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Monthly Archives: January 2011

New Articles Published for Week ending 1/29/2011

VI SDK
Recommended values in the soapAction field when forming Soap Requests for vSphere API (1033447)
Date Published: 1/27/2011

VMware ACE
Connecting a second mouse or keyboard directly to a hosted virtual machine (1033435)
Date Published: 1/24/2011

VMware Data Recovery
VdrFileRestore fails to run on Linux based operating systems (1033645)
Date Published: 1/27/2011

VMware ESX
Cannot create an additional disk on a different datastore on ESX while restoring the virtual machine (1030790)
Date Published: 1/24/2011
Booting the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 or later operating system in a virtual machine reports APIC timer calibration warnings (1032607)
Date Published: 1/28/2011
vSphere pricing, licensing, and compatibility FAQs (1033021)
Date Published: 1/28/2011
Windows XP/Windows Server 2003 machines do not restart automatically after a scheduled update (1033153)
Date Published: 1/25/2011
VMware support for FalconStor Network Storage Server Virtual Appliance (1033480)
Date Published: 1/24/2011
Installing an RHEL6 system with a basic video driver when using the default video RAM of 4MB fails (1033557)
Date Published: 1/26/2011
Deactivating upgraded license keys (1033584)
Date Published: 1/28/2011

VMware ESXi
Enabling logging for Likewise agents on ESX/ESXi 4.1 (1026554)
Date Published: 1/28/2011
Recording ESX or ESXi VMkernel state with vsi_traverse (1033317)
Date Published: 1/27/2011
VMware View virtual machine fails to connect to the network with the error: Unable to Add Port; Status (bad0006)=Limit Exceeded (1031055)
Date Published: 1/27/2011
Checking cpuinfo information on an ESXi host (1031785)
Date Published: 1/28/2011

VMware Player
VMware Player Redistribution and Support (1033263)
Date Published: 1/24/2011

VMware vCenter CapacityIQ
Licensing VMware Products (1032647)
Date Published: 1/28/2011

VMware vCenter Configuration Manager
Updating the VMware vCenter Configuration Manager License Manager license fails with the error: Access Validation Failed (1033086)
Date Published: 1/24/2011

VMware vCenter Converter
Booting a Windows virtual machine that was created from a P2V/V2V conversion fails (1033243)
Date Published: 1/24/2011
Enabling the use of non-root user for conversion of powered-on Linux machines (1033551)
Date Published: 1/26/2011

VMware vCenter Server
Starting VMware VirtualCenter Server service fails with the error: Failed to initialize: Invalid Locale (1032339)
Date Published: 1/24/2011
Upgrading the vCenter database to version 4.1 fails with the error: the specified @job_name ('Event Task Cleanup') does not exist (1032434)
Date Published: 1/24/2011
Performance charts display only the past day's data when viewing past week, month, and year charts (1032755)
Date Published: 1/25/2011
Adding an ESX host to vCenter Server fails with the error: Cannot install the vCenter agent service. Cannot upload agent (1031905)
Date Published: 1/27/2011

VMware View Manager
Single Sign-on does not work in VMware View Manager (1026797)
Date Published: 1/28/2011
Choppy audio when viewing streaming Quicktime content over PCoIP (1027783)
Date Published: 1/28/2011
Removing a ThinApp package from VMware View Manager fails with the error: This application is currently assigned and can not be removed (1028622)
Date Published: 1/28/2011
Installing VMware View Agent fails with the error: The system must be rebooted before installation can continue (1029288)
Date Published: 1/24/2011
Unable to use ThinPrint in VMware View desktops connected using View portal (1029399)
Date Published: 1/25/2011
When using a PCOIP Session text in Internet Explorer 7 is fuzzy (1029731)
Date Published: 1/28/2011
Adding a Thinapp package in VMware View 4.5 fails with the error: Failed to load ThinApp Management support interface (1029732)
Date Published: 1/24/2011
Installing a VMware View Replica server fails with the error: Error: 28018. There was an error creating a MS Direct Service Instance (1029813)
Date Published: 1/24/2011
Accessing the View Admin console using a browser after upgrading to VMware View Manager 4.5 fails with a Java exception error (1029971)
Date Published: 1/28/2011
Adding vCenter Server to the VMware View Manager Admin console fails with the error: Error saving vCenter entry (1033223)
Date Published: 1/24/2011
Unable to log in to the VMware View Connection server (1028739)
Date Published: 1/27/2011
Logging in to VMware View Manager using WTOS-based Wyse Thin client fails at the authentication stage (1030673)
Date Published: 1/28/2011 
Changing the order of network card binding in VMware View virtual machines (1029111)
Date Published: 1/27/2011 
VMware View Agent is in an unreachable state after deploying a Windows XP pool (1027775)
Date Published: 1/28/2011

