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Get a Free Virtual Lab Starter Kit - Yipee

tom howarth — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:00:49 GMT

Just got an EMail from VMware offering me a free Virtual Lab Started Kit.

Wow, Yipee. I thought something for free.

Image how annoyed I was when attempting to fill in my request from I found that VMware belived there are only 2 countries in the world. those being USA and Canada.

should have guessed really and shouldn't get excited.

Becoming a VCP?

Widds — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:00:38 GMT

Hi,

I've recently done the ESX 2.5 course, came back to work set the box up and its running great.

Now I want to sit the exam but I'm not sure just attending the course and setting up 1 ESX box with 8 VMS' is enough background.

Can anyone recommend a decent study guide or point me in the direction of practice exams etc.

Thanks in advance.

Opinions about Veeam FastSCP for ESX from Veeam.com

PatrickWE — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:31:06 GMT

Has anyone tried products from Veeam, any opinions on it ???

Veeam seems to have products that compete with Virtual Center for managing ESX servers. Maybe not all the functions, but at a ridiculously small price...

Just wondering...

Updating processor count Windows 2003 Standard SP1 virtual machine

jrenton — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:11:02 GMT

I am about to update the processor count from 1 to 2 processors on a Windows 2003 Standard SP1 virtual machine. Has anyone done this before? Was the migration successful? Are there any gotchas to be aware of?
I am concerned as there is a warning in Virtual Infrastructure Client saying the server may become unstable.
We are running ESX 3.0.1 on a 8 CPU server

Virtual Networking of VMs accross ESX 3.x hosts

tajudeen — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:02:48 GMT

Hi,

Is there anyway to create a private virtual network that can be shared and accessible across ESX hosts?

E.g I have a number of VMs distributed across 2 hosts in the datacentre. Each host connects to the physical network (192.1.1.x) via their respective default vSwitch0 virtual switches. I created vSwitch1 on ESX-host1 to be used as a private virtual network for 3 VMs on a patch testing network (192.1.2.x) -this is separate from physical network.

Is there anyway I can join other VMs located on ESX-host2 to the testing network (192.1.2.x) on ESX-host1?

This will allow us to create a truly expandable virtual network for the patch testing network regardless of the location of the running vmware images.

Or can the virtual vSwitch1 created on different ESX hosts be linked in anyway from VC2 server?

Thanks.

Anyone gone V2P using V2P_TechNote.pdf ?

veedar — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:00:13 GMT

I'm looking for low cost ideas for going Virtual to Physical. I see VMware has instructions for V2P here....

http://www.vmware.com/support/v2p/doc/V2P_TechNote.pdf

.....has anyone actually followed these instruction with success?

Also any other V2P information you may have is most welcome.

don't remember previous vmware

chelli — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:37:18 GMT

I was hoping to find a vmware program I used two years ago but all curent d/l'd doesnt act like I'm familiar with
the program would allow you to run a virutal OS on it in the Windows enviorment itself Due not getting certain questions answered by my computer mfgr.coul use the virtual enviroment simulatorto install and run it in a safe virtual enviorment
think it more like a workstation than anything else I tried to download recently

virtualization of servers..

doodle — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:56:33 GMT

Hi,

We are planning to move our servers in the vmware containers without going through all the reinstallment process from the scratch. So what we are planning is to make the image of the main server and then move it onto the virtual container.

Earlier when we had replicated the main server( to other machines) we had used Systemrescue cd and all went fine. But this time, when we run that cd inside the container, I cannot temporarily download the image files(of the main server) as it runs out of disk space and i have not been able to migrate the system because of it.

Is there any other way by which i can directly migrate the system to the vmware container without needing to reinstall ? As we have linux as the o/s, we also cannot use vmware converter either.

you help will be highly appreciated.

Thanks

W2K 32bit Guest on Vista x64 Host

BoomerangThree — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:18:50 GMT

Is it possible to run a W2K 32bit Guest on a Vista x64 Host.

I'm in the process of reading the manual and running through the forums, but I haven't come across anything related to this one, "yet".

Can anyone assist this newbie...

Platinum support

ejward — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:09:52 GMT

Is it normal to wait almost 3 hours for a call back on a critical call?

I'm new to this and I've only logged a couple of calls in the past year. This was the first critical one. Ya know ..... host dead, 30 VM's down, vmotion not working, company out of business. I finally gave up and left. I left an alternate number for them to call and wouldn't you know it, they finally left a voice mail at the first number almost 3 hours later .... of course, I was at the second number. Here it is, the next day and I'm still down.

Can you lower your support to gold if you initially bought platinum? If that's the kind of support I'm going to get anyway, I might as well save some money.

Moving from Intel to AMD servers.

The_Real_DJ — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:29:14 GMT

Hello,
We currently have an esx cluster setup with 2 Dell Intel Xeon servers. In the coming weeks we are looking to replace these with 4 Dell AMD based servers.
Is it simply a case of shutting down all the vm's on the old servers, registering them on the new servers and booting them?
(im not worried about the ESX config its just more wondering if a VM expecting an intel processor will boot when it has changed to AMD!)

Cheers

Dave J

ESX 3 vmware-tools.rpm and custom kernel

hfxdanc — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:58:01 GMT

One of our thoughts in easing new machine builds was to switch to the .rpm distrib and deploy it centrally.

Some info ...

RHEL4 (server type deployments)
VMware ESX 3
BusLogic SCSI controller emulation
RHN Satellite
modified stock kernel (-vmware suffix to version)
- add BusLogic support
- decrease kernel HZ from 1000 to 100

Problem is that we want to modify the distrib kernel to incude the BusLogic drivers and cut the HZ back to 100 to help keep better time in the 2.6 kernel clock. When we do this (kernel-xxx-vmware) the vmware-tools.rpm will require us to also distrib gcc and the kernel headers, which we do not want to do. We also do not want to corrupt the name space in our central repo by re-using the default kernel names.

