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VMware: Creating a snapshot for a virtual machine fails with the error: File is larger than maximum file size supported (1012384)

February 4th, 2010 Daniel Buonocore 1 comment

When Creating a snapshot for a virtual machine fails

Or you receive the error:
File is larger than the maximum size supported by datastore

Note: This error does not occur on ESX 3.5 or earlier.

ESX 4.0 is able to detect when a snapshot file at maximum size cannot fit into a datastore. Instead of allowing the file to be created, which may not work correctly if it grows to big, ESX cancels the operation and displays the above error.

To confirm if the snapshot files may be too big, compare the size of the virtual machine’s base disks against the block size of the datastore which contains the virtual machine’s working directory.

Note: If you are using Raw Device Map, you should compare the size of the RDMs instead of the base disks.

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VMware: Infrastructure + Desktop Support – EOL

February 3rd, 2010 Sander Daems No comments

VMware Infrastructure 3 Support

VMware ESX 1, 2 General
Availability
Date
End of
General
Support
End of
Extended
Support
End of
Technical
Guidance
Version 3.5 2007/12/10 2010/05/21 2013/05/21 2015/05/21
Version 3.0 2006/06/15 2008/12/10 2011/12/10 2013/12/10
VMware ESXi 1, 3 General
Availability
Date
End of
General
Support
End of
Extended
Support
End of
Technical
Guidance
Version 3.5 2008/01/10 2010/05/21 2013/05/21 2015/05/21
VMware Consolidated
Backup 1
General Availability
Date
End of
General
Support
End of
Extended
Support
End of
Technical
Guidance
Version 1.5 2008/07/25 2010/07/25 2013/07/25 2015/07/25
Version 1.1 2007/12/10 2009/12/10 2012/12/10 2014/12/10
Version 1.0 2006/06/15 2008/12/10 2011/12/10 2013/12/10
VMware vCenter Server (formerly VirtualCenter Server), VMware Vmotion, VMware HA, and VMware DRS 1 General
Availability
Date
End of
General
Support
End of
Extended
Support
End of
Technical
Guidance
Version 2.5 2007/12/10 2010/05/21 2013/05/21 2015/05/21
Version 2.0 2006/06/15 2008/12/10 2011/12/10 2013/12/10

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VMpros: My Homelab

January 31st, 2010 Sander Daems 1 comment

Some “blogging” colleagues posted their home lab configuration on the internet, see the list below:

    I also give it a try and post my test lab on my blog.

I own 3 physical machines that I moved a few months ago to the datacenter at my work in Soest (the Netherlands). With a VPN tunnel from my Cisco ASA 5505 (at home) to the datacenter, my 50/50 mbit ISP, it feels like the systems are near me :)
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VMware: RVTools Version 2.8 new release

January 31st, 2010 Sander Daems No comments

Latest Version: 2.8 | January 31, 2010

RVTools is a windows .NET 2.0 application which uses the VI SDK 2.5 to display information about your virtual machines and ESX hosts. Interacting with VirtualCenter 2.5, ESX 3.5, ESX3i or ESX4i RVTools is able to list information about cpu, memory, disks, nics, cd-rom, floppy drives, snapshots, VMware tools, ESX hosts, datastores, switches, ports and health checks. With RVTools you can disconnect the cd-rom or floppy drives from the virtual machines and RVTools is able to list the current version of the VMware Tools installed inside each virtual machine. and update them to the latest version

Whats new:

  • On vHost tab field "# VMs" now only powered on VMs are counted.

  • On vHost tab field "VMs per core" now only powered on VMs are counted.

  • On vHost tab field "vCPUs per core" now only powered on VMs are counted.

  • On vDatastore tab field "# VMs" now only calculated for VM’s which are powered on.

  • Health check "Number of running virtual CPUs per core" now only powered on VMs are counted.

  • Health check "Number of running VMs per datastore" now only powered on VMs are counted.

  • During Installation there will be an application event source created for RVTools. This to fix some security related problems.

  • Some users run into a timeout exception from the SDK Web server. The default web service timeout value is now changed to a higher value.

