How to disable IPMI
Hi all. Still very new with esxi. tryng to figure out what I'm doing but I'm liking what I'm seeing so far except one. Apparently my SuperMicro Mobo can't run ESXI if my IPMI is enabled. So I have...
View ArticleSlow performance and speed in VMware ESXi 5
Dear all,I have a VMware ESXi 5 server with nine VPS in my office. I don't have any problem with this server since this week. All virtual machines which is installed on it become slow in performance...
View ArticlePowerCLI to extract all vSwitch network info to CSV
Hi People, Can anyone please assist me with the PowerCLi script to be executed against one VCenter server to gather each VMHost (ESX & ESXi) Networking configuration as in Configuration tab |...
View ArticleVMDirectPath I/O GPU Pass-through
Here is my setup and scenario I am facing: I am running ESXI 5.0 on a single host with a single Win7 64bit VM (Testing/POC). We are trying to prove that it is possible to virtualize engineering...
View ArticleWindows 8.1 Preview boot extremely slowly
Host: Ubuntu 13.10Guest: Windows 8.1 Enterprise Preview Memory 8 GB 1 CPU The Windows 81. guest boots extremely slowly. The circular boot icon stops and starts many times. Boot takes well over 5...
View ArticleVMRun, unable to connect to host 1 out of 3 times
Hi, I am using vmrun.exe to interact with VMWare Workstation 7.1.4 build-385536 via some windows batch files. I am randomly getting this error message: "Unable to connect to host. Error: Unrecognized...
View ArticleVMware Workstation e.x.p build-1245816: This beta has expired …
VMware Workstation e.x.p build-1245816 tells me that "this beta has expired. You need a newer version to power on virtual machines".But:There is only a new license key available, announced to expire by...
View ArticleReport error message.
Hi all, I have a question about report. How to solve this issue? VMmark version : 2.5.1 below are error message in ExeReporterScript-server0.out : hostname: localhost.supermicro.com.tw: Unknown host...
View ArticleHow do I clean up an OS X VM?
I have 10.8 in a virtual machine and right now, its VMDK is taking triple the space actually being used by the contents of the virtual drive. Normally, I would have expected the "Clean up recommended"...
View ArticleCan't find result file "Score_N_Tile_Test.out"
Hi together, my problem is after running a VMmark test run, i can't see the "main" results file as described in the guide. all the files in the results-folder are these: configfiles...
View ArticlePlanning a new storage solution
I've got some budget funds to spend, and would really like to upgrade in terms of storage. Today I'm using 3 HP servers with 12 virtual Machines stored in local raid arrays, and backup to a QNAP NAS...
View ArticleUpdate esxi free 4.1 U2 to 4.1 U3
Hello, Is this the right file to upgrade esxi free 4.1 U2 to U3? VMware ESXi 4.1 Installable Update 32012-08-30 | 4.1.0 U3 | 213M | Binary (.zip)ESXi 4.1 Update 3 (upgrade ZIP from ESXi 4.0) Use this...
View ArticleHow to Keep Explorer.exe from Virtualizing
Hello VMware Team, I hope this forum is still active although the good old Thinapp is not really a single package anymore.Currently I've ran into a problem with Thinapp:With all my, so far virtualized,...
View ArticleUnable to detect disk or volumes on the source machine (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)
I'm trying to move a virtual machine from proxmox to ESXi.The VM I'm trying to move with Converter is an Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, but the Converter gives me the following message "Unable to detect disks or...
View ArticleHow to Increase the Memory ??
As I am able to Change the Memory of the perticular VM but what I want is to Increase the existing value of the memory ... Please help me with that .. Thanks !!
View ArticleIs anyone satisfied with Fusion 5 and their Retina screen
Bought a 15" MBPro Retina and Fusion 5 last autumn and I've never been happy with the rendering in Fusion 5. Does it work for you and what settings do you have? - Mac is OS X 10.8.4, running Fusion...
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Windows 8.1 VM failed to boot up in ESXi 5.1u1 ?
Hi People, As part of the VDI testing, I'm trying to deploy the latest Windows 8.1 VM in to my newly build ESXi 5.1 u1 server, but I cannot install anything on the newly deployed VM hardware v9 at all...
View ArticleHerramientas terceros y Backup
Hola foro quiero postear tres dudas que tengo actualmente. - tengo un cluster con dos ESXI uno lo tengo con la version 5.1 y el otro con la 5.0.0,623860 , requiero actualizar el 5.0 un procedimiento...
View ArticleFeature Pack 2
I signed up for a view trial and would like to download and try Feature Pack 2; but I can only see FP1 from the eval page and am told I need permission to get FP2 from another page. Can anyone help?
View ArticleEsxi 5.1 - Exchange 2007 - Memory Page File and CPU allocation
I am currently migrating a current Exchange 2007 SCC Cluster running on 2003 over to vmware running windows 2008. It is also a SCC Cluster. I have followed all the vmware and MS best practices, but...
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