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Monthly Archives: September 2010

New articles published for week ending 9/25/2010

VMware Data Recovery
Booting VMware Data Recovery fails with the error: ext3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached reported on boot (1020974)
Date Published: 9/20/2010
VMware Data Recovery performs only a single backup at a time (1024552)
Date Published: 9/22/2010
VMware Data Recovery Plugin Reports tab loads slowly (1025870)
Date Published: 9/23/2010
Performing a restore or restore rehearsal of a virtual machine in the VDR appliance fails with the error: Trouble writing files (1026754)
Date Published: 9/24/2010

VMware ESX
Cannot see any files when browsing datastores in vCenter Server 4.0 when ESX hosts are in Standby Mode (1018767)
Date Published: 9/20/2010
Connecting to virtual machine console fails with the error: MKS: Could not connect to pipe (1020711)
Date Published: 9/21/2010
Adding a ESX/ESXi 4.1 host to vCenter Server 4.0 fails with the error: interal error:vmodl.fault.hostCommunication (1024381)
Date Published: 9/21/2010
SCSI Reservation Conflicts when using OpenFiler iSCSI Storage Devices (1026596)
Date Published: 9/24/2010
The /var/log partition of the ESX host runs out of space (1027622)
Date Published: 9/20/2010
vSphere Client performs slowly on a Windows 7 system (1027836)
Date Published: 9/20/2010
Downgrading the virtual machine hardware version (1028019)
Date Published: 9/20/2010
Cloning and converting virtual machine disks with vmkfstools (1028042)
Date Published: 9/20/2010
Prevent virtual machine users from using VMware Tools (1028154)
Date Published: 9/24/2010
Upgrading ESX 3.5 to ESX 4.0 or ESX 4.1 with VUM might fail though the check of the storage space passes (1027412)
Date Published: 9/21/2010
iSCSI rescan takes longer time than expected when using port binding with a single VMNIC (1024476)
Date Published: 9/23/2010

VMware ESXi
Installing ESXi 4.1 on DELL PowerEdge 2950 fails with the error: Loading module megaraid_sas driver (1026638)
Date Published: 9/22/2010
ESX/ESXi 4.0 with Broadcom bnx2x Async Driver Version 1.52.12.v40.3 experiences a loss of network connectivity and a purple diagnostic screen (1028091)
Date Published: 9/21/2010
Installing ESX 4.1 fails with the error: Unable to load module /usr/lib/vmware/vmklod/vmfs3: failure (1025140)
Date Published: 9/22/2010
Virtual machines fail to connect to the vSwitch/vDS/network with the error: Failed to connect virtual device Ethernet0 (1028151)
Date Published: 9/24/2010

VMware Fusion
Troubleshooting a Windows blue screen in a Fusion virtual machine (1024460)
Date Published: 9/20/2010
Troubleshooting USB device connection and functionality in a Fusion virtual machine (1027964)
Date Published: 9/20/2010
Troubleshooting a slow network connection in Fusion (1027976)
Date Published: 9/20/2010

VMware Service Manager
A standard field can no longer be seen in the list of fields in Designer (1027680)
Date Published: 9/24/2010
You are unable to index URLs. (1027960)
Date Published: 9/24/2010
If a call type is marked deleted and then recreated, all links to KB article searches with the type do not bring up older documents with that specified type. (1028187)
Date Published: 9/24/2010
Creating a new call in VMware Service Manager 9.x fails with the error: An entry with the same key already exists (1027006)
Date Published: 9/24/2010

VMware ThinApp
Web Page Redirected from Native Internet Explorer to Virtual Internet Explorer 6 with ThinDirect Is Hidden Behind Extra Window (1028066)
Date Published: 9/20/2010

VMware vCenter Application Discovery Manager
Running SSH detail discovery without a password in VMware vCenter application Discovery Manager (1027000)
Date Published: 9/20/2010

VMware vCenter AppSpeed
AppSpeed UI connection through proxy with authentication (1013831)
Date Published: 9/20/2010

VMware vCenter Configuration Manager
Troubleshooting VMware vCenter Configuration Manager login errors (1027881)
Date Published: 9/20/2010
Information about VMware vCenter Configuration Manager DCOM (1028020)
Date Published: 9/23/2010

VMware vCenter Orchestrator
Restarting the Orchestrator configuration service intermittently reports the error: Unable to load class for JSP (1023995)
Date Published: 9/22/2010

VMware vCenter Server
vCenter Service Status for com.vmware.vim.sms alert: Unable to retrieve health data from http://localhost/sms/smService-web/health.xml (1014256)
Date Published: 9/20/2010
vCenter Server fails after ejecting a CD from a virtual machine (1020114)
Date Published: 9/20/2010
Uninstalling Guided Consolidation before installing vCenter Server 4.1 fails with error: Internal Error 25030 (1025657)
Date Published: 9/22/2010
During the vCenter Server 4.x installation, the DSN is not listed (1026282)
Date Published: 9/20/2010

VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat
DNSUpdate fails to update DNS servers running on Windows Server 2008 (1028050)
Date Published: 9/20/2010

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
During test failover, the virtual machine fails to power on with the error: One of the parameters was invalid (1024549)
Date Published: 9/22/2010
Site Recovery Manager 4.1 installation fails to start SRM service on Windows 2008 R2 (1026340)
Date Published: 9/22/2010
When using EMC RecoverPoint SRA, the testFailover operation fails (1026544) />Date Published: 9/24/2010
Configuring protection for a virtual machine in SRM fails with the error: Unable to create a placeholder virtual machine at the recovery site (1026750)
Date Published: 9/24/2010

