Nested ESXi 5.1 and iSCSI Shared Storage
Folks: I'm unable to get my nested ESXi servers to see the shared iSCSI storage I've set up for them. I'm using iSCSI for the ESXi host that holds the ESXi guests, so I have a successful iSCSI...
View Articledifference between vmx swap file and vswp file
Hi Guys, Just want to know the difference between vmx swap file and vswp file. are these same files or different. regardsVINAY
View ArticleHow does everyone count the total amount of GHz for VMs on a host \ cluster?
Hello, I want to do some basic sizing and I may\may not be going the write way about it. Say for example I have a 4 node cluster with a total of 200GHz and 1TB of RAM across all four hosts with 100...
View ArticleTop 10 VMware Interview Questions
Hi Guys, I need to understand what are your top 10 interview questions that you ask when hiring for a VMware engineer position. I am working on piece of work where i am assisting some sr. managers in...
View ArticleNeed Vmware interview questions - only for commandline..
Hi all, pls somebody provide Vmware commandline interview questions, which are the basic and essential to run in common vmware enviroment. thanks in advance, Boopathy S India, TN
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Unclickeable buttons installing Windows 8.1/Windows 10
Hi, I am giving a try to run 32-bit Windows VMs in VMware Player 7.1.2.2780323, running inside 64-bit Windows 8.1 running as Hyper-V VM.I am using vmx.allowNested = "TRUE" works fine, and can...
View ArticleExchange Server 2013 deployment on VMware Fault Tolerance
Hi People, Instead of using the DAG feature on the Exchange Server 2013, so what is the caveats in deploying the Exchange Server 2013 stand alone and then implementing the Vmware FT or at least HA to...
View ArticleCan high power desktop VMs running on servers be cost effective?
We have no existing VDI infrastructure, but we need our 100+ developers to run their software development software, debugging tools and scripts that all require local machine admin rights on...
View ArticleExperiences with the Dell/EMC AX150i or CX300i
Hi Thank you to all the replies in my last post regarding setting up a ESX VM Environment for a maximum of 20 virtual Servers. As we have always been a Dell shop I am being pushed in their direction...
View Articledeploy VM from template -- changing hdd size
hi , i have quick question, i have one template of win2k3 and it has system harddisk of 36 Gb , now i want to deploy a VM out of it but need to have 18 Gb system hardisk size, is it possible ?? Thanks...
View Articleconfiguration of data base of the SQL server
HI, which best configuration for the archives of database of the SQL Server 2005. thank.Marcelo
View ArticleI'm trying to install ubantu14.4.2 server 64 bit operating system on VMWARE...
I'm trying to install ubantu14.04 server 64 bit operating system on VMWARE workstation 10 which is installed on WINDOWS 8 HOME PREMIUM 64 BIT . and i'm getting this error "This virtual machine is...
View ArticleRecycling OLD pc's for VMware View
We are migrating our new purchases to include slim clients, but we can not afford to do all of them at once. I am a system admin at a college and will need to setup a lab with older machines to go...
View ArticleRun ESXi cluster in KVM clouster
Hello,i just think about idea to run ESX hosts in KVM hipervisors, as a VM.I like libvirt & qemu facilities like balanc-alb, many storage backend support, ksm & etc.Its allow us, to show one...
View ArticleHealth Check Analyzer Appliance---Where did they hide it?
Does anyone know where they hid the Healtcheck analyzer appliance? We are looking to get the latest version and are having a hard time finding it. We have been all over Partner central and no luck, all...
View ArticleMulti-Writer Flag does not persist in Oracle RAC VM configuration parameter...
I am visualizing ORACLE RAC on vSphere 6.0 VSAN datastore using this following this article VMware KB: Using Oracle RAC on vSphere 6.x VSAN Datastore . In every ORACLE RAC VM, the SCSi controller type...
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Tegile vs. ZFS
Hi, we are currently looking at an expansion of our current storage. We are running a 3 node ESXi cluster (not yet on vSphere 6.0 but planned to be) - with roughly 600GB of RAM on 72 Cores. We are...
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Find Gaps in VMWARE vSphere Infrastructure
Hi Guys, I have very common question, I want to find out gaps (like configuration, HA, DRS, Storage, Networking, Security) in existing VMWARE vSphere (3.5 & 4.1)Infrastrucure, can anybody please...
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Oracle 2nd node fails to start in cluster due to locking
Greetings, I’m attempting to setup an oracle cluster (ASM) with shared disks on elinux 5.8. I modified the vmx file with the parameters below to supposedly allow disk sharing between the nodes:...
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ESX 5.5 host disconnect from vcenter 5.5 when create a new vm
Hi I installed ESX in nested environment on vm workstation. i installed vcenter 5.5 on windows 2012. when i create a new vm using vcenter my ESX host disconenct but when i create new vm on stand alone...
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