Since we just patch the .spec file from Red Hat and rebuild the kernel rpms it would be nice if such an option existed for the vmware-tools. Has anyone come up with a .spec file that could be used to patch and rpmbuild --rebuild the vmware-tools rpm with the directory structure to support the new kernel version name or something else o we could overcome the gcc etc. requirement?

Newbie to Virtualization

txvcharlie — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:26:56 GMT

I've heard of virtualization for years but this is the first time I've decided to experiement with it. Here are couple of questions I have.

1. Will I be able to run multiple operating systems concurrently in the same computer?
2. If I do run, let's say, three operating systems of Windows XP Pro and Vista in the same machine, will it slow down the performance? Another word, will my computer be just crawling?
3. What is the recommended hardware requirements for running two Windows XP and one Vista in the same machine?

If all my questions above are totally irrelevent of virtualization then please explain how virtualization works.

Thanks!

Comparison Chart between Products

carliedu — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:20:50 GMT

Hi,

IÂ´m a relatively VMWare newby.

IÂ´m using VM Workstation for a half year aproximately I like it very much. I bought it for OS testing purposes.

Now IÂ´m interested in use VMWare for other purposes too.

Since the first contact with VMWare IÂ´m a little confused with all the products.

Can anyone explain the differences between all the products, for which intention is each version, why is VMSever (I think better than Workstation) for free and Workstation selled?

Thanks

VM replication

daniel_uk — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:33:43 GMT

This looks usefull

Double-TakeÂ® Software Announces Double-Take for VMware Infrastructure

Wonder how this does it with ESX?

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ken.cline@hp.com to shorten the URL

Denver Vmware professionals

esiebert7625 — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:14:33 GMT

Is there anybody here from the Denver, CO area? I'm curious if there is an active user group in this area.

Esx and Patches

JDLangdon — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:04:48 GMT

I have to apply ESX-3996003 to my production environment and need to know if this patch requires a restart of the Esx host.

Is there anyway to tell if a patch will require a restart of the host server?

Jason

Difference between Workstation and Server

txvcharlie — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:02:14 GMT

VMware Workstation is not free, correct? If so, what's the difference between the VMWare Server and VMWare Workstation?

Documenting Server Config

ISD Plc — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:41:31 GMT

Hi All,

I bet this has been asked but a quick search didn't reveal an answer.

Is there a template doc for detailing the exisiting/proposed config of a ESX host server before I start writing up my notes?

Cheers

External ISDN solutions

rock0n — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:20:44 GMT

Can anybody give me a list of external ISDN solutions that have been tested to work with a VM on ESX.

kind regards

Vistualization of existing servers

daniel.teixeira — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:19:10 GMT

Hi all,

we intend to virtualize our existing server NT4 Server, Win 2K3 and Win 2K3 R2 into VMW ESX, what would be the best tool to create the images of existing and productive servers?

Cheers,

Daniel

No more VMTN... ???

ReverendDeuce — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:03:21 GMT

What the heck is this about? I sincerely hope this is not the case, because I love my VMTN subscription...

http://www.virtualization.info/2006/12/vmware-fades-out-vmtn-subscription.html

VMware fades out VMTN Subscription
Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Without a formal announcement VMware just fade out its VMTN Subscription from every page of its official site.

The VMTN Subscription, launched summer 2005, in a very cheap offering allowing developers to use most of VMware products at $299 annual subscription, mimicking the famous Microsoft Solution Developer Network (MSDN).

So far the offering raised notable consensus, even winning awards as innovative product for development communities.

Today the VMTN Subscription disappeared from development and test products page, from all products page, from the VMware Store, from the VMTN Online page and even from the Download page.

At the moment of writing only the direct link to product description is working, as well as the direct link to product purchase in the VMware Store, but transaction will not complete successfully.

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Accelerator Kit?

SterlingDA — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:27:47 GMT

Can anyone give me a link that shows what the Accelerator Kit is please? We're going through IBM to purchase VI3 and asked for the Accelerator Kit. We're being told that it doesn't exist. in fact, they are saying that there are no "KITS" available for VMware and we have to purchase everything seperatley. We're hoping to be able to point them to a link on VMware's website that shows that the Accelerator Kit does exist.

Vmware Tools changelog (VI3)

mcocat — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:23:04 GMT

I installed an ESX patch released 1/31/07 and noticed it upgraded the vmware tools to version 3.0.1-38803. Does anyone know where I can find a changelog to see if it is necessary to upgrade all of the guests with the new version?

extend a volume on VM in VI3

d3h614 — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:14:24 GMT

I'm searching around documentation and forum looking how to extend a volume. Used to use vmkfstools, but the vmdk file is now a pointer and vmd is the actual volume I want to extend? We moved to VI3 a few weeks back and our knowleable vm guy is out of town this week.

thanks

Storage for vmware esx 3.01

awali — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:43:25 GMT

I want to know what industry is using to backup/storage for the ESX 3.01 and as a disaster recovery solutions.

Thanks

VI3 Exam at VMworld

JDLangdon — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:53:00 GMT

Did anyone take the VI3 exam at VMworld? If so, how was it compared to the Esx 2.5 exam?

Jason

How VMWare protect kernel memory for Windows guest?

steve818j — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:39:22 GMT

I know the for guest Windows on VMWare, kernel mode and user mode codes are all running in user mode of host os (ring 3). How it protect the kernel memory from being read/write/execute from the user mode code?