VMware vCenter Update Manager
Downloading patches for ESX 3.5 Update 4 or earlier versions using Update Manager 1.x fails with the error: Metadata download failed (1026435)
Date Published: 9/22/2010

VMware vCloud Director
vCloud Director fails or takes a long time to start (1028117)
Date Published: 9/24/2010

VMware View Manager
Single Sign On (SSO) does not work with Windows virtual machines over PCoIP when interactive logon messages are enabled in a group policy (1018819)
Date Published: 9/20/2010
Ensuring that there are no conflicts between Group Policy Objects and View virtual desktops (1027446)
Date Published: 9/22/2010
Creating valid object path names for VMware View pools (1027478)
Date Published: 9/22/2010
Black screen when logging into a VMware View virtual desktop using PCoIP (1028332)
Date Published: 9/24/2010
Unable to create a VMware View virtual desktop pool (1028319)
Date Published: 9/23/2010
When you add a replicated View Connection Server to a standalone View Connection Server environment, duplicate events can be generated in the Event database. (1028150)
Date Published: 9/21/2010
Configuring the "Use deduplication for Local Mode operations" setting in View 4.5 can cause data corruption in the datacenter copies of View desktops. (1028195)
Date Published: 9/22/2010

VMware vShield App 1.0.x
Installing VMware vShield App fails with the error: Previous installation of host services encountered an error (1028003)
Date Published: 9/21/2010

VMware vSphere PowerCLI
Collecting diagnostic information using the VMware vSphere PowerCLI (1027932)
Date Published: 9/20/2010

VMware Workbench
Storage Certification form does not have an option to enable ISCF support in Workbench FC Plug-in (1027997)
Date Published: 9/23/2010

VMware Workstation
When installing VMware Workstation, the Setup window displays a blank screen (1027986)
Date Published: 9/22/2010
Launching VMware Workstation on a Linux host displays the warning: The host’s Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled (1027987)
Date Published: 9/23/2010

New articles published for week ending 9/18/2010

VMware ACE
Resolving time synchronization issues within virtual machines (1005760)
Date Published: 9/14/2010

VMware Data Recovery
The free space reported in VMware Data Recovery never increases (1027606)
Date Published: 9/13/2010
VMware Data Recovery (VDR) fails to run backups even after a reclaim (1027607)
Date Published: 9/13/2010

VMware ESX
An ESX/ESXi host remediation fails with the error: No supported hosts found for remediate (1024331)
Date Published: 9/16/2010
Uninstalling VMware Tools in a Novell Netware virtual machine (1026117)
Date Published: 9/15/2010
ESX console message: XXXX MB of memory ignored because the system exceeded the supported host physical page number (1026483)
Date Published: 9/16/2010
Accessing a storage device in vCenter Server fails with the error: Not initialized: vim.host.DiskPartitionInfo.BlockRange[] partition (1026871)
Date Published: 9/13/2010
Determining NIC firmware and driver version in ESX/ESXi 4.x (1027206)
Date Published: 9/16/2010
Fujitsu RX300 S5 fails with a purple diagnostic screen with "<no symbols>" on VMware ESX/ESXi 4.1 (1027243)
Date Published: 9/16/2010
Driver CDs for ESX 4.0 that have not been re-released for ESX 4.1 fail to install (1027624)
Date Published: 9/13/2010
Systems with MMIO regions larger than 2GB are not supported (1027719)
Date Published: 9/14/2010
Determining if a High Availability HA Virtual Machine Monitoring event caused a virtual machine to reboot (1027734)
Date Published: 9/16/2010
Upgrading to ESX 4.1 fails: Active Directory must be disabled (1027786)
Date Published: 9/17/2010
Retrieving the port state of a DVPort with an API (1027827)
Date Published: 9/17/2010
Cloning Individual Virtual Machine Disks via vMA and vCLI (1027872)
Date Published: 9/16/2010
Cloning individual virtual machine disks via the VMware ESX host terminal (1027876)
Date Published: 9/16/2010
License Assignment and Transfer Form (LATF) and Account Change Form (ACF) (1027883)
Date Published: 9/17/2010
Understanding the storage path failover sequence in VMware ESX 4.x (1027963)
Date Published: 9/17/2010
Upgrading VMware tools fails with the error: Error 1316 A network error occurred while attempting to read the file (1023947)
Date Published: 9/14/2010
Configuring VMDirectPath I/O for HP Proliant Servers. (Partner Supported) (1025641)
Date Published: 9/16/2010
Adding a virtual disk to a virtual machine fails with the error: IDE disks cannot be hot added or there are no free available IDE Controller slots (1025883)
Date Published: 9/13/2010
Confirming a virtual machine’s snapshot delta disk layout (1027887)
Date Published: 9/16/2010
VMware High Availability fails after upgrading to vSphere 4.1 with the error: InsufficientMemoryResourcesFault (1026037)
Date Published: 9/15/2010
Physical USB CD-ROM devices attached to ESX/ESXi hosts are not listed as available choices for adding SCSI passthrough devices to a virtual machine (1027415)
Date Published: 9/15/2010

