Splitting up a nVidia GRID K2's GPUs?
What I'm talking about is designating one GPU for vSGA and pass-through the second GPU to a VM for high performance 3D work. In theory this should work, but I'm curious to know if anyone has actually...
View Articlenewbie question: stop app launching in fusion-win7
I recently have had my mac app gotomeeting ( start my win7-64 vm in fusion every time i try to join a meeting. i would rather it just stay in mac-os and NOT kick to fusion (5.0.3). I've tried to...
View ArticleWhen to increase number of ports on standard vSwitch?
I have a question about the number of ports needed on a standard vSwitch. I have a cluster of 6 hosts; each host has 2 10G NICs (each host is ESXi 5.1 - not U1). On each host I have a standard vswitch...
View Article"A fault has occurred causing a virtual CPU to enter the shutdown state" on...
Hi,everyone! I'm running VMW 9.0.1 on a ThinkPad x230i (i3 3110M CPU), running Windows 7 64bit, trying to reboot Ubuntu12.10 physical disk after install Power on VM, I see the BIOS screen, and then...
View ArticleNeed a powershell script for collecting ESX host information
Hi, I need a powershell script to collect the below given ESX host information from the Virtual Center. My environment VC:2.5, ESX hosts: 2.5, 3, 3.5 At present i have individual powershell one liner...
View ArticleQuery List of extensions
Hello Is there a mechanism to programatically query the list of extensions registered on a vcenter server? ThanksLiz
View Articlepersona management %username% AND %username%.2
hello curious as to why everyone in the persona repository has two folders referenced above instead of just one? thanks in advance -charlie
View ArticlevSphere client 5.0 Summary shows Vmware Tools not running (not installed)...
I installed ESXi 5.0, vCenter 5.0 and vSphere client 5.0 successfully. Within vSphere client, created a VM under a host which is managed by the vcenter. With the VM turned on, installed the VMware...
View ArticleFusion 5.0.3 + 10.8.3 VM + Apple Preview + COLLADA == Crash
Fusion 5.0.3 w/Mac OS X 10.8.3 VM on 10.6 & 10.7 hosts Trying to open any COLLADA .dae file crashes Apple Preview. Does not crash a "real" install of 10.8.3, so it's something wrong with...
View ArticleClearing Alerts in vC Ops 5.0.3
Hi Folks, I need to clear a number of alerts, but was wondering - what is the difference between suspend and alert or suppress an alert - and when do I use either?
View ArticleHow to bill during upgrading Usage Meter.
Now I'm using UM2.3.2 and it'll be upgraded v3.1 next week. As for billing, How can UM bill and gather the vRAM information during upgrade ?In addition, during upgrading, Can I deploy two UM instances...
View ArticleVMWare player capturing CTRL-ALT-DEL when attempting to log into host
Hi all, I have an issue with VMWare player. I have several virtual machines and was running one when I logged off my machine. It is possible that the VM was the active window when locking my...
View Article'System Usage - Maximum Users Logged in Per Hour' Report
Does anyone else use this standard report? We've been using it to check we're not getting too close to our number of concurrent user licences. I have it scheduled to run for each week reporting on...
View ArticleVMware Player (5.0.2) Fails to Install Modules on Ubuntu (13.04)
For quite a while, VMware Player (5.0.2) has been popping up error boxes on my Ubuntu host. The box would prompt me to install modules into the kernel. When I clicked 'Agree', VMware would attempt to...
View ArticleProvisioning Error: fault xsi:type=FileLocked
We have a client where we run about 25 virtual workstations with View (5.1). When we provision with View Composer, 4-6 of the vms will get a provisioning error with the following: <date and time of...
View ArticleHow do I assign dns servers via VMware?
Hi all, I tried to assign DNS servers in VMware by editing the vmnetdhcp.conf file,I entered the IP address of the DNS server in: option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.x;but it is not working, the...
View ArticleVMtools installation problem on Ubuntu 13.04
Hi, I have a vm (workstation 8.0.6) running with ubuntu 13.04 64 bit - I am trying to install vm tools, but am getting this error in the middle of the installation: "The path "" is not a valid path to...
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after ubuntu 13.04 last updates, can launch vm workstation 8.0.6 again - help...
Hi everyone, My ubuntu 13.04 updated the latest kernel and now I am getting this message: Can anyone help me please? I have vm workstation 8.0.6, running on ubuntu host 13.04 64 bit. Thanks a lot in...
View Articlevxlan - preparation not working / vmknic not created
Hello, i´m trying to get vxlan working within a vcloud director 5.1 environment.Within vshield manager i configured the sgement id and in the next step i tryto create the vxlan under connectivity....
View ArticleVXLAN cluster preparation issue
Guys I have successfully deployed vCloud Director 5.1 along with the vShield Manager and have deployed a few vApps and VCDNI networks etc... All seems to be OK there. The issue I'm having is I want to...
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