VMware Virtual Desktop Manager
Migrating Linked clone pools to a different or new Datastore (1028754)
Date Published: 1/28/2011

VMware vSphere Web Access
Browser Compatibility for vCenter Server Web Access (1033383)
Date Published: 1/25/2011

VMware Workstation
USB devices attached to xHCI ports on Linux hosts do not work in virtual machines (1033561)
Date Published: 1/25/2011

New Articles Published for Week ending 1/22/2011

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for VMware
Connecting a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware virtual machine to an internal SMT server for activation code registration and updates (1033230)
Date Published: 1/19/2011

VMware ACE
Mouse movement is not smooth in a hosted virtual machine (1033416)
Date Published: 1/21/2011

VMware Converter
Running Windows update on a virtual machine created using P2V fails with the error: Exception Processing Message c0000013 (1032862)
Date Published: 1/20/2011
VMware Help, such as vSphere Client Help and Site Recovery Manager Help, is not displayed in Google Chrome (1033384)
Date Published: 1/21/2011

VMware ESX
ESX/ESXi 4.1?USB???? (1033087)
Date Published: 1/17/2011
Virtual machine with its CD-ROM drive mapped to the CD-ROM drive of the host fails with the error: readv(/dev/hda) failed: Input/output error (1282) (1033128)
Date Published: 1/21/2011
Enabling VMware MIBs on an ESX 3.x host (1016794)
Date Published: 1/17/2011
Configuring an ESX host to capture a Service Console coredump (1032962)
Date Published: 1/17/2011
Disabling ports in the 5900 range (1033195)
Date Published: 1/21/2011
VMware Infrastructure 3.x ??? vSphere 4.x ?? SCSI ??????? (1033285)
Date Published: 1/20/2011
NMI kernel messages are reported when performing disk operations (1032466)
Date Published: 1/18/2011

VMware ESXi
Enabling SSH on an ESXi 4.1.x host when hostd is unavailable (1033013)
Date Published: 1/17/2011

VMware Service Manager
VMWare Service Manager Support for the Safari browser and the browser on iOS devices (like iPad or iPhone) (1028114)
Date Published: 1/21/2011
Support for VMware Service Manager 8 on a 64 bit database (1027768)
Date Published: 1/21/2011
Can we run VMware Service Manager V9 on MS SQL Server 2008 R2 (1027767)
Date Published: 1/21/2011
A duplicate QD is generated in the template if a customized customer approval screen is available when upgrading to VMware Service Manager 9 (1027769)
Date Published: 1/21/2011
The Section without Heading widget appears like a Collapsible widget in VMware Service Manager (1027770)
Date Published: 1/21/2011
You cannot type text in the task description field after adding it to a tabbed object (1027771)
Date Published: 1/21/2011
When using VMware Service Manager 9 you receive the error : (Infra.Services.Messaging) Either BOF or EOF is True, or the current record has been deleted.. (1027772)
Date Published: 1/21/2011
When assigning a customer approval using the Other option and selecting a choice you see the error : No recipients are defined (1027774)
Date Published: 1/19/2011
When creating a new message template the screenset list shows all screensets from all partitions even if you do not have access to them (1027777)
Date Published: 1/19/2011
VMware Service Manager does not recognize a SQL Server in a cluster (1029768)
Date Published: 1/18/2011
Does the VMware Service Manager support Symantec Notification Server 7 through Altiris connector (1030455)
Date Published: 1/18/2011

VMware ThinApp
Unable to use VMware View 4.5 Thinapp repository hosted on Microsoft Cluster Server (1031195)
Date Published: 1/19/2011
Redeeming Promo Codes (1032068)
Date Published: 1/18/2011
Promo codes not received (1032855)
Date Published: 1/18/2011