VMware ESXi
After upgrading to vCenter 4.1, the ESXi 4.0 host configures HA, but displays an error (1027628)
Date Published: 9/14/2010
Cisco Nexus 1000V drops packets when Mac Pinning (1027731)
Date Published: 9/15/2010

VMware Fusion
Ensuring your Mac has a network connection for VMware Fusion (1026776)
Date Published: 9/13/2010
Troubleshooting a failed suspend, start up, or snapshot in Fusion with the error: Operation on file failed (1027559)
Date Published: 9/13/2010
Troubleshooting access to shared and mirrored folders in Fusion (1027646)
Date Published: 9/13/2010
Troubleshooting a Fusion virtual machine that uses 100% of the guest CPU (1027674)
Date Published: 9/14/2010
Troubleshooting a Fusion virtual machine that uses 100% of the Mac’s CPU (1027723)
Date Published: 9/15/2010
Troubleshooting using a Boot Camp partition in Fusion (1027853)
Date Published: 9/16/2010
Troubleshooting importing a Boot Camp partition into Fusion (1027882)
Date Published: 9/16/2010
Troubleshooting issues with Unity in Fusion (1027884)
Date Published: 9/16/2010
Troubleshooting a kernel panic while using Fusion (1027671)
Date Published: 9/13/2010
Troubleshooting a failed VMware Tools installation in Fusion (1027797)
Date Published: 9/16/2010
Fixing a mouse or keyboard that is not working or is slow to respond in a Fusion virtual machine (1027805)
Date Published: 9/16/2010

VMware Service Manager
VMware Service Manager v9 incorrectly reporting the Portal Hits count on knowledge bank articles (1027363)
Date Published: 9/13/2010
The Current officer in the Call Details Info Panel is incorrect after upgrading from VMware Service Manager 8.0 to VMware Service Manager 9.0 (1027423)
Date Published: 9/16/2010

VMware ThinApp
Combinations of Virtual and Native Internet Explorer Versions Supported on Various Windows Platforms with ThinApp (1027659)
Date Published: 9/13/2010
Does ThinApp Converter Support a Fusion or Server Virtual Machine Host? (1027677)
Date Published: 9/13/2010
How Does ThinApp Converter Handle Multiple Installation Command Files? (1027678)
Date Published: 9/13/2010

VMware vCenter Lab Manager
Lab Manager configurations are only deploying to one datastore (1015665)

Date Published: 9/16/2010
Logging in to Lab Manager as an LDAP user fails with the error: Error connecting to LDAP server" (1027729)
Date Published: 9/17/2010

VMware vCenter Server
vCenter Server stops responding and closes with error: Win32 exception: Stack overflow (0xc00000fd) (1020567)
Date Published: 9/16/2010
vCenter Heartbeat does not failover the active vCenter Server if it loses connection to the database. (1023803)
Date Published: 9/17/2010
Cannot log in to vCenter Server after editing the ADAM database (1024329)
Date Published: 9/14/2010
vCenter Server 4.x fails when managing ESX 3.5 hosts (1026319)
Date Published: 9/13/2010
Upgrading to vCenter Server 4.1 fails with the error: Trigger, procedure or function created with PL/SQL compilation error (1026331)
Date Published: 9/15/2010
After upgrading vCenter to 4.1, the transaction logs grow larger than normal (1026407)
Date Published: 9/14/2010
Copy and paste not working inside a virtual machine console on vSphere 4.1 (1026422)
Date Published: 9/13/2010
VirtualCenter Server service fails to start with the error: [Vdb::IsRecoverableErrorCode] Unable to recover from HY000:1654 (1027512)
Date Published: 9/14/2010
Cloning Virtual Machines in VMware vCenter and VirtualCenter (1027865)
Date Published: 9/16/2010

VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat
vCenter Server Heartbeat reports the error: SqlServer: DB Files Allocated Space check skipped sql instance SQLEXP_VIM (1023861)
Date Published: 9/15/2010

VMware View Manager
Installing the VMware View Agent fails with the error: Internal Error 2502 (1026491)
Date Published: 9/13/2010
Recomposing desktop pools in VMware View fails with an illegal state error (1026492)
Date Published: 9/13/2010
Converting a linked clone virtual machine to a full clone virtual machine (1026753)
Date Published: 9/14/2010
USB passthrough on Virtual Desktop using a redirected local USB printer cannot print (1027654)
Date Published: 9/16/2010
Logging into the VMware View desktop fails with the error: This desktop currently has no resources available (1027713)
Date Published: 9/16/2010
Location of VMware View log files (1027744)
Date Published: 9/16/2010
When provisioning a pool in View Manager you receive the error: Unable to create new VM – null (1025945)
Date Published: 9/14/2010
Problems downloading Adobe Flash and launching View Administrator 4.5 on a Windows XP machine that is originally configured with Internet Explorer 6 and upgraded to Internet Explorer 7 (1027652)
Date Published: 9/13/2010
When you try to delete a linked-clone desktop from View Manager, if the deletion operation fails and the virtual machine enters an Error state, the only valid operation is to delete the virtual machine. (1027676)
Date Published: 9/13/2010

VMware VirtualCenter
The VirtualCenter Server service fails during initialization with the error: Win32 exception (1027666)
Date Published: 9/13/2010

VMware Workbench
Unable to install VMware Certification tools using VMware Workbench Installation Helper (1027112)
Date Published: 9/16/2010

VMware Workstation
Troubleshooting a stuck mouse in the Workstation virtual machine (1027338)
Date Published: 9/13/2010

