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Free ESXi download still points to Update 3

Dave.Mishchenko — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:14:37 GMT

The download for ESXi on this page http://www.vmware.com/download/esxi/ lists Update 3 while here http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/ it is Update 4. Can the ESXi page be updated?

Converter 4.0 - supported sources typo

Dave.Mishchenko — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:36:27 GMT

Page 19 of the user's guide has this error - Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery (formerly LiveState Recovery) 6.5, 7.0, 8.0, and 8.0, LiveState Recovery 3.0 and 6.0 (.sv2i, .v2i or .iv2i)

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/VMware_Converter_Standalone_guide40.pdf

Searching the new ESX HCL

kaechyc — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:57:23 GMT

Hi Dave,

Our search functionality currently searches the Key Word Search as a whole. By doing a more general search, you'll get more hits. We are working on making the search more flexible, so watch for an improvement on this area.

We are always looking for ways to improve this tool, so any other suggestions is more than welcome.

Thanks!

Kae-Chy

Download manager

Dave.Mishchenko — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 10:31:22 GMT

Are there any plans for a download manager for vmware.com downloads? Some of the ISO and other downloads are growing in size and it might help for those with less than perfect Internet connections.

VMware ESXi 3.5 Installable Update 1 install on VMware Workstation fails with PSOD

Winpisces — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:08:05 GMT

BTW, how many Nic you can get your Thinkpad T60 run under ESXi?

Congratulations to our newest champion!

wila — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:01:00 GMT

Congrats RParker, its nice to read the remarks of someone that comes up for his opinions every once in a while.. it does help for getting an interesting conversation

--
Wil

"Receive email notifications" setting turns off daily

RDellimmagine — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:38:35 GMT

Hmmm, I'm personally stumped on this one, but I'll follow up with Jive to see if they know what might cause it. - Robert

Robert Dell'Immagine, Director of VMware Communities

If VMware ESX were a spaceship ...

continuum — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:45:55 GMT

StarGate ? - boo - that folks don't even have build a starship of their own - they just found some channels through space accidentaly. Maybe that is a nice comparison for the way MS came to VirtualPC - just found it somewhere ...

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Congratulations to our newest Champion

Texiwill — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:12:50 GMT

Congratulations!!! Drink from the Chalice from the Palace not the Vessel with the Pestle.

Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky
VMware Communities User Moderator
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Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education.
CIO Virtualization Blog: http://www.cio.com/blog/index/topic/168354
As well as the Virtualization Wiki at http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization

ESXi 3.5 to be available for free next week

JDLangdon — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:51:42 GMT

lamw wrote:Nope, Hypervisor did have an associated cost aka License, if you've purchased some, you'll know there's an license associated with ESX, it usally comes within a bundle with your Enterprise License / VC so it may seem that Hypervisor itself is free ... but to really be able to use it, you'll need the License, which is the cost of ESX. ESXi will be free starting next week, least from what VMware has stated but the price of ESX 3.5 (w/SC) will still have a fee associated with the ESX License. Again, techincally ESX is free .... without the License you can't really do much with it ... maybe 60day eval at the most and a pretty GUI

Sounds like this is where I misunderstood. I always assumed that the hypervisor was free and that the $3200 was for VI3 licenses and support.

Anyone know exactly what the ESX 3.5 hypervisor costs?

Vancouver VMUG Meeting - July 10th, 2008

kabazo — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:14:18 GMT

Hi.

No additional meetings planned for the summer. I anticipate the next one will probably take place after VMworld.

For those that did not attend the last meeting, the Vancouver VMUG is looking for new leadership.

Please contact the VMUG team if you're interested (one important condition is that you are a VMware customer and not a partner).

Thanks,

Adi

Two champions in one day!

azn2kew — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:20:24 GMT

Congratulations Tom! Keep up with your great support and moderation. I'm curious why VMware doesn't provide incentives to Champions level of moderators? It took forever to gain that status. Notice Ulli (Continuum) stop moderate and support around due to the fact lack of VMware incentives or appreciation? I would like to see those Champions level get incentives like full access to VMware technical knowledgebase and free VMworld sessions invitation that would inspire folks a lot. And free products like VMware Workstation releases and limited VMware products licenses for personal testings and support on their behalf.

