best hard drives for a virtual server
I am currently using vm workstation 9 at home for personal use and I'm running a windows 8 host with a server 08 with exchange 07 vm (single vm). I have noticed the the hard drives really dont get a...
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Re: Drive - Predictive Failure, Snapshots won't delete, cannot clone
Andre, sorry for my latelate reply - been troubleshooting this and many other issues. With some stroke of luck I was able to migrate the Exchange Server off this host - didn't do anything fancy just...
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VSS Application Quiescing
Hi guys, I've been asked for my opinion and honestly, I don't have one due to my lack of experience with vSphere Replication; so I thought I would ask you for yours please. I understand that...
View ArticleCan I use vApp to deploy SharePoint or MS SQL Server
Can I use vApp to deploy SharePoint or MS SQl Server? Has somebody already done this?
View ArticleRe: Dual boot WinXP to VM?
Well, I am trying this now (finally!). I have Win7 installed and the disk containing the WinXP image is mounted. I can't get vConverter to accept this.It only wants "this" current machine (Win7) or a...
View ArticleRe: can't power on VM after enabling VR
Memaad you are correct- disabling the VR does permit the machine to boot. What I am trying to resolve is why I cannot replicate the machine and its disks. Vcenter does not allow the creation of a guest...
View ArticleRe: VSS Application Quiescing
But what are peoples thoughts and/or experiences with VSS quiescing for applications like SQL, Exchange and AD? Has the replicated data been consistent when recovered at the DR site? Do the...
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Re: Loading Problems .
Jan 27, 2013 2:02 PM: the lab froze just now, but was able to reconnect with a page refresh.Jan 27, 2013 2:12 PM: froze again, restored againi with refresh.Jan 27, 2013 2:25 PM: all done no further...
View ArticleRe: VCP-Cloud numbers
Chris Wahl wrote: My VCP-Cloud ID remain the same as the VCP-DV. Is the same for everybody? Yup, same number for both. Yep, my VCP-DV, VCP-Cloud and DCA 5 numbers are all the same. So with that being...
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Re: Datacenter design, ESX host configs + cisco
Hi Mr. Harris, It is good if you could explain your networking plans and objective to achive. From that we can share the best practice.Concept of networking is standard but the environment make it...
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Re: Physical Resources to Single Machine
Single VM can utilize all 3 hosts resources, but what for? I have 2 hosts resources combined for Number Crunching System (Parrallel Computing) by SuSe Linux.
View ArticleRe: anyway to bypass authentication for dashboard?
I am not able to login uing a url similar to yours. Can you confirm again? Thanks,Prasanna
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Maximum switchover time reached when moving datastores
I'm having an issue when moving a Dev SQL server to a new datastore. I tried adding thisfsr.maxSwitchoverSeconds = "400" but didn't work. Anyone have any ideas?
View ArticleRe: finding Network statistics when logged in ssh on my ESXI Mng network...
Hi,I need something like in the link below:http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/files/2013/01/net-stats-2.png but for ESXI 5.0 Thanks!Dotan.
View ArticleUnable to connect to Homegroup from Win8 virtual machine
I just set up a new Win8 machine in VMPlayer (5.0.1 build-894247). As far as I can tell, things seem to be okay but I cannot connect to the existing Windows 7 Homegroup. The Network and Sharing...
View ArticleHow can I migrate datastore (for clustered VMs) using SAN copy?
Hi all,I have to migrate from an array to new one. The problem is VMs reside on old array is running cluster service (like Oracle RAC, clustered MS SQL), they have RDMs, shared disks so it can not...
View ArticleRe: Transport (VMDB) error -14: Pipe connection has been broken
I had the same problem today and deleting the lock files and editing the vmx file didn't help me either. What can i try next ?
View ArticleHow to convert an existing WinXP boot disk?
I have a disk containing the WinXP system I wish to run under VMPlayer on my Win7 system. Converter will not accept the physical disk.I tried downloading a trial version of Acronis to create a backup...
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