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ESXI 10g Network but Win-2008-R2 limited with 1G speed
We recently upgraded all of our vmware esxi 6.5/6.7 servers networks on 10G.
All the guests which have windows 2012 or above can transfer data above 1G as shown in below pic.
but on same physical ...
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What does it mean "mounted image is 6.3, not 6.1"
When i upload MY windows 2008 R2 VM have some error :
Error running workflow: step "translate" run error: step "translate-disk" run error: step "wait-for-bootstrap" run ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 takes too long to start in esxi 5.5 after converting the Physical Machine into Virtual machine with P2V Software
I converted the Windows Server 2008 R2 which is installed on the Physical Server into virtual machine with P2V software. I installed this Virtual machine in Vmware ESXI 5.5. This guest OS takes too ...
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Loss of DHCP following Windows Update reboot
We have two VMware virtualised DCs which have just undergone a scheduled Windows Update round and reboot. The secondary DC completed with no problems but the primary failed to reboot and ultimately ...
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Metltdown/Spectre Mitigations on Windows 2008 R2 guest on VmWare ESXi5.5
I do see that I can't enable the Meltdown/Spectre mitigations in Windows Server 2008 R2 is a similar question, but I suppose that the environment differences may justify different remedies.
After ...
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Windows Server 2008R2 crash with too much RAM
We have a virtual machine running Windows Server 2008R2. When we allocate 200GB RAM it is amazingly stable and runs forever with no issues.
We upped it to 350GB and it immediately became unstable. ...
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Unable to clone a Windows Server 2012 R2 VM (VMware) that is a member of a domain
Are you able to clone Windows Server 2012 R2 VMs that are members of a Windows domain and apply a customization specification?
I'm trying to clone a running Windows Server 2012 R2 VM via VMware. ...
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App not using all cores on VM after migrating host
We have a DL380 G7 with 2x Xeon E5645 processors running at 2.4Ghz, on which we had ESXi 4.1 installed with a few VMs.
One of our VMs had Windows Server 2008 R2, with 4x vCPU and 12GB RAM. This was ...
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NFS datastore on ESXi 4.1 breaks win2k8r2 host
I have an NFS server running on Win2k8R2 and an ESXi 4.1 host that uses NFS as a datastore for ghettoVCB backups. No server authentication; unmapped user access by uid/gid; vmkernel port with it's ...
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HP t410 smart zero thin client RDP Client error Windows Server 2008 R2
I'm having an issue with 2 of my HP Smart Zero t410 thin clients. They each RDP into an XP SP3 virtual machine hosted on a virtual server running VWWare ESXi 5.0.0. Randomnly in the morning they'll ...
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Virtualized Server 2003 vs Server 2008 R2 file transfer rate differences?
Basically I am trying to find out where the difference in the rate of a network file copy might come from.
I have a virtual Server 2008 R2 SP1 and a virtual Server 2003 R2 SP2, using the same store, ...
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Windows Servers on ESXi 100% CPU at year rollover
We have a number of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 servers running on ESXi servers. At year end rollover 2014 to 2015 the CPUs go to 100% and the machines hang.
The solution appears to be a hotfix (...
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Strategy for virtualised Windows Server Updates to reduce downtime
We have a wonderful VMWare based visualized environment that has, until now, been hosting a collection of Linux based VMs. We've now added in a Windows Server 2008 R2 VM that hosts a SQL Server ...
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Window Server 2008 R2 dropping 2GB of hard disk space per day
I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual machine running MS SQL 2005 on top of a VMWare ESXi 5.5 host on a SAN datastore.
Consistently it has been "losing" 2GB of hard disk space per day and I can't ...
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How can I encrypt 2008 Server Running under esxi
I have a need to run multiple 2008 R2 VMs under the free esxi. Storage will be local to the host. As I understand it, BitLocker is not a supported option in a VM environment from either Microsoft or ...
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Easiest Way to Keep Time Synced on VMware Cluster
I have a three host VMware cluster (5.1) running mainly windows 2008r2 servers with a single DC. I'm having allot of problems with time drift across the servers and while I've found several articles (...