VMware vCenter Server
Verifying vCenter Server 4.1 jobs and stored procedures (1029824)
Date Published: 1/18/2011
Unable to view Performance Charts and Storage Views in vCenter Server (1030779)
Date Published: 1/20/2011
Customization of Linux guests does not produce FQDN for hostname (1033056)
Date Published: 1/19/2011
Starting VMware VirtualCenter Server service fails with the error: Data source name not found (1031513)
Date Published: 1/21/2011
vCenter Server 4.x ???????????? (1033142)
Date Published: 1/17/2011

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
LUN discovery using EMC RecoverPoint SRA fails with the error: Failed to get attribute 'arrayId' for node 'LunList' (1032556)
Date Published: 1/20/2011

VMware vCenter Update Manager
VMware Update Manager configured to use an Oracle database fails with the error: Failed to retrieve data (1032845)
Date Published: 1/19/2011

VMware vCloud Request Manager
VMware vCloud Request Manager secure set-up checklist (1033148)
Date Published: 1/17/2011

VMware View Manager
Converting the format of GPO files in View Manager 4.5 to ADMX (1030641)
Date Published: 1/21/2011
Increasing the video memory on VMware View desktops (1031002)
Date Published: 1/18/2011
View Composer 4.5 Installer fails with Error 28014 Unable to close the firewall (1031035)
Date Published: 1/17/2011
Connecting to the VMware View desktop fails with the error: Virtual Desktop is not available (1031168)
Date Published: 1/18/2011
Recomposing the linked clone pool fails with the error: Invalid configuration for device "0" (1031425)
Date Published: 1/18/2011
Unable to set the compression level in VMware View Manager 4.x ThinPrint Device Setup settings (1031463)
Date Published: 1/20/2011
The VMware View Client freezes when connecting to VMware View Connection Server (1031795)
Date Published: 1/18/2011
VMware View Manager reports a Java Exception error when viewing pools (1031841)
Date Published: 1/18/2011
Logging in to linked clone virtual machines prompts to install new hardware (1031986)
Date Published: 1/21/2011
Launch the VMware View Client fails with the error: You may already have an instance of the View Client running (1032669)
Date Published: 1/18/2011

VMware VirtualCenter
Enabling verbose logging for the VMware High Availability agent on ESX/ESXi hosts (1031247)
Date Published: 1/17/2011

New Articles Published for Week ending 1/15/2011

VMware ESX
Unable to mount the CD/DVD-ROM drive inside a virtual machine (1031746)
Date Published: 1/13/2011
vSphere Client reports the status of VMware Tools as Unmanaged (1032763)
Date Published: 1/13/2011
Troubleshooting issues where Update Manager cannot remediate an ESX/ESXi host (1032707)
Date Published: 1/11/2011
Root account permissions have been removed or misconfigured on an ESX host (1031192)
Date Published: 1/13/2011

VMware ESXi
Troubleshooting issues where Update Manager cannot upgrade an ESX/ESXi host (1032626)
Date Published: 1/11/2011
Changing the default password hashing algorithm from md5 to sha512 in ESX 4.x (1032666)
Date Published: 1/13/2011

VMware ThinApp
Deploying a ThinApp package in the VMware View 4.5 environment fails with the error: HRESULT hr = 0×80070050. The file exists. (1027266)
Date Published: 1/11/2011

VMware vCenter CapacityIQ
Reclaiming unused disk space in CapacityIQ (1033046)
Date Published: 1/14/2011

VMware vCenter Server
Installing vCenter Server 4.1 on Windows 2008 R2 fails with the error: Error 1402. Could not open key: UNKNOWN… (1029282)
Date Published: 1/11/2011
Unable to apply a license key to vCenter Server (1032605)
Date Published: 1/10/2011
Windows 7 templates fail to configure after deploy with the error: Windows Setup encountered an internal error while loading or searching for an unattend answer file (1032750)
Date Published: 1/10/2011
Deploying an .ova with the vSphere Client fails at 99% (1032863)
Date Published: 1/12/2011
vCenter Server 4.x warning: Encountered an error when checking domain trust health: error code: 1717 (1027113)
Date Published: 1/12/2011

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Setting up a 32-bit ODBC connection to the VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager database on a 64-bit operating system (1033012)
Date Published: 1/13/2011

VMware vCenter Update Manager
Troubleshooting issues when Update Manager is unable to stage patches to an ESX/ESXi host (1032625)
Date Published: 1/11/2011
Troubleshooting issues when you cannot enable or download the Update Manager plugin (1032664)
Date Published: 1/11/2011
Troubleshooting Update Manager installation failures and Error 25085 caused by a port conflict (1032709)
Date Published: 1/11/2011

