ESXi 5.1.0 crashes under heavy network load
I have a VM that has an NFS-based disk. When I do something IO (and possibly VM-network) intensive on the VM, ESXi crashes.The motherboard is an Intel DH57JG, the chipset is Intel H57, and the Ethernet...
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Recover dead Advent Laptop. Windows Vista Home Premium
Hi, I have a small company repairing local peoples computers.I recently took on a job to repair an Advent laptop, It turns out the hardware is mostly dead except for a working hard drive containing...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 4.1 - how to apply Broadcom driver update??
Just for information, I put the Host in Maintenance mode, used CLI from another PC (W2003) to upload the 'new driver', restart the host and using the command 'ethtool -i vmnic0' I saw that the update...
View ArticleWindows Linked Clones & Sysprep
Hi, I am able to create linked clones without any trouble (thanks LucD!). But, the windows LCs always keep the name and SID of the "parent" and they never join the domain. What should I do...
View ArticleRe: Storage vMotion will not migrate powered on guest
This might be caused by some problem with the VM's NIC configuration.Please check if it is properly connected to an existing port group.If you are using distributed switches then also check VMware KB:...
View ArticleRe: Recover dead Advent Laptop. Windows Vista Home Premium
If the OEM license is tied to the hardware, you may not be able to activate the license and if you find a way it may not be legal. In case this is not a transferable license you need to purchase one....
View ArticleMicrosoft IExplorer No Visible Mouse ?
Does anyone know how to make it so you can see the mouse pointer with latest microsoft internet explorer connecting to VM with WSXi have installed chrome as a tempory fix but i want to connect using...
View ArticleRe: vCloud Director - vShield Manager Registration
Just follow these steps...Its little tricky with setting up AMQP using RabittMQ server(For which you will need to take a look at other blogs which tell you how to set up AMQP). Other than that, if you...
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Re: Fail to perform OS Customization in VMMark
Joshua,Please find the screenshot, we have changed accordingly but still no progress, please suggest
View Articleupgrade vmware tools with update manager
is that possible to upgrade vmware tools with update manager without reboot of vm?
View ArticleHost Disconnecting again and again
I am Connecting with my esxi host in vCenter and it is disconnecting again and again. anyone who can help me on this.
View ArticleRe: Windows Linked Clones & Sysprep
Hello, gamename- As part of the cloning process, are you specifying an OSCustomizationSpec to be used to customize the new VM? That would be a way to:change the guest OS "hostname"generate a new...
View ArticleRe: Host Disconnecting again and again
Hi RanjnaAggarwal, Have you had a chance to look at this community link? If not, please try these steps. VMware KB: ESXi/ESX host disconnects from vCenter Server after adding or connecting it to the...
View ArticleHow to automate drag and drop VM to a folder?
As we can easily drag and drop a VM from one VM folder to another VM folder in VMs and Templates view of vSphere Client, how can this be automated using vCloud API? I looked many places, but it was...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.1.0 crashes under heavy network load
I reinstalled ESXi from a fresh download. I didn't wipe the destination disk, first, but my config did get reset. We'll see if this does anything.
View ArticleRe: Workstation 8.06 and hostAgentStats-20.stats
That is a part of the VMware Workstation Server Service and if you're not using any Shared Virtual Machines then turn off and disable the VMware Workstation Server Service in Windows Services. If you...
View ArticleRe: Клонирование виртульных машин как создание резервных копий.
Есть вот такой скрипт: https://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8760Подключаете датастор из удаленного хранилища (NFS, iSCSI, FC, rtc) и бэкапите на него. Если используете 5.1 Essentials Plus и выше, то...
View ArticleVMware Tools with guest kernel 3.10.x
It fails to compile with any Linux Guests lotsa modules. The one I really need is HGFS. Do someone knows how to patch the install to have it work on 3.10.x kernels too or if VMware plan to fix this...
View ArticleA VixDiskLib_Read() failure causes "consolidation needed" on the VM
Hi, After playing VDDK for a while, I found a strange behavior. Once a VixDiskLib_Read() is failed to read a snapshot of a disk in ESX/ESXi, due to VIX_E_HOST_NETWORK_CONN_REFUSED. Later on, after I...
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