New articles published for week ending 9/11/2010

VMware Converter
Downloading the VMware Converter Boot CD (1026714)
Date Published: 9/9/2010

VMware ESX
Installing ESX/ESXi fails while booting with the error: MBI=0x000100d8, entry=0×00100212 (1024248)
Date Published: 9/6/2010
Migrating virtual machines (1017769)
Date Published: 9/8/2010
Shared EMC Symmetrix LUN detected as snapshot with incorrect SPC-2 bit settings (1019334)
Date Published: 9/9/2010
Using vMA as a syslog server to collect ESX and ESXi logs (1024122)
Date Published: 9/7/2010
Intel 82598EB 10 Gigabit AF DA Dual Port not working after upgrading to ESX 4.0 Update 2 or ESX 4.1 (1025915)
Date Published: 9/7/2010
Rescanning iSCSI HBAs results in the log spew: Header length field exceeds actual payload length. Payload truncated (1026302)
Date Published: 9/9/2010
ESX host reboots, becomes unresponsive, or experiences a purple diagnostic screen when logging into the service console (1026321)
Date Published: 9/7/2010
Snapshots structure disappears after removing and deleting virtual disks (1016190)
Date Published: 9/7/2010
A virtual machine might fail due to a VMware Tools memory leak that occurs each time memory info is reported by the guest operating system (1026892)
Date Published: 9/7/2010
Creating RDM is not supported on Local Storage (1017530)
Date Published: 9/7/2010
UDP packet loss with MSI interrupts on VMXNET3 (1026055)
Date Published: 9/9/2010
[Internal] Running Windows 2003 32 bit Guests with /3GB switch in boot.ini gives memory errors and BSOD’s (1026851)
Date Published: 9/10/2010

VMware Fusion
Troubleshooting the Fusion network connectivity error: Could not connect Ethernet0 (1027188)
Date Published: 9/6/2010
Troubleshooting missing .vmsn or .vmdk files in Fusion (1027416)
Date Published: 9/9/2010
Troubleshooting the Fusion virtual machine error: No bootable device found (1027417)
Date Published: 9/9/2010
VMware Player 3.x (Windows )
Cursor Pauses at the Edge of a Virtual Machine Window on Some Laptops (1024807)
Date Published: 9/7/2010

VMware Service Manager
Encryption for storing officer passwords in VMware Service Manager (1026721)
Date Published: 9/7/2010
Cannot save recipients that are added to Workflow Customer Approvals (1027163)
Date Published: 9/8/2010
Opening the VMware Service Manager Server Console fails with the error: MMC could create the snapping (1027164)
Date Published: 9/7/2010
Modified logo is not displaying properly on reports in VMware Service Manager (1027271)
Date Published: 9/7/2010
Upgrading the VMware Service Manager database fails with the error: database is currently configured for compatibility mode 80 (1027319)
Date Published: 9/8/2010
Cannot click the Set as Default button in the IPK Streams tab on a new security role (1027341)
Date Published: 9/8/2010

VMware ThinApp
Support and Licensing of ThinApp’s Virtual Internet Explorer 6 on Windows 7 (1027005)
Date Published: 9/10/2010
Virtualizing Internet Explorer 6 from the Command Line (Outside of Setup Capture) in ThinApp (1027297)
Date Published: 9/7/2010
Troubleshooting Virtual Internet Explorer 6 (Virt IE6) Without ThinDirect Redirection (1027303)
Date Published: 9/8/2010
Virtual Internet Explorer Redirects Websites to Native Internet Explorer, and You Want Manual Use of Virtual Internet Explorer, Not Redirection (1027305)
Date Published: 9/8/2010
Troubleshooting ThinDirect Redirection Message, But No Launch of the Virtual Browser and No Redirection to the Virtual Browser (1027370)
Date Published: 9/8/2010
No ThinDirect Redirection of Web Pages from Native Internet Explorer to a Virtual Browser Such as Virtual Internet Explorer 6 (Virt IE6) (1027375)
Date Published: 9/8/2010
Using an Old Version of Thinreg to Implement ThinDirect in a Virtual Browser (1027403)
Date Published: 9/8/2010
Redirecting Web Applications to Virtual Internet Explorer 6 with ThinApp ThinDirect (1027406)
Date Published: 9/8/2010
Ports Needed for ThinApp Converter (1027570)
Date Published: 9/10/2010
Which Plug-Ins Virtualize Correctly for Internet Explorer 6? (1027580)
Date Published: 9/10/2010
ThinDirect Redirection of Web Page Ports from Native Internet Explorer to a Virtual Browser (1027581)
Date Published: 9/10/2010
Customization or Avoidance of the ThinDirect Redirection Message for Web Pages Redirected from Native Internet Explorer to a Virtual Browser (1027583)
Date Published: 9/10/2010
Converting a Password to Base64 for ThinApp Converter Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Hosts, or Fileshares (1027587)
Date Published: 9/10/2010

VMware vCenter Lab Manager
Unable to Repair the Host in VMware vCenter Lab Manager (1027287)
Date Published: 9/7/2010

VMware vCenter Server
Searching for a specific user when attempting to assign user permissions in vCenter Server fails (1027107)
Date Published: 9/6/2010
vCenter Server incorrectly displays the amount of licenses in use by ESX hosts (1027410)
Date Published: 9/9/2010 
When opening a virtual machine remote console you receive the error: Unknown MKS event (1017275)
Date Published: 9/7/2010
vCenter Server shows USB devices for an ESXi host as No Name Provided (1027274)
Date Published: 9/7/2010

VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat
Installing the Packet Filter Driver on a NIC team (1027288)

Date Published: 9/7/2010
Enabling fast auto-switchover on vCenter Servers with remote databases when the public NIC is lost (1027289)
Date Published: 9/7/2010

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Service Recovery Manager Site Paring Fails with Custom Certificates (1016175)
Date Published: 9/7/2010
Establishing reciprocity in Site Recovery Manager fails with the error: You do not hold privilege "System.View" on ServiceInstance "DrServiceInstance" (1016875)
Date Published: 9/7/2010
Repair Maintenance does not complete or fails in vCenter Site Recovery Manager (1016610)
Date Published: 9/7/2010
You are unable to connect to site recovery manager at: https://<IP>:8095/dr when using vCenter Site Recovery Manager and you receive the error: Permission to perform this operation was denied (1016287)
Date Published: 9/9/2010

VMware vCenter Update Manager
Unable to import ESX/ESXi 4.1 upgrade package to VMware Update Manager 4.1 (1024394)
Date Published: 9/6/2010

VMware View Manager
Connecting to the VMware View desktops using RDP fails (1026786)
Date Published: 9/10/2010
Issues with virtual printing: printers sometimes do not appear in the View desktop or printers mapped from a different client appear (1027293)
Date Published: 9/9/2010
You cannot perform View Composer operations when a replicated View Connection Server instance is stopped or becomes unavailable for a long time. (1023346)
Date Published: 9/8/2010
vSphere Client might not display properly during a View desktop PCoIP session (1026278)
Date Published: 9/8/2010
Configuring Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway for use with VMware View portal (1025861)
Date Published: 9/9/2010
Multimedia Redirection support for Windows 7 clients in VMware View 4.5 (1026179)
Date Published: 9/9/2010
Adding the virtual machine deployed from a template to the VMware View desktop pool displays the warning: Virtual Machines In Use (1026438)
Date Published: 9/9/2010
Network configuration in VMware View virtual desktops (1026498)
Date Published: 9/9/2010
View Composer Agent fails to start if the virtual machine password file is corrupted. (1026633)
Date Published: 9/8/2010
Confirm that correct TCP/IP ports are open on Virtual Desktop (1026766)
Date Published: 9/10/2010
Confirm an available pool exists (1026771)
Date Published: 9/10/2010
Can Not Connect to Desktop (1026774)
Date Published: 9/10/2010
Customization Error received: linked clones stuck in customization state (1026775)
Date Published: 9/10/2010
View Composer agent initialization state error (16): Unknown failure (waited 0 seconds) (1026895)
Date Published: 9/10/2010
Troubleshooting USB redirection problems (1026991)
Date Published: 9/9/2010
Troubleshooting QuickPrep customization problems (1026999)
Date Published: 9/9/2010
Troubleshooting Desktop Pool Creation Problems (1027004)
Date Published: 9/10/2010
Monitoring events in VMware View Manager 4.5 (1027008)
Date Published: 9/9/2010
Pre-assignment of user desktops in a dedicated pool in VMware View 4.5 (1027090)
Date Published: 9/9/2010
Best practices for upgrading to VMware View 4.5 (1027095)
Date Published: 9/9/2010
Authentication issues and UI issues occur on upgraded virtual machines that use Sysprep customization specifications (1027187)
Date Published: 9/9/2010
On Windows XP local mode desktops, smart card authentication fails after you check out the desktop (1027190)
Date Published: 9/10/2010
"Log in as current user" feature fails if the machine name exceeds 15 characters (1027193)
Date Published: 9/10/2010
Network connectivity requirements for VMware View Manager 4.5 (1027217)
Date Published: 9/9/2010
Connecting to or checking out the virtual desktop fails with the error: This desktop currently has no desktop sources available or This desktop cannot be checked out (1027221)
Date Published: 9/9/2010
How to use the vCenter virtual machine as a View unmanaged desktop (1027224)
Date Published: 9/9/2010
Creating a VMware View desktop pool fails with an unknown error (1027226)
Date Published: 9/9/2010
Windows XP SP3 local mode desktop logs users out if the pool is set to "Automatically logoff after disconnect: Immediate" (1027291)
Date Published: 9/9/2010
Creating a desktop pool fails with the error: Customization failed for Machine (1027309)
Date Published: 9/9/2010
Creating a desktop pool fails with permission issues (1027310)
Date Published: 9/9/2010
Provisioning a desktop pool fails with the error: Provisioning error occurred on Pool Desktop_ID because of a configuration problem (1027311)
Date Published: 9/9/2010
Provisioning a desktop pool fails with the error: The status of vCenter at address VC_Address is unknown (1027312)
Date Published: 9/9/2010
Provisioning the desktop pool fails with the error: Provisioning error occurred on Pool Desktop_ID because of a resource problem (1027313)
Date Published: 9/9/2010
Provisioning a desktop pool fails with the error: Provisioning error occurred on Pool Desktop_ID because of a timeout while customizing (1027314)
Date Published: 9/9/2010
The virtual machines in VMware View 4.5 are stuck in the Provisioning or Customizing state (1027315)
Date Published: 9/9/2010
Troubleshooting desktop pool creation problems (1027316)
Date Published: 9/9/2010
Ne
w features in VMware View 4.5 (1027449)

