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Hi
I am getting:

Hot add is not supported for this disk, failing over to network mode...
Timed out waiting for all VDDK disks to close.
Error: Client error: Banks pool is suspended.


on a single VM...

IDeas?

I have hp proliant ml350 g6. It was running server 2008 and running vmware server.
I wanted to run VMware ESXi 5 on the server, so I run the convertor and save the vm file on D drive. I run the cd and installed VMware ESXi 5. Now I am able to...

Running vmware converter 5.0 on a windows 2003 server to an esxi 5.0 host in a vcenter 5.0 datacenter.  Choosing the host, I get the following error:

The access to the host resource settings is restricted to the server xx.xx.xx.xx (VC IP) that...

I am trying to get USB passthrough to work on a Dell T110 II w/ESXi 5.0 I have followed article: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1022290
with no luck...I am wondering if there is a compatibility...

Installed the web client server and registered the server.  When I try to open the remote for a VM (IE8 on Server 2008r2), I get the this error and no console:

Remote Console plugin is not properly installed

If I point IE to...

Is there a way to script a USB drive or ESATA drive to auto attach to a paticular Virtual Machine when they are plugged in to the host running ESXi 5.x?

I'm trying to leverage multiple USB drives in rotation to perform backups from a...

my xenserver is running on raid1, there is also 2nd sata physical hard drive in the same physical server (NTFS partition with data on it). How do I access from vm?

Hello All -

Yesterday, I performed a migration from SBS 2003 to SBS 2011.  This included AD, DNS, Exchange, and a few other things.

There was a small hiccup during the migration process where it went to desktop and showed a help file for...

I've found very sparse and conflicting information on what CPUs support Extended Page Tables.  I have HP Proliant DL360 G6/7 servers, all with Nehalem CPUs.  The model numbers are 5540 and 5565.  

I'm running VMware ESXi 5.0, and within the...

Hi All,

What's the best tool for monitoring the performance of an ESXi server?

Ideally monitoring RAM, CPU, DISK read/writes/queue etc...



Thanks in adv

We have two PowerEdge R610 with 4 - 600GB 10K SAS drives, dual proc, 32GB memory.  One server has ESXi 4.1 installed with a couple production VMs on a local data store.  We have just installed ESXi 5.0 on the second R610.  I am wondering what the...

EE team, I am advising a former co-worker who has a home workgroup with five Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate workstations.  He has been utilizing Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 with four virtual machines on his primary desktop, but is finally...

Hi,

I have the above error in VCenter 5. Found a KB but this is about VirtualCenter 2.5 and vCenter Server 4.x  whereas I used VCenter 5 and installed it with SQL which it installs automatically.


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Hello

We recieve the following error message when trying to revert a VM back to a Snapshot taken a few days ago

"A General system error occurred:  Failed to lock the file"

How do i resolve this and revert back to the snapshot?

Thanks...

I have 4 ESX hosts running Vshpere 4.1.  I started to replace the Dell 1950 hosts with Dell R610 hosts.  So far I have replaced 2 of the hosts and placed them in a separate cluster.  My Virtual center server is a VM.  Today, I moved my Virtual...

I have playing with StoreGrid to create BMR images and Restore to a .vhd file.  I then create the vm and attach the vhd.  Start the vm and it starts to boot the I have the BSOD and "unmountable_boot_volume 0x000000ED".  It then goes to the F8...

I have two phyiscally Dell R610 Xenservers both connected to a Dell Powervault MD3220i  ISCSI San.    There are several virtual Windows servers running on the two Xenservers.  There are about 35 users that use XENAPP 6 to view a virtual desktop...

Looking at deploying the above.  

What i'm struggling to understand is how to configure the SAN and servers. We may upgrade and use existing DL360 G5's but may look at new 380 g7's...  difference (big?) being more NICS in the 380's.
we are on...

The backup system I've inherited at work consists of a cranky Dell Powervault connected by a SCSI cable to a Windows Server 2003 running Backup Exec 12. Its old, it doesn't handle VMs, and it's falling apart.

I'd like to switch to a backup to...

Hello,

I have an existing Server Farm running XenApp 5.0 and I'm needing to add another server running XenApp 6.5 and then eventually bring down my existing XenApp 5.0. What are the steps to complete this project successfully?

