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• Parallel logic LSI, LSI logic SAS, parallel Buslogic (not recommended for the guest operating system), vmware paravirtual

  Infrastructure:

  vSphere

  ESX 4

  Reference Dell R710 Server

  I install WIN 2003 x 64 as a virtual server on ESX 4, when I select LSI logic SAS & LSI logic parallel it does not detect the hard drive, do I need driver if so where can I download?

  For parallel bus logic (not recommended for the guest operating system) & Vmware paravirtual, do I have to select this option for my win 2003 R2 x 64 edition?

  Please help on this issue.

  ~ Rashid

  If you really want to use it for installation, you will need to extract the driver from the VMware Tools ISO and add it to a disk image.

  Dave

  VMware communities user moderator

  New book in town - Start Guide quick vSphere -http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/08/12/new-book-in-town-vsphere-quick-start-guide/.

  You have a system or a PCI with VMDirectPath?  Submit your specifications to the unofficial VMDirectPath HCL - http://www.vm-help.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=21.

• VMware - SAN verses server for the guest operating system

  We set up our VMware environment 4 years ago and want to replace the hardware and upgrade to VSphere. We are now part of a large organization and they are questioning our original facility regarding using a San to host Windows Server guests in this environment. They believe that a San is only for storage and VMware customers have to live on a server. I'm looking for confirmation that we use "best practices" by having the OS guest systems on a San, rather than a server. I'd really like something VMware that says to use a SAN and why. It's our Installer; We have 4 servers ESX 3.5 with dual processors core quad, 32 GB of ram and quad port network adapters. The ESX servers connected to the SAN via redundant fiber via HABs connections. The SAN has 6 TB of storage space and we accommodate 24 people from Windows 2003. I say that we have this right and they say I should welcome the guests on a server and not a SAN. My point is why are in charge of the server OS and everything that comes with it as patching and antivirus and multiple HBA when I can get a SAN form HP at equal or lower cost. I just need help to make my case.

  Shared storage is a requirement for features such as vMotion, DRS, and HA.

  It is certainly having a guest on local storage, but what happens if you have a question of host or need maintenance?   If you use a shared storage and you need to host maintenance you can simply vMotion the VMS to another host and there is no interruption of service.   Without shared storage log off the virtual machines or need to spend downtime to migrate them to another host.   If a host goes down, your VM on local storage is down until the host is repaired.  With HA and a shared storage, another host will reboot the virtual machine and it will be online in a few minutes.

• recommendation of the memory for the guest operating system

  Hi guys,.

  I need some advice

  I have a pile of vsphere 5 made of 2 servers on each server that I have on 5 VM

  (1) domain contoller 2008 standard edition + dhcp + dns

  2) exchange 2010

  (3) file server

  (4) primavera

  My question is what is the recommended memory and cpu for these VM configuration? I'm a bit confused

  What happens if I don't set up the limits and booking hotel and leave all default? What is the point of the week in this configuration? If I leave all default each VM does not use memory a cpu as it needs?

  Thank you specify in advance

  To add the tips of memory... Many people allocates memory for the virtual machines that will never be used, and ultimately you consume the memory of your host much faster than necessary. Start low when allocating memory to a virtual computer. Adding memory is simple to make, after you have collected on the functioning of your host performance data. The Performance tab will show you what is happening.

  Mike

• How to make hard disk for the guest operating system diffferent?

  I have a HP DL380 G7 with a RAID 1 on two hard drives of 2 TB. In the vSphere Client, when configuring the virtual machine, how I attributed part of the disk space to my virtual machine if it appears as "D" drive for storage?

  To add a new virtual disk, choose "Create a new virtual disk" in the wizard.

  André

• Connection to the guest operating system

  Hello! I've been test connectivity of a guest OS on a machine of ESXi. The problem is that I cannot ping successfully invited an operating system from another computer on the same network. The guest operating system is able to reach the other IP address on the network (via ping), but not the reverse. The guest operating system is Windows XP, and the local IP addresses are defined in static.

  Is there a way around the problem?

  Check your firewall on the XP guest windows.  Disable it, see if that helps.

• 10 mb on the guest operating system network connection

  I just installed ESXi 4.0 on a server that has 6 physical Gigabit NIC I only got one of them enabled for now. I created a new virtual machine with a clean install of Windows XP Pro and I was quite surprised to find that when finally completed XP installation, she did know that the speed of 10mbit NETWORK card. Although the physical NETWORK adapter on the server is a Gigabit NIC, its connected to a 10/100 switch and the lisghts on the connection stating that the ESXi NIC host operating at 100 Mbps. Is there a reason why the guest operating system should see a 10mbit connection?