Download for VMWare Server does not work

jarif — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:18:55 GMT

It will bring me to EULA page http://register.vmware.com/content/eula.html in which there is two buttons "Yes" and "No". Both of these buttons lead to a search page http://search.vmware.com/search

This question is not about virtualization, but could not find a suitable area for anyhow.

Windows "Vienna" hypervisor based !!

epping — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:45:30 GMT

here we go again, looks like MS are looking to go down the hypervisor route for there next client OS, there sandbox approach to everything of top of it sounds like there softgrid product to me!!

its a long way off and will probably all change, but looks interesting

http://www.trustedreviews.com/pcs/news/2007/02/12/Microsoft-Windows-Vienna-Coming-2009/p1

New Patches

kix1979 — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:55:20 GMT

Not sure if anyone else noticed, but 7 new patches are out for 3.0.1. WTB a mailing list for this please!

http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/

How to make a Hosting solution ?

privir — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:57:19 GMT

Hi

I wont to make a Vmware solution with 2 windows 2003 servers in virtual machines on one host and one ip adresse so that kompagni 1 and kompagni 2 can log on from the outsight on domain1 and domain2

How to do that ?

VMware Capacity Planner and P2V Assistant

mroche23 — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:14:04 GMT

Hi,

Is it possible to script out a consolidation scenario result in VMware Capacity Planner and then implement it using P2V Assistant?

Thanks,
M

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Simple question from a newbie

gscib — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:50:45 GMT

Hello,

I have little experience with LINUX and I need to format a SAN attached LUN as something other than VMFS2 (in my case) so I can get backups of the VMs.

I don't know of the commands to see all attached LUNs regardless of type and how to know for certain I am working with the right one once I locate it.

df only shows me already formatted disks and vdf shows me VMFS disk in addition.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you

Compare VMWare ESX and XenEnterprise 3.0

masaki — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:06:42 GMT

What's your opinion on VMWare ESX and XenEnterprise 3.0?
Do you have benchmarks?

vmtn online libary and seperate docs out of sync

RobMokkink — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 09:40:56 GMT

I am studying for the vi3 exam.
I am busy rereading all the docs and making notes for myself, but i noticed that some seperate docs and the online library are out of sync.

Example:
vi3_san_guide.pdf

says:

max luns iscsi = 254

online library says:

max luns iscsi = 256

Another:

vi3_san_guide.pdf

max iscsi targets = 64

vi3_iscsi_cfg.pdf

max iscsi targets = 8

Does anyone else noticed these things?

VMware VCP 2.5 Study Questions

rschmidt1300 — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:46:57 GMT

I have a bunch (~350) of study questions that I came up with from the Student Guide while I was studying for the 2.5 version of the VCP exam. These are questions that I came up with while studying for the exam and are not braindumps or TestKing. If anyone would like a copy email me or send me a PM and I will send you a copy.

Thanks
Rob
rschmidt1300@yahoo.com

where is vmworld 2007?

bjaming — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:14:58 GMT

and why isn't there a forum for it yet?

Presentation on VMware (At Work)

Nterface — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:50:55 GMT

Hey Guys,

I was wondering was there any presentation documentation out there explaining what VMware is in a very simplistic wording? People at my site want me to give a presentation on VMware, just so that people will have some sort of idea what it is. I have been doodling with VMware for about 3 weeks now and have a general concept about it, just would feel comfortable if there was easier to read documentation that I could reference from. Plus my power point skills are kind of slim, I would like to present VMware in a kick ass fashion, because lets face it this is am awesome product.

Synch'ing between VM Images?

tophat — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:23:46 GMT

I was wondering if anyone knew how to synch two images. Ideally, I'd like one image on my VMWare server that I could "check out" locally to a Desktop or Laptop and use via Player. Then when I'm done, "check it in".

I'm thinking that there should be a way to leverage MS's system restore function. Something like,
1. First "check out" would create a System restore and copy image to desktop.
2. work from home for a couple days with Desktop-Image.
3. Back to the office, "check in" would create system restore on Desktop-image and transfer information to Server-image, and update Server-image.
4. Check out, would create system restore on Server-image and transfer information to Desktop-image, and update Desktop-image
5. And so on and so on... so that subsequent check out/in's would be a passing back and forth of system restores.

Or find a product that provides this functionality.

Creating SIDs using the built in option

mgendron57 — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:00:10 GMT

I've been trying to clone a win2003 vm and when I get to the part where it asks if I want to configure the new vm, if I choose this and go through the full config, I get an error at the very end when it's done. I can't paste the print sceen shot I took so here's the error
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Failed to customized guest OS: Cannot open disk file: ERROR: Disk library failed(NBD_ERR_NETWORK_CONNECT). Unable to open 'authd:///vmfs/DISK-F/Clone of Seela234 - to seela249 J.vmdk@seelplx2.XXX.XXX.com:902'. Failed to configure disk scsi0:0.."
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
So ther it is. If i choose to by pass the config then it clones just fine but I then have the hassle of correcting the SID issue. With choosing the config option it does the "new SID" right then and there.
The xxx.xxx.xom is company vlan info and not needed to analize the error.

VMware Capacity Planner - Issue running consolidation Scenario ?!

kikka — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:43:00 GMT

Hey all,

I'm using the latest capacity planner to run a fairly large consolidation scenario for one of our customers.
As done before I use the SYSTEM GROUPS to create USER DEFINED groups where I import the serverlist from a TXT file, containing only the servers I want to consolidate.

Now if I try to run a consolidation scenario, I choose a default or a new, none of the user-defined groups can be selected, nor does the list of servers appear. The User defined groups are part of the domain, but aparently you cannot choose domain type groups anymore...
THIS USED TO WORK in the previous version... Any idea what I'm doing wrong here???

