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NUMA 1 not used on SQL Server 2008 R2 on Windows Server 2008 R2 on ESXi
We've got Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 running on Windows Server 2008 R2, virtualized on VMWare ESXi 6.7.0.
The server has 2 CPU sockets with 22 cores each.
The VM is allocated 8 sockets with 3 cores ...
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Diagnosing slow data processing on a VM
We're trying to diagnose a VM apparently running slowly, from inside the VM.
The situation:
We have an IIS-hosted application on Windows Server 2008R2 running on a 6-core, 12GB virtual machine.
We ...
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ESXi 5.5 Windows Server 2008 Std VM - Unable to ping other hosts on same subnet
I am in the position of trying to set up a server system for my company using some provided instructions. I am not an IT professional, but am the only option available at the moment. So, I apologise ...
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Serial Connections between Virtual Servers
We have two applications on separate virtualized Windows servers use serial communication to each other. On the host, there are two serial to USB converters connected with a serial cable, and one of ...
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Shall I configure NTP client in the ESXi hypervisor or in each windows Guest
I working on synchronising NTP client running on virtual environment ESXI.
The question is what is the best practice, configuring NTP in the hypervisor and VM-tools will sync the guests or configure ...
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Windows 2008 R2 Installation Blue Screen - PXE Installation on ESXI
So the story begins with the PXE automated installation on dedicated servers and virtual servers.
I am trying to boot operating systems using PXE (using ipxe scripts) and perform automated ...
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On a VM, do logical vs physical disks still matter?
My brother is using a hosting provider which is providing his company with a VM with Windows Server 2008 R2.
They unfortunately have to run the whole stack on one server, so my brother at least ...
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Creating Offline Test environment
So I'm trying to create a test environment that hosts a copy of one of the domain controllers in production and I was wondering if anyone has some insight on the best way to perform the "copying" of ...
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ESXi build with SSD's and storage sharing with HDD
So the plan is to convert 4 boxed servers into all virtual servers with a new server. The 4 servers now don't require much horsepower to do much, so only looking at the Xeon E5-2470 (8C, 2.4ghz, iirc) ...
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User profiles for ESXi [closed]
I have configured active directory with my ESXi Server and all is great. I created User Profiles for this experiment within Windows 2008r2. Logged in with a windows 7 VM within Vsphere, and all works. ...
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vSphere vApp IP address configuration. How does vApp really work?
I have a pool of ESXi-5.5.0 servers that I have configured a single vApp on. This vApp is configured in transient mode to configure IP addresses from an IP pool I specified. I assigned a single ...
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attach existing vmdk to windows server without formatting
ESX: 5.5
OS: 2008r2
I recently lost the disk descriptor file on a .vmdk file. The .vmdk was not the boot drive rather a secondary hard drive (sql database unfortunately), I followed the procedure ...
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vCenter SSO without AD?
I have an ESXi Server with a vCenter virtual appliance image and an image of a Windows 2008 TS.
The Windows 2008 image has an external Ethernet connection configured to another network, so users can ...
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Snapshot SBS or Single DC server environments
I can't seem to find a clear answer on this.
Is it safe or not safe to snapshot (or in my case checkpoint under HV 2012) an SBS or single DC server environment? I took over an account and am behind ...
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vmware Converter issue with 'System Reserved'
Working on converting a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine from physical to virtual. Each time I run the converter it fails at 98%. I'm pretty sure the issue is occurring because vmware doesn't know what ...
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Re-deploy/update Windows server from VMWare template
Our company is considering a remote desktop farm, and I just wanted to see if anyone has any advice on some procedures.
Basically, we will have a connection broker sitting in front of several remote ...
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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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Virtual Windows 2008 Server Activation with ESX
I had a decommissioned server (Dell PE2950) that we could still use, it had OEM Windows 2003 Std on it but wanted to use it as a new host with VMware ESX5 to put a couple legacy severs on it. I wiped ...
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Create separate Network for testing purpose [closed]
I have installed Windows Server 2012 on a VM (ESXi) for testing/learning purpose and I also like to install DHCP Server as well but this will conflict with my ISP router and I don't want to disable ...
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Computers Suddenly Lost Connection to SBS 2008 Server
I am having an issue that I could not explain myself in the entire of my career. The issue is when the entire computers just randomly and suddenly lost connection to the server, running Windows Server ...
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How can I safely run windows 2008 server as a fileserver in VMWare ESXI?
We are planning to add a virtual disk to an existing "windows 2008 R2" domain controller.
The new disk will act as a fileserver for the domain.
(The administration said we should do it this way to ...
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vSphere with VMWare ESXi 5.1 VMRC Error [closed]
I've rebooted my dedicated server entirely. I powered on the VM's and then I noticed when trying to enter the console, I got the blow error (see image):
I've tried uninstalling vSphere completely. I'...
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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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Migrating to the Cloud: Private or Public [closed]
This is a matter of opinion but I'm looking for some advice regarding an upcoming migration of physical servers to the cloud. I'm looking for some perspective - any opinions are welcome.
Scenario: ...
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Vmware Tools potentially locking files/folders on Windows Server
I have a Windows 2008 R2 X64 server running on Vmware ESXi. Originally it was running on Hyper-V, but I have since converted the VHD to a VMDK and migrated to ESXi. I also installed VMware Tools. ...
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What does this VMWare warning really mean? ... "... Insufficient video RAM...."
