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• Can I create a snapshot and replace it with an image (or link another picture than the current)?

  Based on http://forums.Adobe.com/thread/1308132?TSTART=0 I decided to add each question separately:

  Hello, I am very interested in buying Lightroom 5.2. I tried the RC that was missing today. Yet, I have several questions that I can't find really good conclusive answers, I'd like to get an answer before buying LR. Please do not write maybe like this or that (assumptions), because I don't want to start my entire workflow and then realize that I have to change all around, please reply, if you know for sure that something works and you are, preferably, using this method too.

  Can I create a snapshot and replace it with an image (or link another picture than the current photo)? Details: I made adjustments in iPhoto until now I want my (unpublished) masters, some RAWs JPEGs, create a snapshot and set the photo as the one to keep. If it is not possible, all of the recommendations (in addition the usual masters of backup and import changes).

  What I do is I have to assign some metadata down battery photo indicating of don't not to export the picture. Then, I use either a collection of smart to find the photo I want to and can not find the photos, I don't want and export all in the smart collection. or I use a Collection of post Smart, even once allows me to select only the pictures I want and not those I want.

  Of course you manually uncheck items you want to export, which work as well.

• How to disable snapshots for a vmdk?

  I thought that I had asked this before and have the feeling that it is possible, but do not find the information now.

  I want to share a vmdk that I use for DATA of the virtual machines. The virtual machine that contains the vmdk DATA does not use / have snapshots, but I want to use snapshots in other virtual machines. I have create a new hard drive in each virtual machine, choose the vmdk existing DATA and select "share this virtual disk with the virtual machine that created it." However, when a snapshot is created in the other VM, it also creates a snapshot of the DATA vmdk. The problem is that if something is written on the vmdk DATABASE, then all the VM who have snapshots will report the DATA as being damaged vmdk.

  To work around this problem, I want to disable snapshots for the vmdk from DATA, but leave it turned on for all the other vmdk. Is there a setting to do this?

  OxkAMam wrote:

  How do you define a disc to independent mode?

  Add the following parameters to the configuration of the Virtual Machine's .vmx file, then that is closing, closed not suspended and VMware Fusion.

  The syntax is as follows however uses the one appropriate for your configuration.

  ide0:0.redo = ""
  ide0:0.mode = "independent-persistent"
  
  Or
  
  scsi0:0.redo = ""
  scsi0:0.mode = "independent-persistent"
  

• Snapshot question

  So what I read a snapshot takes a picture of the machine as it is.

  If I make a snapshot,

  then update several packages on a centos VM 6

  If some updates casue problems and I was able to return to the most recent snapshot to undo the updates?

  Snap shot will work and ignore the data and commit the snapshot to the vm disk?

  If you decide to go back to the snapshot you want will create before comment, update OS, then all changes will be discaded, and the virtual machine will be in the State it was in when you created the snapshot.

  If upgrading the guest OS works as expected and you decide to commit the snapshot (called 'Delete' or 'Delete All' in the Snapshot Manager), all changes will be merged into parent/base of the VM disk snapshot.

  André

• [SOLVED] Help: Snapshot showing is not in Manager snapshots, but 0000002.vmdk always in the vicinity

  Hello community,

  Here's the problem: one of our most important servers (Windows 2008 R2, Exchange 2010) got a software update, so we used clichés, which removed right after the update went smothly.

  Now, some time later, I saw that the 000002.vmdk file is always there and always referenced when I check the properties of the virtual machine.

  So this happened not recognized for some time now, the server has 3 virtual drives, two of which have these snapshotfiles, 25GB and 50GB the other short.

  I've been digging around the internet for some time now, and so far the only solution I found was to create a new snapshot and then select "Remove all" since the Snapshot Manager. Thus engage all snapshot of the files at once.

  Fortunately, we have still some 700 GB of space on the volumes, but I'm not sure about this procedure. With snapshots of this size, there will be a delay (I think that's what happened the first time) or something else. When this server going boom, we have a problem. (of course, there is a backup, but I'm not Admin Exchange and this guy is on vacation, murphy...)

  You think it's a good idea? Any other ideas?