VMware vCloud Request Manager
VMware vCloud Request Manager Infrastructure Hardening (1033096)
Date Published: 1/14/2011
VMware vCloud Request Manager Network Security Hardening (1033100)
Date Published: 1/14/2011

VMware View Manager
Installing VMware View Composer fails with the error: Error: 28014 (1026513)
Date Published: 1/13/2011
Installing and configuring VMware View Transfer Server (1031682)
Date Published: 1/13/2011
Stopping, starting, or restarting the VMware View Connection Server service (1026026)
Date Published: 1/12/2011
Windows 7 desktops with Thinprint display only the default printer (1032872)
Date Published: 1/13/2011

New Articles Published for Week ending 1/8/2011

VMware Data Recovery
Enabling verbose logging within VMware Data Recovery (1032685)
Date Published: 1/5/2011

VMware ESX
Physical server to virtual server conversion using VirtualCenter Converter plugin fails (1018251)
Date Published: 1/6/2011
Cannot connect to vCenter Server 4.0 or ESX 4.0 using vSphere Client (1020901)
Date Published: 1/4/2011
VMware ESX 4.0, Patch ESX400-201101403-BG: Updates mptsas and mptspi device drivers (1029422)
Date Published: 1/5/2011
VMware ESX 4.0, Patch ESX400-201101402-SG: Updates OpenLDAP and OpenLDAP-clients (1029423)
Date Published: 1/5/2011
VMware ESX 4.0, Patch ESX400-201101405-SG: Updates glibc, glibc-common, and nscd RPMs (1029881)
Date Published: 1/5/2011
The hostd service fails with the error: Invalid Access Mode specified in Endpoint Spec: httpandhttps (1031373)
Date Published: 1/3/2011
Downloading the German language package for ESX 4.x (1002467)
Date Published: 1/4/2011
VMware ESX 4.0, Patch ESX400-201101404-SG: Updates sudo package (1029421)
Date Published: 1/5/2011
VMware ESX 4.0, Patch ESX400-201101401-SG: Updates VMkernel, CIM, Scripts, VMware Tools, hostd, and VMX (1029424)
Date Published: 1/5/2011
VMware ESX 4.0, Patch Release ESX400-201101001 (1029426)
Date Published: 1/5/2011
VMware ESX 4.0, Patch ESX400-201101406-BG: Updates pam RPM (1030515)
Date Published: 1/5/2011
VMware ESX 4.0, Patch ESX400-201101407-BG: Updates DHCP (1030516)
Date Published: 1/5/2011
Understanding SCSI device/target NMP errors/conditions in ESX 4.x (1030381)
Date Published: 1/3/2011

VMware ESXi
Integrating a Kickstart config file in an ESXi ISO fails to be found during installation (1026373)
Date Published: 1/3/2011
VMware ESXi 4.0, Patch ESXi400-201101401-SG: Updates Firmware (1029420)
Date Published: 1/5/2011
VMware ESXi 4.0, Patch Release ESXi400-201101001 (1029425)
Date Published: 1/5/2011 
VMware ESXi 4.0, Patch ESXi400-201101402-BG: Updates VMware Tools (1029419)
Date Published: 1/5/2011

VMware Service Manager
Submitting VMware Service Manager Customer Portal Submission forms fails with the prompt: Please ensure all fields are correctly entered (213712)
Date Published: 1/6/2011
About the Poll Process IDs in the HD_POLL table reference in VMware Service Manager 9.0 (1032617)
Date Published: 1/6/2011
Accessing the VMware Service Manager API when Integrated Security is enabled (1032667)
Date Published: 1/6/2011

VMware vCenter Application Discovery Manager
About the listener.root.log message: WARN [Sensor]: Unused hardcoded parsers: LuhnAlgorithm (1032745)
Date Published: 1/7/2011

VMware vCenter Server
vCenter Server using an Oracle database fails when registering a virtual machine with a VMDK file on a missing datastore (1032726)
Date Published: 1/6/2011 
Restoring and copying vCenter Server alarms (1032660)
Date Published: 1/7/2011

VMware View Manager
When you delete View desktops that run in local mode without deleting the virtual machines in vCenter Server, anchor snapshots can remain in vCenter Server. (1032622)
Date Published: 1/3/2011

