Re: FreeNAS 8.x and vSphere 5.x
FreeNAS cannot "manage" vSphere - you can use FreeNAS for storage though. Is this for a home lab setup? As far as FreeNAS goes - your hardware setup will depend on what you can afford, how you want to...
View ArticleRe: Powering on a virtual machine after upgrading to ESXi 5.1 fails with the...
No need to apologize, it's you who's having this issue, not me André
View ArticleRe: can i create a vm ahead of the os so i can predetermine the size of...
Assuming your using VMware Fusion, since you posted in this forum, you could have clicked the Customize Settings button the Finish pane of the New Virtual Machine Assistant to make appropriate changes...
View ArticleRe: New PC: Windows 8, 16GB RAM, SSD - recommended settings pls
VaemonGuy, I have a server, ASUS P9X79, 3930k, 64gb DDR3-1600, 2x256GB OCZ Vector (RAID 0, 1000MB/s), 4x2TB WD RE-4 (RAID 10, 400MB/s), Radeon HD7850 2GB that i built to host 10 Windows 7 x64 VMs....
View ArticleRe: Installation on X8SIL-F fails
Have you confirmed that MB or its components - NIC and drive controller are supported - you can check here http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php
View ArticleRe: FreeNAS 8.x and vSphere 5.x
I wanted to knowifI coulduse a computerwithFreeNASto save andusevirtual machines createdbyvSphere5.x. If so,Iwould like to knowwhat features shouldhave thiscomputer tobe able to workwiththese VMs....
View ArticleRe: Installation on X8SIL-F fails
I have seen reports of users who succesfully install and run ESXi on the X8SIL-F.
View ArticleFormat local datastore
I have ESXi 5.1 installed on IBM server system x 3755 m3 and there is 4 disks each one 300 GB and I make them as RAID 5 then become the total size is 8350 GB and I have one local datastore = 830 GB.I...
View ArticleRe: Format local datastore
I am not sure of what you are asking - are you looking to reformat the current datastore on the local drive? When you installed ESXi it should have formated and partitioned the local disk fir uts use
View ArticleReset/Filter VCOPS Alerts
Does anyone know if there is a way to reset or tune alerts? The reason I ask is I have local datastores that are 100% on my ESXi hosts. The bad news is they are only 40G in size, and VCOPS...
View ArticleClipboard isn't syncing after guest reboot (Windows 7 64-bit as host, Linux...
I'm using Windows 7 64-bit as the host OS, and Kali Linux (32-bit) as the VM guest. Copy and paste synchronization just stopped working all of a sudden in the Linux guest, but it works fine in the...
View ArticleQuestion for a newbie
Please Help!I'm totally new to Mac, how new you ask.......LOL I just set it up a few days ago! Anyway I want to know if the VMware player is something that I can use to open up my Paint Shop Pro 7...
View ArticlevSphere 5.1 vSwitch recommendation for 20 NIC ports
Hi guys, let's assume your environment consists, more or less, of the following:- vSphere 5.1 Enterprise version (NOT Enterprise plus - so NO distributed switches)- 3 Hosts with each 20 1Gbit/s NICs...
View ArticleProblem entering Unity mode/VMware Tools
I just got VMware up and running Windows 7 Ultimate x64 as a guest in Ubuntu 13.04. I am now trying to enter Unity mode and I get the following: "The virtual machine cannot enter Unity mode...
View ArticleRe: Question for a newbie
Welcome to the Community, In order to run Windows applications on a MAC you either need to install Windows (for which you need a license) in a Bootcamp partition or in a virtual machine. The VMware...
View ArticleRe: can't access iSCSI target from second ESX box
Pardon the intrusion, I don't have an answer to your question, but I am trying to get en ESX box to connect to an iSCSI target on a Windows 2012 box without success. What id you do to get it to work?...
View ArticleRe: Question for a newbie
If running Paint Shop Pro 7 is the only reason you want to run Windows on a Mac then have a look at GIMP on OS X and it's free!
View ArticleEVC \ VMotion Issue
Hey all.. I have a four host cluster with identical hardware and Nehalem EVC mode enabled. We took one of those nodes and moved it to a new datacenter and added it as the only node of a new cluster....
View ArticleVSA - computing disk digest more than once?
Is there a reason View needs to compute the disk digest more than once when you deploy linked clones to a pool with multiple hosts? Whenever I deploy an image it appears that View computes the digest...
View ArticleRe: Esxi 5.1 pci passthrough broken
I updated to the latest 5.1 from 5 and I too had this issue. Reverting to ESXi510-201303001 at least allows the passthrough to work until reboot. Hopefully vmware provides a proper fix in the next...
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