When you try to upgrade to new version of VMware tools , Installation wizard asks you to uninstall older version . If you can’t do it , or uninstall feature failed to complete, you will need to uninstall them manually. You may receive the following errors A previous version of VMware Tools is already installed To remove old VMware tools follow the steps bellow: Open registry editor Navigate to the following key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionuninstall Read more

New VMware P2V v4 client allows physical to virtual convert for various Linux distributives. P2V allows transferring of Linux machines to Virtual VMware ESX compatible. Currently supported versions are:   Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8, 9, 10 Ubuntu Linux 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x Other Linux versions can be converted by imaging tools to the following format: (*.vmc *.pvs *.vmx *.sv2i *.spf *.tib) Read more

Resize a VMWare disk You probably got end of free space on your virtual machine and looking how to increase your disk. One of the ways to perform this task. is to use : VMware Converter. Please make sure to have a good backup before you begin!!! Turn off the virtual machine; Start the VMWare Converter utility; Open the wizard; Select 'standalone virtual machine' as the source and destination system; Choose 'Select volumes and resize to save or add space'; Enter a desired Read more

 

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In order to enter to VM machine bios settings follow the steps bellow Navigate to desired virtual machine Press on “Edit Virtual Machine Settings” Navigate to Options>Boot Options In the right side you have 2 options Power on Boot Delay Force BIOS setup You can use each one of the first will set system boot delay time and will give you the ability to enter system BIOS – You can set it to 1000 miliseconds The Other one will force entering in to bios on next boot. Read more

You connect new ISO image and try to boot from it , but instead booting from Image , VMware loads installed OS , sounds familiar? Here what you should check: First make sure that CD room or image are selected as “Connected” and “Connect at power on” By default VM machine tries to boot first from attached CD device If you still can’t boot navigate to Options>Boot Options and in the right pane under “force BIOS Setup” select "The next time the virtual machine boots, force Read more

Install ESX Firefox Web Management Plug-In for Windows Download the MKS plug-in file from the Stage Manager server using Internet Explorer from the following address: https://Servername/StageManager/ControlPanel/Machines/MachineDetails/ActiveXControls/xpihandler.ashx?filename=vmware-mks-windows-ff-3.xpi Where <Servername> fill your server hostname. Rename the extension of the file from .xpi to .zip . Unzip the file's contents into %ProgramFiles%Mozilla Read more

________________________________________________________________________________ 1003926 Troubleshooting the VMware VirtualCenter Server service when it does not start or fails ________________________________________________________________________________ 1003895 Stopping, starting, or restarting the VirtualCenter Server service ________________________________________________________________________________ 1003928 Troubleshooting the database data source used by VirtualCenter Server ________________________________________________________________________________ 1003971 Determining Read more

ESX 3 x and VC 2 x ESX 3.x and VC 2.x Introduction Purpose of this guide This guide is designed for people who already know ESX 3.x and VC 2.x quite well. Although it starts as a beginners guide initially, it pretty rapidly starts to assume very good knowledge of the system. I would recommend you get to grips with the GUI first, and feel comfortable with Vi-3 before attempting this guide. That said – you might be wanting to carry out a discrete procedure from the command-line. So feel free to Read more

1. Disable HA on ESX cluster Connect to problematic server via SHH or server console : rpm -ev Vmware-vpxa-<version> (you can find out the module version by doing rpm -qa | grep vpx) rpm -ev <LGTO vm module> (you can find out the module name by doing rpm -qa | grep LGTO) rpm -ev <LGTO agent module> (you can find out the module name by doing rpm -qa | grep LGTO) 2. Disconnect host from VC Reboot Host 3. Reconnect host to VC 4. Enable HA in cluster. Read more