Date Published: 9/9/2010
FAQ: VMware View 4.5 new features and licensing information (1027460)
Date Published: 9/9/2010
Do not close or disconnect from View Client before single sign-on is performed. (1027509)
Date Published: 9/9/2010
View Client might crash when you are connected to a desktop using RDP and you play a video with MMR enabled. (1027510)
Date Published: 9/9/2010

VMware VirtualCenter
VirtualCenter Server service fails frequently with a Win 32 exception (1016837)
Date Published: 9/9/2010

VMware vSphere Management Assistant
How to mount an .ISO image inside the vSphere Management Assistant (1024143)
Date Published: 9/9/2010

New articles published for week ending 9/4/2010

VMware Consolidated Backup
Support for VMware Consolidated Backup (1026945)
Date Published: 8/31/2010

VMware Converter
The Vstor2 UFA Virtual Storage Driver service fails to start (1023795)
Date Published: 9/3/2010

VMware Data Recovery
Unable to access destination store after increasing it in VMware Data Recovery 1.2 (1024210)
Date Published: 9/1/2010

VMware ESX
Degraded performance on ProLiant DL385 G5p (1015517)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
The ESX/ESXi host takes a long time to boot when the DNS servers are unreachable (1023866)
Date Published: 9/3/2010
VMware ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-201008401-SG: Updates VMkernel, hostd, and VMX (1026126)
Date Published: 9/1/2010
VMware ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-201008402-BG: Updates bnx2x driver (1026127)
Date Published: 9/1/2010
VMware ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-201008403-BG: Updates kernel-vmnix (1026129)
Date Published: 9/1/2010
VMware ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-201008406-SG: Updates expat (1026131)
Date Published: 9/1/2010
VMware ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-201008409-BG: Updates tools (1026133)
Date Published: 9/1/2010
VMware ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-201008411-SG: Updates krb5 (1026135)
Date Published: 9/1/2010
VMware ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-201008412-SG: Updates perl (1026137)
Date Published: 9/1/2010
vSphere Client displays a white screen when accessing the virtual machine console (1026153)
Date Published: 8/30/2010
Recreating a missing virtual disk (VMDK) descriptor file for disks split into 2GB files (1026266)
Date Published: 9/2/2010
VMNIC interfaces in Standby on the vSwitch after upgrading from ESX 3.0.x to 3.5 Update 5 (1026414)
Date Published: 9/3/2010
Removing a vNIC within a guest operating system leads to Fault Tolerant virtual machine corruption (1026426)
Date Published: 9/2/2010
When using CISCO ESW 500 Series switches, only the virtual machine that is powered on first has full access to the network (1026427)
Date Published: 9/3/2010
Deploying an RHEL 5.4 template from vCenter 4.x to ESX 3.5.x customization fails (1025885)
Date Published: 9/2/2010
Using VPLEX Metro with VMware HA (1026692)
Date Published: 8/30/2010
ESX/ESXi hosts in a HA cluster randomly display the message: A possible host failure has been detected on <host> in cluster <cluster> in <datacenter> datacenter (1026825)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
How to answer a virtual machine related question from command line? (1026835)
Date Published: 9/1/2010
vMotion fails with the error: A general system error occurred: Multi-answer question encountered while resuming destination. Unable to proceed. (1026837)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
[Internal] Cisco SANTap does not implement SCSI-2 LUN Reset commands (1027085)
Date Published: 9/2/2010
ftbackbone process for HA (High Availability) consumes almost 100% of the ESX hosts Service Console CPU. (1014864)
Date Published: 8/30/2010
VMware ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-201008405-SG: Updates cpio (1026130)
Date Published: 9/1/2010
VMware ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-201008407-SG: Updates tar (1026132)
Date Published: 9/1/2010
VMware ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-201008410-SG: Updates samba (1026134)
Date Published: 9/1/2010
Recreating pass-through Raw Device Mapping (RDM) files for a virtual machine (1026256)
Date Published: 9/3/2010
Cannot cold migrate a Virtual machine – vCenter service dump – Win32 exception: Access Violation (0xc0000005) (1014778)
Date Published: 8/30/2010
iDRAC stops when the ESX NIC is loading (1016153)
Date Published: 9/3/2010
Installing OSP tools packages on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 after uninstalling VMware Tools tarball package fails with a cpio error (1025669)
Date Published: 9/2/2010
Continuous vMotion migration of a virtual machine between VMware HA hosts can fail with AlreadyExists error (1026461)
Date Published: 9/1/2010

VMware ESXi
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery, vCloud: How is vNetwork Distributed Switch protected from site loss? (1025125)
Date Published: 9/2/2010
VMware ESXi 3.5, Patch ESXe350-201008401-I-SG: Updates firmware (1026138)
Date Published: 9/1/2010
VMware ESXi 3.5, Patch ESXe350-200912402-T-BG: Updates VMware Tools (1026139)
Date Published: 9/1/2010
Recreating a missing virtual disk (VMDK) descriptor file for delta disks (1026353)
Date Published: 9/3/2010
Preparing a ESXi host in VMware vCloud Director fails with the error: Unknown host boot type 99 (1026884)
Date Published: 9/3/2010
Connecting to the ESXi 3.5 host via VMware Infrastructure Client fails (1027030)
Date Published: 9/2/2010
Recreating a missing virtual disk (VMDK) descriptor file for imported ESX 2.x virtual machines (1026254)
Date Published: 9/1/2010
Committing snapshots on ESX/ESXi host from command line (1026380)
Date Published: 8/30/2010