Please help,
Thanks ! Jessica

VMs to simulate Cisco IOS and Juniper ScreenOS

groundLoop — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:32:57 GMT

Wishfull thinking here, and maybe a product suggestion, for some wiley entrepeneur. I am about to wire up a lab with multiple Cisco routers, switches, and some Juniper/NetScreen firewalls for testing. It would be great to simulate all of this in VMware, instead of having to fire-up a dozen or so boxes and cable everything together.

So, who's going to step up to the plate and negotiate licensing deals with Cisco and Juniper, so that we can run IOS and ScreenOS in a VM?

-gL

Quick question about VMWare in windows

dunnix — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:22:38 GMT

How does it work? Does it make virtual drive to do the Linux stuff on? if so how does it communicate with NTFS? hmm I am thinking about installing this on a work computer however I don't really want to mess with drive partition and stuff to much.

And once installed all the linux stuff will be saved in C:/OS/ correct?

Also I don't really need it to connect to the internet as I don't want to upset our big brother. If it does try to connect to the internet it will go through my current windows IP right? no try and setup its own guest IP or something

Difference between VMware Server and GSX Server v3.2?

crstek — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:27:28 GMT

Is GSX more robust and have more features?

Tape drive installation

nasmel — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:31:46 GMT

Dear all,

I would like to know how toadd an external tape drive to an esx 3.0 server with 6 virtal machines,i want to share the drive among the vrtual machines.

when i tried to install the tape drive on virtual machines it was giving me an error msg like " unable to open scsi device /vmfs/devices/generic/vml.0201000005005 6c74..........."

Highly appriciate your response..

thanks
Nasmel

USB License Key Question

sully127 — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:19:24 GMT

Hi everyone,

My company currently has 2 servers which we were looking to virtualize because their utilization is so low that they are basically a waste of resources. These servers are for our phone system, and the problem that I'm facing is that they have usb keys which contain the licensing info.

When I asked one of their "techs" about potentially virtualizing the servers, he glazed over and didn't know what I was talking about.

Any ideas?

Software to generate load on VMs?

bigusdadius — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:17:02 GMT

I have VI3 setup in my lab and would like to demo it for my potential customers during pre-sales calls. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on software to use to generate enough load on a VM or VMs to show DRS in action.

Any feedback will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

VMWare Converter Dual Core Issue

theheroofcanton — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:04:48 GMT

Just grabbed the new VMWare Converter, and found what may be a slight issue. It seems that you can import a physical workstation, but upon playback in VMWare Player, it errors out saying that I have two virtual processors when only one is allowed.

I'm assuming that is due to the fact that it is a dual core laptop, but this seems odd given the amount of dc laptops and desktops that are out there.

I'm looking to run this as a ghosting alternative for our users who get new machines, but want to retain data from their old ones. Converter is perfect for that, since it's free version does what we need, without expensive licensing for Ghost, et al.

I am running this as an Import to a local directory on the hard drive of the same machine being converted. Converter lets you do it, but again, it won't run in player.

Thanks in advance for the help!

The Hero Of Canton

Memory Limitation Question on 32 bit system

vm192 — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:20:24 GMT

Hello. I am running VMWare Server on a 32 bit OS with 32 bit guests. I need to run about 12 machines and I am allocating 1GB of ram to each of them, but I don't know if this will cause paging issues since the host OS is 32 bit. The total amount of RAM on this system is 16GB.

Can anyone point me in the right direction here? Thanks!

Virtual disk arrays using RAM drives?

Dreamer — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:02:22 GMT

Anyone seen, or know of, or have ideas on this idea:

Create a "farm of RAM", let's say a terabyte. Then install the vmdk's in the "farm", that would emiminate the physical slowness/crash potential of hard drives.

With the proper power management solution in place such that an outage would almost be impossible, are there any drawbacks to this?

Does anyone know of any testbeds out there trying this?

G

Nice VMware Infrastucture 3 demo video

anykey — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:35:46 GMT

If you want to see how VMware Infrastucture 3 works, you can watch the following nice demo video on http://www.vi3demo.com or on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWf_WiaFedc

Our first Board Guru

RDPetruska — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:58:52 GMT

Congratulations to KevinG, the first user to reach the level of Guru!

Thanks for all your outstanding work here, Kevin.

VMConverter arrives....

Rob.Bohmann — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:18:12 GMT

Just noticed this....

http://blogs.vmware.com/news/2007/01/vmware_converte.html

Patching VI 3.0.1: How I spend several hours !

sob — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:16:38 GMT

How I almost used several hours on patching 3 ESX 3.0.1 hosts !
7 (Todays patch level 17 Jan 2007) patches are in place on ESX 3.0.1. To keep a running ESX 3.0.1, upToDate. Fine with me. But, here it comes, Due to enterprise high-end servers
(min. 8 cores CPUs and min. 20 Gig ram , IBM)
It takes aprox 20 minutes pr. reboot. 7 times patches = 105 minutes !
( My life is running out)

How do I make a rollup patch ?????? or when is version 3.0.2 in my mailbox ?

Where is VMware's sales department?

r0b3rt — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:56:59 GMT

Hello, has anyone successfully contacted a sales representative using the 'contact sales' form of this site? I've filled out the form multiple times over the last 6 weeks with no responses from VMware.

Wondering if it's just me, or if others have had this problem.

-Robert

Capture physical machine to a virtual machine image?

markpm — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 17:35:30 GMT

Hi all,

Can I do the above with any of VMware's products?
My company hosts a disaster recovery centre and we currently use Ghost images of our customers servers etc...
We are now wondering if we could make virtual machines of our customers servers and store them instead of ghost images.

