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• A new doubt on the license - VMware vSphere Essential Kit

  Hi guys,.

  I play virtualize physical servers in the company I work (about 10 smaller servers).

  To start some tests, I bought a Dell r.620 server with two processors and 64 GB of RAM.

  I think buy just one license of VMware vSphere Essential Kit, just to test some features, management, and support provided by VMware.

  My doubt is: to support all the RAM (64 GB), I have purchase a license of the vSphere Essential Kit, or I need TWO?

  I'm a little confused on how much physical RAM memory on a single server, the vShpere Essential Kit can handle.

  OK, I know I can use a free version. But this test server will be transformed into a production server, and that the price of the vSphere Essential Kit is very good, I would buy it and start my test as a test of "production"...

  Guys, sorry for my bad English, it is not my mother tongue. =(

  Thanks much for any help.

  Hi Alex,

  Since you are doing a test on a single server so a Kit should be good at this point. In addition to Essential Kit do not fully support 64 GB of RAM so no need to buy two. Only the free versions have limits in support of only 32 GB of RAM.

  Diagram below will give you a good idea on the different Kits.

  Also, you can read about licensing and prices here: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/products/vsphere/VMware-vSphere-Pricing-Whitepaper.pdf

  

  Please let us know if you have any other questions.

• VMware Player tells me to 'host reserved RAM', but the option does not exist.  Is there a command for vmx to this file?

  I am running VMware Player on a host Ubuntu 14.04, Win 7 pro x 64 comments.  When I start the client OS VMWare gives me this warning

  

  So I want to allow the use of the "reserved host RAM" option instead of playing with the pagefile, but setting told me to doesn't seem to exist in VMware Player

  

  Is there something I can add to the VMX file to enable this option?

  Porto Richardson wrote: this setting for VMware Player is found in the file config.ini to the player %allusersprofile%/VMware/VMware

  The OP said "I'm under VMware Player on a Ubuntu 14.04 host" so the file name and path you mentioned is not applicable.

  @LukeJS host on a Ubuntu (Linux) from the file name won't get the .ini extension and will be simply called the config and will be parked at/etc/vmware /.  So with the machine virtual shutdown is not suspended and VMware Player closed then a Terminal used the following command.

  sudo nano/etc/vmware/config

  Then add the following line.

  prefvmx.minVmMemPct = "100".

  It is essentially the same parameter that gets the value of the UI of VMware Workstation preferences for submission in response to the message that despite the instructions contained in the message does not exist in the VMware Player preferences user interface.

• VMware license essential kit version 6 greatly contributed to Exsi 5.5

  Hello

  If I buy VMware version 6 essential kit, can I enter in Exsi version 5.5?

  Thank you

  Here is the link:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=2006975

  R

• VMS with VMware Tools ESXi5 works for host ESX4.1?

  Hello

  Just upgraded a 4.1 ESX host to ESXi 5 host in a Cluster of 3 armies.

  We observe that VMware tools running obsolete for the virtual machines on the host ESXi5.  We would like to know if we apply the latest VMWare tools on those virtual machines, they run correctly when they are transferred to ESX 4.1 hosts?

  Thank you

  VMware Tools version 5.0 is compatiable on 4.x, but the virtual hardware version 8 is NOT compatible on 4.x

  Se see page 3 what 's new

• VMware View Client can 'close' host Windows 7?

  Can VMware View Client 4.6 'close' a client Windows 7 physical host device when it is turned on (Thin Client or desktop running Windows 7)? The behavior desired is to let the user simply turn on their thin Client or a desktop computer running Windows 7 Starter Edition or another version of Windows and not Windows desktop appears. The VMware View client connects directly to the broker and then to the VM user login screen? The customer or the user of the Dektop can simply access the connection of the user view not the physical host Windows box?

  For XP/XPe installed locally on you thin client, you can change the default shell of Explorer to wswc.exe (Customer View). More information about this you can read here: http://blogs.vmware.com/view/2009/02/vmware-view-client-as-a-shell-for-xpe-and-xp-pro-clients.html

  According to me, this thing with some addition settings should work with Win 7.

