"Unable to Obtain Hardware Information" P2V LocalMachine to ESXI 5 - Solved!
I have been trying for days to have replicate a Physical Machine to an ESXI 5 Server. I continously received "Unable to Obtain Hardware Information" Error.. But I have done this before. Uninstalled...
View ArticleRe: Recompose & Default Printers
They are locally installed. I have found a way to get it to work. I am already using login and logout scripts to keep a persistant state on a few .ini files that some of our in house software uses...
View ArticleRe: vghettoVCB under ESXi 5.1.0 "You're not running ESX(i) 3.5, 4.x, 5.x!"
You are not the only one. I fixed the problem with $USER instead of $(whoami).
View ArticleRe: Guest operating systems are taking a VERY long time to start/shut down/login
Replace the HDD then.My guess is that is completely unrelated to performance or anything. It's probably some shutdown/startup/login script or performed done during those, making it an issue of the...
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Re: View 5, location based printing doesn't work
This is what we used to fix the default printer changing to the thinprint printer. We have tested this and it works.We have auto usb connection enabled and we install the printer driver in the image....
View ArticleVMwareTools-8.8.4-730257 on Linux 3.6.1-1.fc17.x86_64 compile errors
Recently upgraded my Linux kernel to 3.6.1-1 and running into compile errors building vmhgfs for shared folders. Ideas? Using 2.6.x kernel build system.make: Entering directory...
View ArticleRe: What to do when Virtual Machine (Windows 7) does not start?
To help figure out what is what, the best way to provide comprehensive diagnostic information is to use the "Collect Support Information" command from the VMware Fusion (menu bar) > Help >...
View ArticleRe: New Datastore Design
One thing to be aware of is Queue depth. The more VMs you have on a given storage volume, the more potential for contention leading to latency. You may want to consider more smaller LUNS (say 200-400...
View ArticleESXi 5.0 95% Power On when using FC HBA Storage
I have 2 boxes, a PE2900 with openfiler and a QLA2642 and a PE2950 with esxi 5 (no u1) and a QLA 2460. I have a FC setup with LUN 0 pointing to a VG on the openfiler box. I can read and write to the...
View ArticleRe: Problems doing a v2v from ESXi 4 to 5
for v2v in most cases it doesnt make sense not to use ova/ovf.there are certain cercustances where using converter is needed, but ova works great.
View ArticleRe: VMmark 2.1: Problems with mailserver workload
I believe I see it in Page 88 of the v mmark 2.1 benchmarking guide under client configuration. IS that correct?Yes, this is correct. The database is initialized using LoadGen on the client...
View ArticleRe: Windows 8 Release Preview x64 gets stuck during boot
changing to longhorn worked! Thanks
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Re: Intel s1200BTL MB 82579 Nic does not work on Esxi V5
ESXi 5.1 released, and still no progress in this matter despite of S1200BTL being listed as supported. I carefully checked "VMware Compatibility Guide" before buying new hardware, yet despite of that...
View ArticleMulticore cpu support
Currently running vCenter 4.0 U2. We have W2K3 and W2K8 Standard and Enterprise guests. Confused over licensing and use of CPU sockets. cores and vCPUs. Would like to change a Windows guest .vmx...
View ArticleRe: vCOps weird error(Hibernate Exception)
Hello Guys, I got somw weired Error while the vcops is running and i am unable to connect back to the vCOps. The error occured in the custom dashboards on each and every widget.here it is An error...
View ArticleRe: Recompose & Default Printers
You could also just map the printers with a logon script or group policy preference and as long as you have the printer drivers installed on the master imgae you shouldn't see any login time increase.
View ArticleDoes restarting the mgmt-vmware service cause VM downtime
I am looking into configuring SNMP on our ESX hosts for Solarwinds alerting, and the last step I have is to restart the mgmt-vmware service.I have looked around online, and have been unable to find...
View ArticleRe: Reports in formats CSV, how can i change it?
Reports in UM v2.3 onward are exported as a tab separated file because of the incorporation of customers who have commas in the name (i.e. "New Co, Inc."). Most spreadsheet applications are able to...
View ArticleUnable to remove Machine from inventory
I'm having a problem recomposing or deleting a VM in VMware ViewAdministrator 5.0. The error listed under the Events tab for this VM is "Provisioning error occurred for Machine VM-Name: Unable to...
View ArticleRe: Ubuntu host->Win7 Guest->windows xp mode.....
This thread answered my problem: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/225243 EDITED: This didn't fix it, only for about 30minutes.
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