VMware VIX API
Packaging VIXCOM to run VIX API applications on additional machines (1032593)
Date Published: 1/4/2011

VMware vSphere Web Services SDK
The VirtualMachineConfigSummary.cpuReservation property is not available when connected directly to the ESX host (1032596)
Date Published: 1/4/2011

New Articles Published for Week ending 12/25/2010

VMware ThinApp Converter

Index to a linked web of helpful ThinApp Converter articles (1030400)

Using ThinApp Converter to automatically install and capture applications and create virtual applications (1030340)
The virtual machine host for ThinApp Converter (1030341)
The virtual machines in the ThinApp Converter process (1030342)
The application installer and project output file shares for ThinApp Converter (1030343)
The ThinAppConverter.exe file for ThinApp Converter (1030949)
The ThinApp Converter INI configuration file (1030344)
The [HostEnvironment] section of the ThinApp Converter INI file (1030345)
The [VirtualMachine<N>] section of the ThinApp Converter INI file (1030346)
The [Settings] section of the ThinApp Converter INI file (1030347)
The [AppSettings:<AppName>] section of the ThinApp Converter INI file (1030348)
ThinApp Converter pre-defined environment variables for the INI configuration file (1030349)
The PackageIniOverrideFile parameter in the [Settings] or [AppSettings:<AppName>] section of the ThinApp Converter INI file (1030351)
The ProjectPostProcessingCommand parameter in the [Settings] or [AppSettings:<AppName>] section of the ThinApp Converter INI file (1030352)
The StopOnError parameter in the [Settings] section of the ThinApp Converter INI file (1030393)
The BuildAfterCapture parameter in the [Settings] section of the ThinApp Converter INI file (1030394)
The ExclusionList parameter in the [Settings] section of the ThinApp Converter INI file (1030395)
The DetectIdle and InstallerTimeout parameters in the [Settings] section of the ThinApp Converter INI file (1030396)
InputUncPath, InputMountUserName, InputMountPassword, InputMountPasswordBase64, and InputMountPasswordPrompt: The application installer directory parameters in the [Settings] section of the ThinApp Converter INI file (1030397)
OutputUncPath, OutputMountUserName, OutputMountPassword, OutputMountPasswordBase64, and OutputMountPasswordPrompt: The project output directory parameters in the [Settings] section of the ThinApp Converter INI file (1030398)
Types of installation command files and order of search for an installation command for each application to be virtualized with ThinApp Converter (1030403)
The InstallationCommand parameter in the [AppSettings:<AppName>] section of the ThinApp Converter INI file (1030405)
Troubleshooting a failed application installation during ThinApp Converter application virtualization (1030406)
Autodesk 2011 does not virtualize properly (1031436)

New articles published for week ending 1/1/2011

VMware ESX
VMware Infrastructure Client cannot increase the size of a vmdk larger than 1023GB (1018164)
Date Published: 12/29/2010

VMware Fusion
Fusion Pricing and Upgrade FAQ’s (1032507)
Date Published: 12/29/2010
Workstation and Fusion show the error: cannot open file dndlog.conf (1032587)
Date Published: 12/31/2010

VMware Service Manager
Custom text fields that are set to HTML in VMware Service Manager 9.x are blank when the request is created via WorkflowCreate API (1029293)
Date Published: 12/30/2010

VMware vCenter CapacityIQ
Licensing Capacity IQ 1.5 (1032064)
Date Published: 12/28/2010
Licensing Capacity IQ 1.5 fails with the error : License type currently not supported (1032499)
Date Published: 12/28/2010

VMware vCenter Server
Windows template customization fails at 93% with the error: Cannot complete customization (1032066)
Date Published: 12/29/2010

VMware vCenter Update Manager
Troubleshooting when Update Manager is unable to remediate a virtual machine (1031782)
Date Published: 12/28/2010
Troubleshooting issues installing Update Manager (1032443)
Date Published: 12/28/2010
Troubleshooting issues when Update Manager is unable to scan an ESX/ESXi host (1032444)
Date Published: 12/28/2010
Troubleshooting when Update Manager is unable to download patches (1031781)
Date Published: 12/28/2010
Update Manager is unable to scan a virtual machine (1032435)
Date Published: 12/28/2010

VMware Workstation
VMware Worstation 7 Upgrade and Pricing FAQ’s (1032501)
Date Published: 12/28/2010