Then if ever disaster occurred, the virtual machine images would be 'expanded' onto physical machines for the customers to use...

Would this be possible?

Thanks in advance
Mark...

Server Burn-In Process

JDLangdon — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:41:55 GMT

What is everyone using to burn-in their new hardware?

I've tried using Memtest86 but it does not work with our new IBM x3650 servers.

Jason

Capacity Planner

tmills — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:57:42 GMT

Can anyone tell me what this doing and why? I have another Capacity Planner running scans on a different subnet and it's not acting the same. This particular one does not have anything schedule to run yet. I just got it up and running. Any ideas/input would greatly be appreciated.

01/25/2007 08:46:00:4:1340: ProcessJobs: Starting.
01/25/2007 08:46:01:4:1340: License.KeyValid: License is valid
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Is Esx Case Sensitive?

JDLangdon — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:36:43 GMT

Today I shut down a VM to make a clone and once this was complete and the VM back on-line I noticed that the nics and hard disks were configured incorrectly.

Upon investigating I noticed that in the /vmfs/volume/LUN/Server1 directory there were two sets of files. One set started with Server1.xxxx and the ohter was server1.xxxx.

While I haven't narrowed it down entirly, it would appear that upon startup, Server1 took the wrong vmx file (server1.vmx) the correct C drive (Server1.vmdk) and the wrong D drive (server1_1.vmdk).

I guess what I'm trying to get at is why were there two sets of files in the Server1 directory? The only thing that makes sense to me is that Esx is not case sensitive and that while Linux can distinguish between Server1 and server1, Esx cannot. IF this is the case, it would make snese to say that one of the other admin's created a VM labeled server1 and the files were placed in the Server1 directory.

On the other hand, assuming that I am wrong (wouldn't be the first time) and that Esx is case sensitive, where in the world, pun intended, did this second set of files come from and why are they in the wrong location?

Jason

VMI 3 - restore from previous version

spizzi — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:58:04 GMT

Hi,

I need to restore a 2.5.3 backup of a virtual machine, stored on a Windows 2003 server on to a new VMI 3 ESX server. What's the best way to do this?

Thanks
Stefano

esx and loadtesting or performance tools

pdidy — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:58:04 GMT

Is it possible to run applications like the Mercury suite of testing tools(QTP,Loaderunner,Winrunner) or Network performance tools like Compuware or sniffer inside a VM enivorment prefebably ESX?
We have an ESX 2.5.3 setup, running AD and using it as a test bed for all Active directory global testing efforts. This is encaspulated within or test lab and on an isolated network. Our thoughts are we can consolidate our test datacenter to ESX but will it skew our performance reports?

Guest OS Optimization (Performance Tuning)

JDLangdon — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:20:46 GMT

Does anyone have any good documentation on what should be enabled or disabled in a Windows guest to allow for better performance?

Jason

VMware TSX event this year

Frank_D — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:06:25 GMT

I've heard that the TSX event is held in Nice in France this year.
Has VMware posted some online information yet?
The info at www.vmware-tsx.com is from the event in 2006.

Running VM 2.5 on VI3 server

compuT — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:51:00 GMT

Can I run successfully a VM 2.5 server on VI3?

VI3 is a new server, new VMFS3 LUNS. Existing VM is running in 2.5 on VMFS2. If I copy vmdk to vmfs3 lun will it run?

Thanks
T

vmware drs capabilities?

twood02 — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:10:18 GMT

I'm curious about the capabilities of Vmware's Distributed Resource Scheduler. It sounds like it can modify resource allocations in order to balance load, does it automatically adjust memory shares too, or just cpu? How about network bandwidth?

Has anyone had any experience using it? I know a lot of people are intimidated in letting a machine automate some of these tasks, but it seems like a pretty nice piece of software.

thanks for any info

ESX 3 help

c4g4mt — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:13:47 GMT

We are looking for a VCP who can help us with the implementation of a VM Ware ESX 3 VI that does require two to four days onsite work. The scope of the project is to get up and running four ESX 3 servers and aproximately sixty virtual machines. There is P2V work included also, about 15 physical to virtual transformations will have to be done, primarily Windows 2000 and Windows 2003. If someone can help please send my an e-mail to c4g4mt@yahoo.com

HP QUAD core supported?

roekoe — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:36:34 GMT

Hi,

Is there any news when VMware wil support HP quad core processors? I understand that it will work with ESX v3.x, but that it's not supported (yet).

I checked the compatibility list and the requested server is not supported

thanks in advance

Advice on server purchase

worldphoenix — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:16:14 GMT

Hi Guys

I'm looking to purchase a server to run ESX for my home office - I would be running 10 VM's at the most - mostly AD W2K3, Exchange, Citrix etc for only 3 people !

I know there is a hardware list of servers that ESX will install on OK

Can someone give me some advice on what would be a cheap suitable server to use

e.g. Would a HP DL360 or 380 be suitable for this sort of very small implementation?

Can someone give me the link to the server compatiblity list for installing ESX on please

Cheers

Rob

Courseware Material

JDLangdon — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:01:34 GMT

Is it possible to purchase official VMware courseware material without attending an official VMware course?

If so, how much is it?

Jason

What is the best solution for us?

KrishMurali — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:09:34 GMT

We are currently using vmware player & work stattion. We are working mainly on desktops. We have around 200 vmware images with various OS/DB/Product combinations.
we have all these images in a HDD in a shared folder along with usernames/passwds in an excel sheet. When ever we need an image, copy that image on to the local machine and use vmware player to run that.

I wonder if the setup we have is sufficient/OR if there is any other product which will make life lot more easier for us?

