Welcome to the Community,
by default the policy is set to "Route based on originating virtual port ID", which is a round-robin load distribution where the physical uplink (vmnic) is assigned to the VM once it's powered on. There are several different ways to configure the policies, and I'd suggest you take a look at e.g. http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1004088 which explains this.
André
Ancient thread here, but in case anyone comes looking, "A snapshot operation is already in progress" usually means exactly that - changing the number of snapshots to be saved, for example, triggers an automatic (and largely invisible) process of deleting and cleaning up files. The solution, usually, is to let the machine run, for however long it takes. You should notice the number of snapshots decreasing over time.
From the number of .vmdk files it looks like the VM runs on many snapshots (<vmname>-00000x.vmdk files)!? This not only consumes a large amount of disk space, but also impacts the virtual machine's performance. Take a look at the Snapshot Manager and consider to delete unneeded snapshots from there. With the large number of files, I'd strongly recommend you backup all the files prior to starting the "cleanup".
André
If you don't want to use teaming (for whatever reason) then either create vSwitches with only a single uplink, or create multiple port groups on a vSwitch with multiple uplinks and override the failover order on each port group to define active, standby and unused vmnics.
André
So if we have 2 VMnic without NIC teaming at a time just one VMnic is enable to transfer traffic to outside and another is in standby state .Am I right ?
Update: I noticed that the screen resolution of my OS X guest VM is changed properly as soon as the window dimension reaches a level of 1024x768 or higher. As soon as the window dimension would lead to a lower guest resolution, it is not updated at all, and the screen turns blurry. Can anybody confirm this?
This seems to affect OS X guests only. Within Windows or Linux VMs the resolutions are also scaled to lower values than 1024x768. I was wondering how practically this is, as Low DPI guests are likely requiring lower resolutions on Retina displays to fit on the High DPI screen in window mode.
Thanks Akoplylov. Well that was really helpful. Even I thought that the logical volume had to be recreated. As, it has been long time since I worked on building RAIDs and playing with hardware. Nowadays everything is SILOed and we just do our work. So. anyway, I am going to rebuild it but I was searching for DL 360 G5 I tried F8 F9 and F11 options but nowhere I could find where I could go ahead and recreate the Logical Volume.
This came along installed with Windows Server 2008 Std so not sure what Logical Volume they created and while I was installing VMWare I found that I saw only 2 x 73 GB disks available out of 4. I remember usually you can press the Insert key after highlighting the drives and you can then choose the different types of RAID environment you can create. But I could not do that and in VMWare there was no options where I can go and select drives and it had only few options like DETAILS and 2 more options if I remember correctly and the OK to continue option. There was no option where you could select multiple drives so I pressed continue and it proceeded.
I tried to see that I could download a SMARTSTART CD for 360 G5 and rebuild it but I could not find one as it was all old. Looks like the G5 versions came in 2010. Atleast if I find the SMART START CD that I could use to build the system it would be great. But thanks for your response. It has been almost several years I touched HW. 
I have a late 2013 Retina MacBook Pro (13 in). Under Fusion 6.0.2, I was able to set the screen resolution for my Win 8.1 VM (within Windows) at 1920 by 1200. By unchecking the "enable Retina display" in the Display settings in Fusion, my resolution setting "stuck". However, once I upgraded to Fusion 6.0.3, my screen resolution for Win 8.1 constantly starts out at 1280 by 800. I reset the resolution to 1920 by 1200. I make sure the "enable Retina display" in Fusion settings is disabled. Still, next time I start up my VM, I'm back to 1280 by 800. Has anyone else seen this? What else should I check out or do? Thanks!
By default both NICs are active (round robin), but a single VM will always be only assigned to one of them. With configuring the failover order you can define which vmnic will be in use (active) for either a single port group or the vSwitch at all.
Btw. you can use multiple uplinks without the need to configure teaming (e.g. EtherChannel, LACP, ...) on the physical switch, if this is what you are concerned about.
André
Yes that is the (unwanted) expected behavior of the existing state of VMware Tools in an OS X 10.9 Guest.
