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Archiving VMware images on ESXi

Is there a way to compress a VMWare image on a ESXi server for archival purposes? ...

VMWare server vs ESXi - what't the difference?

I can't figure out what is the difference between these two programs. Specifically, I'm interested in running a virtual server in the background, as a daemon (Linux host OS) ...

VMWARE ESXi PANIC: Failed to find HD boot partition

I've got problems installating the VMWARE ESXi Server. The Installation finishes without any error messages and prompts me to reboot. After pressing Enter the System reboots. While booting through the yellow loading-screen it switches to black and displays the following Error-Message: PANIC: Failed to find HD boot partition All modules...

Any reason not to use ESXi?

We have 3 identical HP DL380 G5 server here, one of them is running vmware-server with one VM running on it. I've begun the process to migrate these systems to be running ESXi (the $0, "embedded" system); two of the physical machines will have %99.99 of the time exactly 1 VM, the other will have 2. For this, the major advantage I get D...

Can I configure Syslog & SNMP on ESX3i with GUI?

Hi, is the VMware Remote CLI (Command Line Interface), which is not a GUI, the only way to configure Syslog & SNMP on ESX3i? I would like to have the easiest way possible of having these configured by junior/not really IT staff. Has anyone thought of implementing an alternative GUI to the CLI? Are there any Windows friendly alternati...

How to set up properly resource pools in VMWare ESXi?

Hello! How to set up properly resource pools in VMWare ESXi? Does anyone have any blog entries etc.? Thanks ...

VMWare ESXi Server 3.5

I am trying to install VMWare ESXi 3.5 on a DELL GX280 machine which has SATA configurations. As ESXi doesn't support SATA, i am not able to proceed. I could able to install on IDE (which is also not supported) by making some changes. Is there a way to install on SATA as well?? Please let me know if anyone has tried it. Thanks, Shweth...

VMware Virtual Infrastructure Remote CLI finding unused machines/disks in ESX/i

In VMware ESX/i, how can I use the VMware Virtual Infrastructure Remote CLI to find unused machines/disks? I have a huge inventory and many files on disk, and I want to find files that are candidates for deletion. What I want is to determine whether a vmdk disk is in use by any vmx machine on the host, or whether a vmx machine exists...

Is it safe to allocate logical CPUs to a VM after creation

We're going to be serving our portal software on a virtual machine running Centos 5.2 on VMWare ESXi. We're initially going to allocate two logical CPUs but there's a possibility that we might want to add an additional two some time in the future. We don't want to allocate all resources at this time because a few VMs are fighting for sp...

Compressed images on VMWARE

I know the difference between sparse and compressed images and I think that compressed images is better to move images from a central repository to a Hypervisor. More over, vmdk (Compressed) is defined like the standard disk used in OVF specification. More over, other hypervisor like virtualbox supports this vmdk compressed format. My...

WMWARE ESXI 4.0 support Web Services SDK 4.0

I can't understand from the official site. A collegue told me that in ESXI4.0 the web services sdk is not supported anymore. Is it true? ...

Compile C++ code to run on ESXi 3.5

I'm trying to compile a simple c++ program to run inside ESXi 3.5 console window. It seems I'm linking with wrong libraries... Is there a setup described somewhere - which version of G++ and libraries do I have to be using in order to do so? ...

How can I create a copy of a vm in vSphere Client running on ESXi 4.0?

I'd like to create copies of the VMs located on my datastore that I can put up temporarily on a different server while I perform some maintenance on our main virtualization server. Aside from using the Converter utility (which I don't believe I can use with the Linux machines) is there a way to make copies of these machines? It would ma...

Suitable ESXi Spec

Finally I have some money to buy a new server and replace the one I have been using for 10 years. Im thinking of running ESXi on the new server. And intend to use it as follows; One W2008 R2 Guest running Exchange, File store, SVN and an accounting application for day to day running of the company. Multiple Guest VMs W2K, XP, Vista ...

VMware 4 ESXi on 64Bit CPU does it run 64Bit Guests ?

Hello, I have a PC with AMD FX CPU (Do not remember if it was FX51 or FX60) it is 64Bit does it means that I can run 64Bit Guests? even if it does not have the Visualization extensions in the CPU? ...

Plink command is invalid to cmd.exe

I am trying to throw a plink command to my esx server and grep the linux output of the command. The code above does not work. But if I remove the | grep part it works again. Is there any other way to achieve the same results but making the command passable with cmd.exe? FOR /F "TOKENS=1 DELIMS=:" %%A IN ('TYPE %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Users\Ian\De...

Is there Lockdown Mode for Trial Version?

Hi guys, I was just wondering if there is the "Lockdown Mode" for trial version of the ESXi 4.1 version? I can't seem to enable to option as when I F2 to customize the system, the option is not selectable and there is no such option found in the vSphere 4.0. Any help would be appriciated. Thanks! ...

data source name not found and no default driver specified. Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers

Hello, i'm not a windows administrator, so I do not know what I'm doing wrong. I have this script to get vmware esxi3.5 reports, http://paste.ubuntu.com/493213/ I get this error: C:\Documents and Settings\admmarc\Desktop\test\vcreport. DB Provider for ODBC Drivers: [Microsoft][ODBC Driver not found and no default driver specified...

How can I disable PXE network booting through vSphere on a virtual machine running on VMware ESXi 4.1.0 as host??

How can I disable PXE network booting through vSphere on a virtual machine running on VMware ESXi 4.1.0 as host? ...