Re: Provisioned storage value different from the value showing in Win Ops. sys.
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View ArticleRe: Any Plan to Allow Auto-Start for VMs in Workstation Product?
IT_Architect wrote: I know others have not been able to get even Workstation 7 to work with Windows 8, but Continuum has played with Workstation more than most, so it would be no great shock to me if...
View Article'Optimistic locking failure' after failed clean-up
Hello, I have configured five VM's configured successfully with vSphere Replication (VR). One of them that was replicating Ok, after a recovery test that I was trying to do the clean-up, failed with...
View ArticleRe: Connect a physical PC to the VMnet8(NAT) network?
Hi MattDav, and welcome to the VMware Communities! I haven't tried this myself at all, but I would have thought that one could create a network bridge on the Windows 7 host between the vmnet8 network...
View ArticleRe: Quickprep creates new OU object but clone is not renamed!
Yes, I found the VMXNET3 adapter would not install without it. I also uninstalled VMware Tools, rebooted, reinstalled it, rebooted, confirmed VMXNET3 network adapter was working, released IP, shut...
View ArticleSetting up a virtual network
Hi All, Sorry if this question's been asked a million times but, as a newbie to ESXi, I'm having a few problems configuring my virtual network. Any pointers in the right direction or links to...
View ArticleManagement interface failes after changing IP of vmotion vmkernel port
Hi community, I have a litte problem which is confusing me. I wanted to change the IP address of a vmkernel which is used for vmotion -> because I wanted to add them to a seperate vlan. After...
View ArticleRe: Setting up a virtual network
Welcome to the Community, I can't tell you why the Win7 Client does not currently get a DHCP lease without more details. However, to answer your question about a separate network for the second domain,...
View ArticleESXi v5.0 to v5.1 - Upgrade or Install - what and why?
I am an ESXi novice in charge of three Dell Poweredge servers with two to six VMs on each host. Each host has two datastores and boot from a USB memory stick using hard drive emulation. I am updating...
View ArticleRe: Management interface failes after changing IP of vmotion vmkernel port
To be able to help, I need some more details about the network configuration. Please post a screen shot of the vSwitch's setup and explain how the physical switch ports are configured. André
View ArticleRe: Quickprep creates new OU object but clone is not renamed!
Did you also resinstall the View Agent? (VMware Tools and View Agent is not the same thing.) // Linjo
View ArticleRe: ESXi v5.0 to v5.1 - Upgrade or Install - what and why?
ESXi is definitely not comparable with Windows (on which I agree with you with the clean installation) and I'd recommend you Upgrade the ESXi host rather than installing it. In case you want to install...
View ArticleUpgrade/migrate from free to vCenter managed
So we have 2 of the free version esx hosts running 4.0. There are 2 virtual machines on each box stored on local storage. We will be spinning up a new 4.1 esx host that will be managed by our current...
View ArticleRe: Management interface failes after changing IP of vmotion vmkernel port
no problem - attached you will find the screenshot of the configuration. its a simple flat configuration without any vlans or anything else. management and vmotion is on the same subnet as the vm's...
View ArticleRe: ESXi v5.0 to v5.1 - Upgrade or Install - what and why?
Thank you for your prompt reply. And I will not need to make those changes and readd VMs to the inventory etc. on an upgrade, correct? Bob
View ArticleRe: Upgrade/migrate from free to vCenter managed
There are a couple of option how this can be done.restore the VM's from the most recent backupuse e.g. Veeam's FastSCP to copy the VM's over to the new host (in case the virtual disks are NOT thin...
View ArticleRe: ESXi v5.0 to v5.1 - Upgrade or Install - what and why?
Yes, with the upgrade option the settings will be migrated to the new version. André
View ArticleRe: ESXi v5.0 to v5.1 - Upgrade or Install - what and why?
Thank you. You've been very helpful. Cheers. Bob
View ArticleRe: Sporadic Black Screen Issue
Installing or updating Tools without then installing View Agent will often cause black screen problems. This is because the graphics driver can get downgraded by the Tools install or update. I can see...
View ArticleRe: Drive - Predictive Failure, Snapshots won't delete, cannot clone
You could certainly attach the base disks to the VM and delete the snapshots manually (technically no problem), but you would end up with the data of 08/2012 in this case I don't mind this for the...
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