This is what...

How can I copy an ISO file from one computer to the data store in a VMware ESXi server?

I need to make this ISO file accessible so that I can load it to install Server 2008 R2 within the VMware ESXi environment.

Please provide me with the...

Dear Experts,

We attempt to install OSX Lion Server on the VMware VCenter Server (Version 5.0.0 build 455964) without success.

Apple Mac OS X 10.7 (64-bit) is available in the OS Version Selection of the Virtual Machine in VCenter, however...

I have 3 ESXi hosts that connect to 3 different LUNS on a Equalogic.  

Today I logged into vcenter and noticed some errors for one of the hosts.  It seems it was diconnected from the datastores.

So I tried to reconnect it without any luck. ...

Hello,

I have configured my SAN using iSCSI and have 3 ESXi servers connected to it.
I have as my data store 10 luns of 1.8 TB combined together to make 18 TB of storage for my Host (ESXi) servers. My host machines have 48 Gig RAM  and two 6...

Hallo Experts

Our company is implementing 3D platform in place of all our CAD software. We are procuring Autodesk plant 3d, factory design suite, revit, inventor etc. etc. The bread and butter of our company is engineering. So all of our 3D...

Hi all i have imaged my domain controller and turned the image file into a .VHD using Shadow Protect, however when i boot the Server within hyper V In safe Mode and try to Install Integration Services i always seem to get the following error.
...

We use a template to deploy VMs. The VMs are normally Windows 2008 R2 Data Center that have been setup and run Sysprep on and then Converted to a template and then we deploy from that Template. What we have been seeing is duplicate UUID's on the...

I see you can only have 3x hosts.

How much ram and how many CPU's and Cores can you have in each host?

I'm setting up VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi and the install starts fine, but after trying 3 different network cards, i keep getting an error saying.

"vmware vsphere install error no network adapter detected"

It doesn't ask for the driver,...

Dear All,,,
hope you are doing well,,,

kindly, i would like to know if i can configure the RAID from the ESXi v5. i have IBM X3560 M3 and i need to install VMware Vsphere ESXi v5 on it, but i found that the server configured to use RAID 1/0...

I converted a physical server to virtual guest and was able to log in. But the guest became extremely slow, can't even open system event console to see. I converted a several workstations, but this is the first time I converted server, don't know...

Hi,

I'm trying to upgrade my ESX 4.1 HP BL460 blades to 5.0.0 or 5.0.1.

My vCenter is 5.0.1.

When I attached the baseline, and scan, it says that it is imcompatible.

I tried with VMWARE's own 5.0.1 and HP's own 5.0.0. Same message....

How can I install a VMware ESXi license?

I have booted up into the VMware ESXi and have also connected to the VMware ESXi using vSphere.

Where exactly do I go to enter the serial number activation key to activate VMware ESXi?

Please...

Hey Experts,
I have a fairly large setup but i will try to explain it as simple as i can.

"Main Location"
2 HP VMware 5.0 servers.  Setup with HA.
HP P4000 LeftHand SAN.  (Mirrored SANs with 3TB storage)

"DR Location"
1 HP Vmware 5.0...

Had the brilliant idea of creating a virtual server from which to run Backup Exec 2010.  Created a VM on XenServer 5.6 FP1 running Windows Server 2008 R2. Had difficulty with the drivers for the Dell SAS/5E card which connects the Powervault 124T...

I'm seeing an error on the desktop director that states below:

Last Connection Failure Details
Reason Registration Timeout
Time 3/22/2012 8:52 AM
User Domain\Username


I'm not quite sure what this error entails, as from searching...

What happened was I tried to expand the C: drive on the target server NET17. So I shutdown the server, expanded it by 100GB (Server is running 2008 R2 Enterprise) and when I go to turn it back on I get this error message.

File <unspecified...

Hi all,

Can I use VMware EVC mode in a 2 machine cluster containing an IBM X3650M2 and a HP DL380G7?

The IBM X3650M2 has 2 x Intel E5520 processors
The HP DL380G7 has 2 x Intel X5690 processors

According to the EVC Compatibility Guide,...

