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To help us better understand your perceptions of VMware's certification programs and tailor future programs to meet your needs we have begun a limited-time research study. Whether you're a current VCDX...
View ArticleMore IDE Drives than standard bios has (0:0 0:1 - 1:0 1:1) ?
Needing More IDE Drives than standard bios (0:0 0:1 - 1:0 1:1) has. Though I guess won't be able to add any since what the has bios has is what we get. Though post this in case there is a way or if...
View ArticlevCenter Appliance 5.1, Oracle Database Prep?
I am running a largely Linux environment, and as such i love using the Vcenter Appliance 5.1, but looking at the host/vm limitations I want to move to an Oracle Database, but I am not finding much in...
View Articlemultiple Org vDCs and media catalog
Hello, We've got a Org in vCloud that has two vDCs (one that just has SAS disk attacked and another that just has SATA disk attached), the isos are in a media catalog on the SATA vDC. How do I mount...
View ArticleSRM 5.1 configuration
Hi all, I am currently trying to upgrade my SRM 4.1 environment to SRM 5.1. My question is the following. Can SRM 5.1 work on a mix environment? I was able to work with a mix environment of ESX 3.5 and...
View ArticleAutocad 2008 and Fusion 5
I am getting some bad behaviors in Autocad 2008 with the mouse and windows 7. It will jump a huge distance while in a command. Also the mouse will vanish and I have to minimize the program then...
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Nasty Crash of Win7 Client w/ Win7 Host
I was chugging along just fine this morning and then Workstation froze with this error: It took some time, but eventually Workstation shut itself down. I started it back up (but did not start the...
View ArticleWS 6.5.5 host peaks at 50% cpu utilization
Host: VMware Workstation 6.5.5 build-328052, running on XP w/SP3Guest: XP w/SP3 When starting the guest, the host process vmware-vmx.exe peaks-and-holds at about 100%, which is good. However, once the...
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Multi-display reverts to single after unlocking Win7 client
Had an issue today. Left Workstation running in multi-monitor mode across 3 displays. Came back after the client (Windows 7 64-bit) had locked the screen due to inactivity. When I entered my...
View ArticleProblems with LFN and transfer speeds/TCP Window Scaling
We have a 1Gb link between two sites. The latency is 19ms. This limits transmission speed to about 25Mbps with the default max TCP window of 64kb. Is there a way to turn on window scaling in 4.1? Does...
View ArticleFree Esxi Keys
My last company we had several hosts with free versions of ESx, they were very limited and when the time came and we had money we bought VmWare. I am at a new company and we are in a similar situation....
View ArticleLync 2013 VDI plugin only works with RDP protocol
Hi,we have tried all day making the VDI plugin for Lync 2013 work with PCoIP protocol, but we only get it working with RDP.We cannot find any information if there are any firewall ports that needs to...
View ArticleFusion 5.0.3. - OSX 10.8.4 - VM's will not start after host was in sleep mode
Hi, I saw that there was similar discussion about this already, but this was about Fusion 4.1.1 and the solution does not work for me as the referred switch does not exist in my .vmx. Workarounds like...
View ArticleCluster installed and removed by itself !!
hi,i saw my cluster being installed inwitch there are my two hosts and with the 2 VMs powered on and after few minutes it's removing!! every thing removing!!! what can be the problem??please help
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Datastore not available. Lun ok, partition table ok
Hi people, we've got an issue with a disk on the array directly attached to our server.We changed the disk and it seems the raid managed to reconstruct itself now we can see the lun into storage...
View ArticlevSphere Web Client (ESXi 5.1 Update1a)
Hi, I've just installed vCenter 5.1 Update1a into my test environment and have also installed the vSphere Web Client. Part of the vSphere Web Client installation requires you to enter the...
View ArticleUnable to add array manager.....Timed out (300 seconds) while waiting for SRA...
Hi, For my product qualification with vSRM, I have installed, 1. VMware-srm-5.1.1-1082082.exe on two servers2. vCenter Server from VMware-VIMSetup-all-5.1.0-880471.iso (on two servers)3. Two ESXi...
View ArticleEsxi 5.1 Licensing?
If you get the free version and want to make it more official what is the next level up vmware essentials? If so how much is it?
View ArticleActive/Active NIC Teaming Failover Performance
We're implementing a pretty large VMware project soon and I am required to determine mean time to failover metrics for various parts of our network. The bottom most network related component is our...
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Problem with PowerCLI and Threads / Jobs
Hi, I have a script Deploy-VM.ps1 which takes couple of parameters and deploys a VM into a large environment accordingly. The complete deployment procedure for a single VM takes around 10 minutes as I...
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