Re: How to create virtual SSD and SCSI Hard Drives in VMware workstation?
What exactly are you trying to achieve? In case you want to create a tiered storage pool with the virtual disks it may be sufficient to set the proper MediaType for the "Unknown" disks, running e.g....
View ArticleRe: USB or Local HDD for new server running ESXi 5.5 Update 3 ?
Please see e.g. VMware KB: Creating a persistent scratch location for ESXi 4.x/5.x/6.0. Note that - other than mentioned in the KB - you may enter the datastore name rather than its UUID in the...
View ArticleOld OS X Installers Will Not Install - Expired Apple Certificate
If you downloaded an OS X installer before 14 February 2016, it will not work. I tried using an older "Install OS X Yosemite" to create a new OS X virtual machine under VMware Fusion. It appeared to...
View ArticleRe: VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: Worker #0
Did you already verify the integrity of the host's L: drive - on which the files are stored - ? André
View ArticleRe: Starting to Build my Lab
One way is to run the vSphere Lab on VMware Workstation. Personally I'm running such a lab on a PC with an Intel I7-2600 CPU, an SSD to store the VMs and 16GB RAM. From my experience the CPU...
View ArticleRe: Procedure to Automatically Launch a Virtual Machine at Mac Startup
Correction: In the Procedure above, the final step is to verify that the Mac automatically boots after a power failure. The step reads "Shutdown the virtual machine, then shutdown the Mac. Disconnect...
View ArticleVMwareVDMDS Service Missing After Upgrading Connection server to Windows 2012 R2
Hi I recently upgraded our connection server to View 6 which all worked fine. I decided to upgrade the OS from 2008 R2 to 2012 R2. The upgrade went through OK but when the server came up the View...
View ArticleHash Table difficulty
Hi I'm trying to create a table containing vm name and the datastorecluster they are contained within, no matter what I try I cant seem to create the table I can list the object as follows:- $vmlist =...
View ArticleRe: Using a client NIC inside a vm on esxi
I want to be able to connect a certain piece of hardware to the client pc's NIC. And have that NIC interact with a VM on the esxi. (I am using 2 physical NIC's on the client pc. 1 connects to router,...
View ArticleESXi 6 Installation on USB-Stick grabs whole available Disk-Space
Is there a way to tell the installer to grab just 40 MB of the 64 MB on the stick to leave some room for a test-datastore?
View Articlesome Virtual machine in Network Performance no metrics specified in vsphere 6
Hi I have Vcenter Server 6 and all host use ESXI 6 u1 and above (3host 6u1 -1host is ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 5 and 2 host ESXi 6.0 Update 1b ) im using LACP for all host (6 host) All the Adapter is...
View Articlerepeating "trying to mount Server "
Hi !I work on esxi 4.1 I have a curious thing logged in /var/log/messages Mar 5 12:23:03 vmkernel: 15:21:02:52.711 cpu0:13214)WARNING: NFS: 213: Got error 13 from mount callMar 5 12:23:03 vmkernel:...
View ArticleRe: repeating "trying to mount Server "
Welcome to the Community, did you have the host connected to "/nas-xxx/nasws2008" and remove this target (i.e. the share on the source) without first unmouting the NFS datastore? Maybe there's still...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 6 Installation on USB-Stick grabs whole available Disk-Space
No there isn't (at least what I'm aware of) such an option. Anyway, datastores on USB sticks are not supported, so you wouldn't be able to create one on the stick. André
View ArticleRe: ESXi 6 Installation on USB-Stick grabs whole available Disk-Space
It is possible, I have done a test-installation with system on one usb-stick and a test-datastore on a second usb-stick. I would like to have it all on the first one.
View ArticleRe: repeating "trying to mount Server "
Thank you André !Well I tried to mount an external storage with a bad adress/credential.After this I mounted my storage correctly and it worked fine. It looks like it style trying to mount the bad one...
View ArticleRe: HORIZONTAL scrolling of Magic | Mighty mouse
Also on Fusion 8 with windows 8.1 pro. Regardless mode, vertical scroll and button clicks work normally, same as when in OSX. However, horizontal scroll is dead in the water. Most of the time, not...
View ArticleNo Add Volume Button at Reconfigure VM in VRA 7
Hi, I am trying to add volume in my VM using reconfigure action. But I can not see add volume button in storage tab. I can modify CPU/Memory/Network. I can also edit the first HDD size (but I...
View ArticleRe: repeating "trying to mount Server "
I found the problem,We had an other NAS storage that was deleted, and it was still visible in Vsphere client as inactive. I deleted it and log stopped. Thanks
View ArticleCreating scheduled tasks
Is it possible to create a script to create a scheduled task?I need to create a script to create a scheduled task to migrate a VM to a given datastore at a given time.I don't want to migtrate the VM, I...
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