  Oh, our environment:

  vCenter 4.1 345043

  ESXi 4.1 582267

  Sincere greetings,

  Thomas

  Welcome to the community,

  with ESXi 4.1 in place, you should have any problems with delays, so I would go ahead and follow the snapshot create-> delete all routes.

  Two thought but since I do not know the workload. Think to delete snapshots after the opening hours (depending on the speed of storage) and be absolutely sure, there is no backup (or something else) who tries to create another snapshot when the consolidation is on!

  I would go ahead and delete the snapshots with the virtual machine. IMO it is not necessary to do with the virtual machine off.

  André

• Snapshots moves my vmdk files

  Hello

  I created VM with a system disk and a disk temp on separate data NFS storage to avoid having to temporary (i.e. snapshot of storage) backup data. However, when I create a snapshot of the virtual machine, the delta file is created with the system disk, the path to the disk in vCenter (change the settings on the virtual computer) changes its data store and he stayed even when I remove the snapshot and merge the vmdk files. Is this really EXPECTED behavior?

  It is on VC 2.5 U3 and U4 of ESX 3.5.

  Thanks in advance,

  Daniel

  Hi, can you guarantee that the VMDK files are named differently in data warehouses. By default, VC will give eponymous to a second VMDK if it's on a different data store. This causes problems with some instant operations. Make sure that VMDK have different file names.

• Image not available snapshot - Question on usability in view Manager

  I was invited to establish a pool of linked clone VMs will be used for vWebservers on our network.  I just wanted to get some advice first and an answer to a question.

  First of all - I have just built a Windows 2003 r2 Enterprise image, installed the agent of the view out of the IP and it turned off to take a picture.  Once I took the snapshot - I jump in the view manager, start to build my pool, but it is not a list for the VM parent I am looking or the snapshot of what I created.  Could someone help me on this if you have any advice?

  Next - the pool is I'm creating is going to be several web servers associated with a model.  Is it possible to configure each of the child elements of the pool to have static IP addresses that hold their NIC configurations, even after I do an update of model parent?  I realize that the view is more user/desktop based, but demand has come to me looking for what it is.

  Thanks in advance!

  Theandyorr,

  View does not support creating pools of office with server operating systems.  You are limited to Windows XP and Vista VMs - see page 17 of the Guide of Directors 3.1 views: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/view31_manual.pdf

  ~ Aaron Patten

• Snapshot questions

  So one of my virtual machines had a glimpse into its VM folder in the data store, however the snapshot does not appear in snapshot manager. So I deleted the snapshot file and its secondary .vmdks in the folder of the virtual machine. However now I have leftovers of the snapshot which give me error messages when I try to 2 delta.vmdks felete it say it cannot be deleted.

  He also says, when I try to take a new shapshot of the virtual configuration snapshot invalid machine.

  Im guessing that I saw something somewhere.

  Hello

  you were rt abt the last part, u saw things a little here. I'm sure that you will not be able to take snapshots on the virtual machine. If you want to use the virtual machine with ease of snapshot, then I suggest to

  1 unregister the virtual machine from the ESX

  2. create a new virtual machine and run the virtual machine to use the vmdk < directly to the source vmdk >

  3. turn on the virtual machine with ease of snapshot. However, you will lose previously created on the virtual machine snapshots.

  THX,

  Selva

• question of VMDK

  Hello world

  I'm pretty new to the virtual world, so please bear with ridiculous questions, I could ask.  I have the Eval in ESX Server 3i, 3.5.0 version that expires in 13 days.  I want to grab a copy of my virtual machine 1.  I typed the IP address of my ESX Server in IE and selected 'Browse the data in the inventory of the host stores' and was able to copy the following files to the bottom:

  VMware.log, vmware - 2.log, vmname.000002 - delta.vmdk, vmname.000002.vmdk, vmname.snapshot5.vmsn, vmname.nvram, vmname.vmdk, vmname.vmsd, vmname.vmx, vmname.vmxf.

  I was unable to copy vmname - flat hard.  When I try to ' save target as ', I am presented with "IE cannot download vmname - flat hard of ESX Server IP address.  The supplied HTTP header is invalid.  Any suggestions?

  Thanks in advance for your help.

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• Question about vmdk names and they are contained in folders

  ESX 4.0 update 3 with a fileserver netapp fas2020.