Can you please guide me?

Thank You

Compatibility of Windows VM Image on Sun Solaris Machine

veera_sac — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:40:02 GMT

Hi,

I need to run Windows VM Image on a machine that has Sun Solaris installed on it. I need to know about the compatibility of VM Ware Software and also the technical feasibility of running this on a Sun Solaris machine. Also I would like to know if there is any third party software required for doing this.

Thanks in Advance

Stuff like this really makes me angry..

n00dles — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:26:34 GMT

Not having a shot at Mike over at RTFM, but stuff like this http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/wp-trackback.php?p=322 *really* gets me going.

My thoughts are here http://n00dlestheindelible.blogspot.com/2007/01/garbage-vendor-supplied-comparisons.html, but I'd be interested to hear (in here - not on my blog) what thoughts the community in general has on this?

Vmware Wiki

fraber01 — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:26:29 GMT

I was recently looking for a wiki about Vmware and found none... so I created one!
It's free, based on WikiMedia engine

http://mrfrank.ca/wiki2

I am considering buying it's own FQDN name... any suggestions...

for now it's empty, up to you to fill it!

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Network driver for a custom 2.6.19.2 kernel.

RAID-5 — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:56:18 GMT

Hi, I just complete a custom 2.6.19.2 kernel compile on a virtual machine. I can't get the virtual network interface (AMD Lance Am79C970A) working on this new kernel cause there is no built-in driver in the kernel and VMwareTools seems to be working only on generic stock kernel ;-(

Any suggestion to get it working?

Thanks a lot.

Regards,
Kaven G.

Is VMware's virtual hardware layer going to be on Microsoft's HCL?

Goatie — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:24:32 GMT

Hi,
To satisfy some senior management, I'd like to know if VMWare are intending to get its virtual hardware layer certified for Microsoft's HCL? I understand that if you have premier support MS will look at issues as well, this has put most fears to rest, although having the virtual hardware on the MS HCL would be an excellent thing to point to.

Looking on the HCL site, only Worstation 4.5 and 5.0 have the "Designed for Windows" certification and only XP and Windows 2000 are certified.

For those certifications, was the software itself certified for running ON windows, or was it the virtual hardware layer that was certified for running windows on top of it?

Secondly, are VMware going to get the ESX 3.0.1+ virtual hardware certified to run Win server 2003+ ?

If it was certified, it would put the topic of official support to an end. As I think getting the virtual hardware layer certified is a critical step for VMware considering all physical hardware vendors do this.

Cheers

Steve.

VMWare Guests "Panic" and shutdown

foam — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:30:41 GMT

So i have a 4 server ESX 3.01 35804 environment with a central server. Friday I had all guests on one server shutdown. Then 3 hours later 2 other servers had all of there guests shutdown. Total of 45 guest shutdown with no explination in the logs. I have a call into support (on Friday marked CRITICAL, but they have not bothered with me yet). The horrible support is a different issue.

Has anyone else had all the guests on a vm shutdown?

Daylight Savings Time

JDLangdon — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:11:55 GMT

Given that daylight savings time will fall on March 11th this year, does anyone konw how this will effect VMware Esx hosts?

What about guests that are syncing their time with the host server?

I'm assuming that if the Esx host is syncing with a reputible time source, there should nothing to worry about.

Considering VMware, peolpe told me...

palinf — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:49:03 GMT

Hello,

I use several linux on intel32. I would like to change my architecture to VMware and host few of them on it.

One of the linux use HIGHMEM_64 option in the kernel which allow the system to use more ram than the 32bit limit. The used ram on this computer is frequently more than 8 Go.

Will I be able to host this machine under VMware ? Somebody told me there is a limit for 32 bit architecture on VMware and we cannot allocate more than 3.6 Go to a virtual host.

Is it true ?

Regards,

Palinf

New and need some info ...

iEye — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:49:02 GMT

Hiya,

I'm brand new to the forum and need some information.

I'm a small business consultant through the MS Partner program and for that I get the MS Action Pack which is loaded with a gamut of fully licensed MS software for £200 a year, an invaluable resource for me offering services to small companies. I have recently been asked about VMWare products by a few customers and I was wondering if there is a similar offering from VMWare.

Cheers,

C.

Infrastructure 3 and 64 bit Blades

Gary Elkins — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 02:34:12 GMT

Has anybody had a chance to install Infrastructure 3 on the new 64 bit blades. I am really interested in the new HP BL460C. Can I create 64bit guest host?

New Group Reading

tonygent — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:07:17 GMT

Hi All,

Anyone know how I can access these groups via a new group reader such as thunderbird? - I've been able to connect to news.vmware.com, but there is a much reduced selection of groups??

Thanks

TG

Auto running virtual appliance

Petegc — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:07:18 GMT

I'd like to create a virtual appliance on a USB drive that runs automatically when the drive is plugged into a PC. These are the steps I'd like done:

1) User plugs the drive into a PC
2) User prompted by the Windows autorun dialog; user elects to start the virtual machine
3) The VMWare Player is automatically installed from the USB drive if it is not already on the PC
4) The image is run from the USB drive

I guess what I'm after is a self-extracting executable that installs the VMWare Player and then runs an image. Is such a thing possible?

VMWARE , PowerChute network shutdown

Snig — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 19:22:42 GMT

Our organization is going to VMWARE in next couple o f month. We need find out how to configure our Symantra UPS system. We have installed this product incase of power failure it will signal the servers so it gracefully shut itself down. Symantra talks to each server throught network. Each server has Powerchute network shutdown software installed. In a Vm envirement how will that work? I have emailed Powerchute and they could not help me. Is there any documentation available where I could find out some information about it? I will appreciate any help.
Thanks
Sa

Servers with a different hardware connected to IBM SAN running ESX 2.5

dma_la97 — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:51:46 GMT

Hello Folks!

