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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...

Is RDP 7.1 available for Windows XP?

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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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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:...

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.

I am doing some testing of VMWare ESXi 4.1 and I created one VM on my test host that uses 450 GB of total space.  My plans were that I would have more disk space by now but I have run into a problem on the VM and I haven't been able to add any...

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I'm trying to convert a physical  2008 R2 Exchange 2007 to a VM (VMWare Vsphere Hypervisor) using MWare vCenter Converter Standalone V.4.3.0 Build-292238.

The coversion fails at 1 %.

The log highlights says:
A snapshot of the...

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...

Hi -

While trying to figure out why backup jobs are failing I noticed I had tons of iSCSI warnings in the event viewer-

Here's a couple all event id 113-

iSCSI discovery via SendTargets failed with error code 0xefff0024 to target portal...

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...

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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...

Hi All,

I have a XenDesktop 5 installation installed on Windows 2008 R2.

Hypervisor is VMWare.

I performed a Quick Deploy installation of XenDesktop 5 Express.

Everything is working as I would expect.  The web interface is working,...

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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...

We need to start using Citrix in our organization.  We are starting with a very small farm (one server) and then expand if this works for us.  We have a brand new server with Server 2008 r2 64 bit installed.  I installed Xenapp 6.5; configured...

Here's my setup in a nutshell.  I have two identical Dell R710 servers running Hyper-V R2.  I have a Equallogic PS4000X SAN.  Each server has 8 NIC ports.  I have CSV setup and Live Migration has been working fine.  

I can create a VM and...

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...

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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...

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...

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...

We need to provision a SAN array. We went to Netapps, EMC and dell and got quotes from each. Now I believe Dell is out of the running as their compellent series appears to be (from what Ive read) inferior to both NetApps and EMC Vnx series.
...

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...

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.

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...

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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hi folks,

initially i would like to enable Wake-on-LAN on a Hyper-V based VM running on W2K8, then i tried to enter the VM's BIOS. All tries were failed.

so my questions are:

1. does Hyper-V support BIOS? i do believe the Hyper-V VM must...

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 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...

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 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...

Hello,

I just installed WI on new server due to viruses on old server. Here is my setup....

XenApp and WI both sit behind a TZ190. The WI sits in a DMZ Zone on the TZ190. Keep in mind all was working with the NAT and Access Rules before I...

When you convert a physical Windows Server 2003 machine, to reach 95% an error of reconfiguration failed. We tried to stop SQL services, but the problem persists. When you install VMware Converter on the physical machine, to reach 98% showing a...

Dear Experts,
I'm facing a "Merge in progress problem" stopped at 2%, due a LUN space ended.
The problem is that the last-running configuration of the virtual machine was fine, and I don't know who of my collegues took the snapsht, and if he is...

Hi, does anyone know if VMWare ESXi 5 will run on a HP DL380 G4?
We currently have ESXi 4.0 on it and I'm looking at moving that and (a fully capable box) to 4.1 or 5 depending on compatibility just to stay up to date and uniform on versions...

equipment:

2 different and separate array controllers
2 different non-attached storage arrays
3 blade servers

blade 1 + blade 2 is attached to both storage arrays and to both array controllers. So blade 1 and 2 can see everything
...

I am running a two server failover cluster on Windows Server 2008R2 datacenter edition to support HAVM's. I am running 2 Dell R710's connected to a Dell MD3000I ISCSI Chassis.  The ISCSI is configured in multipath and the ISCSI console shows the...

Hi,

We had a very strange issue on friday, whereby all of the virtual machines on a host, stopped repsonding, we only have 4 hosts and we running HA and DRS.

The machines were all in a hung state when trying to access the console, ie you...

We have a bunch of VMware Server 2.0 VM's and we now have a Vsphere ESXi box. However, images from the free 'server' edition aren't compatible with the Vsphere ESXi. I figured you can use something like VMware converter to change them, but how...