Does anyone have good information on the topology and OS of setting up a Windows 7 Thin Client and how this is done in Corporations?  Also, what is the difference between Xendesktop, XenApp, VMWare Thin App and Hyper-V?  What are good tools to...

I currently run vms on vmware esxi. I only have 1 physical server. I want to switch to Citrix XenServer. I downloaded the XenConvert, but I am not sure how to do it.

Getting event id 3112 "The virtual machine could not be started because the hypervisor is not running" on a DL 385 G7.  I have confirmed AMD Virtualization Technology is enabled and No Execute is enabled in BIOS.  Even disabled both, powered off...

Hi, one of the IT guys in my company wants to buy two servers for his department with the following specs

2x Proliant DL380 G7
96GB RAM each
two X5690 6-core CPU's on each
4x 600GB HDD's local storage on each (RAID5)
10GbE NIC's (is this...

We are currently using Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PC's with Citrix appliance lock installed.

Right now a user can log into the machine and get directly connected to the citrix receiver client.  The problem is though they have to log in...

Ok, so we were in the middle of migrating mailboxes from 1 exchange VM to another.

Both had the same Datastore for Exchange Databases. 100GB free, both VMDK's were thin provisioned at 100GB, so in effect 100% overcommitment.

In an oversight...

Hi Experts,

In XenServer, what does IntelliCache means?

I have an existing Windows 2000 server hosting a legacy app on the lan. Also, the disk space is running out. So, am hoping a vm can help.

Hi,

We have a win7 VM running in free xen.  We need to be able to take this vm over remotely (not with RDP) and it should be running in a resolution of 1680x1050.

We tried with teamviewer host on the VM but we cannot set the resolution...

Hi
I am going to buy 2 Server for Testing purpose
and bellow is ther server list.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=400276381539

from VMware Hardware list, i can see this server will support ESXI 5
but just want to...

I'm running xenapp on server 2008 r2.  What I'd like to do is hide some places in the explorer when students go to save work.  Right now they can see the local C drive, secondary hard drive, and Network Places.  I'd like to hide these from view;...

On Sunday, I shut down my server which has 8 vms on for maint. I restarted six of them which i need for production and five of them have a red excamation point by them showing alarm.On the cluster, it said that they were going into failover mode....

hi
I have installed windows 7 Enterprices as VM ,
this vm was 4 other vms..

this server has 8 gb of ram

so i have 1+1+500M +1 = 3.5GB ram is using by 4 vms

but this windows 7 is keep going to Suspended state .

but dont understand...

I'm working on a Windows 2008 R2 FOUNDATION box trying to get RemoteApp functionality working.

If the users connect to http://machine/rdweb they can then RDP to the machines without a problem.  What I'm trying to do is give remote users access...

We have two seperate vmware farms located within the same network segment. We have our old esx 3.5 farm and a new esxi 5 farm. We are currently in the process of building the new farm in preparation of migrating the vms off the old farm and onto...

Hi,

I have two Acer Aspire 5552 laptops with an AMD Athlon II X2 P320 Processor.  I can install ESXi on these two laptops without issue.  I need to purchase a further two laptops to develop my test environement.  I'm looking at the two more...

I have a client running some old legacy software which runs on an old IBM server running AIX 4.x. Their server is starting to fail, and they want to purchase a new server which can run their other servers as virtual machines.

So, my question...

Hi All,

I have an environment I manage which is running a 6-VM server Citrix setup with the following:
1x - CAG
1x - Web Interface
1x - Data Collector
3x - XenApp 6.5 Servers

With regards to restarting the servers, what do you guys...

Can anyone put the risk of not setting the policy for "forged transmits" and "promiscuos mode" to reject into management freindly speak. In terms of if this policy is NOT set to reject, whats the risk in terms of data security/availablity/other,...

We are in the process of installing Server 2008 R2 core for the physical hyper V role holder for an SBS 2011 Server and SQL server
The core install was fine and was no trouble using sconfig and a few other tools for setup of the Hyper-V role....

Hi,

We have a ESX 5.0 , and we found in events some task "Virtual Machine disk consolidation succeeded", and have some questions:

- What is this?
- In some case the VM that are processing this kind of task are unavailable for a few...