  Concerning

  Eugene Gill

  I agree with the previous post, but it should also check your network connection on your host computer speed (host, configuration tab, click on networking) to see how fast has been negotiated.

• How should be written the script for the use of the maximum memory of the guest operating system ever?

  How should be written the script for the use of the maximum memory of the guest operating system ever?

  Please teach the name of the object and the type and order, etc.

  You should be able to do it with the cmdlet Get-Stat .

  Something like that

  Get-Stat -Entity (Get-VM $vmName) -Stat mem.usage.maximum -Start (Get-Date).AddDays(-7) | Measure-Object -Property value -Maximum | Select Maximum
  

  This will return the maximum percentage in the last 7 days for the guests, whose name is stored in the variable $vmName.

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• Antivirus on the guest operating system

  Hello:

  When the host operating system has an antivirus and is updated in the calendar, the guest operating system needs a separately installed antivirus? Because the internet connection through the host operating system, won't Take Care of any potential threat antivirus agenda

  ... no antivirus (host) take care of any potential threat?

  Not necessarily.  For example, if the virtual machine is set to bridged networking, then the virtual machine appears like any other physical machine on the network and is NOT protected by AV. host if you set NAT network, the host behaves as a personal router (e.g.: Linksys box.)  Always install you an AV on your computer, even if you have a hardware router.  So even for your virtual machine.

  Others will probably give many examples more and better than I, but as a general rule, treat your virtual machine just like any other machine.  If you have installed an AV on a physical machine with this OS, you must install an AV when the OS is virtual.

• Trouble installing the guest operating system

  All,

  Having trouble installing the guest operating system - Windows XP SP3. I followed the directions of the booklet that I try to boot from a local image and a CD. I can't able to get into the setup of the BIOS to start the virtual machine when you press F8. I am currently on a decentralized network that starts his BONES from a PXE server. When I turn on my VM, its shows the boot process than my actual desktop. I tried many configurations, but still problems. All instight would be useful. Thank you.

  Welcome to the forums!

  To enter the VMWare guest BIOS press F2, no F8.

  You can also add 'bios. BootDelay = 10000 "in the prompt .vmx file. This gives you more time to press F2.

  The virtual guest has a CD-ROM attached to it?

  Is it "connect to turn on?

  Is it connected to the physical machine (where the OS CD is inserted)?

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• VMWARE Newbie - installation problems with the guest operating system

  I heard a lot about the use of VMWARE for a long time so I downloaded and then installed ESXI 3.5 on a test area.  I installed the client and have been able to create a new virtual machine.  However, I run into some difficulty with installing a guest operating system.  All the pdf that I could find have suggested that simply by putting a CD in the server's drive and then turn on the virtual machine would start the my guest operating system installation process.  Unfortunately, my VM doesn't seem to see my CDRom and tent drive a start-up network, followed by a brief wait for the message 'Operating system not found' timeout.

  Can someone please help me find a way to create a new guest OS on my VM so that I can.

  1. understand the process

  2 start testing.

  Thank you in advance.

  If you have installed of course the VI Client to create the VM, and you insert the CD into the ESXi host? You can go to change settings on the virtual machine, click the CD/DVD and select the option use the host device. Also ensure the connection to turn on is checked.  When you turn on the virtual machine, it should see the CD that you inserted in your ESXi host. Once you get the operating system to load, you can configure to allow remote desktop connections and access the VM as a traditional physical machine, rather than relying on the console of the VI Client view.

• Cannot run the program in the guest operating system

  Hello

  I'm trying to run a program file (an .exe) in a virtual machine via vCO using executeCommandInGuest.

  The thing is that the .exe file starts a user interface to display the status (do not ask for entry) when it runs locally. When I call the script of vCO, I get the following error:

  Error while executing command (can not run the command: InternalError: a general error occurred: a program could not run on the guest operating system (name of the dynamic Script Module: executeCommandInGuest #40) (name of the dynamic Script Module: executeCommandInGuest #46))

  
  

  If I try to call a .bat file in the VM that starts the program of the WF works but the .exe file is never started in the virtual machine.

  If I specify to run another .exe for example ping.exe only complete control of WF and if I specify a .bat file that call ping.exe he also successfully complete.

  There is no silent mode for the .exe I need performed.
  

  Any help would be appreciated.
  

  Thank you

  Magnus

  The problem was caused by the user access control. Put forever does not resolve the problem, disable it through the user interface, restart the virtual machine, and then continue with my script.

• Help. The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. Power off or reset the virtual machine. WHY?

  Greetings.

  I have a 5.5 with an operating system Red Hat 5.10 ESXi environment. The OS worked fine until a few days ago. ESXi displays the error "the CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. Power off or reset the virtual machine. I Don t know why my server displays the error if my environment was OK. Could be a kernel problem? operating system problem?

