A couple questions with Upgrading
I have VMWare Workstation Workstation Player 16 installed and have been considering upgrading to Workstation 16 Pro. I can't seem to find these questions answered on the FAQ or anything on the page. If...
View ArticlePreparing of Migration to 6.5 U2
Hello Experts , I have some questions about our Migration from 5.5 to 6.5 .we will replace our virtuel datacenter equipements with new ones . our Vcenter 5.5 is in our old domain x.local and the new...
View ArticleUpdate Problems - No Space left
Hi COmmunity, hope you can help me with this one.I have this issue with multiple Customers at multiple sites. I usually patch the Servers with the help of...
View ArticleGoogle is updating after moving to a new esx
Hi!I had ~30 windows machines which require a certain version of chrome, I just changed the update folder name in google program files folder and it worked well.After moving these machines to a new...
View Articlehow to shutdown the host OS when the guest OS is shut down by user?
Hi, I have made a workstation Pro 15.5 installation. My guest is win7 professional 32 bit and the host is win7 ultimate embedded 64 bit.The enduser has nothing to do with the host and he uses a single...
View ArticleSql report - horizon database - vms last login date
Does anyone have a SQL Report to identify VMs that haven’t been logged into for 30 days or more?we’ve been asked to identify these VMs so we can remove the ones that may be powered on, but not actually...
View ArticlevRA 8.2 - Returning helpful error message to vRA from vRO?
In 8.2 there was a bug fixed which now causes vRO to error if called with null or blank parameters are passed to an action. This is easy enough to handle by handling the null/blank value. Something...
View ArticleSAN heartbeat timeouts - multiple HBA
Hi, When having multiple FC HBA adapters/ports connecting to SAN storage and you lose SAN datastore heartbeats/Lost access to storage messages. Are these messages per HBA/port meaning if one of the...
View ArticleThe upgrade has VIBs that are missing dependencies
Hi, Was going to try to upgrade the first host in a vSAN cluster from 6.7 to 7.0 (Using Custom Dell Image) but upon attaching upgrade baseline and run Check Compliance it showed Status "Incompatible"...
View ArticleRedhat Conversion NIGHTMARE
Hi; I am a Redhat newbie by ANY stretch of the imagination and I was given and accepted the challenge of virtualizing our existing RedHat installation (ver. 5.11)...YES I know it is super old...but the...
View ArticleAfter MacOS 10.15.7 Update, Fusion 11.5.6 slow to boot to desktop
Using Fusion 11.5.6. Just updated iMac Pro to MacOS 10.15.7. Fusion is now exhibiting slow boot to desktop times for Windows Server 2008 R2... Below are a sequence of snap shots of the boot process...
View ArticleNetwork services vSAN
Hello, i try to configure vsan with version exi 7 (and vCenter 7). I have a problem, I don't have "vsan" in network services. How to activate traffic vsan on network ? Tks
View ArticleSudden VM console keyboard input failure of the 6.7.0 Update 3 hypervisor.
Not sure what went wrong, but all of a sudden, I can't use my keyboard to control any VMs via their web console. Using the latest chrome normal keys (a-z,0-9) do not generate any response from the vm,...
View Articlehow to change the type of network adaptor in VM
Hello, I'm testing network drivers in the virtual machine. My current VM has an AMD 79c970 Ethernet controller but I want to test different drivers. so is it possible for me to use another type of...
View ArticleDatacenter migration script from standard to distributed portgroups with the...
Hello friends,I'm currently working on trying to migrating virtual machines to a new datacenter. Networks are identical (stretched) in both datacenters but we have to do a svmotion to move between...
View Articlevmware workstation pro 16, windows 10 host, fedora 33 guest, KDE
i just upgraded a fedora 32 guest to fedora 33. the v32 guest was working flawlessly. the in-place upgrade was smooth. but the v33 guest is a *disaster*. so many KDE programs fail or crash it is...
View Articlei have problem with vcenter6.6 (vm power on fail..)
i created new two vm with vcenter 6.6 and i turned on two vms. but in vcenter, vsphere web client show me [a general system error occurred. connection refused] so i tried again but failed....
View ArticleUEFI console crashes VMware Workstation 16 and Fusion 12
Created new VM with Workstation 16 using https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/ISO-IMAGES/12.2/FreeBSD-12.2-BETA3-amd64-disc1.iso.xzVM used UEFI bios, with 2 GB RAM, 2 processor cores and a 20GB...
View ArticleCan not download Kubernetes CLI Tools after enabling workload management
I have installed vSphere with Kubernetes according to the blog below.http://darrylcauldwell.com/vsphere-k8s/In my case everthing is running in nested ESXi. All seems to be running fine in vCenter and...
View ArticleNSX Topology
Hello, Is it possible to deploy NSX-T on single Cluster that have 6 ESXi hosts, without havining seperate hosts or NICs for NSX EDGE? The Host's has: 2 pNIC 10GbE
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