I have IBM x445 server with 4 x 3.0 Gz Intel Xeon proccessors and IBM x3650 with 2 x dual core 3.0 Gz Intel Xeon proccessors.
They both connected to a SAN and will share the same VMFS partitions.
I have Virtual Center but VMOTION is not a requirement.
I have 20 virtual machines created only on x445 server, can those virtual machines still run under x3650 server? If I create a virtual machine under x3650 server , can this machine run on x445 server?
If somebody has an experience with different host hardware, please help!

Thanks

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Cloning / Copying VM's with Multiple Virtual Nic's?

JDLangdon — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:26:43 GMT

When cloning or copying VM's that have multiple virtual nic's from one host to another, I've noticed that one virtual usually disappears from the settings of the VM and that the remaining virtual nic will always end up on the wrong subnet.

Also, I've noticed that this doesn't always happen with the clone. Sometimes it is the original VM that will loose it's settings.

Has anyone else noticed anything like this?

Jason

Asking for permission to use a pirated ESX

continuum — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:40:29 GMT

I am sure this has never been asked before - so I didn't use the search function

Some background first ...

I am a hobbyist and homeuser of VMware since late Workstation 2.
In the last years I somehow specialized in vmx-troubleshooting and snapshot-problems.
Since 3 and a half year I spent several hours a day in helping users with this kind of problems -
here - and in the german VMware-forum.

I guess I do a pretty good job in both types of problems.
Just ask Kevin - he can surely confirm that

Examples :
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=67753&tstart=0
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=66751&tstart=150

Well - I only have a Workstation-licence so my experience with ESX is quite limited.
Now I was able to buy a second hand server for 100 bucks. Pentium 3, 650MHz, 512 MB RAM, 2x 18Gb SCSI-disks.
ready to crawl ESX

As I really enjoy this Sherlock Holmes work with troubleshooting other guys problems I thought about buying a VMTN subscription to dig a little into ESX. I started saving money for the subscription and may be able to buy it sometime later this summer ...
Now as the VMTN-subscription was silently dropped I thought about useing a pirated version.
Then I thought - Ulli - you must be stupid! You want to do something criminal just to help a rich company in doing their support ?!

Now to come back to my question:
I ask for permission to use a pirated ESX 3 to improve my support skills.

Just for the record - I really don't need an ESX - I do not need VMware at all.
It is just for my fun and it may eventually improve the quality of the support here and in the german forum.

If nothing comes out of this post - it really doesn't matter much to me.
It would surely calm down my enthusiasm for this highly addictive piece of software and hanging around in this forum a little bit ...
Please at least read it as a complaint about the silent drop of the VMTN-subscription.

I am sure that a lot of guys who really need to get hands-on practice with ESX will be forced to use pirated versions without being able to simply ask for permission like I do now.

Regards Ulli

ESX 3.0 Pocket Quick Start Guide? Need some feedback on things... (RapidApp

citrix_guy — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 03:11:24 GMT

Well guys, the demand for this is a lot bigger than our first estimates. So, we need some feedback.

When we put a price on the book for Vmworld it was basically a place holder since we didnt even know if we would put it out for general distribution.

With the demand generated by that we have started reviewing the best distribution methods for this pocket admin guide
see images here:
http://www.rapidapp.com/front_cover.jpg
http://www.rapidapp.com/back_cover.jpg

Anyway, publishing and distribution of books is really in the dark ages. So even if we listed a book at like 19.99, Amazon sells it at like 14.99 but only wants to pay 1/2 that... So in response to this quote from another post

"And I'd pay 20 if you could move it a bit faster. "

would a $19.99 retail really be ok? even at that there isnt really any money being made but in order to get it through distribution and what not would that price work?

Also what if you could get it only electronically? would that be ok?

Anyway, any feedback on this would be appreciated, and will help us get it out there faster.

Thanks
Ron

Microsoft licensing for softgrid (MAD)

epping — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:42:58 GMT

MS have decided to change their licensing policy for softgrid so that only companies with Software Asurance on their client OS can buy it. this is a big impact.

U can still buy it as a stand alone product till june but they will not offer any maintenace on it after this date.

sound like they have gone mad, was looking at softgrid as a great solution but doubt i can get management to change our whole license model and go to SA.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/4/F/64F5DC66-832A-4DF3-BAF4-3B4E7FB9E500/datasheet-faqs.pdf

Supported HBA indicating unsupported HBA

Bob_G — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:05:33 GMT

I have an IBM3650 with QLA2460, running ESX 3.0.1 however the HBA is identified as QLA2422 under Storage Adapters, and according to the HCL this is an unsupported adapter, even though it is using the VMware QLA driver.

As this information would be included in the files sent to VMware for support, could this affect the support I get.

VMware Enterprise support is a "joke"?

cpurn — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:10:21 GMT

HI

We have just recently joined VMware community with our purchase in VI Enterprise + gold support maintenance. I personally must admit that the level of service we have received is so much compareable with other vendor that we also deal with on a day to day basis. Not to list all, some of the vendors we deal with are Netapp, SUN, Veritas.

If I was to give a rate with the overall support mark, I personally would give Netapp, Veritas & SUN == 8 to 9 / 10 and I would give VMware 4.

maybe I had a bigger expectation from the support community? maybe!

I welcome any comments and flames.

Cheers

Could You help a rookie under ESX server

XavierCFr — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:24:21 GMT

Hi everyone.

