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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 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, I'm looking for your suggestion and advise in utilizing the empty unused Local SATA-II datastore for my VM. I've got the following ESXi 4.0 build 164009 and a valid license of vSphere Essentials license, therefore I could use VCB but the problem is that using NBD from the SAN into the backup server is way too slow :-| it took 55 hrs to fullbackup the whole 1 TB VMFS partition (D2D over 2 network subnet). and now I'm thinking that rather than using backup solution Is it possible to clone the VM on the fly to more than 2 datastore like clustering service fault tolerance? (in this case to local datastore and the SAN_VMFS) in case there is a failure in the SAN, the VM can run off the Local Datastore, well it doesn't have to be realtime though. or perhaps there is a VCB backup that can copy the VM from he SAN VMFS into the local datastore vmfs ? that is also possible. Note: The reason why I chose this configuration is that direct connection from the SAN into the ESXi servers without anything in the middle, this can eliminate the single point of failure caused by the Switch and also provide redundancy. each color in the iSCSI network is different IP subnet by itself. from the ESXi into the production network i put two cable connected to two different ports and then add those pNIC into same vSwitch for failover Any kind of comments will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Erk, for some reason it's stopped letting my domain accounts from logging in. I think it authenticates just fine but says the account does not have permission... So fine, troubleshooting away, log in using local account....poo.. I've got the password, I wrote it down but not the log in user! I'm unsure of the format.. The server is called "beamvc.dcc-sch-4505.local" so my login should be admin,administrator,[email protected] but it says invalid credentials?! should it be @vsphere.local still? I also tried the beamvc.dcc-sch-4505\username but that gets me an invalid as well. I tried logging on to the console using root but the password isn't accepted... I'll assume it's not the same as the default admin account.. I don't want to rebuild this blooming thing!

A very useful video, despite being over two hours long.

Hi all, I work for a large high school and will soon be implementing a virtual server environment. I am favouring Vmware vSphere at the moment and was wondering if there were many other schools out there using vSphere? And, if so, are you happy with it? If anybody is using other hypervisors, ie, Citrix Xen Server or Hyper-V, it would be great to know your opinion of these systems too as I need to do a comparison of all and the pro's and cons of each. Thanks for taking the time to read and your input

VMwareTV has just released a load of new demonstration videos on vSphere 5 features: vSphere Web Client Demo vSphere Storage DRS Demo vSphere Profile-Driven Storage Demo vSphere Storage Appliance Resilience Demo vSphere Auto Deploy Demo vSphere Storage Appliance Installation and Configuration Really good way of learning how things work ahead of full release They are available at my blog here Or direct from VMware TV here

Hi all, I'm trying to access my vSphere Web Administration Console working to connect to a vSphere Server running on an ESXi 5.1 host. In IE11 am getting the dreaded 'There is a problem with this website's security certificate' error. I had this working last week and its stopped. The servers running fine - I can access the vSphere Server using vSphere Client but not the web console. Can anyone tell me the method of getting the certificate to work? I've followed a few guides and imported rui.crt and cacert.pem from 'C:\ProgramData\VMware\vSphere Web Client\ssl' (on the server) but to no avail. Done this on the server running vSphere Server and on my local machine. On the server I get 'Continue to this website (not recommended)' , after that a blank window. On my PC I get 'There is a problem with this website’s security certificate' and no option to continue. VMWare kb's say to use a cert from a trusted authority but there's no need for that as its only running on my Intranet. Please help Thanks in advance

I have created a ESXi 4.0 host with a static address thats been assigned to us from comcast. I have setup the primary DNS, Secondary DNS and the default gateway. Once save this configuration, somehow I loose the default gateway address. So I am not able to access this ESXi host from my vsphere client on the laptop. One clue: If I leave it to dynamic address, it gets a 10.x.x.10 ip, and the server retains the default gateway fine. And I can also access it from vSphere. Of course, this happens only within my home network.

I'm on Vmware esxi5.1 using vsphere. I'm getting the event log that device (naa.600xxx) i/o latency has an increaded average. The device in question is the SATA storage on my SAN. The setup is that my fast lun (lun0) is on my 15K SAS drives and that is where all the VM operating systems (c: drives) live and the exchange database. The SATA storage (lun1&2)is where I keep the VMs data (file shares). The SATA storage is divided into 2 luns and is used by 6 servers. How should I diagnose what VM is causing the issue? I cant find a corrolation between scheduled tasks or daily usage. The performance logs show disk activity but as a whole not by lun. How do I diagnose?

