons, 3gb Ram, one sata hd (for now...
We have a customer that would like to install a tape drive into their ESX enviroment. They have a HP DL380 with a SCSI attached tape drive. They are running ESX with an Windows 2003 installe...
I have a single ESX 3.5 server in a site not attached to virtualcenter. I know it's possible to run vcb without centralized storage by using the new "NBD" switch. I've tested it and it see...
I have some VMs sitting on my desktops hard drive. I have a server running ESX 3. I am wanting to move the VMs from my desktop to the local storage on the ESX server. Can somebody tell me how ...
I have a VMware Server box running on a HP Proliant DL365 box (2 Opteron CPU's, dual core). The guest clocks are running way too fast. I've tried adding the following:
- Configure all cli...
I cannot allocate a Win2k3 64 bit guest w/ more than 3.5 gb of memory. When creating a new custom vm guest, my maximum memory option is 3.5 gb. Why?
Here's my setup:
- VM Host machine is...
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I have installed a small VMware ESX Lab in home.
I have a VMware Desktop with:
AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core Processor 5200+
3Gb Memory
Hard Disk IDE 60Gb
This is my VMware ESX S...
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Thanks for your help/input in advance. I am hoping someone out there has more info on this as the VMWare site does not provide many details, at least from what I can find. I ha...
I have a backup software called Acronis that allows me to convert image files into ESX VMDK files. I am having a problem understanding how to copy the VMDK file accross the network onto the ES...
Ive been banging my head with this all day - I admit defeat :(
I understand that not to error I need to trust the root CA then that the certificate on the VCenter's common name needs to mat...
I am looking for a free VM.
If I had $189 to spare, I would buy VMware Desktop.
Having said that, VM Player requires VM already built so that's useless unless I have prebuilt VMs from othe...
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VMWARE ESXi version 3 stopped from booting, stops at:
GRUB _
Running on Dell PE2970 server.
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The question I have for other VMware ESX Admin who are using VMware Consolidated Backup is.
Does the proxy require a server of it's own, or can the proxy run in th...
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I have created virtual machine which holds linux and apache sevice. My problem is that when users download this virtual machine and run it on their host systems ( windows, linux, mac...
Our ESX3.5 server runs on a RAID10 array of 8 disks. We had a two-drive failure over the weekend. I have completed the rebuild, however we are still experiencing many problems with our VMs.
...
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I have Mac Book Pro and I installed vmware fusion to run windows XP.
I have two Windows, I like to remove one. I try drop on trash but I can't
How can I remove one installation of...
To simplify my backup system, it would be preferable for me to be able to mount a snapshot of the VMFS residing on my SAN. Is there a linux tool for that ?
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I need to install Windows Server 64-bit edition so I can test Exchange 2007. I thought I'd take this opportunity to test VMware ESX while I'm at it.
I created a virtual mach...
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i am running Firefox 2 , with a beta version of VMWARE 2.5.0 , i ma trying to start up the console ,but the error i recieve is that VMWARE requires an additional plug-in , the plug-in i...
We would like to roll out vmware fusion in the Mac environment part of our enterprise. We are using the Boot Camp partition for the vmware. We are able to launch vmware fusion with no issues...