  I am running mbralign on my servers and it seems that some of our vmdk inconsistent naming what I what they be. I know I can rename the folder that contains the vmdk, but then, how can I change the path in the settings of the server itself to point to the new folder name? Also can I rename the vmdk somehow through CLI?

  If you have vCenter and Storage vMotion, it's the best way to get the vCenter object name, the name of the datastore folder and it's underlying files to all the named correctly.  You can storage vMotion invited and it will fix the naming convention.

  Other methods are mentioned in the KB below

  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/1029513

  Edit: there is a bug in vSphere5 that renames the folder but not she's underlying files using Storage vMotion.  The solution is to rename the files through the CLI.

• Beginner question: replace the background color

  I have a simple TIFF image that has black and white inside. I would like to create an image where all the White was replaced by complete transparency. How do I do that?

  You can do this simply by playing an action http://forums.adobe.com/message/6079459#6079459#6079459

  

• Potentially simple Snapshot question

  Hello. I think it would be a simple thing to look upward, but for some reason that I can't find the answer to the it.

  I am running Vi3 with ESX 3.5i hosts 4. I need to know exactly where a VM snapshot records in. I have a 250 GB drive on an FTP server that I have I envy snapshot in the future. I just formatted a table iSCSI with 440GB LUN. So if a snapshot of my 250 GB drive MUST reside on the same LUN as the original machine, obviously I would not have enough space. Can I choose where to store my snapshots?

  Thanks for the help,

  Tim

  With the VM snapshot, they are stored in the same directory as the virtual machine.  That said, when you create a snapshot it saves only the changes and therefore the space requirements depend on how long the snapshot has been kept active. Committing, it's quite abit more complicated, but as long as you do not have an active snapshot or multiple snapshots on the virtual machine, you need also not 250 GB in order to commit (which would be just inefficient).  Unfortunately I do not know a calculation that will allow you to say that, because it is based on the number of changes and levels of snapshots on the virtual machine.

  I think that it is possible to change the directory stored in the snapshot, from the command-line editing the VMX file, however I do not recommend to change.  I don't remember the exact setting off my head to do it.

  See you soon,.

  / Jonathan

• 7210us dv6 want question replacing windows 8

  Hello

  The laptop computer of love, do not really the current operating system. If I had known that I would have bought something to another account of the official policy of HP on Windows 7/8

  Are there Windows 7 models enough near the mine in order to properly install Windows 7 or do I just install Ubuntu?  Welcome serious suggestions.

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  Hello:

  First make your recovery W8 discs set before installing another operating system.

  Once you install another operating system, the recovery/partition manager likely will no longer work.

  You should be able to get your laptop working fine on W7 64 bit by installing the following drivers.

  1 install the AMD chipset driver and restart.  The first file listed.

  http://support.AMD.com/us/gpudownload/Windows/pages/raid_windows.aspx#2

  2. then to all the W7 x 64 drivers and software of the dv6 model should also work on your.

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• questions about snapshot

  (my first post here... Please let me know if this isn't in the right place)

  
  

  I have a few questions on the snapshot after reading a bunch of KB articles:

  
  

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1025279

  -Don't use any single snapshot for more than 24 to 72 hours.

  Most of my live pictures for a long time and I have not noticed any problems. I do not understand why such suggestion.

  
  

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1013163

  ' In this example, the process took about 64 seconds... ". »

  This sounds like the take a snapshot on a production server might be a risky company is - it true?

  
  

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1003302

  -I see that consolidate you option on vSphere and it also indicates if a virtual machine needs it or not, but what are the criteria? I understand that if you take a snapshot, the content of the link delta gets grouped in the parent disk, but when should you do consolidate without deleting?

  When you create a snapshot, a delta VMDK is created for each VMDK. These delta VMDK can grow bigger as size put into service of the VMDK. The problems are to have a free space on data warehouses. The longer a snapshot around, he can take to commit the changes when you remove it. In addition, to commit the changes, you must have enough free space on the data store equal space in service of the virtual machine itself.

  I saw snapshots is damaged after staying close to a lot of time. In addition, the more instant stored with a virtual machine, more corruption risks.

  I manipulated the environments with lots of snapshots and it was rough. I had the VMs is damaged and must be restored from backups on a regular basis.

  I avoid them when I can.

  Backup software is a better choice. As Veeam!