Re: How to shrink OS in vsphere 5.1
After increasing the virtual disk size in the VM's settings, you need to expand the partition from within the OS, which can be done in the Windows 8 Disk Manager. André
View ArticleRe: Client is not authenticated to VMware Inventory Service -...
Hi, Thanks for the information.I had referenced this item in my attempts to resolve the problem but had not tried re-initializing the IS database. Think I will give that a shot this weekend and post...
View ArticleRe: New To Distributed Switch Clarification required.
Thanks Andre for the clarification, much appreciated and its clear now. Port Group Comon Kernel Groups (virtual adapters) must be configured individually on each server. Not to get cracking. Thanks...
View ArticleRe: orphaned vmdk files script
Hi LucD, The script did not find the VMDK. I did not include a datatore.. this would be the issue, we have so many datastores and as part of a house cleaning process, it would of been great to just...
View ArticleRe: Problem with Converter Standalone Client 5
Sorry POCEH But whats log you mean? Because I mean the event log Faulting application name: converter.exe, version: 8.1.0.15346, time stamp: 0x51642626 Faulting module name: MSVCR90.dll, version:...
View ArticleRe: orphaned vmdk files script
Just to make sure, we are talking about the script from Orphaned files and folders – Spring cleaning ?If you don't pass anything on the Datastore parameter, the function will look on all shared...
View ArticleVDP and Dynamic Disks
hi guys Few days ago I had issues with VDP latest version. One VM had some issues related with Dynamic Disks but it was only one VM after that backup that was made of 29 VMs we found out that 4 more...
View ArticleMigrating VMs from one datastore to another on ESXi 5.1 (free license)
I am running ESXi in my lab (for Cisco voice servers and some Windows VMs). The VMs are on an iSCSI datastore hosted by a Netgear ReadyNAS Pro Business. Due to major issues with iSCSI on the ReadyNAS...
View ArticleRe: after doing a failover and failback -- replicated datastore
Thank you for the response… It says: “select checkbox to remove snap-xxx prefix from recovered datastores” What is meant by recovered datastores? When they are NOT a snapshot datastore, but instead a...
View ArticleRe: vCenter is not responding correct
only 3 hosts and 43 VMs. It was on a express. VMware support had me move it to a "real" SQL. Same prob. I tried installing the VCSA and moved one host to see if the problem still was there and it was...
View Article'Hardware Status' not updated for months
ESXi 5.0.0We've got 2 ESXi hosts in a clustered high-availability environment. Recently we noticed that the Hardware Status for both the hosts isn't updating. On both hosts I've restarted the CIM...
View ArticleRe: after doing a failover and failback -- replicated datastore
Hi, Its terminology being used while mounting datastore for any kind of failover. RegardsMohammed
View ArticleRe: Best Raid Practice
Jarry, thanks for the input. and sorry for long delay on getting back. so im going to go with Raid 10. so do you think from a performance view that it is best to do lets say 20 drives @ raid 10 ? or is...
View ArticleVMware Tools crashing
When I open my Win8 Enterprise VM in the Fusion Tech Preview, VMware Tools seems to load, but then crashes (or exits) silently. This breaks copy/paste from the host which is very irritating....
View ArticleEvent Viewer being flooded with VMWare Tools [Warnings]
I have began deploying VMWare Tools to all my VMs within the network. Install goes fine and a day later my one co-worker makes me aware of an immediate increase in log traffic, I go and review event...
View ArticleRe: Event Viewer being flooded with VMWare Tools [Warnings]
Hi, Modify the following line from the vmx and set the value to false. For more information on modifying the vmx file see Tips for editing a .vmx file (1714) isolation.tools.setinfo.disable =...
View ArticleRe: Migrating VMs from one datastore to another on ESXi 5.1 (free license)
A couple of options I can think of are:export to OVF and re-importuse Trilead's VM Explorer and backup/restore the VMsuse the vmkfstools command to copy the virtual disks André
View ArticleRe: orphaned vmdk files script
That would be the reason, we started talking about your raiders script some how... so this script " spring cleaning script" you run it like this?Remove-OrphanedData-Datastore<datastore-name>...
View ArticleRe: Workstation 9 - Slow network performance between host and guest
Aw thanks, Just found out Hyper-V is part of Windows 8 Pro (Free). Just installed it an tested. Working great. even handles things better than VMware would have. Thanks so much. Network speeds are what...
View ArticleGraphics crash please help!
Hey there I am new to vmware and would like to learn about it. I install windows xp sp3 and it runs flawlessly, until i power off/suspend/reset or shut vmware down. The program 'usually' works 100%...
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