Occassionally, when you try to shut down a virtual machine the progress bar will stop meaning that the process will never complete in the background. The following steps will allow you to force the shutdown of a running virtual machine.
Sometimes a file or set of files in a VMFS become locked and any attempts to edit them or delete will give a device or resource busy error, even though the virtual machine associated with the files is not running. If the virtual machine is running then you would need to stop the virtual machine [...]
After performing a P2V always remove the hidden physical hardware from the OS. This is particularly important for network cards that have the original IP address(es) that you want to assisgn to the new VM.
Guys are hard at work with the labs at the moment here in sunny Hobart, and so I begin trawling the blogs (as is my want). I discovered this brilliant little gem from Mike DiPetrill’s blog.
The constant question with Vmware is, “Can I cluster using Microsoft Clustering Services?” The answer now, thankfully, is yes you can. And just to stretch it out a bit more there’s this!
There are a number of different options for changing the IP address of the service console in Vmware ESX 3.5. Following is another example using the CLI and the esxnet command.
Another request via email: I am trying to create a windows 2000 server cluster in vmware workstation 6.0 and I am having some issues with the scsi disks (not working).
Another interesting problem found via the internet!
Alexander Gaiswinker created a storage vmotion graphical user interface and posted it in the VMware community.
Virtual machines set via “CPU Affinity” don’t apply their settings straight away. The solution is pretty simple.