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document I need more performance out of my VMware environment
Step 1, 2 & 6 only applies to hosted products (Workstation, Server, Player, Fusion), but not ESX Server. The other steps are regarding hw or...
rating 24 Nov, 2009 Views: 34902 Comments: 0
document What is the difference between Workstation, Player and Server?
VMware Workstation, VMware Player and VMware Server seem like redundant products. However there are quite a few distinctions, that are quite apparent...
rating 09 Jul, 2010 Views: 17256 Comments: 0
document Unable to connect to MKS: Host address lookup for server
When the client pc where the viclient is installed can't resolve the dns name of the esx host you get the following when trying to open the...
rating 26 Jul, 2009 Views: 11133 Comments: 0
document What is CPU READY?
The amount of time a virtual machine waits in the queue in a ready-to-run state before it can be scheduled on a CPU is known as ready time. The...
rating 12 Sep, 2009 Views: 7557 Comments: 0
document Storage performance compared
All these tests were performed on an HP DL360G5 with local storage. The windows VMs tested were 32 bit Windows Server 2003 Standard with all updates...
rating 12 Feb, 2008 Views: 6771 Comments: 0
document What is the difference between bridged, NAT and host-only networking? Which should I use?
A virtual machine in VMware Server, Workstation and Player can have virtual network cards that are "bridged", "NAT" or...
rating 01 Apr, 2008 Views: 6506 Comments: 0
document Where can I find a Virtual Infrastructure Client for Linux / Mac OSX?
VMware only provides a Virtual Infrastructure Client (also known as VIC or viclient) for the Windows platform. VMware have stated (during VMworld)...
rating 07 Jul, 2010 Views: 6109 Comments: 0
document Can I grow an existing virtual disk (.vmdk file)?
A VMDK file can be grown while no virtual machine is using it. Growng the VMDK only makes the virtual harddrive bigger - filesystem within the VMDK...
rating 06 Jun, 2008 Views: 4532 Comments: 0
document Need to mount a snapshotted LUN or a LUN that was suddenly lost
You can't mount a snapshotted LUN and get immediate access to it.  You might in some rare occations also lose a LUN even though you're not...
Not rated 25 Feb, 2009 Views: 4195 Comments: 0
document What does ESX stand for?
ESX is an acronym for Elastic Sky X GSX is an acronym for Ground Storm X Both names were confirmed by VMware employee JMills in this thread:...
rating 26 Jul, 2008 Views: 4083 Comments: 0
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document "This installation package is not supported by this processor type." when installing vCenter 4.1
You are trying to install/upgrade vCenter 4.1 on a 32 bit host. vCenter 4.1 only supports 64 bit Windows architectures and will no longer...
Not rated 12 Jul, 2010 Views: 242 Comments: 2
document "Input string was not in a correct format" when using VMware vSphere Host Update Utility
When trying to upgrade a VMware ESX host to 4.0u2 using the VMware vSphere Host Update Utility may fail with the following error message:   ...
Not rated 17 Jun, 2010 Views: 192 Comments: 0
document Using Trend Micro OfficeScan with VMware View virtual desktops
When installing Trend Micro OfficeScan to a desktop it creates a globally unique identifier. This is a problem in environments where you're cloning...
Not rated 21 Jan, 2010 Views: 903 Comments: 0
document Upgrading VMware Tools fails on Windows Server 2008 with the message "Error 1316. A network error occured while attempting to read from the file C:\Windows\Installer\VMware Tools.msi"
This situation has been repeatedly observed on many guests after upgrading an ESX environment from 3.5u4 to 4.0u1 on Windows Server 2008 guest VMs....
rating 05 Dec, 2009 Views: 2036 Comments: 1
document Placing virtual desktops into the right OU
The default location for VM placement in VMware View is CN=Computers If you try to specify an invalid location you get the error message:...
Not rated 11 Nov, 2009 Views: 869 Comments: 0
document retrying all the portals again, since the portal list got exhausted
ESX has problems mounting iscsi LUNs and there are messages similar to this in the vmkernel log file: Oct 15 04:01:37 xxxesx02 vmkernel:...
rating 15 Oct, 2009 Views: 1007 Comments: 0
document VFS: busy inodes on changed media or resized disk hda
This message typically comes right after you've installed VMware tools inside a linux guest. VMware tools will at the end of it's process eject the...
rating 14 Oct, 2009 Views: 3423 Comments: 0
document Virtual SCSI disks turning into IDE disks after introducing vSphere to the environment
After connecting an ESX 3.x host to a vCenter 4.0 server we have observed that VMs that was created on ESX 2.x  has their disk...
Not rated 12 Oct, 2009 Views: 2254 Comments: 0
document VMotion stops at 78% with the error "A general system error occurred: Source detected that destination failed to resume"
This error message indicates that the shared storage is not available equally to both host involved in the VMotion event. Remove the...
rating 14 Oct, 2009 Views: 1876 Comments: 1
document How to update the uEFI BIOS from the Service Console of ESX4
Some newer IBM servers (such as the x3650M2) comes with an uEFI BIOS that is causing error messages on the console & vmkernel (): ...
rating 01 Oct, 2009 Views: 1810 Comments: 2


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