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Windows Server 2012 (NFS) as storage for ESXi 5.5 problems
Setup:
1 ESXi Server with 12 NIC's
1 Virtual Vcenter on ESXi Server
1 Windows 2012 Server with NFS and 4 NIC's (VM Storage)
To-do:
Connect 3 NIC's without a switch and team them
I set up an ESXi ...
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Wrong time on RODC after dcpromo
My team has been experiencing this strange problem: After doing dcpromo (followed by reboot), the time on the newly promoted RODC rolls back to the year 2011.
Before dcpromo, the time is correct.
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Disk IO cutting out on Windows Server 2008 R2 running in VMWare
We've been trying to fix a problem with our server for about a week now. Only in the past few days have we really found out what the issue is.
Just some information up front: We run a VM with a 3rd ...
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Unable to ping 127.0.0.1 ... except as local Administrator
I'm having this issue with two Server 2008 R2 domain member servers built as VMWare guests. The DCs built at the same time do not have this issue.
When I try to ping 127.0.0.1 (or "localhost") when ...
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0xc0000225 error after P2V with VMWare Converter
I'm having an error with a P2V conversion of a Server 2008 R2 machine with VMWare Converter. The machine is going from an HP server to a Dell 2950.
The machine fails to boot and spits out a ...
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VMware Host needing ESXi 5.0 - Running on a 2008 R2 Host?
I have a VMWare image supplied by my Phone system provider which manages a contact management interface, they tell me that VMWare ESXi 5.0 is the highest supported host.
I'm used to MS HyperV and ...
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VMware Performance Monitor: How does aggregation work for VM Processor\% Processor Time
I'm monitoring a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 VM running on vSphere 5.1 for CPU bottlenecks.
I'm using Performance Monitor and configured a few counters. Two of which are Processor\% Processor Time and ...
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Tuning performance in Windows Services for NFS -- slow write performance from client to server
Background: I'm using a NFS datastore in esxi5.1 to do some ghettoVCB backups. The NFS share resides on a Windows Server 2008R2 box, using Windows Services for NFS to distribute the share. Writes to ...
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ESXi Simple Network
I'm in the process of revamping my network with the use of ESXi. The structure of my network before was as follows:
Public -> Win 2008 R2 Server NIC#1
ADDS/DNS/DHCP/RRAS NIC#2 -> ...
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ESXI 5.0.0 guests locking up
I have an ESXI 5.0.0 running four Windows Server 2008 R2 guests. They are named: APP, EXCH, DC, RDS.
Just as of last night, one guest (DC) locked up. We reset the guest this morning after noticing ...
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VPN connection is open. But can't ping internal network
I have run into a problem with my VPN.
At home i have set up a test lab. I Have a server running VMware ESXi and vCenter server, so in my internal network i connect to the vCenter server to manage ...
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How do change the max IO request size on Windows Server 2008 R2
As I understand it Windows Server 2008 R2 has the ability to send IO requests to the storage subsystem of up to 1MB in size. Back in the Server 2003 era (and before) this used to be limited to 64KB.
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Reconciling vmware memory vs windows memory usage
I have a Windows 2008 R2 64 bit virtual machine on ESXi 4.1 host. The host reports that the virtual machine is actively using less than 1 GB of memory. But, in Windows it's reporting the machine is ...
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Advice: Configuring Old PowerEdge 2950 For Virtualization [closed]
I'm picking up the following old server from geeks for a satellite office:
Two (2) Intel Xeon E5430 2.66 GHz quad-core processors
16 GB DDR2 PC2-5300 Fully Buffered (FB DIMM) SDRAM
12 MB L2 cache, ...
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Remote RAID Control in ESXi on a Dell PowerEdge 2950 Using OpenManage
I was wondering how one can add a drive into an existing RAID array while ESXi is still running. I have read that you are able to use Dell OpenManage to do this. I have installed OMSA 7.0 on the ...
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Eliminating duplicate hostnames when deploying a Windows 2008 R2 VM from a template in ESXi 4.1
When deploying a Windows 2008 R2 VM in ESXi 4.1, why does the hostname always end up the same as the original VM that was converted into the template in the first place?
How can this be rectified so ...
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Add a new VM on separate subnet
I want to add a new 2008R2 VM to my network. This will be a separate domain controller for a separate VLAN'ed off office. This VLAN (20) is all squared away on the switches. I have an office with 3 ...
