Retrieve and modify VMX config file as per Hardening guide
Hi!I have ESXI 5.1 and Power CLI 5.1 Release 1 installed on my Virtual Center with around 100 vms. Have been going thru various hardening guides and wanted to change my VMs vmx files with the below...
View ArticleRe: No hardware sensors for Intel ST1200BTS
Ah I see. I should have done my homework before picking the BTS (I'm kinda new to server parts, hence building this for learning).Thanks for the help & info! Btw, it's a bit of a long shot, but...
View ArticleXP migration hangs at 95% in Fusion Pro
Hi: Decided to get rid of one of my boxes by migrating it to a VM. Everything looked good. Used the VMware Fusion PC Migration Agent on the XP side over my LAN. Have Fusion Pro installed on my Macbook...
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no nics shown as attached
one of my hosts in vsphere is not showing any physical nics attached to the vswitch. When I go to manage adapters it shows no nics attached. however I am still connected to the host via vmk0. any idea...
View ArticleRe: Snapshot Errors
Sreec, Using this link you provided:http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1028042How long do you estimate it would take to complete? The...
View ArticleRe: Snapshot Errors
NYTECJ wrote: Sreec, Using this link you provided:http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1028042How long do you estimate it would take to...
View ArticleEquallogic iSCSI and EMC Fiber channel same cloud
Nowdays I have a Cloud with 15 hosts and 2 Equallogic (iSCSI) I want to add a EMC VNX 5100 (FiberC) to my cloud. Is there any kind of limitation to use a differente version of SAN in the same cloud ? I...
View ArticleRe: Adding Amazon EC3 fails
Well it looks like this error comes from a malformed guid related to the proxy credentials in the endpoint setup. I'm not quite sure how that could happen, but maybe you could try going back through...
View ArticleRe: Selecting a reservation policy at machine request time
The custom property is unfortunately a guid __reservationPolicyID and there's not a terribly great method for exposing this in the UI. There's been lots of requests for this and in most cases it's...
View ArticleRunning VMworkstation 9 with win 2008 r2 and two virtual clients: KEEPS FREEZING
I have a HP Dv6 Laptop with Windows 7 home/premium 64 bit OS, 2nd gen i7 2.2 ghz and 8gb of RAM. I am taking a college course that utilizes VMworkstation for a server(win 2008 r2) and 2 Windows 7...
View ArticleRe: no nics shown as attached
What's the output of: "esxcfg-nics -l" ? Is it showing all the NICs? It seems to be a driver issue or maybe those NICs are disabled from BIOS.
View ArticleRe: Difficulty virtualizing a physical machine
Which converter version you're using to virtualize this VM? If you're using Converter 5.X, then you'll have issues with GPT partitions. Try to use Converter 4.3
View ArticleRe: Running VMworkstation 9 with win 2008 r2 and two virtual clients: KEEPS...
Did you install VMware tools?
View ArticleTemplate Creation
HI, I need to create few Template for my business. Where do i copy the sysprep ? or How do i do it? Windows 7 Template: Windows 2008 R2 Template: Windows 2003 R2 Template: Windows XP SP3 Template: AS
View ArticleRe: no nics shown as attached
it shows all the nics Name PCI Driver Link Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Descriptionvmnic0 0000:01:00.00 bnx2 Up 1000Mbps Full 78:2b:cb:44:ef:f7 1500...
View ArticleRe: no nics shown as attached
Just a thought, can you enter the host in maintenance mode and try to remove it from the vds? you need to make sure that no VMs are hosted on the host even if it's powered off coz it might block a port...
View ArticleRe: Template Creation
If you're using vCenter Server, this KB article tell you where to place the files - kb.vmware.com/kb/1005593.
View ArticleRe: unable to start the vmwarehostd service
i found this in the last error log in the hostd folder 2013-03-02T10:08:54.179-06:00 [02752 error 'Default'] An error occurred while loading configuration "C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware...
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