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Hello everyone, I have recently started to provide support to a small secondary school. They have a Server 2019 VM running on ESX and it's just started to Blue Screen. The VM is running the school's RD Gateway. The BSODs are either SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION or ATTEMPTED_WRITE_TO_READONLY_MEMORY and it also shows NTFS.sys. Has anyone else come across this before and if so, how did you go about resolving it? Many thanks in advance.

Hi All Just wanted to ask everyone's opinion on what you think is best for an Primary school environment VMware or Hyper V? Thanks

Hey all, Last weekend my VMWare host crashed out big time - whole network was out on Monday morning - DC's, print servers, everything. Could have been something wrong with the power in the room. Nothing in the UPS logs though! In addition to that, Smoothwall was hung, CCTV and a couple of switches hung. RAID needed rebuilding on a backup NAS. I have no idea what happened and logs don't point me in any specific direction! Nothing consistent except I suspect power problems. A full reboot sorted it, and a reboot/restore of all the guest machines. What I'm getting at is where my VMWare host is concerned is it possible to configure a 2nd host to 'hot' migrate. e.g. if Host 1 goes down, guests are in a 'hot' up to date state to take over ? I know this won't help some of the issues above but I'm planning on implementing a 2nd host at Easter and would like to do this rather than load balance. Is it possible ? We're running Esxi 5.5 Essentials plus (will be upgrading to v6 at Easter) and also using Veeam. Will vMotion do this for me ? Cheers in advance

Morning All We will be having our SIMS server P2V'd over the summer and the existing hardware brining into our Cluster. Although I'm less optimistic about this after reading this: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/mis-systems/168374-users-reported-using-sims-very-slow-how-improve-performance-sims.html The company we would usually use for this has quoted over £1,300 just for the P2V element, which I personally feel is very excessive given the actual work that it involves. I have been looking at taking the P2V element of this work on myself but the fact that it is the SIMS server is making me uneasy. Is there anything in particular that needs to be done with SIMS to ensure a successful P2V? What my basic understanding suggests, keeping everyone off SIMS for the duration: Install VMware Converter on the SIMS Server. Stop all SQL instances and all non Microsoft services. Select an appropriate ESX host by IP and an appropriate storage location. Keep the workstation name the same. Remove any local mapped drives from being moved. Make sure that the network interface is not connected at power on. After the migration completes. Remove any unnecessary hardware mappings like serial and parallel ports from the VM. Power off physical SIMS server and bring virtual server online. Re-Map any removed shares. Restart all stopped services and SQL instances. Test, test and test some more. Like I said, anything other than the SIMS server and I'd be quite happy to take a swing at it. Or would I be better off paying for it to be moved and removing the what if factor? Any advice or suggestions welcome.

Hi there I have this setup Layer 3 Cisco with 3 vlan Vlan 1 172.17.10.1 Vlan 2 172.17.20.1 Vlan 3 172.17.30.1 route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 172.17.10.250 to the PFsense Box that runs in a Vmware Dell server Vmware ip 172.17.10.10 all Devices are able to ping internally even the VM Box. But only devices in vlan 1 can only ping PFsense and view the internet PLEASE any help

Hi I am just experimenting with some virtualisation. i have setup a VMWare ESXi 6 host and added a couple of VMs. I have installed vSphere on my Windows 7 station and can connect to the ESXi 6 host with no trouble and administer it. I have downloaded and installed Veeam 8 Free. It is installed on my Windows 7 station and the installation went smoothly and it opens and everything appears to be OK. So, when I try to add a server, it asks me for the DNS name or IP address of the VMWare server. I am assuming this is the IP address of the ESXi host which I am entering. Next, it asks me for the server administrators credentials. Are these the credentials of the ESXi host i.e. the root account or the credentails of the machine where vSphere is installed. I would really appreciate any advice on this. Thanks.

We are seeking to appoint an IT Technician with vision and energy to join our newly structured team at Leeds East Academy The Leeds East Academy - Vacancies B1/3 £17,372–£19,742 The postholder will work as part of a supportive and friendly team to deliver first and second line support to staff and students in our academy. Day to day duties will include troubleshooting and resolving issues for desktops, laptops, servers, tablets, projectors, Smartboards and telecoms. You will ensure that an excellent standard of customer service is delivered at all times throughout the life cycle of all IT service requests as well as documenting steps taken to resolve issues. You will have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work well on your own or in a team. The post holder will have daily contact with students and staff and therefore must have the ability to relate effectively to all adults and young people. If you have a range of desktop, server hardware and software support skills, you could be just the person we are looking for. For this role you need previous experience in the following areas: Knowledge of Microsoft Server 2008/r2 with Active Directory & Group Policy Knowledge of Virtualisation / VMware & Citrix Knowledge of Networking including TCP / IP, DNS & Wireless Knowledge of managed switches and routing Knowledge of backups and restoration Create and deploy remote packages and computer images Antivirus management and rollout Windows 7 support & a good knowledge of desktop trouble shooting MS Office skills To apply: further information and an application form can be downloaded from our website. www.leedseastacademy.org.uk Closing date for applications is Monday 2 February 2015

Samsung NS190 Cloud Station - 19" Power supply - Tera1100 - 128 MB RAM - No HDD We currently have 30 of these for sale , used price on Ebay is £103 but we are open to sensible offers , buyer to collect from College in Leicestershire Samsung NS series cloud display allows all the advantages of cloud computing, while also providing connections for a second monitor. The Samsung NS series display features LED backlighting with up to 1920 x 1080 resolution and 1000:1 contrast ratio, for brilliant displays that consume up to 60% less power than a traditional PC/monitor