Anyways, just my 2 cents but its worth to have those incentives and I think its doable.

If you found this information useful, please consider awarding points for "Correct" or "Helpful". Thanks!!!

Regards,

Stefan Nguyen
iGeek Systems Inc.
VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Consultant

Auto enable "connect at power on" or "connected" when editing a CD/DVD drive or floppy drive

oreeh — Mon, 26 May 2008 18:54:30 GMT

Great idea!

Boston VMware User Group email

RDellimmagine — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:42:52 GMT

These emails are typically sent to anyone within 50 or 100 miles of the event, regardless of whether they've participated before. But since at least one of you appears to live much farther away from Boston than that, I suspect someone on our side made a mistake with the distribution list. I've notified the user group team so they can be careful going forward. - Robert

Robert Dell'Immagine, Director of VMware Communities

Duplicate email notifications

Dave.Mishchenko — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:14:23 GMT

I've started to see this again ( about 12:30 Sunday AM PST). I've noticed that it is not occurring with the Lab Manager forum and in that case I only have notifications set on that sub-forum itself. With notifications from the VI forum, I have it set on the VI forum and most of the sub-forums as well. Is that how it should work because up to these two incidents it's just been sending out one email.

VC 2.5 database upgrade - space required by upgrade wizard

meistermn — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:31:46 GMT

We had a strange message in vc database upgrade wizard that we need 660000 MB of Disk Space.

The Database had only a size of 2 GB.

Maybe this KB is useful before a upgrade from VC 2.0.X to VC 2.5

How can I purge old data from the database used by VirtualCenter Server?

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1000125&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=48871536&stateId=0%200%2048869782

New Virtuoso in town

vmroyale — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:35:58 GMT

Congrats for sure! Great job!

First ESX 3.5 patches released

azn2kew — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:48:11 GMT

Tom,

Here is the first problem with ESX 3.5 patch installed hopefully we can tackle this down before we push all 9 to production!

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/121913?tstart=0

Wondering it specific to his networking or DNS problem or something with the patch since that error is common.

VMware acquires Thinstall

tom howarth — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:59:58 GMT

I personally feel that this will be a good fit for VMware, Thinstall is quite a solid application virtualisation tool, not a fully featured or rich as Softgrid true, but up there with SVS (Altris) and Citrix Application Streaming. It will be a good fit for VDI solutions. however it all comes down to cost.

Desktop Integration can be purchased at $10 per seat on Volume license agreements, (that is an excelent cost point for a premier solution)

Tom Howarth
VMware Communities User Moderator

Popular Tags - keyword filtering

JohnTroyer — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:41:58 GMT

Jive, the vendor, has said that this kind of tag filtering is on their roadmap. Evidently a common problem. We've also asked about requiring somebody to select from some pre-defined keywords. Sort of tag training wheels, so to speak.

The benefit of the tags is that (hypothetically) they fix several problems: (1) "this fits into several categories, where do I post it?" and (2) "how do I find all posts on san configuration, no matter where it is posted?" (3) regularizing search terms (4) avoiding too many separate forums

Now in our case, #1 isn't so much of a problem right now, since most troubleshooting questions are product-specific, as are our sections. But in the future, let's say we have a set of VI operational/best practices communities -- I can see how a site-wide tag could be useful to find information no matter where it sits. #2 can be a bit of a problem, depending on what you're interested in.

#3 is interesting -- the idea is that as people see popular tags, they're more likely to stick a "scripted_install" tag in their post, rather than forcing Laverick to search on kickstart and 10 other terms. We can also lump tags together into "tag groups", but we haven't tried that yet.

#4 is an ongoing problem that we constantly juggle. We're trying not to make 100 public sections, because then nobody knows where to post anything. There are some private communities here you can't see, and the one for VMware education has about 100 little subdivisions for each course and module, because before this they didn't have any other way to separate topics except create more forums.

Some of these benefits are, as I said above, hypothetical. I think we should wait and see a while longer, because it's going to be a learning process what works and what doesn't. That being said, feel free to dream up how it should work or let us know if/how it's worked on other sites. I agree (as was pointed out ~~in the UI redesign thread~~ above by Eric) that Popular Tags boxes are not that useful at the moment.

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