How ESXi detects network card during installation
How does esxi 5.1 detects the network cards ? I am trying to use script (kickstart) installation there are mutliple vlans and different nics cards, I want few nics to bind to Management network and few...
View ArticleRe: Deleting a Virtual Machine
I assume you have full permissions, i.e. you are logged in as root!?Please post a screen shot of the datastore browser window, showing all the VM's files. André
View ArticleRe: vmfs 5.54 vs 5.58
The changes really seem minimal as the versioning suggests.A few points are outlined here:http://cormachogan.com/2012/09/04/vsphere-5-1-storage-enhancements-part-1-vmfs-5/
View ArticleRe: Why is it taking my VM 5 minutes to boot?
I guess I've answered my own question. I poked around some more and found a years-old reference to a refusal to boot being associated with a peripheral which had been mounted previously, but which was...
View ArticleRe: Win XP host gets reboot while install Windows 8 guest in VMWare...
@mfelker, once agin you're missing the point! The OP wants to test Windows 8 in a VM before installing it on the Host and VMware Workstation is rebooting the Host as he said "my whole system reboots"...
View ArticleRe: What is the default web interface port for HP Lefthand
The only "webinterface" running on Lefthand storage node, as far as I'm aware, is the standard HP Systems Management homepage with default port 2381. But this is merely for hardware management etc.
View ArticleBlog post: How much CPU ready is OK?
How much CPU ready is OK? Checkout my blog post on the topic http://wp.me/p2lYCN-fh
View ArticleRe: how to change VMware SVGA 3D driver into AMD Radeon HD 6970M 1024 MB of...
In this case I will not play anymore to Assassins Creed .... The Ubi support tell me to change the driver from VMware Virtual SVGA 3D Graphics Adapter to the AMD Radeon ... to set this second one as...
View ArticleType conversion
Hi there, I am curently attempting to pull down all vApp templates available to a organization. I have managed to create an array of all an organization's catalog items of type VclCatalogItem. This...
View ArticleRe: OS X 10.8.2 & Fusion 5.0.2 & sleep crashes OS X
Best practice is to always have fusion suspend the VM before sleeping the machine.
View ArticleRe: [BUG] Guest system crash when loading Java on Fusion 5.0.2
It is known, and they are working on it.
View ArticleRe: How ESXi detects network card during installation
Are you asking how the vmnicX numbering is assigned? That's done via PCI-addresses, the lowest PCI-address is being assigned vmnic0 and so on. You can check this via esxcfg-vmnic -l on a the console.
View ArticleRe: Fusion 4 SCSI>IDE issue
I believe that you have to do this *before* you create the virtual machine. FWIW - Migrating existing systems (particularly ones with root-kit like software on them) is risky and usually results in an...
View ArticleRe: Vmware Fusion 4.1.4 with Win XP Pro - Freezes the Windows side with...
How many CPU's and how much ram have you allocated to the guest, and how much do you have on the host? For WinXP, there's really no point in giving it more than 1 core and 2GB of RAM.
View ArticleRe: Invoke-VMScript doesn't use the default umask
Fixed. This turned out to be a customisation made by the department that handles our VM Templates. They, for reasons unknown to me, decided to put the following line in /etc/sysconfig/init:umask 027...
View ArticleRe: vCenter Inventory Service Bad request
Same here, tried those steps, no go. Still get HTTP ERROR 400. Any ideas?
View ArticleDMZ VMs sharing the same internal server storage volume
Hi, I would like your input on DMZ VMs sharing storage volumes with the internal systems. Is there a security risk associated with this? If so, please point me to the best practice document, if any...
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