  There is also some proprietary software, for example: http://www.thinlaunch.com/thin-desktop-client.asp

  UPD: Guide step by step for Win 7 Ultimate, business and professional: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1639813?tstart=0

• How can I run VMWare Workstation on a virtual host?

  I need to run VMWare workstation 7.1 on a 2008 R2 virtual running on ESXi.  The software installs fine, but when I try to start the virtual machines I get the following error 'you are running VMWare Workstation via an incompatible hypervisor. You can not power on a Windows virtual machine until this hypervisor is disabled. »

  Is it still possible?

  Due to a design flaw of material in the first AMD - V compatible processors, we do not support AMD - V on your host.  Hardware support for virtualization (AMD - V or VT - x) for the virtual machine outside is needed to get nested VMs to work.

• Install vmware tools on the linux host offline

  Hello world

  I run a Fedora 10 VM using vmware player 3.1.2 on a crowd of Ubuntu 10.04. I'm trying to install vmware tools, but my host doesn't have access to the internet.  I've seen a few posts on how to install vmware tools offline on a windows host (http://communities.vmware.com/thread/245195), but the advice given may not be valid for linux hosts.  I downloaded vmware-tools-linux - 8.4.4 - 301548.x86_64.component.tar of http://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/ but this tar file contains a .component file (not an .iso that post said).  My question is what I should do with the .component file to install vmware tools?

  Thanks in advance,

  -Jordaan

  Hi Jordaan,

  Welcome to the forums.

  Try the following:

  -Unzip the downloaded file

  "vmware-Installer-install-component = xxx.component.

  Good luck.

  Concerning

  Franck

• VMware Server on windows 7 host, will not autostart invited after upgrade to vista

  I have upgraded vista to winodws 7.  I had to reinstall vmserver 2.01 for networking.  The last problem is that Vmserver auto start the guest.

  I changed the options for start/stop of the virtual machine settings.

  

  This worked under Vista 32-bit, but not under Windows 7 RTM 32-bit.

  any ideas?

  I am currently using vmrun to start from a batch file

  Follow-up: I could get this to work, although the causes escapes me and the fix is not pretty:

  1. Remove VMWare Server

  2 remove folders vmware related in c:\program files (or installed path)

  3. manually remove all references to "vmware" of the registry

  4 reboot.

  5 reinstall the server vmware to the default locations.

  I tried everything but the manual registry clean.  (Standard warning blow your system here)  Once I did this and reinstalled, now auto-start for clients with the host properly operating system.

  I hope this helps someone else.

• VMware HA problem with isolated host.

  Hello, we have two IBM x 3850 M2 running ESX 3.5 U4 (153875).  Both are attached via NAS (NFS) to an IBM N3600 (Netapp FAS2050C).  Each server has two NETWORK adapter configured on their system console vSwitches (team) and there is an additional private network running for the storage and vMotion (with two NIC of each).

  We have DRS and HA enabled for our cluster with two nodes with the following parameters of HA:

  • Host allowed failures: 1

  • Enable the VMs to be powered even if they violate constraints of availability

  • VM restart priority: medium

  • The host Isolation response: stop the virtual machine

  • Enable VM monitoring (high)

  If I pull the power on one of the hosts, virtual machines are automatically provisioned on the host survivor as expected.  However, if I simulate double NIC failure on one of the hosts by unplugging both the System Console env, we lack in the following behavior:

  1. On the host that has been isolated (prodsys-vm1), the logs indicate that the server has detected it is isolated and begins to shut down its virtual machine.