Here is the actual warning from VMotiononing:
Warning message from xxxx-esxi16.xxxxx.xxxxx.xxxxx.edu: Insufficient video RAM. The maximum resolution of the virtual machine will be limited to ...
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Small Datacenter Setup - vCenter and OpenVPN
I, as well as two other students, are creating curriculum for a new datacenter course at our university. We have 16 Sun servers that are several years old with decent specs (2x Dual-Core AMD Opterons ...
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What are the best practices for specifying a physical host to serve virtual machines? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can you help me with my capacity planning?
My query is regarding how to specify a physical host, to serve virtual machines, and what 'rules of thumb' you would use regarding ...
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Event ID: 10027 Source: MSExchangeIS
I get his Event ID: 10027 Source: MSExchangeIS error:
There are 5 RPC requests for the mailbox
"47b20bd7-28e0-423f-b458-234639311bd6: /o=DOMAIN/ou=First
Administrative Group/cn=Recipients/cn=...
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Why has ESXi 5.0 not used the software RAID configuration on my test server?
I've got a test server which was running WS 2008 Enterprise on the bare metal. It was correctly using the software RAID 1 configuration (2x250 GB disks which appeared as one disk), setup on the Dell ...
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High memory usage, where is it coming from?
I have a virtual machine (Windows 2008 Server R2 64 bit running on vmware esxi 4) with 6 GB of installed RAM. It's reporting 95% memory usage and close to 0% CPU. This server hosts some WCF services ...
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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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How does VMware vCenter Server work and what are the benefits over vsphere client
I bought vSphere Essentials which I've installed on 2 physical machines, and set up the servers using vSphere client. This part is working well, and there is 1 VM on each ESXi install (esxi 5.0.0)
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VmWare is vSphere correct for what we want to achieve? [closed]
We have two physical servers that we want to turn in to virtual hosts. I've been looking at the VMware vSphere 5 Essentials Kit for 3 hosts (Max 2 processors per host) and 192 GB vRAM entitlement + ...
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Setting up VLAN on Win Server 2008 VMware guest
We've a Windows Server 2008 host on VMware ESXi 4 and want to isolate it from the rest of the network. That is, I want no traffic from the Windows Server 2008 to be allowed on the normal network. I ...
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VMWare ESXi 5 - How to clone Windows 2008 SBS
I am running two Windows 2008 Server on a VMware ESXi 5 Server (VMware vSphere 5 Essentials Kit). There are two different ESXi hosts within my VMware datacenter environment. Let us call them ...
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Install ESXi 4.1 on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-v [closed]
Can I install ESXi on WIndows Server 2008 with Hyper-V? It stucks as in the printscreen:
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Present a drive on a server as a NFS to other network devices
Is there a tool that would allow me to take a shared folder on a server running server 2008 and make it look like a NFS drive?
Thanks!
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How do I Clear a Warning about Best Practices for Running a Domain Controller on a Virtual Machine?
I have a Windows Server 2008 Domain Controller running on a VMware virtual machine. There is a Best Practices Analyzer warning appearing in Server Manager with the following message:
"The domain ...
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Windows Terminal Server: occasional memory violation for applications
On a virtualized (ESXi 4.1) Windows Server 2008 SP2 32-bit machine which is used as a terminal server, I occasionally (approximately 1-3 event log entries a day) see applications fail with an ...
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Internet connectivity on Server 2008 VM is strangely inconsistent
I have a very strange problem on one of my VMs. This VM is running on ESXi 4.1 as are all my other VMs. On this particular machine though I am not able to reach some sites at all, others very slowly, ...
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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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VMWare ESXi v4.1 - Convert Mps Uniprocessor To Acpi
On most of my VM's the CPU is setup as ACPI Uniprocessor (see below). Some of my VM's are setup as MPS Uniprocessor. I need to change it to ACPI, so I can upgrade to Server 2008. How to I change it?
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VMware Virtualisation - Convert 64bit Windows Server to 32bit VM?
I have just started playing around with Vmware sphere and have the hypervisor OS installed on a spare HP ProLiant DL360 G4.
I have created a test virtual machine running Ubuntu which has worked well....
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Installing Windows Server 2008 Once or XP three times?
I have an application which makes use of Outlook 2003, 2007 and 2010. This application performs some tasks requested by a user and then closes. I am going to be putting my application on a virtualised ...
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Multiple VLAN's and User Group Confusion
Am deploying and designing a new network for our sourly damaged design. I have never designed a network from the ground up, by my self. The simple run down is this :
VLAN 1 - Production at the
data-...
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With ESXi and Windows Server 2008, can the provisioned size for a disk be reduced?
When we first setup ESXi, we over allocated drive space (allocated 300 GBs of a 250GB hard drive) thinking ESXi would shuffle things intelligently like it does with memory and CPU but found out later ...
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2 web servers' application accessing the same data
I've been tasked to find for a solution that will allow me to use 1 storage location for 2 different web servers' applicaiton data. My problem is that these 2 web servers will both be accessing the ...
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vmware copy production server to a test server
We are currently using Vmware infrastructure at my work where all our production servers are virtual. At the moment we are not having any good test servers and I have been thinking that it should be ...
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Windows 2008 R2 NFS to ESXi 4.1 NFS Datastore
all. What I am asking is really complicated. So, I am not sure if it is even possible. It will be a two-parter.
Part One:
TLDR:
MYWIN2K8HOSTWITHNFS+AD -------(NFS)------> ESXI41HOST+AD
First, ...
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