  Ideas?

  Thanks for the help.

  Have a look here. http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=2000542

  Did you recently patch your VM? Looks like when the guest operating system runs the incorrect commands that it can have a deactivated processor.

• Performance problem with the guest operating system

  Hello gurus - I have one of the most unusual questions, I ran into a few time.   Here it is:

  I have a guest w2008R2 OS - installed in a 5.1 version of VM 7 vSpherer - which has an Emulex LPe 12002-E 8 GB dual HBA port is assigned to the as 2 PCI (1 device per port) via DirectPath devices

  The guest operating system has an application that performs backup tests.   WWPN of the HBA is zoned in the fabric and declared in the interface of Compellent Storage Center and everything is good here. the application creates a replay of a volume, mount it as a drive, read all the blocks, then dismantles and moves then repeat the process with what ever additional volumes should be safeguarded.   It is so cool I have do this with a VM right and not a physical host?  (would be cool if I had work NPIV but that's another story, not with technology HBA vendor support...)

  So, what's the problem?   Well, the bed the mounted disk backup will work extremely slow as slow as 5MB\sec flow, then during any other activity takes place on the system the flow jumps up to 150MB\sec all of a sudden and will continue to run fast for a long time and finish jobs on time with each work taking a little more than an hour.  But when the slow going the same work (all jobs are the same, they are simply by reading all the blocks of a bunch of 200 GB volumes and wrote a set of NULL value, do not forget this is just test) takes up to 10 hours to complete.

  I think that what is the culprit?   POWER MANAGEMENT.

  I have just about each performance counter and the journal of events known to man and I don't see anything abnormal on the table, ESXi virtual machine, nothing.  But what I see in the newspapers is any kind of activity that could happen in a transparent manner to save energy.

  FACTS on this case:

  -Reservation of memory is defined (it must be for directpath otherwise, you can't power on the virtual machine)

  -Booking CPU - has not been defined before an hour ago, I gave her just a small reserve for this rule, so I do not know if this will help alleviate the slow flow, or have an effect on what I think is a question of power (unit linked) management

  -windows power management is set to high performance never-ever - but not until an hour there doesn't I changed advanced settings for USB Disabled------turned off.  PCI peripheral energy saving setting was already off.  Which is in contradiction with my theory.  But maybe, just maybe, something is broken somewhere, or could be a bug... blah blah blah

  -the HBA, Emulex, as it appears in Device Manager in the guest OS doesn't have a power management tab to disable the feature, I don't see that the adapter VMXNET3 had this tab, and I turn off the power save setting to be conservative, do not think that it was the culprit, but as there is no real data running through the NIC.  The data is simply to be read from the disk mounted, not copied on any wire Ethernet.  never the less, in the Emulex properties is a Details tab and a selection of power data, and performance data indicate you what power mode, the device is, as well as feeding supported systems.  D0: full power, but D3, which shows as supported by the device, is an energy saving mode.   I could not yet attend the setting at the time of slow activity, my good intention as soon as possible. He is currently shooting in D0, full power.

  This is so what I have to offer on this, I hope that its just...   If I'm missing something, or if others have experienced this massive loss of unknown flow without reason and have resolutions, please share.

  If there is a way for me to disable power on the Emulex HBA management inform you please, I don't mind if I stop to enter the firmware, if that was even possible.  But if possible I would disable it immediately before any new tests are executed.

  The root cause of this issue has never been identified by VMware support which for me is a question of ugly.  Reservation of CPU for the VM using directpath IO with HBA installed in it corrected the problem.  I'd be leary with direct path IO.

• Performance of the guest operating system Win2k3

  VM Workstation: v6.5.5 build 328052

  Host OS: WinVista Ultimate (64-bit)

  4 GB of physical RAM

  50 GB of free space

  64 bit chip

  OS comments: 1) Windows 2003 SBS 2) Windows 2003 SBS

  1 GB OF RAM 1 GB OF RAM

  8GB 32 GB space space allocated

  < < SLOW > > < < ACCEPTABLE > >

  The issue I'm having is on the slopes significantly slower than #2 #1 VM.  #2 works pretty decently.  #1... well over this long last week I started it after being unused for awhile.  I got the prompt to install VMTools so I did this. He took over 36 hours to install VMTools!  ;-((.  I want to update the operating system with updates from MS since several months, but I did not "months (or more!" to run through the update.

  What are the options (performance etc.) would you suggest for #1?  Apparently, the two #1 and #2 are the same, as far as I KNOW, in all other aspects of the guest operating system and settings.  Is there a setting/performance video or paper about this game and how build/debugging etc. for optimal performance?

  TIA!

  Hello.

  How did they build each of these virtual machines out there?

  #1 is slow if #2 is also well off?

  Good luck!