In addition to what khughes said, we do have jobs. This is a self help forum, and we don't get paid to answer questions. so sometimes we may have time to answer a question or two, sometimes not. It's random. And this time of year it's difficult with holidays, people are on vacation, spending time with family... And very few people have the time to monitor every single problem. so the pool of resources is diminished.
And this looks less like a VM Ware issue and more like a hardware issue, so the tech support for this type of question may be hard to find on this forum.
So in the future keep in mind that this forum is here as a community, and we do try to answer and get to everyone's answer, and it's really hard to tell which people will be here to get the answer, so we would waste our time on questions that people don't give us follow up information on as well.
It works both ways, some questions do get missed, but then the questions we spend time answering people don't appreciate or seem to acknowledge the answers given (as well as heed the information). So if a question looks like someone is fishing or throwing some extremely wild question, people may think twice before answering, and some questions can be answered by Google.
And some problems have no difinitive answer. Like which box should I buy for this ESX server. Or I want 100 VM's on 1 laptop hard drive, how do I get the best performance. Now, how are we REALLY supposed to answer that? You really don't know if they are seriously looking for an answer, or if they just want opinions.... We do strive to give the best answer for the majority, and sorry if we can't answer every question timely.