VMware Fusion
Information concerning antivirus programs in virtual machines (1026504)
Date Published: 9/1/2010
Creating a new Windows 7 virtual machine from an upgrade disc (1026670)
Date Published: 8/30/2010
Nothing happens when printing from a Fusion virtual machine (1027180)
Date Published: 9/3/2010

VMware Service Manager
When performing an Admin Knowledge Search you receive the error: Please select at least one criteria.. (1026621)

Date Published: 8/31/2010
Cannot create virtual directories in VMware Service Manager Server (1026839)
Date Published: 8/30/2010
Changing the System Titles within System Administration does not change titles as seen on the .htm page (1027057)
Date Published: 9/2/2010

VMware ThinApp
Using Virtualized Internet Explorer 6 with a Legacy Web Application That Requires It (1026562)
Date Published: 8/30/2010
The ThinDirect.msi File in ThinApp Program Files for Implementing ThinDirect Redirection to a Virtual Browser (1026675)
Date Published: 8/30/2010
Unregistering a Virtual Browser That Has ThinApp ThinDirect Implemented for Redirection (1026678)
Date Published: 8/30/2010
Running ThinApp Thinreg /a on a Virtual Browser Gives Error Message: File Does Not Exist (1026885)
Date Published: 8/30/2010
Desktop Shortcut Is Missing after Registration of Virtual Internet Explorer 6 (Virt IE6) with ThinApp ThinDirect Implemented (1026893)
Date Published: 8/30/2010

VMware vCenter Chargeback
Purging samples before upgrading to VMware vCenter Chargeback 1.5 (1026068)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Minimum system requirements for installing VMware vCenter Chargeback 1.5 (1026347)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Back up vCenter Chargeback database and configuration files (1026796)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
vCenter Chargeback uninstaller failed to remove the relevant services, registry entries, and files and folders (1026838)
Date Published: 8/31/2010

VMware vCenter Converter
Installing VMware Converter 4.2 fails with the error: Error 29454 Setup failed to register VMware vCenter Converter extension (1025351)
Date Published: 9/1/2010
Redhat 4 conversion fails or the virtual machine does not boot after successful conversion (1026348)
Date Published: 9/3/2010
When converting a Linux source to an ESX 4.1 host, VMware Converter 4.0.1 Standalone fails at 1% with the error: methodFault.Summary (1025992)
Date Published: 9/2/2010

VMware vCenter Lab Manager
Lab Manager 4.0.2 MKS plugin cannot connect to Lab Manager 4.0.1 or earlier virtual machines (1026569)
Date Published: 8/30/2010
Lab Manager virtual machine fails to power on with the error: File unspecified file name was not found (1026976)
Date Published: 9/2/2010

VMware vCenter Orchestrator
Configure SQL Server Express for Experimental Use with Orchestrator (1026478)
Date Published: 9/1/2010

VMware vCenter Server
VMware VirtualCenter Server service fails to start after vCenter 2.5 upgrade to vCenter 4.0. (1015239)
Date Published: 8/30/2010
How to change language of vSphere email alerts (1015646)
Date Published: 9/1/2010
The Performance Overview tab within vCenter Server reports the HTTP Status 404 error (1016160)
Date Published: 9/1/2010
vCenter Server loses connectivity to the Oracle database with the error: could not resolve the connect identifier (1023987)
Date Published: 9/3/2010
Integration Vmware products: What are the considerations for vCenter Server Heartbeat? (1025018)
Date Published: 9/2/2010
Search function does not work after upgrading to vCenter Server 4.1 (1026092)
Date Published: 9/3/2010
Cannot access instances of vCenter Server in Linked Mode configuration after upgrading to vCenter Server 4.1 (1026346)
Date Published: 9/3/2010
Unable to remove a datastore from the vCenter Server database (1026661)
Date Published: 9/1/2010
Attaching a vCenter Server to VMware vCloud Director (1026866)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Webservices features such as Hardware Status show errors when using interactive or manual authentication (1015957)
Date Published: 9/3/2010
Virtual Machine Guest reboot alarm trigger does not function if virtual machine is rebooted from within Guest OS (1026818)
Date Published: 9/1/2010

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Error: Connection to local Site Recovery Manager https:/x.x.x.x:8095 lost (1015194)
Date Published: 8/30/2010

VMware vCloud Director
Backing up the vShield Manager database (1022135)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Creating additional cells in VMware vCloud Director fails with errors (1022259)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Event Monitoring (Proactive): What considerations should be made for vSphere components within a vCloud environment? (1024921)
Date Published: 9/2/2010
Integration Vmware products: What are the considerations for VMware Converter? (1025129)
Date Published: 9/2/2010
vCloud Director MBeans (1026065)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
VMware vCloud Director 1.0 installation requirements (1026084)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Licensing VMware vCloud Director (1026090)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Installing vShield Manager components on VMware vCloud Director (1026168)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
vShield Manager 4.1 and vShield Edge 1.0 commands (1026257)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Installing vShield Edge fails with the error: Edge is powered-off (1026259)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Verifying that an ESX/ESXi host is configured for network isolation (1026264)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
VMware vCloud Director Architecture and Terms (1026286)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
VMware vCloud Director and VMware vCenter Lab Manager Comparison (1026288)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Allocation Models for Organizations using vCloud
Director (1026290)