  2. The host of survivor (prodsys-vm2) notes that prodsys-vm1 disappeared.

  3. prodsys-vm2 saves the VM "isolated" and tries to turn on.  The following error message is observed for each VM has failed:

  [2009-07-24 13:00:17.352 'vm:/vmfs/volumes/2e5dc29c-712e74ba/Test System/Test System.vmx' 3076461472 info] Question info: Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/2e5dc29c-712e74ba/Test System/Test System.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
  Reason: Device or resource busy., Id: 0 : Type : 2, Default: 0, Number of options: 1
  [2009-07-24 13:00:17.352 'BaseLibs' 21044144 info] Disconnect check in progress: /vmfs/volumes/2e5dc29c-712e74ba/Test System/Test System.vmx
  [2009-07-24 13:00:17.367 'ha-eventmgr' 3076461472 info] Event 82 : Message on Test System on prodsys-vm2.esri.com in ha-datacenter: Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/2e5dc29c-712e74ba/Test System/Test System.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
  Reason: Device or resource busy.
  

  1. prodsys-vm2 then unregisters each virtual computer.

  2. Wait several minutes, but no other attempts are made to register and/or marketing the virtual machine failed.

  3. Now, if I register manually an of from the prodsys-vm2 failed VM console, it is immediately and without further interaction with me under tension.  In addition, this seems to trigger the re-registration of VM chess which is then subsequently automatically switched on without error.

  The obvious conclusion here is that prodsys-vm2 does not prodsys-vm1 enough time to stop the virtual machine before trying to restart.  I imagine that this could potentially be adjusted by getting the das.failuredetectiontime (I see a recommendation of the 1960s).

  A few questions though:

  • Why don't prodsys-vm2 try again to register and start the virtual machine failed after the first attempt?

  • Why when I joined one manually it suddenly decided to register and start up of the rest on its own?

  • Is it possible to keep my time failuredetection low (for faster recovery) and still be able to avoid this situation?  I could see a situation where maybe even 60s would be high enough.  It seems that this should be handled with more elegance that just get a time-out value...

  Of course, there are some fixes that might apply to our facilities and those who can give a try.  Will also lift it in support, but hoping someone out there might have some ideas.

  Thank you!

  Sorry,

  I forgot the second half of this message:

  VMware High Availability (HA)

  Virtual Machines using a NFS data store could fail after an HA failover event

  When you have the overcommitment of memory with virtual machines on a NFS datastore, it creates a vswp file, which is a size swap file non-zero. In this scenario if HA failover events occur and the AP are defined on THAT VM leave power on, you may have a failure of virtual machine on the host where the virtual machine was originally executed before the HA event.

  If you don't have an overcommitment of memory with virtual machines on a datastore NFS, so HA failover events occur with the parameter THAT VM leave it turned on, in addition to the migration of the virtual machine running on the original host may fail.

  Solution: Apply Patch ESX350-200905401-BG to ESX Server 3.5 and hosts Patch ESXe350-200905401-I-BG of ESX Server 3i version 3.5 host computers.

  When a Virtual Machine running on a NAS data store is configured to be stopped or left turned on in response to the isolation of the host, the Virtual Machine may attempt to run simultaneously on two hosts an event of network isolation

  Multiple network that causes failure host isolation and loss of access to the network for the data store, if a virtual machine is configured with the setting stop VM or VM leave it turned on in case of isolation of the host, the virtual machine may not respond indefinitely. As HA tries to turn off the virtual machine and restart on another host, two instances of the virtual machine may appear in the VI Client. There is no data corruption, because HA and VMFS properly control access to the data of the virtual machine, but the original virtual machine becomes inadmissible. After access to the data store is restored on the isolated host, the original virtual machine can be manually powered down.

  Solution: In environments NFS or iSCSI, select power off the virtual machine as the response of virtual machine in a cluster by default if a host is isolated.

• VMware-tools backward compatible? hosts of U4 3.5 and 3.5

  I have 10 ESX host servers that were the base 3.5 install, I put 4 update on one or two guests at a time. I'll be quick vMotioning invited around (2 out of 10 are empty at the moment). My question is, when I VMotion over and update of vmware-tools on the guests, are there cautions I need to know?

  I know that I can test it myself, in the short term, but there may be cases where a guest with update of vmware-tools will have to be postponed on a variety of pre - U4 and sat there for 48 to 72 hours and is a production environment.