Hello, Experts,

I have Hyper-V (v6.0.6001.18016) running on host OS Windows Server 2008 x64 SP1 with a guest Virtual Machine running Windows XP SP3.

Suddenly, using Hyper-V Virtual Manager's "Connect..." option, I can no longer reach my...

I have an ESX 4.1 server running on a Dell R710 box.  I installed a Dell Single Channel Ultra 320 SCSI card a few weeks ago and attached our old HP LTO drive to it.  This worked fine.  Today I replaced the old HP LTO drive with a Tandberg LTO-4...

Hi Experts,

I have a situation. I using ESXi 4.1 and I have a VM where Exchange 2003 is running. There are daily vDR backups taking place and the same time we are testing some file level backups using a different product. We use a agent in the...

I had to do a lot of work on our SAN/ESX server setup last night. And among it, something broke. As it is I was able to add the LUNs back to one ESX 4.1 host, and get all production servers up. However, the other 2 nodes can SEE the iSCSI targets...

HI,
I am trying to install ESXi 4.1 on a new build desktop but failed at the very beginning with error "vmkctl.HostCtlException Unable to load module /usr/lib/vmware/vkmod/vmfs3: Failure".
Attached is the screenshot.
It sounds like the...

Any good how-to information on how to connect an IBM TS3100 SAS tape library with a single LTO5 drive to a single VMware esxi 4.1 host?

The host has a SAS HBA connected directly to the tape device.  Do I need a LAN connection from the library...

I've just installed a new vCenter server and connected 5 ESXi hosts to it.  I have migrated a bunch of virtual machines over to this new vCenter and they all seem to be working well.

The issue I am having is when I try and use the vCenter...

According to many posts, it is possible to install the MegaRAID Storage Manager (MSM) on either a VM or a remote box and monitor the LSI RAID controller in the IBM x3500 series running VMware ESXi 4.1

Problem 1.
I have not been able to get...

hello
i tried to create new vm with vmware 8 as physical disk

and getting:
Cannot open the disk 'E:\Windows 7 x64\Windows 7 x64.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.

Reason: The physical disk is already in use.
logs attached...

Warning message from host.domain.com: Unable to install VMware Tools. An error occurred while trying to access image file "/usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/windows.iso" needed to install VMware Tools: No such file or directory. If your product shipped...

Hi

Is it possible to take an existing Hyper V vm and convert it to a VMware VM. How is it accomplished.

Please and thanks , in advance.

IN VMWare ESXi 4, what's the easiest way to convert an existing virtual machine's .vmdk to eager-zeroed thick?  

Hi,

We have configured Veeam v5 to run as an applicance on Windows 2008R2.

We have created a LUN on a FC SAN

The LUN has been configured as a RAW LUN and it is connected to the Veeam VM server through a pointer.

The LUN has is shown...

I have two VMs on an external USB drive.   When I first installed my ESXi 4.1 server, I installed Converter 5.0 (b470252) and I used it to convert those two machines....  I had made no edits to the machines and no edits to any Converter config...

Recently I download the barracuda spam virus virtual appliance. It comes as an OVF file. What is strange is that the package has 2 OVF files.

When I try to run it in vmware workstation, the first OVF doesn't even register, the second ovf...

I've been searching on google how to change the time and timezone on a ESXi host....can't find anything helpful.

When I install an OS (Windows 2008 R2) it takes the time and timezone from the ESXi host which is not the correct time. When I...

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 never used sysprep before and have just recently begun using VMware.

I found this on VMware's website:
Sysprep prepares the template computer for deployment by installing special software that reconfigures the operating system on the...

I was to convert my Hyper-V machines to ESXi machines.  The problem is the server that the Hyper-V machines are on is going to be the ESXi server.  So when I use the converter and I select Infrastructure, it asks for the Server, Username, and...

Hey Experts,
I am having issues with VMware VDR backups taking forever to finish if they do finish.  I have pinned it down to the slow data rate transfer.  We are seeing around 100MB/min transfer rate which does not seem right at all..