Hello,
I want to create a template to deploy new vm's quickly. We want new vm's have two partitions as C and D drives.

At this point, what is the best practice for creating two partitions on a vm? I can use one virtual disk and partition it...

Dear Experts,

I'm using vmware workstration 7.1.1, I have created 1 VM with 8 Cores for CPU and some resource.

But when I try to zip a file 500MB, the CPU of VM is 100% usage and hang.
Otherwise physical PC's CPU usage is 2 - 4%, and if I...

I've been given a Virtual Machine and am running it using VirtualBox on my Windows 7 machine.

The Virtual Machine is using Windows Server 2008 and contains a MS SQL Server 2008 database which I would like to access from my host.

I set up...

Hello
I'm thinking about virtualizing a small office server I administer. Here are the reasons I want to do it

1. The OS is in terrible condition and needs to be completely rebuilt (not my fault). I'd like to make the OS (SBS 2008) as a VM...

I installed vmware esxi on my hp proliant server. Installed windows and windows xp on it, but both of them couldn't detect the usb driver, here si the screenshot for win7. please help

Hello,

I am about to deploy a test virtual network with VMware ESXi server.

What are best practices for building and deploying a 100 virtual XP workstations as quickly as possible?

My conventional method of creating a new copy of a VM...

Hi
Am running Hyper-V 2008 R2 with all Windows updates on Dell T610 with Dual broadcom NICs.
Guests
SBS 2011 with 32 GB RAM
2008 R2 (from premium licence) with RDS Role
I've activated the RDS User cals on the RDS Server and can RDP into the...

we have multiple domains at one site
DOMAIN A has a citrix xenapp 6 farm in it (FARM A)
DOMAIN B has no citrix farm within
we want to install xenapp on one of the servers in DOMAIN B and have it publish applications
will we be able to add it...

Hi all,

I am facing a problem for the Veeam installation problem, see any body can have a solution or not. When I try to install Veeam 6.0 to a Win7 PC, an error message appear saying
"Unable to install VEEAM Backup Catalog", after I click OK...

I would like to understand about vCPU assignment.
For instance if I have PC with below spec and like create 2 VM with Win 7 and Win XP what's the best settings and why?

And same thing with server having below server spec like to create 2 VM: ...

Here is the build/version info from my vCenter server.

vsphere client
version 4.1.0
build 491557

vCenter Server
version 4.1.0
build 258902

Can I go directly to update 2 or do I have to install update 1?

I also have an EVC cluster,...

Hello;

I have a file server in VMware virtualization environment, which is attaching to a EqualLogic iSCSI san.  When I review my Windows System log, I found the following error.

Can someone give me some advise what are they?  In my...

I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 64 bit installed on a Proliant 380 G4 Server.  I'd like to setup some virtual servers but cant use Hyper-V because the hardware is not 64 Bit compliant.  I'm debating between installed VMware on the 2008 server or...

Hi,
this is simple question:
MUST or SHOULD I reinstall ESXi 5.0 host if I change and add CPU?

I have currently Xeon E5420 CPU (Quad-Core, 2.5GHz, 12 MB Cache).
I will install TWO Xeon L5420 CPUs, which differ on spec sheet only by power...

Hi Guys,

Installing Netware 6.5 recently, we once again ran into problems with SATA storage-drivers, USB keyboard & mouse stalling during Netware installation, and a real waste of valuable time.

VMWare came to our rescue and the server was...

Hey there, I have a server 2008 R2 enterprise server with 3VM's running right now.
Physical server has 48GB RAM

VM1=4096MB
VM2=16384MB
vm3=4096MB

I go to create a 4th VM and assign 16384MB RAM to the unit and start it and it fails with...

I work for a company that makes a network access control device. It is an out of band solution that controls access through user and host authentication/registration. It also does  device profiling, endpoint compliance, tracking and location,...

received the message in the title. can't edit the vm through edit settings. veeam was at 99% and likely removing the snapshot. what can I do to increase space or at least get the server back up. I don't care if the backup fails - I'll just run it...

I am migrating Windows 2008/2003 servers from Physical Server to VMWare. Unfortunately I can only get the physical keys from Windows servers. Some of them are IBM OEM and some are open licenses. Could I use these keys to active the Windows hosted...

