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I have just passed VCP5 exam
Welcome everybody, I am very happy and I have studied hard to pass.We will be in touch as I am now part of vmware community Best regards,Marcin
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Hi All I need some clarification. Just created a distributed switch, in my lab, which was created without any issues. I have 2 hosts in my lab Host A and Host B. There were no vmkernel ports to...
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hi guys Few days ago I had issues with VDP latest version. One VM had some issues related with Dynamic Disks but it was only one VM after that backup that was made of 29 VMs we found out that 4 more...
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vCenter is not responding correct
Hi,I've upgraded vCenter 5.0 to vCenter 5.1 U1a all is good, expect for the fact that when I eg. try to mirage a VM or set some settings on the cluster I get an error : The request failed because the...
View Article'Hardware Status' not updated for months
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View ArticleWorkstation 9 - Slow network performance between host and guest
I am running windows 8 on the host and installed Workstaion 9 trial. Then installed windows 8.1 as a guest system. I am getting slow, really slow network between the two. If i send files to and from...
View ArticleHELP! vmware won't mount vmfs volume
We recently had a hard disk failure in an esx 4i free host. Long story, but for some reason the failure of a single disk managed to take out the entire raid 5 volume (so much for resilience!)(There is...
View ArticleUpgrading a 32 bit VM to 64 bit
I am trying to upgrade Windows Server 2008 (32bit) to Windows Server 2008R2 (64bit)The CD drive is connected to the Server 2008R2 ISO.When prompted I selected the Upgrade Option. I receive the message...
View ArticleVMware Tools crashing
When I open my Win8 Enterprise VM in the Fusion Tech Preview, VMware Tools seems to load, but then crashes (or exits) silently. This breaks copy/paste from the host which is very irritating....
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Hangs after a few hours to a few days of running
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View ArticleBest Practise - Which SCSI Controller for Windows 2012
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View ArticleZimbra Credentials
I am trying to setup Zimbra on vCloud Usage Meter. I have tried to enter the Zimbra admin, but that does not seem to work. If I enter a Linux user, that seems to be accepted, but it never reports any...
View Articleafter doing a failover and failback -- replicated datastore
So I have a question of the state of the datastore where my vms are on after doing a array based failover and fail back. I did a reocvery failover of a few vms, and then did a reprotect and finally...
View ArticleCrash when running Baldur's Gate II on Win XP VM
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View ArticleEvent Viewer being flooded with VMWare Tools [Warnings]
I have began deploying VMWare Tools to all my VMs within the network. Install goes fine and a day later my one co-worker makes me aware of an immediate increase in log traffic, I go and review event...
View ArticleChanging VMware infrastructure from 4.x to 5.x
Hi, I have Six HP ProLiant DL585 G5 server in VMware environment with VMware ESX 4.1.0 build-988178. And additional to that I have purchased 2 New server of same hardware having ESXi 5.xNow I am...
View ArticleMigrating VMs from one datastore to another on ESXi 5.1 (free license)
I am running ESXi in my lab (for Cisco voice servers and some Windows VMs). The VMs are on an iSCSI datastore hosted by a Netgear ReadyNAS Pro Business. Due to major issues with iSCSI on the ReadyNAS...
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