  • New fields on vHost tab: NTP Server(s), time zone information, Hyper Threading information (available and active), Boot time, DNS Servers, DHCP flag, Domain name and DNS Search order

  • New Health Check: Inconsistent folder names.

  • Improved exception handling on vDisk, vSwitch and vPort tab pages.

  • Download: here

    Information: here

    Source: here

    VMware: VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 6 Release Notes

    January 30th, 2010 Sander Daems No comments

    VMware Infrastructure Management Installer | 29 Jan 2010 (Localized version)
    VirtualCenter 2.5 Server Update 6 | 29 Jan 2010 | Build 227640
    Virtual Infrastructure Client | 29 Jan 2010 | Build 227671

    VMware Infrastructure Management Installer | 29 Jan 2010 (English only version)
    VirtualCenter 2.5 Server Update 6 | 29 Jan 2010 | Build 227637
    Virtual Infrastructure Client | 29 Jan 2010 | Build 227637

    What’s New

    Guest Operating Systems Customization Improvements

    Customization support for the following guest operating systems has been added in this release:
    For more complete information about supported guests included in this release, see the VMware Compatibility Guide.

    • Windows 7 Enterprise (32-bit and 64-bit)
    • Windows 7 Ultimate (32-bit and 64-bit)
    • Windows 7 Professional (32-bit and 64-bit)
    • Windows 7 Home Premium (32-bit and 64-bit)
    • Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition (64-bit)
    • Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition (64-bit)
    • Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Edition (64-bit)
    • Windows Server 2008 R2 Web Server (64-bit)

    Support for Firefox 3.x Browsers with VirtualCenter Web  Access

    This release adds support for Firefox 3.x browsers with VirtualCenter Web Access. Firefox 3.x is not a supported browser for ESX Server 3.5 Update 5 Web Access with this release

    Note: In many public documents, VMware ESX Server 3.5 is now known as VMware ESX 3.5, and VMware ESX Server 3i version 3.5 as VMware ESXi 3.5. These release notes continue to use the earlier convention to match the product interfaces and documentation. A future release will update the product names.

     

    Source information: VMware 

    Information: VMware vCenter Upgrade Guide

    VMware: The SVGA II driver can Freeze Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7

    January 26th, 2010 Sander Daems No comments

    Carlo Costanzo from VMwareInfo.com has posted the following helpful article:

    The SVGA II driver installed by VMware Tools doesn’t work with 2008 R2 or Windows 7.  Console sessions will randomly lockup.

    http://communities.vmware.com/thread/218244?start=105&tstart=0

    According to the thread there is a WDDM driver in U1 that you can install manually to fix the problem by browsing to -

    C:\Program Files\Common Files\VMware\Drivers\wddm_video

    A good one :)

    VMware: Create performance logging with ‘esxtop’ and view with ‘perfmon’ – Part 1

    January 21st, 2010 Sander Daems No comments

    You can monitor/check your ESX performance with esxtop, by generating a share to your vCenter Server and view the results with Perfmon you can follow this article.

    Create Credentials:

    1. I created a new share on my vCenter 2003 on E:\Logging\

    2. I created a new user with username: Logging and password: Logging

    3. On the new created folder I add the Logging account with full permissions to the security rights:

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    Windows: Howto set default folder view for all folders

    January 21st, 2010 Daniel Buonocore 2 comments

    I stumbled upon this reg key a few weeks ago. If you want to change the default folder view for all users on the local machine use HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. If you want to change it for a single user then use HKEY_CURRENT_USER.

    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

    [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags]
    [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\BagMRU]
    [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags]
    [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU]
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags\AllFolders\Shell]
    “WFlags”=dword:00000000
    “Status”=dword:00000000
    “Mode”=dword:00000004
    “vid”=”{137E7700-3573-11CF-AE69-08002B2E1262}”
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    Software: HP Proliant Support Pack Cleaner

    January 21st, 2010 Sander Daems No comments

    Guillermo Musumeci has written a good tool for removing HP Proliant Support Pack, also a good tip @ Twitter: “Nice tool before p2v action” indeed, you must remove all driver software before you start p2v .

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    Download: Here

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