Hi We have now got our new backup server for our virtual and physical environment, we are using a mix of veeam and backup exec 2010. I am just in the process of setting it up and was after any suggestions for best performance speed, we have a tl2000 tape library hung of this via sas for archive. The Server has 24tb of raw storage in it and 1 x quad nic and 2 x onboard. Thanks in advance

We run VSphere 6 and are about to attempt it. Never done it before and last time it was done (before my time) we had to do a baremetal recover the virtual server. Can anybody please give us some advise such what to look out for ... or even "dont do it !!" These are the instructions we found : http://https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/12938/HOW-TO-Shrink-a-VMware-Virtual-Machine-Disk-VMDK-in-15-minutes.html

Hi, All our servers runs on on-premise VMware cluster. We have Active Directory with multiple child domains. We have recently migrated from on-premise Exchange to the Office 365 for the emails. Few departments use SharePoint to store the teaching/learning resources (Site-Pages/Documents library). We use Veeam for the backup; DR site has critical servers replicated by the Veeam. Do you guys use Azure VM/Storage or any Azure services for your school ? If you do then could you please share your experience on what do you use it for ? Thank you

I know a lot of people use VMware, Virtual PC etc to create a base image that they sysprep and then deploy to their network PCs. My query is how does one go about removing, say, VMware drivers from their image after sysprepping and instead it picks up the relevant ones from under 'out-of-box' drivers in MDT when deployed? My image works fine but at the same time you'll find in C:\Drivers there'll be the workstation's drivers as well as VMware drivers.

Hi guys! I am fairly new to the world of desktop virtualization. And I have a question some of you may find funny due to its noobish nature. I am also new here, so if I missed anything or did something against the norms of this forum, I apologize in advance. First, I will explain the process: My client has a server that holds X number of images (.TIFF files). Multiple computers access that server via Citrix to work on those image files. The extent of the 'work' mentioned only includes: 1. Labeling - by inserting a line of text on the image, like a watermark of sort. 2. Validation - the image is a scanned copy of documents. Image quality is not that important, as long as it is readable. The Fineprint: 1. Server is located on a different continent. 2. As a security measure, image files cannot be downloaded, thus the need to access the server via Citrix. All applications needed to work on the images are also published/virtualized from there. 3. There is no minimum screen resolution requirement to view the images as long as it is readable. 4. Connection to the client is via MPLS/IPBB (40Mbps). Some Notes: 1. Version of Citrix being used TBD. 2. Assuming they are using v4.5 or later, and SpeedScreen is already enabled (well, it is enabled by default). lol 3. Other image compression tools were already used. THE QUESTION(S): Is Citrix the best tool for this job? What are my alternatives/options given this kind of task? The client finds the image rendering too slow and cumbersome, even with the image compression activated. From what I have read, Citrix employs lossy compression while VMWare, lossless. There is still a lot of gray area in this scenario. I have already sent my set of questions to the client (will get the answers next week as soon as the person responsible comes back from vacation), and I will be posting them here as soon as I get them. TL;DR: Working on image files on a remote server using Citrix and the client finds the image rendering too slow. What are my other options aside from Citrix? Thank you!

Hi All, I've got one physical Server which has got Windows Server 2008 Datacenter sticker on it and based on this document: http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/about-licensing/virtualization.aspx i can deploy unlimited any version of Windows Server 2000-2003-2008 VM on my ESXi, now the question is that "Which serial number should I use for those VM ?" can anyone share your experience in deploying VM under Datacenter 2008 license please ? Thanks.

I have a script that takes a snapshot backup of VMs sitting on an ESXi host on a weekly basis to a backup PC. Since last week I have now come across a spare server that's been donated on a temporary basis and decided I'd set it up as another host just for testing purposes. I copied the backed up VMs over to the new host to see if they boot up; imported it the .VMX's into the inventory and, lo and behold, they don't. I get an error message popping up saying "File not found." I have double checked everything to make sure all files were copied over. I even opened up some of the files in notepad to see if their names had got muddled up, or it was referencing something it shouldn't, and I couldn't see anything obvious. I copied the VMs from a HP ML 350 G5 to a ML 370 G5. Where have I gone wrong?

Hi All, I'd like to perform database application transactional and concurrent load testing which requires approx. 100 IP address in a single host (Windows Server 2003 box) so that one NIC can have multiple IP address. Is there any quick way (Powershell / NetSH) to create those IP address in one single box ? example: VM-Simulator1 - 10.2.1.1 10.2.1.2 10.2.1.3 10.2.1.4 10.2.1.5 . . . 10.2.1.102 VM-Simulator2 - 10.2.2.1 10.2.2.2 10.2.2.3 10.2.2.4 10.2.2.5 . . . 10.2.2.102 i know how to do it in Windows Server 2003 manually one by one but that's too daunting to do it manually. Thanks.

Does anyone know how to get vmware player to load up with out any tool bar options and to stop students from changing settings to the image? I have had it setup in MS Virtual PC 2007 and got it just how I wanted it but then no usb support so I have had to import the image into vmware player. We want to have a desktop for students to use visual studio but this has problems on our system with security so a virtual desktop is a great option but when i try to create one in vmware player V3 the student has options on the tool bar even if I set it up to full screen mode. any ideas? or anyone explain how to get a usb drive to work in MS virtual PC 2007 Allan