As I say in the subject: I need your help to stay alive.
I
n December 2006, I had a Basic and Advanced training in Vmware Virtual Infrastructure 3 (4 days). But the trainer wasnt good (some of the guys did not continue the course).

And now I had to put 20 Windows servers of homologation and development under ESX Server 3.1.

I have 2 ESX servers with SAN Disk and I have a problem.
When I create a VM (i.e. SR2400) I can see 2 directories under the SAN disk:
/vmfs/volumes/458ac3af-0c5f7fdc-4e6b-000bcd6b72a8/SR2400
files :
SR2400-flat.vmdk
SR2400.vmdk
/vmfs/volumes/458ac3af-0c5f7fdc-4e6b-000bcd6b72a8/SR2400_1
files:
vmware.log
SR2400.vmxf
SR2400.vmx
SR2400.nvram
SR2400-2c08abbd.vswp
SR2400.vmsd

But there is some VM created by my chief (in hollyday) end they are stored in only one directory So I think there is a problem in the way I convert my servers.

I first create a ghost on a vmsf attached to a VM (SR2200). Then I unghost

on another vmfs attached to the same VM and I use P2V.

Then I detach the Vmfs and I perform on one of the ESX theses actions:
Mkdir SR2400

Under /vmfs/volumes/458ac3af-0c5f7fdc-4e6b-000bcd6b72a8/SR2200 I type vmkfstools i SR2200_3 ../SR2400/SR2400.vmdk

After the end, under VMware Virtual Infrastructure Client 2.0 I create a VM in custom mode and use an existing vmfs /vmfs/volumes/458ac3af-0c5f7fdc-4e6b-000bcd6b72a8/SR2400/SR2400.vmdk

I start the VM and then I install the VMWare Tools.

What can I do to have only one directory by VM.

Thanks in advance.

Sorry for my low level of English (my Taylor is rich).

For you EMC junkies...

daniel_uk — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:20:41 GMT

EMC Symmetrix 3930 SAN 9 Terabytes Installed

Message was edited by:
ken.cline@hp.com to shorten the URL

Regarding communication between VM hosts

Mehtab — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:39:48 GMT

Hi ,

I would like to know if VMWARE allows support for guest VM to interact with each other using memory mapped I/O or any other memory sharing mechanism.

Let me know,

Thanks
Mehtab

/dev/rtc: Device or resource busy

dcs0pk — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:11:13 GMT

Dear all,

I am running Suse 10.1 host with XP guest

uname -a
Linux pc-csm21 2.6.16.21-0.25-default #1 Tue Sep 19 07:26:15 UTC 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

vmware is saying /dev/rtc/ is not accessable.

cat /dev/rtc as root says device or resource busy.

hwclock says

hwclock: Open of /dev/rtc failed, errno=16: Device or resource busy.

the kernel doesnt seem to have rtc driver and its builtin with something.

find /lib/modules/ -name *rtc*
/lib/modules/2.6.16.21-0.25-default/kernel/sound/core/snd-rtctimer.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.16.21-0.25-default/kernel/drivers/i2c/chips/rtc8564.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.16.21-0.25-default/kernel/drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_crtc2.ko

vmware is very slow, is it anything to do with not able to access /dev/rtc/

How do i find out which processes are using /dev/rtc/ ? Can I make any configuration in vmware to resolve this?

Many thanks
pk

Do I get free upgrade to VM Workstation 6 if I buy Workstation 5 now?

xk — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:49:06 GMT

I finally convinced my boss to purchase a few licenses of VM Workstation. The only thing that is left hanging is when to buy them. I know the Workstation 6 is coming out soon. Should I wait or buy Workstation 5 now? I will have much harder time to get the money if I have to pay it again for upgrade.

Thanks

-xk

Considering VMWare, what's my risk ?

Prophet — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:12:28 GMT

I see a lot of pdf's relating costs savings, enumerating ease of management, ease of backup and so on. I have yet to find a document relating the "dangers" of implementing VMWare.

I am currently talking to a "would-be" service provider but he cannot answer simple questions :
what's my risk ?
Has anyone experienced critical problems with VMWare (it being the cause of) ?

I am a bit reluctant to pomp in 100 K for a solution without knowing the risks involved. Can anyone from VMWare or experienced with VMWare implementations answer ?

diff bet work stattion & ESX/GSX servers?

KrishMurali — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:42:40 GMT

We are currently using workstation 5.5; we basically use it for running linux/solaris intel/windows platforms on a WINDOWS host machine.
Can any one tell me why I need ESX/GSX servers? what additional benefits I will get from them?
The docc given are so lengthy and did not give nay crisp answer/solution.

Murali

ESX support staff question

ccullingford — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 04:50:44 GMT

I am in the process of working on policies and procedures for a larger scale VMware deployment and I am looking for some information on the support staff to VI3 host ratio others are seeing. I am having to draft some staffing models as well as outlining training needs for the current staff.

Currently the environment is 15 VI3 host but will be growing very rapidly.

Also, If others have a support models for a large scale deployment I would be interested in hearing about that. What we are looking at is a core team of staff to administer the VI3 host. The support of the VMs would fall to the current server support staff.

Thanks in advance,
Chris

Assign mulitple physical graphics cards to individual VM's?

RDH181 — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:49:29 GMT

Is it possible to assign separate physical graphics cards to individual Virtual Machines? i.e. if you had 5 physical graphics cards in a server and 5 virtual machines on that server could you tie each graphics card to its own Virtual Machine?

Reason for asking is that we have an AV presentation that requires 5 physical machines running at the same time to display it hence was looking at the idea of virtualising the 5 physical machines into one server with 5 physical graphic card outputs but imagine this is only possible if graphics cards can be assigned to individual virtual machines?

Thanks in advance for any feedback!