Here...

I restarted my VMWare server and one of the VM's shows Unknown inaccessible. I tried to rename, but the rename in greyed out.

Hi folks!

Our company has a large number of VMware ESXi 3.5 and 4.0 servers. (Note: This is the free ESXi, not the paid ESX Server.) They generally work very well for us. The one area of problem I have is in transferring files to and from the...

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I had one of my hosts offline in a Cluster because we were doing some RAM upgrades on it. In that mean time, I have upgraded some Datastores from VMFS3 to VMFS5, which were done sucessfully for the hosts that were connected to that...

Hi, I have a Intel i7 920 CPU and and it has Ubuntu 9 64-bit installed with VirtualBox.

Our guest operating system is Windows Server 2003 32-bit and VirtualBox crashes randomly when I enable PAE/NX.

Does anyone have an idea why this would...

Hi EE,

We are trying to do a cold clone on one of the workstations with Windows 7 installed. After putting the CD and booting from it, it errors out with a blue screen with the following exact error:

A problem has been detected and Windows...

Is it possible to enable multipath io to an NFS store in VMWare vSphere 4.0?  If so, how?  For NFS stores, there does not seem to be an option to specify paths.

If you are sure that it is not possible, please post that as the answer, and I...

I have vpshere 4.1 with one dl 380 g6, with 2 146 gig disks in raid1 and 3 146 disks in raid 5. all  running smootly on a cisco catalyst 2960 switch.All are gigabit.

I also have a qnap 459 pro plus and netgear ready nas ultra 6, with jumo...

Hi,

This is related to a recent question that I asked earlier ...
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Virtualization/Q_25441639.html

Problem Description:

On a personal laptop, I am running Window 7 64-bit Ultimate on my Dell...

We have a new installation of Veeam 5 on Windows 7 SP1 x64 logged in as the domain admin.  Our first backup job is generating the following error:

Publishing catalog session
PrepStorageForWriteEx failed '\\10.0.0.12\VeeamPermanent\All VM...

We have a Windows 2003 server SP2 that we want to do a P2V on. We are using Xenconvert 2.1.1 - we've also tried using the latest version of xenconvert and have the same problem. The Xenserver is running Xenserver 5.6 FP1 and it is up and running...

A Windows Server 2008 32bit running as a guest virtual machine, freezes every now and then.

Facts

- You can still ping it
- You can still UNC to it
- You cannot remote into it (via RDP or VNC)
- The user session simple locks up, no...

New to KVM and want to migrate away from commercial VMWARE to the promised land.


Have been attempting to convert my windows 2008 server VMWare VM to KVM without much success.

I have a very simple XP - clean setup single file VMDK that...

We are using Vmware Esx server.  Last night we had to shut all of our servers off, and this morning when everything turned on, one of the datastores (located on a NAS) is inaccessible.  I seem to think it was a permissions issue, but that has...

I have a Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise server running in a lab environment.  

The system is built on a Dell Optiplex 990.  There are 2 NICs in the system.  One is the onboard Intel NIC and the other is a Netgear GA311 (realtek chipset) in the PCI...

Why I tried to resize c: drive with this cmd: vmware-vdiskmanager, in VMWARE WORKSATION 6.0 I got this err:

Failed to expand the disk 'F:\Win XP\Windows XP-cl1.vmdk': The called function cannot be performed on partial chains. Please open the...

After adding a vSwitch on a ESXi 4.0 I lost connection with the server. I'm getting this error with vSphere client:
vSphere Client could not connect with the vCenter Server "vm01".
Details: A connection failure occurred (Unable to connect to...

Thx

Hello,

I have a cluster running four hosts using Westmere Intel processors (5630). I have added a server using processors 5530 in the same cluster.

When testing the vMotion I received an error regarding CPU compatibility.

I have found...

