P2V using Acronis True Image
Current config: Windows Server 2003 Std.Dell PowerEdge 28502 - 3.0GHz Xeon CPUs4GB MemoryRAID 5 - 273GB Disk Space VMWare ServerMemory Allocated- 1GBLSI SCSI Virtual Disk40GB Allocated to VM2 - CPUs...
View ArticleDestination host unreachable; cannot pass traffic through interface.
We have 1 HP dl385 running Windows 2003 R2 64 Bit Server Service Pack1 (up to date with patches). We have 3 guest vm servers running Windows 2003 Standard SP1 and they are all up to date with patches...
View ArticleIssues with AMD X2 Processors
Hi all,I am having seriousw issues with latest AMD X2 processor and VMware server RC1. I have another machine using Intel P4 and no problems but when I move machines to AMD machine blue screens of...
View ArticleWindows: P2V with nothing but NTBACKUP
I've recently duplicated our producion environment into VM's to allow us to test upgrades and patches without having to arrange outage windows, come in on the weekend or waste a night rebuilding a...
View ArticleSelf Contained Network
Hi Everyone, Using VMware for the 1st time and wonder if I can draw on some of the extensive experience currently available. 1, I am looking to build a 5 Servers within Vmware server with no external...
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Vista Host OS & VM Incorrect MAC address
Not sure if anyone has seen this before, but I'll give it a shot. I am running VMWare Server 1.0.1 build 29996 on Vista Business with all the current MS Critical Patches. On my host os, a PING to...
View ArticleAllowing SMB (Port 139) Access on Secondary IP
All For all of us Unix guys this is a Windows Alert!!! For performance testing reasons of one of our Cisco products I need to have many scannable IP's so that our product can investigate the targeted...
View ArticleCan I change Vmware's BIOS Infomation?
In my act machine, I can write some text or graph into my bios, so it looks like an OEM computer. Can I do it for vmware?
View ArticleCannot add an existing virtual disk
I am trying to make a Network load Balancing Cluster on a GSX server 3.1, and i am using the guidelines from the Administration Guide. I make the First Node and ran sysprep on it. I then renamed (from...
View ArticleMigrating servers into VMs
Hi, My question is if anybody has a proved method to migrate W2KAS servers running on plain hardware into Virtual Machines? I have tried the following scenario: 1. Create image backups from the server...
View ArticleOracle 10g RAC install problem with shared disk (Win 2003)
I am running GSX v3.0.0. build-7592 and am having trouble installing Oracle 10g RAC using two Windows 2003 server VMs and a shared disk. I have run through the steps as specified by Oracle, and the...
View Articlecomments in .vmx file
Is there a way of commenting out an entry in the VM's configuration file? I there a "comment character," like # or ; to use?
View ArticleService vmware-authd expects port ..
Hello Forum, when i did installing my gsx on sles9 the installer told me to change to port 904 (i think he did this because 902 was in /etc/services). now delete this entry and want to change it back...
View ArticleAdding additional processors on Windows 2003 vmware server.
This is more of a hardware question then VMware. Im trying to add additional processors (2) to a Windows 2003 server standard that already have 2 processors. Have anybody had any success with this? If...
View ArticleVMCom.VMConnectParams
I am not new to vbscripting but I am new to scripting in VMWare GSX Server. I am trying to do a simple query on the GSX box using vbscript and just getting a list of .RegisteredVMNames. I keep getting...
View ArticleSCSI3 compliance
What level of scsi compliance is GSX scsi virtual drives? Are they scsi3 compliant?
View ArticleAdding NIC 2 - Guest OS (2K3 SP1) halts at acpitabl.dat
Running GSX Server v3.2.1 build 19281 When attempting to add a NIC (either vmxnet or vlance) the Guest OS (Windows 2003 SP1) halts at the splash screen. Logging appears to show the halt at...
View ArticleDOS VMs with DOSIDLE CPU Load 100%
HelloI have several DOS Machines running on VMWare GSX Server 3.2.1. When I start the DOS Machines and don't do anything (leave the dos machines in idle status) everthing works great. The CPU load is...
View ArticleVMWare Server - Bad disk performance vs MS Virtual Server
Hello, We are currently using MS Virtual Server but are looking to move to VMWare Server. Holding us up right now though is the number of virtual machines we can run. On Virtual Server with 4GB RAM,...
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Add VMXNet and Heartbeat to Monowall!
I consider M0n0wall (http://www.m0n0.ch) one of the best VMs i have. Since it's appliance based and FreeBSD, vmware-tools won't install on it, so it doesn't have support for VMXnet. It runs on a...
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