I am making a standby database for dataguard on 10.2.0(windows 2003 VmWare) following this tutorial. I am confused about the standby database creation. I successfully configured the PD with these steps, but I simply ran the oradim command for the standby databae creation then mounted the database...
Does VM Workstation 6.5 support MAC platforms? Or is a different software Software/Hardware used: VMWARE
Looking for a backup solution for esxi 4. Doesnt have to be free but needs to be reliable Software/Hardware used: vmware esxi 4
Hi, I would like to know what is involved in upgrading VMware ESX server 3.5 to VSphere 4.0. Any recommendations on best practices of doing this? Here is a list of questions that I would like to know What steps are involved for the upgrade process?, How does the upgrade process work? , If...
What are you currently using for your virtual machine backups, particularly with VMWare? One of the writers over on SearchDataBackup recently virtual agents rather than the APIs VMWare and others have been rolling out, and I'm wondering if that's true with ITKErs as well. Software/Hardware used:...
As you may have read, VMware is backtracking on its end-of-availability for vSphere Enterprise Edition, extending its availability indefinitely. Are you confused about it? Relieved? Has this announcement affected your decisionmaking process for upgrades in the future?
I have a hard drive that has an operating system on that was backed up using Acronis. I would like to make this hard drive a virtual machine so I can use it for testing on VMWare or Virtual PC. I don't have the original machine the hard drive was backed up on so could anyone please tell me if...
Virtual Machines, Virtual machine management, Acronis True Image
I've installed ESXi 4 on a 40gb ATA drive. I've also added two 1tb Hitachi SATA drives using the controller on an ASUS M4A785-M motherboard. How do I format those two drive to make them available as datastores for virtual machines? Software/Hardware used: ESXi 4 , ASUS M4A785-M motherboard....
I am currently upgrading our network with a windows server 2008 and VMware. I have 2 Domin Controllers. Server09 and Server11. Server09 is also the DHCP server. I want to move the Domain Control off Server11 and Server09 to the new Server 2008 My Question is if the new server 2008 is attached too...
I have VMserver 2.0 running and have one of my VMs on a datastore on a Netgear ReadyNAS NV+, when ever I reboot the VMserver the server loses the connection to the NAS and the VM can't be found. I've had to resort to deleting the now missing inaccessable VM, removing the datastore and then adding...
Gday All, Currently doing some research for a solution to consolidate our 6 or so servers using VMware. We are looking to implement HA, DRS and VMotion. Our budget for the hardware is about $30K AUD and we currently have 10 users. We have the following server roles to consolidate and they are...
Hi All, We are having 15 desktops used for around 30 users.The users only need to store thier exchnage email account in outlook and will use VPN (window s/thirdparty) clients and need internet. all are running on windows platform. We are planning to increase the no of users and we need to...
Greetings all, I have a Vista home premium 64-bit, 4GB AMD ram, etc on a HP pavillion Laptop. My goal is to work with DB2 in testing advanced features such as replication, federation, failover and data partitioning (DPF). I want to do all of this with one physical machine (a spare office laptop)...
How do I enable SNMP on VMware ESX 3.5 server Software/Hardware used: vmware esx 3.5, SNMP
I installed VMware on the server which is running AD (domain Controller), for some new applications eg.HRIS.But the clients who are using this client software are being affected.Everytime their accounts are locked out what could be the problem could it be the VMware affecting it.It started when i...
I am planning to buy a laptop. I will primarily run VM Workstation 6 or sometimes VM ware Server on it with one or two guest O/S ( Mostly Linux / Sun Solaris 32 bit for i386). Do you think the below configuration would be enough Intel core 2 duo , 4 GB , 320 GB SATA and a E-Sata ( Lenovo Model )...
I am planning to buy a laptop. I just want to know if VMware would be good to run on Intel based Laptop ( Intel core 2 duo , 4 GB , 320 GB SATA ) or AMD Turion Processor. ( 4 GB, 320 GB SATA )
According to the VMware site, at least two physical processors are needed for vSphere installation. What's the benefit of having two physical processors on a single ESX host instead of one?
I LOVE Vmware! Can you convince we to switch to MSFT? This question is from the Microsoft Virtualization Live Chat which took place on August 27th.
I assume that VMWare's DSR feature will allow the workload of a down server to be transferred to anther server in the resource pool. Can someone tell me how DSR does this since the server the workload is comming from is down. I assume it has something to do with what some refer to as a "gold...