I am trying to backup Virtual Machines with backup Exec.

I installed Backup Exec on the vCenter server and it was working except I kept getting a BSOD memory parity error. So I uninstalled that and create a Windows 2008 R2 virtual server and I...

I am trying to build a Server 2008 Standard (32 bit) server in Hyper-V.  After loading the ISO in the Hyper-V manager and making sure that "CD" is the first boot option, I'm still receiving "Boot Failure Reboot and Select proper boot device . ....

I'm having trouble accessing VM consoles, when I try to view them using the VI client, all I get is a black screen.  I've tried connecting to multiple servers, ESX and ESXi, through VirtualCenter and direct to the host with the same result.
...

When attempting to migrate a VM from one node in a hyper-v cluster to another, it fails with the following two errors:
Event ID 1069: Cluster resource 'Virtual Machine Configuration INTEX' in clustered service or application 'INTEX' failed.
and...

Hello,

I mounted couple of SAN LUNs to an ESXi host with 2 Emulex HBA cards and created VMFS filesystem out of it, and mounted on a Linux Guest OS with ext3 filesystem. After that the SAN started reporting continuous CRC errors being generated...

Hi, I'm experiencing an issue with an AppV 4.6 client installation.  I'm not having trouble using the installation .MSI with any machines but this one machine.  It's a Windows 7 64bit and I've verified that the pre-requisites are in place.  The...

Greetings,

bit if a mess here - at least from my perspective. really hoping this is a no-brainer for you experts. Exchange server is a VM. had a couple of issues with veeam 5 backups failing (various reasons). on the last failed run before I...

Points of My Scenario:
1. I administer a VMWare ESX 3.5 cluster environment
2. I need to virtualize our only Windows 2000 server
3. The installed VMWare Converter application repeatedly fails
4. I need to perform/attempt a cold conversion...

I have a Windows 2008 R2 VM on a ESXi 4.1 host. I created a snapshot before installing an application for testing.Now that I'm done I deleted the snapshot and under status it is at 99% completed and staying there. I has been there for about an...

I am using IBM x3650 M3 server for Hyper V host server. Can I use built in network card in the mother board (broadcom) of the host server for teaming in the virtual machines.

I am having trouble getting remote connectivity into our XenDesktop environment.   I'm sure that it is a simple answer that I just can't see.

-I have installed XenDesktop 5.5 and it is working flawlessly internally on a single Windows 2008 R2...

Experts:

I'm onto the next step of my plan to setup a virtual terminal services environment at work: the thin client.  I'll have about 100 users connecting to a Windows 2008 R2 terminal server over RDP, and I need a thin client for them to do...

Hello Experts,

I need to attach a fax modem to a VM running on my VMware host. My host is a Dell R510 and I have a PCI-e fax modem already installed. When I tried searching for answers I saw where PCI had some issues and recommended using USB....

nodes are w2k8 R2 and are part of a cluster. I have added the cluster to the VMM and it detects it but the nodes in this cluster are in pending mode. The winrm service is running on all nodes, HTTP traffic is allowed. VMM uis 2008 R2.
Nodes and...

How to setup ILO (DL360 G7) on ESXi 4.1 Update 1 ?

Thanks in advance

Hello,

I am trying to configure VMWare VCB backup in our environment however I am running at a "dead end" when trying to get a "sucesufll" backup using the VCB Framework.

VMWare ESX v.4.0.0 (B: 258672)
VMWare VCenter Server v4.0.0 (B:...

Hello.

I have setup vmware infrastructure at home on a very powerful machine with Windows 7 64bit OS running VMWARE Workstation 7 hosting the following:
ESX1
ESX2
Windows 2003 for vCENTER

A separate physical box running Openfiler.

The...

We've got a fairly large ESXi farm running about 800 virtual machines.  When originally setting up this environment, our vmware TAM recommended going with 2TB datastores - so we did (we have approx 15-20 of them).  We figured that our SAN would...