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  My request is could the problem above caused virtual machines to restart despite the response of insulation parameter. Before the interview, I could find this host receiving the heart beats of VC server and other hosts in the cluster and VC showed no error associated with HA on the cluster or the particular host.

  We rebooted the host after the maintenance of the network and reconfigured HA on the cluster. Since then, it works fine. We had another interview to the network and we have had no problem with VM restarts.

  Looks like your ha agent may be dead as well as your connection between the host and VC.  There are several newspapers linked to HA, under/var/log/vmware/aam.  You can check to see if they provide additional insight as to why HA acted differently on a vs host others.

  -KjB

  VMware vExpert

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• Slow down the virtual machines on the host of underutilized - unknown reason

  Hello

  What could cause virtual machines running on a host computer with a lot of unused memory, processor power and disk IO sink so slowly that it takes 30 minutes just to open a Windows session on one of them?

  I ran about 5 virtual machines on a host with 16 GB of RAM, but have now upgraded to 32 GB of RAM in the hope to add more virtual machines. At some point, most of the machines is idle, and SysInternals Process Explorer shows less than 20% use by the processors. E/s disk too is usually measured in kb/s - 16 disks systems although RAID is capable of much more of IO.

  As soon as I run about 6 or 7 of virtual machines instead of about 5, I meet considerable slowdowns as mentioned above. I use only about 20 GB of the 32 GB in the system when problems occur.

  Dramatik2

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  http://www.computerperformance.co.UK/Healthcheck/Disk_Health.htm

• Transfer of personal use of Boot Camp Virtual Machine license

  Hello!

  I bought a disc of system integrator OEM 64 - bit Windows 8 for use under the terms of the personal use license and it installed on my MacBook Pro using Boot Camp.
  It turns out that the integrated graphics (Intel HD 3000) is not available in configuration dual-boot.
  so I cannot use the dedicated graphics card (AMD Radeon HD 6750 M) (for which I should apparently accused Apple, but that's off-topic anyway).
  Using the graphics card Intel (for example Quick Sync Video support) has been the reason why I chose a dual boot as opposed to a virtual machine configuration.
  Because this does not work, I will try and transfer the installation on a virtual machine in the near future.
  I understand that the personal use license does not allow me to run the two facilities (Boot Camp and VM), but do I have that right to say
  the conditions of licence it is for me to transfer the license to a virtual machine, as I have delete the partition Boot Camp of my MacBook Pro?
  Assuming the above is correct, how exactly would ensure the transfer is as painless as possible? For example:
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  Is there a better and/or other method or is it my best bet?
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  -Should what information I have ready to give Microsoft?
  Thank you
  Tim CH.

  Hello!

  I bought a disc of system integrator OEM 64 - bit Windows 8 for use under the terms of the personal use license and it installed on my MacBook Pro using Boot Camp.

  It turns out that the integrated graphics (Intel HD 3000) is not available in configuration dual-boot.

  so I cannot use the dedicated graphics card (AMD Radeon HD 6750 M) (for which I should apparently accused Apple, but that's off-topic anyway).

  Using the graphics card Intel (for example Quick Sync Video support) has been the reason why I chose a dual boot as opposed to a virtual machine configuration.

  Because this does not work, I will try and transfer the installation on a virtual machine in the near future.

  I understand that the personal use license does not allow me to run the two facilities (Boot Camp and VM), but do I have that right to say

  the conditions of licence it is for me to transfer the license to a virtual machine, as I have delete the partition Boot Camp of my MacBook Pro?

   

  That's right, simply remove the installation of Boot Camp, then you can transfer to a virtual computer and reactivate by phone:

  1. press the Windows key + X , and then clickrun, and then type: slui.exe 4

  2. then press the ENTER"" key.

  3. Select your "country" in the list.

  4. choose the option "activate phone".

  5. stay on the phone (do not select/press all options) and wait for a person to help you with the activation.

  6. explain your problem clearly to the support person.

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  Assuming the above is correct, how exactly would ensure the transfer is as painless as possible? For example:
  -AFAICT I would have to get in touch with a Microsoft Product Activation Center by phone.
  Is there a better and/or other method or is it my best bet?
   
  Nope. activation of the phone is your only option.
  -It would be best to call before you do anything, or only after the installation of Windows in the VM (i.e. upon activation)?
  You can not, you make the call "after" you have transferred the license.
  -Should what information I have ready to give Microsoft?
   
  Your Confirmation ID, it will appear in the activation window.
  Thank you
  Tim CH.

• Is it possible - installation of a virtual machine with Server 2008 on a disc and use the other drive for storage

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  How can I get the two disks to appear in Windows server?

  what I want is:

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  You basically configure the virtual machine that you want on all the available storage (do not forget to keep free space, for example snapshots). -As I understand it - is so that ESXi does not see the storage! This is often caused by the RAID controllers not taken in charge or the RAID issues. Please check if the RAID controller is supported as well as the configuration. BTW. Why do you want to configure RAID0? If you want to create two virtual disks on warehouses of separate data anyway, simply present to ESXI as two separate disks/volumes.

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• High using the Virtuakbox virtual machine CPU load

  I have a MacBook Pro 2.5 GHz processor dual-core Intel Core i5 (Turbo Boost up to 3.1 GHz) with 3 MB L3 cache.

  I use VMware Fusion Pro 7.0.1 (2235595) to install and use Windows 8 to run the Simulator on my MacBook internetworking solution.