Date Published: 8/31/2010
VMware vCloud Director OSGi Container (1026291)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
VMware vCloud Director Cell Architecture (1026292)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
VMware vCloud Director Remote Console Proxy (1026293)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
VMware vCloud Director multi-cell features (1026294)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Database support in VMware vCloud Director (1026295)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Creating a Provider Virtual Data Center in VMware vCloud Director (1026296)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Checking logging for successful creation of a Provider Virtual Data Center (1026297)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
VMware vCloud Director networking (1026298)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Creating External (Provider) Networks in VMware vCloud Director (1026299)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Creating network pools in VMware vCloud Director (1026300)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Generating SSL certificates for VMware vCloud Director (1026309)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Collecting diagnostic information for VMware vCloud Director (1026312)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Creating Microsoft Sysprep packages on VMware vCloud Director cells (1026313)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Creating an Organization in VMware vCloud Director (1026316)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Troubleshooting guest operating system customization issues using VMware vCloud Director (1026317)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Creating an Organization Virtual Data Center in VMware vCloud Director (1026320)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Catalogs in VMware vCloud Director (1026324)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Deploying a vApp from a vApp template (1026327)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Virtual switch support for VMware vCloud Director (1026328)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
VMware vCloud Director components (1026339)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Customizing a Windows NT vApp Template (1026377)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Installing VMware vCloud Director software on the first server (1026381)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Installing VMware vCloud Director software on additional servers (1026382)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Key features of VMware vCenter Chargeback 1.5 (1026412)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
vCloud Director and vSphere Interactions (1026465)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Accessing a VMware vCloud Director cell fails with the error: A remote error was encountered (1025709)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Unable to remove vCenter Server or an ESX host from VMware vCloud Director (1025716)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Configuring Oracle databases for VMware vCloud Director (1025768)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Customizing the vCloud Director User Interface Using CSS (1026050)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Setting the Customization Script for Virtual Machines in VMware vCloud Director (1026614)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
vSphere vApps in a vCloud Environment (1026699)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Setting the Customization Script from the REST API in VMware vCloud Director (1026773)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Capacity Monitoring (Growth): How does VCD handle monitoring of storage space, both used and free? (1024920)
Date Published: 9/2/2010
Event Monitoring (Proactive): What considerations should be made? (1024922)
Date Published: 9/2/2010
Event Monitoring (Proactive): What is available for vCD monitoring? (1024924)
Date Published: 9/2/2010
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery, vCloud: How should vShield Edge components be backed up? (1025126)
Date Published: 9/2/2010
Integration Vmware products: What are the considerations for vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM)? (1025128)
Date Published: 9/2/2010
Integration Vmware products: What are the considerations for vCenter Config Control? (1025130)
Date Published: 9/2/2010
Fault Monitoring (Reactive): How can network, disk space utilization, and services/daemons be monitored on VCD cells? (1025404)
Date Published: 9/2/2010
Fault Monitoring (Reactive): Does VCD support SNMP or SMASH? (1025430)
Date Published: 9/2/2010
VMware vCloud Director 1.0 network requirements (1026088)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Overview of vShield Manager 4.1 logs (1026255)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Stopping, starting, or restarting the VMware vCloud Director service (1026310)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Lifecycle of a Provider Virtual Data Center and Organization Virtual Data Center (1026314)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Viewing the virtual machine console in VMware vCloud Director using 32-bit Mozilla Firefox running on 64-bit Unix (1026322)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Joining a Windows guest domain using VMware vCloud Director (1026326)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Configuring the VMware vCloud Director cell maintenance message (1026337)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Hourly usage data in VMware vCloud Director (1026351)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Customizing a Solaris vApp Template (1026379)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Configuring network and database connections for VMware vClo
ud Director (1026384)

Date Published: 8/31/2010
vCloud Data Collector in VMware vCenter Chargeback 1.5 (1026454)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Fault Monitoring (Reactive): What considerations should be made for load balancers in a vCloud environment? (1025433)
Date Published: 9/2/2010
Event Monitoring (Proactive): How is Hyperic used to monitor VCD? (1025959)
Date Published: 9/2/2010
Performance Monitoring: What ports should be monitored on a vCloud cell? (1025970)
Date Published: 9/2/2010
Per Virtual Machine Licensing (1026548)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Supported browsers for VMware vCloud Director (1026735)
Date Published: 8/31/2010
Configuring Logging for VMware vCloud Director Cells (1026815)
Date Published: 8/31/2010

VMware VirtualCenter
Rollup jobs for vCenter database running on Oracle fail with error message PLS-00201 identifier stats_rollup3_proc must be declared. (1015776)
Date Published: 9/2/2010

VMware vShield Edge
Assigning a vShield for VMware vCloud Director license key in vCenter Server (1026479)
Date Published: 8/31/2010

VMware vShield Endpoint
Disabling Windows Security Center anti-virus notifications for vShield Endpoint (1026746)
Date Published: 8/31/2010

VMware vSphere Client Plug-ins
Upgrading vSphere Client fails with the error: Error applying transforms. Verify that the specified transform paths are valid (1023938)
Date Published: 9/3/2010

VMware Workstation
Installing VMware Workstation in openSUSE 11 (1026369)
Date Published: 9/2/2010