VMware Questions


Best VM graphics for cheapest hypervisor?
I need a hypervisor to use for my personal SharePoint 2013 development. I have already experimented with Hyper-V which is free and probably setup instructions for it more easily available. I have not played around with any version of VMware or other hypervisors yet. I am building a new system, because even installing fixed size [...]

Answer Question   |  May 9, 2013  12:07 PM
Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Virtualization, VMware
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20 pts.

VMware performance data
Hi, We are migrating a few ESX hosts to a different vCenter and we would like to retain the historical performance data from the existing VCenter. Is there anyway we could backup and archive this data and reference to it when required? Thanks in advance Satish

Answer Question   |  March 7, 2013  5:40 AM
VMware, VMware ESX, VMware vCenter
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5 pts.

Virtualization and cost cross charging
I am currently trying to establish a cross charging model in my company where VM consumers (e.g. projects) are charged for the creations and usage of VMs. Creation is charged as a one-off Capex charge, usage as an ongoing Opex charge. We are not yet switching to a utilization based model, so at the moment [...]

Answer Question   |  March 5, 2013  12:11 PM
Virtualization, VMware
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20 pts.

Virtualisation and CMDB
Our virtualised server environment consists of VMware ESXi hosts on Cisco UCS blades. In order to assess change impact on our services we would like to build CMDB relationships similar to Datacenter -> Floor -> Rack -> UCS FIC -> UCS chassis -> Blade -> Service Profile -> ESXi host -> VM -> Service While [...]

Answer Question   |  February 21, 2013  2:26 PM
CMDB, ESXi, VMware
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20 pts.

Oracle application is installed in VMware in 2003
Oracle application 12.1.1 is install in 2003 through VMware working properly. When I am trying to access application through Windows 7 (Windows 7 is install in C drive and 2003 is in E drive) its not working but theĀ  application is working in 2003 through VMware but not working in Windows 7. I tried by [...]

Answer Question   |  February 15, 2013  10:02 AM
Oracle applications, VMware
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5 pts.

Installing VMware in Windows
I Geeks, I want to understand how do we install VM ware? I ahve Windows8 in my LAptop, now i want to have both Windows and linux, I somewhat know that this can be done via VMware…is this true ? I want to install a software where some services would be on windows and some [...]

Answer Question   |  January 26, 2013  12:36 AM
VMware
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35 pts.

VMware floating pool
I have floating pool assignments , however the remote power policy is not working on the floating pool. I was wondering why this would be happening or if there is a fix to this.

Answer Question   |  December 3, 2012  7:54 PM
VMware, VMware Appliances
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5 pts.

Windows Server 2012 – VM Domain Controller
Hi, I am looking at implementing dual VMWare servers both running duplicate VM servers. 1 server would have a Virtual Exchange server and a Virtual Domain Controller. These would be to Network storage for data and mailboxes. The second server would also have a duplicated copy of the virtual servers and pointing to a network [...]

Answer Question   |  November 22, 2012  9:59 AM
Disaster Recovery, Domain Controller, VMware
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15 pts.

HyperV on a win7 host that uses VMWare.
How do I try out Hyper-V if I am currently using a laptop with Windows 7 and VMWare Workstation (with several servers always running) already on the host. Basically, is there any way to try out Hyper-V inside a VMWare Virtual Machine>?

Answer Question   |  October 25, 2012  3:15 PM
Hyper-V, VMware
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5 pts.

I am using ESXi and got four machines onto that. Now I want to shift only one virtual machine to client. How?
Suppose I have four virtual machines onto ESXi. Now from those machines, I want to give one machine to my client so that he can manage it in there own way( installation of OS,etc ). Like in vSphere all machines(complete ESXi) are shifted but I want it restricted.

Answer Question   |  October 16, 2012  5:04 AM
ESXi, VMware
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5 pts.

SRM VRM OVF depolyment problem…
I am trying to install and configure SRM in our environment. I have succesfully installed SRM on both sites and have made the connection between the two sites. However, when I try to use the wizard to deploy the VRM Server OVF template, I get an error: “This OVF package uses features that are not [...]

Answer Question   |  October 9, 2012  9:39 PM
SRM, VMware
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5 pts.

Vmware Basics
What is vmware ? vSphere is called as vmware or ESX/ESXi are called as vSphere. Can any one Kindly explain with full clear of vmware, vSphere,ESX ,GSX, and its terms….

Answer Question   |  October 2, 2012  12:25 PM
VMware
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10 pts.

I need information on VMware ESXI 5
What’s the basic difference between VMWare ESXI, VSphere, Vcenter Servers?

Answer Question   |  September 12, 2012  6:30 PM
VMware, VMWare esxi 5, VMware vSphere
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5 pts.

VMware
I need a software called VMware,,with some pictures and explanations of it

Answer Question   |  September 10, 2012  9:32 AM
VMware, VMWare Installation
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385 pts.

Open IT Forum: Which company’s virtualization strategy do you believe in more for the long term?
In this week’s YouTube IT video of the week, outgoing VMware CEO Paul Maritz discusses how his company’s virtualization products compare to Microsoft’s Hyper-V. Which company’s virtualization strategy do you believe in more for the long term?

Answer Question   |  August 30, 2012  5:46 PM
Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware
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11,380 pts.

Open IT Forum: What’s your experience with VMware View?
What’s your experience with VMware View? Check out last year’s VMworld presentation on best practices for use of VMware’s VDI product.

Answer Question   |  August 27, 2012  4:19 PM
VMware, VMworld 2012
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11,380 pts.

Open IT Forum: What are you most looking forward to at VMworld 2012?
With VMworld fast approaching, rumors have been swirling about possible announcements of vSphere 5.1 and Project Zephyr. What are you most looking forward to at the show?

Answer Question   |  August 23, 2012  6:39 PM
VMware, VMworld
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11,380 pts.

Consolidating Vsphere Snapshots
Is there a way of automating consolidating Vsphere snapshots. We have a task to generate them and want to consolidate them once a week.  

Answer Question   |  August 28, 2012  7:51 AM
Snapshot, VMware
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5 pts.

ESX on USB Key
I just purchased a new HS22 blade with an IBM USB Key with ESX5. Pros/cons of running ESX directly on the USB key vs the SSD in the blade ?

Answer Question   |  August 22, 2012  12:53 AM
Blade Centre S, ESXi, VMware
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3,115 pts.

VMware on diskless workstation
Can anyone tell me if it is possible run a VM workstation instance on a computer with no HD?

Answer Question   |  June 13, 2012  8:22 PM
VM Workstation, VMware
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5 pts.