  These simulators come with Oracle VM VirtualBox and they used to run in the Windows virtual machine on my MacBook Pro with no problems.

  So far, no problem!

  However, after upgrading to OS X Yosmite 10.10.1 simulators no longer work due to the high utilization of the processor by VBoxHeadless.exe

  I deleted the virtual machine, I uninstalled VMware Fusion and reinstalled, then reinstalled the Windows operating system, makes all the possible update and finally installed solutions simulators without success to have any Simulator market, they used. The reason is always high utilization of the processor by VBoxHeadless.exe as seen in the following images:

  

  I then moved to bootcamp and all do it again. Now simulators all run as before but on windows on the bootcamp partition.  Now I can even run a lot of devices in simulators like in the following photos with no problems:

  

  

  Please, do you know how I can fix this problem? I prefer to use VMware fusion because it gives me more room for what I want to achieve compared to the bootcamp.

  There is a difference between the hosts with regard to the information provided by windows on the ability of the virtualization of the MacBook.

  I thank very you much in advance!

  Kind regards

  Hello

  sramdane wrote:

  I am really a bit disappointed by the support of this forum.

  Please note that the forum is not taken in formal charge and that this is a forum where users help other users.

  Your problem unfortunately was not something that other people recognized as a problem they had seen or they simply didn't have the time to answer.

  The majority of the Fusion users will not also have installed VirtualBox.

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  --

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• One of the disks of rhe in this virtual machine is already in use by a virtual machine or a snapshot

  Hi all.

  An apologize for my bad English.

  I have 10 VmWare installed on Linux Centos 5.

  I worked with the Windows 7 virtual machine and hang on it.

  Now when I try to run this VM, I get this message:

  "One of rhe in this virtual machine disk is already used by a virtual machine or a snapshot.

  I try to fix it in this way:

  Re: Could not open the hard file. One of the disks in this virtual machine is already in use by a virtual machine or a s...

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  cp ./backup/*vmxf ./
  
  

  But after that, I got the error: "cannot change the power state of VM: can't open ' / * /Windows 7 x 64 - 000008.vmdk.»» The system cannot find the specified file.

  Please, help me to solve the problem.

  Once again apologize for my English :)
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  I really don't see what could be causing the problem, except that there are some .lck files in the subdirectory "lock"!

  Anyway, if worry ends snapshots and the current state is what you need, you can follow these steps (which are close to what you have already done) to merge snapshots of virtual disk in and use this virtual disk to the virtual machine:

  • Close VMware Workstation
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  Now you should be able to start the virtual machine with the cloned virtual disk.

  André

• Cannot open the hard file. One of the disks in this virtual machine is already in use by a virtual machine or a snapshot

  Hi all

  Tried my level best to solve, but still the same problem persists. . Lck tried but as soon close VMware workstation, it disappears. This problem starts when yesterday instead of powering down, suspended. The next resume when it gives captioned error. Tried creating new virtual machine using an existing vmdk file but my mainly all the data disappeared. Now I want to resume the suspended state. Kindly help on the same. Thank you

  OK, we will first focus on the first virtual disk (System) on the D: drive which has enogh of disk space to create a clone.

  The "Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmdk" dated from 19/07/13 is probably exactly what we need, and if it has approximately the same size of file than current/changing, then you can replace the one changed with it. Once restored, proceed as follows (with VMware Workstation closed):

  from the command line run:

  cd /d "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation"
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  md Clone
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  Once the cloning done so, create a subfolder "Backup" and move all over existing files (as a backup). Copy the .vmx file and .vmxf the subdirectory "Backup" in the D:\win2k3 folder, then do the same with the file hard cloned since the 'Clone' subdirectory, so that you end up with the following files:

  Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmx

  Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmxf

  Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmdk

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  scsi0:0. FileName = "Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition - 000002.vmdk"

  with

  scsi0:0. FileName = "Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmdk"

  Please do the above and report. If you have any questions please ask.

  André

• Using fault tolerant instead of a virtual machine in standby

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  I also met HA tracking app.  However, it seems that this option restarts just the virtual machine, which is certainly not what we are looking for.  I may be wrong on the restart, however.

  Any other suggestions or information?

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• Import the virtual machine created with .exe files

  Hello

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• ESXi using ~ 2 GB of RAM without any virtual machines?

  I've been troubleshooting for awhile now and try to see if someone can get ideas...

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• create a virtual machine using createVM_Task

  Hello

  I extracted the configuration information of the VM (VirtualMachineConfigInfo []) and the use of I want to create a virtual machine (essentially wants to fill [VirtualMachineConfigSpec]).

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  > For the property '[of] deviceChange.device"in VirtualMachineConfigSpec, can I directly copy the information from the device of ' harware.device [of] ' VirtualMachineConfigInfo property. Will this work?

  Lol it can be copied directly to "deviceChange.device" in VirtualMachineConfigSpec. Also, there could be other problems as well, like the support information will be common to both machines. So, at a time, you will be able to use only 1 VM. It will be not as trivial this may seem.

  > 1. Cant explain peripheral information by default (like PS2Controller/SIO controller, etc.) in VirtualMachineConfigSpec when calling CreateVM_Task()?

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  I installed my Hyper-V role and now wants to activate one of the virtual machines, but the key is not recognized.  Should what key I use?

  Hello

  Your question is beyond the scope of this community.

  I suggest that repost you in the Forum of Hyper-V on Technet.

  https://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/WindowsServer/en-us/home?Forum=winserverhyperv

  Or:

  TechNet Server forums.

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  See you soon.