Virtual machine stack overflow on Windows XP pro
We’ve been using the ADP eTime software.  Today the attempting to launch the program, it gave an error message.  “Smalltalk/V” “Virtual machine stack overflow”.  Couldn’t find anything when I googled it.  At least, nothing that made sense to our situation.  We run it on a WinXP Pro machine.  Really not sure what other info would [...]

Answer Question   |  October 13, 2010  10:43 PM
ADP eTime, Virtual machine management, Virtual Machine Performance Management, VM, Windows XP, Windows XP Professional

Virtual Machine disconnects from network
Have a strange issue. A couple of VM’s(on the same host) get disconnected from the network. Rebooting the VM or checking/unchecking the “Connected” and “Connected at power ON” option may sometimes work or may not. When it does not, vmotion the VM’s to a different host and the moment the task completes 100% they are [...]

Answer Question   |  October 7, 2010  1:21 PM
Virtual machine management, Virtual Machine Performance Management, Virtualization, VLAN, VM, VM Connection

How do I know when to add capacity to my virtual infrastructure?
What tools and methods do you use to predict when you’ll need to expand capacity in your virtual infrastructure? How do you add VMs effectively to the system and still make sure you’re allocating resources well? Any tips would be appreciated.

Answer Question   |  January 29, 2010  5:04 PM
Virtual infrastructure, Virtual Machine Performance Management, Virtual machine provisioning and configuration, Virtual Machines

Do you have best practices for maintaining/patching a virtual machine farm in a mission critical configuration?
Do you have any best practices that you can share for maintaining and patching a virtual machine farm in a mission critical configuration? This question is from the Microsoft Virtualization Chat held on August 27th.

Answer Question   |  September 10, 2009  12:09 PM
Microsoft virtualization, Microsoft Virtualization Chat 8/27, Virtual Machine Farm, Virtual Machine Performance Management, Virtual Machines

Are there benchmarks that we can use to estimate VM Density for planning purposes?
Are there benchmarks that we can use to estimate VM Density for planning purposes?  Specifically, number of VM’s per MB of memory? This question is from the Microsoft Virtualization Chat held on August 27th.

Answer Question   |  September 10, 2009  12:08 PM
Microsoft virtualization, Microsoft Virtualization Chat 8/27, Virtual Machine Performance Management, Virtual Machines, VM Density

Virtual machine performance management in Hyper-V
Microsoft Virtual Server provides two ways for managing the priorities of virtual machines: weight-based and constraint-based resource allocation. What’s different in Hyper-V?

Answer Question   |  February 3, 2009  4:39 PM
Hyper-V, Virtual Machine Performance Management, Virtual Machines, Virtual Servers