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New VMUG Advantage Member 2023-HOW TO Download VMWare Workstation, ESXi ISO's etc for home Lab   There are no links or how to's on the VMUG site, just shows what the YEAR Long Subscription gives me, but HOW do I access it?

Hello, Is there a like to receive a license for workstation pro 16. I have it installed but my pro 12 license stop working.I was hoping VMUG Advantage member could receive a trail license.   Thanks -Ed

My business partner and I run twin servers running vmEsentials. We use Veeam backup and replication (Community Edition)  We have a couple of issues. We are not looking for a company to take over the support of our network. What we need is occasional support by some one who KNOWS what they are doing with vmWare and Veeam. We would prefer some one in the Tampa Florida area so we can meet up in person, however, go to meeting will work. If you are interested, please post back.  Thanks  

Hi, Recently, I found there is a warning message in vmkernel.log file about ACPI FADT table length error. I cheched the ACPI specificaiotn version 5.0, the length of FACP is 268 bytes. For ACPI 2.x, 3.x and 4.x, the length is 244 bytes. It looks like VMware does not support ACPI 5.0. But I can't find a tool under ESXi shell which can be used to dump the ACPI talbe like "iasl" tool in linux. the "/proc" node has been removed in ESXi 5.x OS. Does anyone know how to dump the ACPI table under ESXi 5.x? thanks in advance. Bo

Hi A Few monthis ago we did implement VMware in our environment with 2 hosts and an equallogic controller. Most of the machines were migrated across and we had 2 templates for window 2008 R2 setup by the consultant. I started using the templates to deoploy new VM's. I notice that I cannot deploy any VM's from this template as it complains with an error message as shown in the attached word doc. Upon looking closely, I could see from the vmx file of one of the Virtual machines deployed may be sharing this template, It looks like it has some reference to the template.vmdk file, I have copied the whole .VMX file in the word doc. The original template was set with windows 2008 on a 40 GB HDD. The Virtual machine which was deployed was changed to 120 GB HDD. Now seeing at the datastore the deployed VM has a 40GB vmdk file and the template originally used has 120GB. Everything is working fine but I want the deployed VM to be only pointing to the relevant .vmdk file and loose the connection with the template without disrupting my server. what is the best way to do this, I am fairly new to VM environment. Also when I deployed the VM originally,  I Right clicked the relevant template and selected the option "Deploy Virtual machine from this template" I presume that is the option to be used.

Herkese merhabalar; Sistemimizde vcenter 5.0 kullanıyoruz ve 5.1 sürümüne geçiş yapmak istiyoruz.Vcenter 5.1 SSO kurulumunda download dosyası içinde gelen script ile db ve dbuser SQL (SQL Server 2005 32 bit) altında oluşturdum.Daha sonra kurulum esnasında gerekli yönergeleri girdikten sonra database aşamasınıda  geçtikten sonra kurulum aşamasında sırasıyla aşağıdaki mesajları alıyorum ve kurulum iptal oluyor.Regian ve language ayarları U.S olarak ayarlanmış durumda. İlk olarak şu mesajı alıyorum Ok dedikten sonra akabinde aşağıdaki 2. mesajı alıyorum. Sorun acaba neden kaynaklanıyor.Database ile ilgili bir sorun oalbilri mi ? DB user local user olarak sistemde tanımlı değil onla alakası olabilri mi ? Yada Vcenter server üzerinde servislerle ilgil ibir sorunmudur? Ayrıca DB ayarlarımda aşağıdaki gibi yapınca database ayarlarını geçiyorum. MSSQL instance Dynamic port seçmezsem.Database bağlantısını sağlayamıyorum.bu şekilde yapınca db bağlantısı sağlanıyor.Manuel 1443 portundan bağlantı yapamıyorum. Bu konularda bilgisi olan arkadaşların yardımlarını bekliyorum. Şimdiden Teşekkürler...

Salve, sto muovendo i primi passi nella virtualizzazione, passi un po' forzati da una richiesta dai miei superiori. Recentemente, ci è stata assegnata una sede distaccata a cui dovremo fornire assistenza informatica a vario livello. Per diminuire i viaggi abbiamo pensato di ristrutturare la sede utilizzando la virtualizzazione . L'idea è di avere dei client diskless che lavorino su pc virtualizzati su server gestibili da remoto. Avendo un budget ristretto avevo pensato di usare i pc in dotazione, togliere gli hd dai pc, avviare il boot via lan caricando una distro minima di linux avente come shell il client per collegarsi al server. E' una soluzione fattibile? Ho 20 persone su due turni, che lavorano su applicati via web (quindi poco carico di lavoro) quale hardware/software mi serve? Soluzioni alternative? Hi, I'm taking the first steps in virtualization, walk a little 'forced by a request from my superiors. Recently, there has been assigned an offsite office in which we will provide computer support at various levels. To decrease the trips we decided to restructure the office using virtualization. The idea is to have diskless clients that work on pc virtualized servers that can be managed remotely. Having a tight budget I thought about using the pc used, remove the HD from the PC, start the boot-lan loading a minimal linux distro which has as its shell the client to connect to the server. It 'a feasible solution? I have 20 people on two shifts, working on web applied (so little workload) what hardware / software do I need? Workarounds? Any answers, advice, guidance, etc. is greatly appreciated.

Hi, how do you guys backup your ESXi hosts (VCenter as VM) for 4.x & 5.x??  I understand there are ways to backup the config settings but is that the best available solution...does the config backup includes all complete custom configs or there are limitations as well....?  Thank you

I have a 3 tb portable hard drive that is connected threw a ESata cable to a sata port on my server. I ran command vmkfstools.pl -server 192.168.0.2 -username UUUU-password PPPP -z /vmfs/devices/disks/t10.ATA_____WDC_WD30EZRX2D00DC0B0_________________________WD2DWMC1T0836451 /vmfs/volumes/4e9d8d19-e80d8d58-f4cc-5ef3fca652f6/RDMs/RDM3Tweek1.vmdk -a lsilogic To make make the RDM file. It looked corrected the file size of the rdm is what I would expect it to be. I edited one of my VM to add this RDM to and ran in to a problem. When I go to Disk manager I can see the drive but it does not have any size. What do I need to do to see this drive in Windows?