We are running vSphere and rolling out users on Windows 11 25H2 on a couple different networks (one is air gapped and has a lot more restrictive GPOs). The template seems to work just fine with our software and such. We can spin up a New VM from Template just fine. The issue is when users login. 1. On both networks, when a user logs in, if they need to launch an RDP session, it pops up the error "The remote session was disconnected because license store creation failed with access denied. Please run remote desktop client with elevated privileges." After some digging, I discovered that this is caused by the user not having permissions to create/edit the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\MSLicensing folder to create a new HardwareID. I can either run RDP as admin and connect to another machine to fix this or run a quick registry file to fix this, but having to touch every one of the 500+ machines we need to roll out is/will be incredibly time consuming. Anyone know why it does this and a better fix? I could try to apply the registry fix to the template but I think part of the process during VM creation is set to delete that key so it recreates it. Why don't basic users have permission to create that ID? I would think a system process would do it. 2. Also on both networks though the issue acts a bit differently on each. On the internet system, users can login but when we try to run anything as admin, it pops up the error "explorer.exe - System Error. The system detected an overrun of a stack-based buffer in this application. This overrun could potentially allow a malicious user to gain control of this application." If we login as admin and install the app, it works fine and I believe the issue doesn't happen again if we switch back to the user and run as admin (I'll try to confirm this. We usually just install everything needed while we're logged in as admin.) On the air-gapped system, we get the same explorer error if we try to run things as an admin for a user however, if an admin without an existing profile on the system tries to login, they get the error immediately. The screen is black, no taskbar, nothing. I've tried getting into task manager and restarting explorer but it does nothing. Only admins that have a profile on the template before it's rolled out can login. Any other admins that try to login have the black screen issue. The weird thing is, once we install our multifactor authentication software (requests a token instead of a password), the issue clears up. Everyone can login just fine. The RDP issue still happens unless we run the mentioned fix but everything works fine otherwise. Everything I can find says to just run the DISM health scan and fix etc etc. Doing that takes well over 3 hours per user on the online systems. I have tried running that on the template to clean it up but it hasn't helped. I am running a script to uninstall a number of windows programs before shutdown because they seem to cause issues with the image deploying. With most of these, if I don't remove them, the system doesn't finish going through the OS Customizations (vSphere version of sysprep) and throws errors about "this app was installed for one user but not all users" and won't continue. Is it possible one of these needs to stay? Any suggestions or hints to fix these would be great. Get-AppxPackage -allusers *WebExperience* | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -allusers Microsoft.Widget* | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -allusers Microsoft.Copilot* | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -allusers NotePadPlusPlus* | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -allusers Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -allusers Microsoft.XboxApp | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -allusers XboxOneSmartGlass | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -allusers Microsoft.XboxSpeechToTextOverlay | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -allusers Microsoft.XboxIdentityProvider | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -allusers Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge.Stable* | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -allusers Microsoft.GamingApp | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -allusers Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -allusers Microsoft.MicrosoftSolitaireCollection | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -allusers Microsoft.Xbox.TCUI | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -allusers Microsoft.XboxGameOverlay | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -allusers Microsoft.ZuneMusic | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -allusers Microsoft.ZuneVideo | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -allusers MicrosoftCorporationII.QuickAssist | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.StartExperiencesApp* | Remove-AppxPackage dism /online /disable-feature /featurename:Recall -Remove

Hello All, How does one do the backup of their VMWare virtual infrastructure ? I'm wondering if there is a backup best practice and deployment document that can describe which architecture to select (eg. NBD or SAN or D2D or D2T, etc..). Thanks,

Just posting to let you all know that the new version of esXpress "4.0" was released about 10 days ago. I posted it on my blog here: VMware Backup – esXpress 4.0 released | Virtualization Spotlight The key change to the release is reliable Change Block Tracking, as of now esXpress is the only virtual backup solution that validates the CBT data for each backup, ensuring data integrity and reliability.