Is there anyway to attach a USB drive to an ESX 4.0 Guest OS, or some kind of work around to it?

Hey experts,
I got a general setup question.  I dont know if there is a best way to do this.  So i am just looking for the best advice on which way to set up the volumes.

What i have is a HP Left Hand san with around 3TB of storage.
2 VMware...

I'm hoping that someone can give me a hand with this very frustrating error that I have been receiving for the past 2 days which has caused all of our backups to fail repeatedly. The exact error message is the following:

Error: Client error:...

I need a crash course on VMware.

I'm setting up my first esxi5 free edition and need help with best practice and how the system works.

 My question is on the setup of a virtual machine when it asks how many virtual CPUs and how many virtual...

I setup a vmware vsphere server for the first time yesterday, and created a virtual machine on my vsphere server, I just need to access my virtual machine from a computer now.
what do I use to access a virtual machine?

Hi,
we have a new Hyper-V Virtual Machine running SBS 2011 and discovered serious issues with the OS partition file system.  A chkdsk in read mode shows this:
The first NTFS boot sector is unreadable and corrupt. Reading second NTFS boot sector...

once setup for 2x local hosts, does it copy the files from datastore to datastore (host to host) and create the VM in an offline state ready to be powere on manually?  Or does it simply copy the VM files to the datastore and i need to attach the...

I noticed recently that I noly had one path to my SAN volumes from each of my ESX hosts.
Equallogic is PS4000.
I went through hancocka's guid here for setting up the multiple paths:...

Vcheck scans virtual machines for "unwanted virtual hardware". What would the definition of unwanted hardware be, it just states "serial port 1". Whats the risk of unwanted hardware being found? Also, are there any valid reasons why unwanted...

Hi,

On a HyperV host server, will the virtual servers know or care about the phyical drives on the host server?

Backgorund: Our backup softare will restore to and create a virtual server from a backup/image file to a HyperV host. So we want...

I have a 2 Node Hyper-V failover Cluster in which 2 servers share a single SAN.
I have 3 VMs currently on this cluster with plans to add more. Host OS is Win2K8 R2 on the VM Host. All 3 of the VMs are Win2K3.
The Host Servers are IBM X3650's...

I'm working on a project to consolidate servers.  Of course, they will not purchase any new equipment so I'm trying to figure out a solution with what we have.

I have several HP Proliant 380 G4 servers with external drive bays.  I'm looking to...

I setup a vmware vsphere version 5 server which seems to be the easy part so far.
so i though i would just google how to make it useful and setup some virtual machines on my server, but i can't seem to find documentation.
so anybody have...

1) Do you back up ESXi hosts, or do you just backup the vitual machines running on the hosts?

2) In terms of your corporate diaster recovery plan document, do disaster recovery documented plans typically include technical details per system...

I am using VMWare ESXi to host virtual machines that are running Debian squeeze. I am also using the Open-iSCSI package to manage the connections to the iSCSI targets. With this setup, I am bypassing VMWare's 2TB limit for a LUN. Is this a viable...

I am deploying vmware view desktops. We are using Wyse P20 thin clients.

i had a question about using USB 2.0 devices with the Wyse P20s.

I have tried plugging a USB 2.0 DVD player into the Wys device. The dvd locks up the vm machine or...

This is using VMware vCenter converter 4.3 standalone, to try to migrate a vm from ESXi 4.0 host to ESXi 4.1 host. I started the convert machine wizard, and went through the selections without problem. But, after that, the conversion job freezes...

Hi, we have a 3 node HyperV Cluster Win2008R2 SP1. How to shut down all 3 nodes (for maintenance)? Quorum model is Node Majority , we have CSV with 800GB and 80VMs.
What is  the correct way to shut down. What is the best practice?

Thank you...

I am new to vmware vsphere, and I am setting it up in a test environment to learn more about it.
I have vmware vsphere version 5 installed on a test machine, I downloaded and installed view client, because i thought that is what i need to...

Hallo Experts,

I want to make one virtual windows 7 PC. I found VMWare is there. I in the website I am confused which one to download? I think it is VMWare workstation. But I found it is a priced version. Is there any freeware to make virtual...