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I have a Dell server poweredge 6850.. and im planing to buy 2 more that support vtx to be configured as esxi hosts... i was using the 6850 with windows installed and then vmware workstation and esxi...
View ArticleThis virtual machine is configured for 64-bit guest operating systems......
Hello everybody, i have running on my PC VMware Workstation 8.I have enough ressources to create and start my own Virtual machines, but if i get some VM from another system there comes everytime this...
View ArticleESXi 5.5 Nested Virtualization and PCI Passthrough
Good evening to everyone, this is my first time that i write here in community forum, sorry to everyone for my bad English I'm come from Italy.I have a problem with ESXi 5.5 last update with vCenter,...
View ArticleExit standby mode in ESXi
I have vcenter appliance with 4 Esxi , when I put any Esxi server in stand by mode I cannot wake up it again , I read these two articles Exit standby mode task timeout and the host status is not update...
View ArticleHelp with nested 5.5 install please - "Logs are stored on non-persistent...
Hi All, I must be missing something as my nested install keeps failing. I have done this before albeit with older versions. I have a DellC6100 with L5639 CPU's and 48GB of RAM. I've configured the...
View Articleesxi disconnected from vsphere client when trying to add iscsi storage...
hi i have one esxi 5.5 running on vmware workstation 11 .at the first boot of the esxi everything goes smooth . i add iscsi adapter to add a san storage on anothe vm running free nas (on work station...
View ArticleDoes Vsphere 6.0 support VMCS Shadowing?
I cannot find any information about VMCS shadowing in vSphere 6.0 release notes or white papers. Does someone know whether it is supported or not? TIA,Oliver
View ArticleUnable to boot VM in workstation 10
I have a VM in a cloud windows 2012 r2, backend hypervisior is VMware. I tried to do nested VM, so I installed Workstation on my VM and then try to build a ESXi VM and I get an error. I went in VM...
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dEAR HELPDESK, when I'M TRYING TO INSTALL NEW VIRTUAL MACHINE I'M GETTING ERROR IN ( vIRTUALIZED INTEL VT-X/EPT NOT SUPPORTED ON THIS PLATFORM. pL'S Look in this issue & help me to get out from...
View Articlenested ESXi inside ESXi server
Running nested ESXi inside ESXi server. I cannot turn on VM for Vcenter, I get an error "this host does not support Intel VT-x. Below are my server BIOS settings.Is there a workaround for this?See...
View Articlecant install 64 bit os in vmware workstation 11 ?
Vmware workstation 11 is running on Windows server 2012 R2 its is a VM . I am able to install 32 Please see the attached screenshots of errors kindly help for this
View ArticleHow to get Hyper-V feature enabled in VMware Workstation VM?
I remember this is possible but I can't find the corresponding thread anymore. Can someone please enlighten me on how I can enable the Hyper-V feature within a VMware Workstation VM? I know this is...
View Articlebuild nested ESXi inside ESXi server how to seperate home AT&T router DHCP...
Goals:1. User Home router DHCP for my computer and mobile devices.2. Use VM DHCP for nested VM lab. I can't figure our why DHCP and DNS is not working on my VM. I think I am messing up my IP address...
View ArticleNested ESXi6 and VMware Tools for Nested ESXi
I've made an environment in vCloud Director using nested ESXi 5.5, but after upgrading the VMs to ESXi6 (RC) the VMware Tools for Nested ESXi are gone. This leads to loads of problems, because vCloud...
View ArticleInstall ESXi 5.5 in ESXi 5.5 Virtual Machine
I am trying to create a Nested ESXi 5.5 environment for testing purposes.The VM should have IDE disks and CPU should use "Use Intel VT-x/AMD-V " Is there anything else I need to do, to be able to run...
View ArticleInvalid configuration for device 3
Hi all, I have set up a nested lab with three esxi hosts and two datastores connected with Microsoft iscsi target server. I know nested vm's are not supported but I am trying to set up this lab because...
View ArticleWhat are the benefits in the execution of type 1 virtualization platforms...
I'm doing a reaserch and can't find the real benefits of this type of nested virtualization. Thanks
View ArticleNested VM Question
Hi All,I am trying to setup my LAB for some testing purpose. I have created a VM with 8 Gb RAM and 4 vCPU(On a Cisco UCS Blade) and installed WinXP on it.. In Windows, I have installed Workstation and...
View ArticleESX monitor
I used java program for esx monitoring (wrote in VMware VI and vSphere SDK by STEVE) to get the performance value for CPU, memory, disk I/o, bandwidth , it work fine and i get correct values, bur some...
View Article"This virtual machine is configured for 64-bit guest operating systems....
Hi, I have installed vmware 5.5 hypervisor on hp G8 microserver. I have created one vm as windows 2008 R2. I have also install vmware workstation 11 on this vm. In this workstation when I tried to run...
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