  Yes, they are compatible back. You can migrate the virtual machine to a host that is not U4 after upgrade vmware tools to release U4.

  -Surya

• How to start the virtual machines automatically invited when the VMware Server 2 for Windows host boots

  The title pretty well summarizes my doubt... before I used VMware Server 1, but I can't find the option of starting the virtual computer to start host under the dialogue box "set up the VM.

  Please see attached screenshot.

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• VMware in network bridge: Freezed host with WS6.5 and Windows Vista x 64 or Windows 7 x 64 host operating system

  Hello

  I have a problem with VMware Workstation 6.5 on 64-bit Windows host.

  First, I installed VMware Workstation 6.5.0 118166 on my x 64 Windows Vista SP1 host, and I had a weird problem when working with network on my host system, no matter there is a guest running or not. The problem is when I try to connect/disconnect from VPN connections or plug/unplug my network from my LAN socket cable, etc., host OS freezes suddenly with no answer to anything whatsoever, no movement of the mouse, without strikes, nothing.

  After sometimes, I installed Windows 7 Beta 7000 x 64 on my computer and have no problem with it until I installed VMware Workstation 6.5.0 118166 on it: the gel problem once again. I thought it may be a problem on this specific build of VMware, so I downloaded and installed the latest version (6.5.1 126130) on my system, but the problem persists.

  After playing with a large number of settings, I find that if I delete the service "VMware Bridge Protocol" of my network card, the problem does not happen.

  I searched the forum but I can't find anything like that, so I wonder if anyone can help me with that?

  My network card is an edge ' Realtek RTL8168B/8111 Family PCI - E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0) b ' on my card mother Gigabyte GA-MA770-DS3.

  Other features of the system:

  AMD Athlon 64 X 2 5200 + CPU

  6.0 GB of RAM

  Seagate ST3500320AS SATA HARD drive

  nVidia GeForce 8600GT 512 MB video card

  Thank you.

  Shadmehr wrote:

  My network card is an edge ' Realtek RTL8168B/8111 Family PCI - E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0) b ' on my card mother Gigabyte GA-MA770-DS3.

  Which driver version you have installed for your network (NIC) card?   This link shows a version of driver Vista/Win2008 6.216 (dated 2009/02/26) available.  The same driver should work as well for Win7.

  If the above does not resolve the problem, view the properties for the NETWORK adapter and temporarily disable all 'Task Offload"or other characteristics"discharge"to see if that helps.

• A VMWare Esxi 5.1 server host 10 o/s of Windows 7 Pro

  Hello

  I am preparing to configure 10 Windows 7 VM on a signle 5.1 ESXi Server (all will be awarded in 4 GB of ram and each must install a Bently reporting software

  I just want to see if the server spec is sufficient or not

  1U Dell Server

  Intel® Xeon® Processor 2.40 GHz, Cache of 15 M E5-2440, 7.2GT / s QPI, Turbo, 6 c, 95W, Max Mem 1333 MHz

  32 GB / 64 GB RAM

  4 x 1 TB SATA hard drive (RAID 5)

  2 x 1 GB LAN

  10 virtual computers Winodws 7 Pro 32 x running the Reporting Bently software (running on some Windows 7 / Windows XP, 2 GB of ram workstations)

  Please notify that the specification captioned is sufficeint?

  Thank you

  "... Indeed, the VM ESXi 5.1 is the FREE... »

  Don't forget that free esxi (hypervisor) is limited to 32 GB of RAM. No need to buy 64 GB. And IIRC, for xeon processors, you must have DIMMS ecc.

  If 32GB is not enough for all virtual machines and you can't (won't) buy a license is essential, you can buy fast SSD and use it to VM-swap.

• VMware workstation 12 player: any host con rete locale

  Salve a tutti,

  Ho creato una macchina virtuale con WS2012. ORA che questa potesse communication con mia rete locale I like (Como UN ditch normal pc). The rete e 192.168.1.x mia

  Grazie

  verification che it firewall server virtuale sia disabilitato del. POI riprova.