Re: How to make hard disk available for diffferent guest OS?
Only one VMFS datastore is supported on a LUN. There's no need to create separate datastores for the different VMs anyway. Create a single datastore and place the different virtual machine's file on...
View ArticleCan't login via AD after power loss
Okay, seems pretty straight forward. I've never had an issue like this so I'm hoping someone can point me in the proper direction.Scenario - ESXi 5 server using Active Directory for authentication....
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Re: Problem with VT-d
I will try it out tommorrow and hopefully everything will work flawless then.Thank you for your help, at that forum i always get my questions so fast answered it is amazing
View ArticleRe: Can't login via AD after power loss
Have you verified that basic network settings are still there/correct in ESXi? Can you ping the AD/DNS servers by name from the ESXi Shell?
View ArticleRe: How to make hard disk available for diffferent guest OS?
Okay, so if there is only one data store supported and all virtual machines use this data store, does that means vm1, vm2, vm3, and vm4 would see each others data/files? I am having four virtual...
View ArticleRe: IO issues VMs in one host
yeah I could not find anything about that message the only thing that caught my attention was the reference to vmhba1
View ArticleRe: How to make hard disk available for diffferent guest OS?
The guest operating systems are not aware of this datastore. When you create VMs the virtual disks are files located on VMFS datastore(s) and these files are presented to the guest operating systems,...
View ArticleRe: Recompose, Refresh and Rebalance take 60 minutes to start
In my system i see that it creates the replica vm but it takes about 30 minutes or more to create the snapshot of the replica and start the linked clone process. Is that the same behavior on yours?...
View ArticleRe: Workstation 8: Sidewinder USB not working in Windows 9x guest
I still haven't found a solution to my problem. It seems VMware 9 doesn't solve this issue as I tried VMware Player 5.0.2 with the same result as above. So I think my Sidewinder will probably stay...
View ArticleRe: ThinApp .Net ClickOnce Application
I virtualized one a few months ago. First, I ran into a long path issue on Windows XP after packaging, I was able to make it work by moving the content in %APPDATA% to the root of the C drive...
View ArticleRe: VSphere Installation Question
Thanks for your reply AT10 So this is a development server, hence the reason for the hardware I've listed. Can you please recommend a Dual Port Server Adapter 10/100/1000Mbps The MoBo will support2 x...
View ArticleESXi PciPassthrough with Dell R620 and H710 Perc controller
Hi VMware gurus out there,I've read most of the discussions around the pros and cons of pcipassthrough for storage but have a strange one for you.ESXi 5.1 (dell customised), all firmware, bios, etc up...
View ArticleRe: Can't login via AD after power loss
Yes, all of the network config is fine, AD is ping-able. Just to clarify when I bring up the properties box to set the AD I get nothing in the drop-down box (not even "local authentication".
View ArticleRe: ESXi PciPassthrough with Dell R620 and H710 Perc controller
Hi roybad, and welcome to the VMware Communities! What's the Linux distro you're installing inside the guest? What do you mean by "the disk isn't EFI"? If the guest is partitioning the disk as MBR...
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Re: ESXi PciPassthrough with Dell R620 and H710 Perc controller
Hi DariusTalk about a speedy response! Thanks.It's Centos 6 .. so should be fine.I freely admit that I don't understand EFI. I couldn't get the Centos installer CD to boot when I selected EFI .. so...
View ArticlevLAN not showing in ESXi CDP output
I have a vLAN that I am using in my environment and that is working fine between the ESXi host and the physical network. However, when I run the command to show CDP information from the ESXi host, I...
View ArticleRe: auto logout of profile after guest shutdown?
If you're referring to the active User Account on the Host, VMware Fusion does not have such a feature and implementing any workaround would probably not be trivial.
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Re: ESXi PciPassthrough with Dell R620 and H710 Perc controller
Hi again roybad! I work on developing our virtual EFI firmware here at VMware, so I try to keep an eye out for issues like yours. Centos 6.3 and newer should be OK, as long as you're using the...
View ArticleUnable to install VMWare Tools on virtual Mac
I've created a virtual instance of a Mac (Mountain Lion) on my Windows 7 system.I click on the Player button, select Manage & then Install VMware Tools. I get an error: Could not find component on...
View ArticleRe: Intel-VT Features and VMware Support of those Features?
New VT-x features from Intel include:x2APIC virtualization (Sandy Bridge)Full APIC virtualization (Ivy Bridge)Shadow VMCS (Haswell) vSphere 5.1, Workstation 9 and Fusion 5 have support for x2APIC...
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