Re: Is Workstation appropriate for my small business
For the requirements you have posted WS 10 is way overkeill for what you need. Take a look at the free VMware Player 6.0. This is of course my opinion
View ArticleRe: FAILED: Unable to find the system volume, reconfiguration is not possible.
Another clarification. I am booted into XP in order to make a VM of the "running machine", i.e. an XP VM, not a Win 7 VM. Of course, If I had known all this, I would have made the VM before I installed...
View ArticleBest Practice for Creating NIOC shares
What is the best strategy for keeping a consistent, intuitive, allocation of NIOC shares in an enviornment with many different virtual distributed switches?For example, I have one distributed virtual...
View ArticleRe: Horizon Workspace: installation wizard fails with SSH error
Unfortunately not yet...
View ArticleRe: Unable to login to any vCenter or ESX hosts through vSphere Client
Hey Trupthi,This is what i see from the logs, at VirtualInfrastructure.Utils.AssemblyResolver.set_MainAppPath(String value) at VpxClient.UI.OnSuccessfulLogin() at VpxClient.UI.OnLoginEvent(String...
View ArticleRe: Workstation 10 crashing
I don't have any other ideas right now. While Workstation is frozen, could you open the Task Manager, right-click on the vmware.exe process, choose "Create Dump File", and attach that (probably...
View ArticleRe: Workstation 10 crashing
I've attached the DMP as requested. Had to do it as a 7z file as it is 140MB.
View ArticleRe: FAILED: Unable to find the system volume, reconfiguration is not possible.
So... it *seems* to me that I need an XP-only MBR that points to boot.ini.I coulld dd a copy of the current one and dd a new one onto the raw disk from sysreccd, boot into XP. run Converter, and then...
View ArticleRe: Moving ESX hosts (running on vDS) to new vCenter Server ??
Did you get a chance to check this KBVMware KB: Moving an ESX/ESXi host with vDS from one vCenter Server to another Thanks,Avinash
View ArticleRe: Total Processor script
Thanks to you both, but the script gives me the number of CPU's per cluster. (Cpu cores) It does not give me the logical processors, and that is what I need.
View ArticleRe: Errors, VMWare Tools
I had the following experience today (9/9/13):Warning, 9/9/2013, 7:50:49 AM, VMWare ToolsError, 9/9/2013, 7:50:49 AM, VMWare ToolsWarning, 9/9/2013, 7:51:04 AM, VMWare ToolsError, 9/9/2013, 7:51:04 AM,...
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Re: Tutorial problems on a VM
OK, after chasing my tail for a bit I think I see the issue. I'm assuming you're following the tutorial here: Running the Tutorial At the point where the tutorial asks you to execute the client (Part...
View ArticleRe: Is Workstation appropriate for my small business
Thanks for the reply. Is the performance of virtual machines comparable with both VM Player and VM Workstation? Also should my rig be able to run these two VM smoothly without hangs and stutters?
View ArticleRe: Raid 5 and Number of Drives
Poorly performing RAID is nearly always the result of a cheap RAID card, the lack of a battery backed cache, or too small a cache. These issues have exponentially more impact than the RAID level.Edit:I...
View ArticleRe: How long does it take to P2V a Windows Server?
There are many factors that will impact on how long the migration will take. The most important of these is the bandwidth between the Source and Target - the next is will this be a live migration where...
View ArticleRe: How to extend C:\ OS drive on Windows 2008 R2 (64bit) without downtime!!!!
I just tested in the lab and it works fine using: 1. Edit VM settings and increase the size you wanted2. Access Computer Management->Storage->Disk Management3. If you don't see new space show up...
View ArticleRe: Horizon Workspace: installation wizard fails with SSH error
I believe it is different between the two versions - 1.0 It normally comes down to the dormant extensions or password complexity. 1.5 had an issue with the installer, they are putting out a new...
View ArticlevCD Networking / vCAC 5.2 IP Addressing
Hi all, Is there any way that machines provisioned into a vCD Organisation can use IPs from a pool associated with that Org as static IPs? At present, each Org has a /24, with 100 static addresses in...
View ArticlevCAC 5.2 Advanced Approvals - Tipping Point Trigger
Hi all, I want to configure advanced approvals, but in a slightly different way than described in the Ops Guide. Essentially, I want to allow just the Group Manager to approve 1 or 2 machines at a...
View ArticlevCAC Approvals in Admin Portal - Mandatory Comments?
Hi all, Is there a way to make the comments box for request approvals mandatory for Group Managers or other approvers actioning commissioning requests? Currently, they can just skip past it and go...
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