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VM NetWorker server loses hard drive every night
Running EMC NetWorker server on a Server 2008 R2 w/ sp1 VM running on ESXi host. The VMDK is stored on a VNXe machine along with the VMDKs for all the other VM servers our organization runs. None of ...
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Windows 2008 r2 2 node cluster - one node unavailable
I have 2 node Windows 2008 r2 cluster, i failed over service onto node2, restarted node1, and after restart node1 is unavailable. The networks interfaces will not come up and both interface are ...
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How can I troubleshoot inaccessible NFS datastores in ESXi 5? [closed]
I've been having some trouble with my virtual machines the last few days. When i fire up vSphere the NFS datastores intermittently appear offline / inaccessible. The NFS shares are on my Windows Home ...
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SQL Server 2008 R2 Clustering inside VMware
I am working on a new Windows 2008 R2 / SQL Server R2 HA cluster and we are planning on running this inside of VMware ESX 5. I have read and heard differing views on using SQL clustering inside of ...
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Maximum size of VMDK to support large NTFS filesystem in guest
I have a need to support an 8TB filesystem within a Win2k8 guest system running on VMWare. From what I've read online, the maximum size VMDK I can create is 2T, is this still the case? Will I need ...
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Windows Server 2008R2 Virtual Lab Activation strategies?
I have a ESXi server that I use for testing, however, I am often needing to create additional Windows Server virtual machines.
Typically, if I do not need a VM for more than 30 days, I simply do not ...
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Best practice for instaling multiple instances of MS SQL 2008r2 on Windows server 2008r2 (running on esxi)
I wann't to move my sql server onto virtualized platform (Vsphere, esxi 4.1).
Here is my plan on how would I install it:
Vm with 3 disk's. C: for windows and sql binaries, D: for sql data, E: for ...
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vCenter Converter 4.3 GPT disks or Converting from GTP to MBR
I have a physical 2008 R2 server with a GPT OS volume. I am trying to get the server converted to ESXi.
I understand that vCenter Converter will not convert/detect GPT Disks.
The question is, does ...
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V2V vCenter Server Standalone Converter
Environment:
VM: Server 2008 Standard R2 with vCenter Server 4.1 installed running on VMware Workstation 7.1. I'm pretty confident I've done my homework on the required port settings that have to be ...
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Expand system partition on virtual machine where data partition is on the same virtual hard drive
For some reason I decided to create small initial partitions for my virtual machine server (30 GB system partition for Windows Server 2008, 100 GB data partition, both on the same virtual disk). Now, ...
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sysprep'd Server 2008 R2 VMware autocheck BSODs
I'm trying to set up a template Server 2k8 R2 (Standard) VM in our VMware ESXi environment, we'll need to deploy a whole lot of them and I want to (a) streamline and (b) standardise the server build ...
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VmWare Esxi on a ml350 g6: need to run Windows Server Standard R2 2008
Will it run well, without any compatibility problems?
Maybe I should stick with normal Windows Server Standard 2008?
Thanks!
ps details added:
I already have an esxi 4.1 running great...
I was ...
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File corruption (bad checksums) in large files copied to VMware guest
In setting up a development lab, I've got a desktop system running ESXi 4.1.0 (free license) on SATA RAID 0 (already purchased and configured when I started this job; I'm open to hardware input as it ...
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P2V Server 2008R2 with vmware converter 4.3.0 No source volumes
I'm trying to P2V a Windows Server 2008R2 to vmware vsphere 4.1 using Vmware vCenter Converter standalone 4.3.
Source Box
Windows Server 2008R2
24GB ram
Dual Quad-Cores
1 Raid 5 drive 680 GB
3 GB "...
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Virtual (ESXi4) Win 2k8 R2 server hangs when adding role(s)
I'm trying to provision a 2k8r2 Enterprise server in ESXi4. The OS installation goes fine, VMware tools, adding to domain, updates. All the basic stuff before you start adding Roles and Features.
I'...
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Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 in ESXi 3.5/ESXi 4?
Has anyone heard any announcements from vmware as to when these will be officially supported? Their website is a bit of a mess. I'm wondering if ESXi 3.5 will support them or ESXi4 ?
Googling around ...
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