BTW if you're using an iMac or Thunderbolt Display have a look at: Re: Mavericks Screen Resolution
IIRC the G5 models were introduced in 2006 or 2007, and either had an E200 or P400 SmartArray controller. Anyway, pressing F8 when the RAID controller shows up while booting the server should bring you to the ORCA (Option ROM Configuration for Arrays) where you can setup the RAID configuration. You actually only need SmartStart CD if you want to e.g. configure multiple logical volumes on the RAID sets, as ORCA will just create a single logical volume once you setup a RAID set.
André
The only officially supported version of VMware Fusion under OS X 10.9 Mavericks is VMware Fusion 6. Some Users have reported VMware Fusion 4.x works for them while others reported many issues and upgraded to VMware Fusion 6.
So, make proper* backups of your VM's and give it a try and or download the latest version of VMware Fusion 6(6.0.3 at the present time) and take it for a free 30 day trial.
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* It is a known fact that Time Machine is not 100% reliable backing up/restoring Virtual Machines under all circumstances/conditions. Also backing up Virtual Machines via Time Machine is disk/time intensive and wastes a tremendous amount of space for something that may be corrupt and worthless come time to restore it. At a minimum I would exclude Virtual Machines from Time Machine and with the Virtual Machines shutdown, not suspended, and VMware Fusion closed then manually copy the Virtual Machines Package(s) to an alternate location, preferably on to a different physical hard disk. Then keep the User Data that is stored within the Virtual Machine backed up off of the Virtual Machine on a regular basis so as to always have a current User Data Backup. If you have to restore a properly backed up Virtual Machine that is not as current at least you'll have a working Virtual Machine and current User Data to go forward with when you find out your Time Machine Backup of the Virtual Machine fails.
Also have a look at: Best Practices for virtual machine backup (programs and data) in VMware Fusion (1013628)
Thanks! I just marked it as answered because i figured it out more or less by reading a lot online...
hello again.
Unfortunately i have never configure HP servers and could not give you some advise about it, but usually there is a string with a combination of buttons on the stage of initialisation of storage controller which starts the storage utility. Or you can look out in the UEFI/BIOS, i guess the storage utility is more preferable than Smart CD.
Btw http://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/psi/swdDetails/?lang=en&cc=us&sp4ts.oid=3288144&swItem=M… is not fit to you?
update: well while i wrote this post, there comes another advise
I confirmed the videos are working through my account on my PC - I would suggest checking the help section on VMware.com to see how you can report an issue with the web site.
hi
assume we have an Esxi host with 2 physical Nic and one virtual machine running on it . without NIC Teaming which NIC will be chosen to transfer traffic to outside the Esxi ?
and I want to know in this scenario how does Vswitch work? does it send frame base on mac address ?! let's say both Nics are connected to the same switch.
Thanks .
Hello.
I have a Win7-host and XP-VM.
When I copy/paste form XP-VM to Win7-host my host disk space decreases and I have to manually clean c:\users\<username>\AppData\Local\Temp\vmware-<username>\VMwareDnd folder.
But, when I copy/paste from Win7-host to XP-VM the VM disk space decreases too and I got an out of space error.
What is the folder I have to clean in XP-VM?
Thanks.
I successfully figured out that there is a property called ObjectId on Get-Task that matches the VM Id.
You may keep track of the tasks by matching the VM Id and the Task ObjectId. In my case I was exporting a VM to OVA template.
PS C:\> $vm = Get-VM -Name "vm1"
PS C:\> Get-Task | Where { $_.ObjectId -eq $vm.Id }
Name State % Complete Start Time Finish Time
---- ----- ---------- ---------- -----------
Export OVF template Running 5 10:37:14
PS C:\>
I recorded the VM Id to the hashtable and then matched that with the task.
Function ExportOVA ($VAppName,$VMtoExport)
{
$VMtoExp = Get-VM -Name $VMtoExport
$null = Export-Vapp -Name $VAppName -VM $VMtoExp -Destination $OVAStaging -Format Ova -ErrorAction Stop -RunAsync
$exportTab.Add(($VMtoExp).Id, $VAppName)
}
while($runningTasks-gt0){
Get-Task | % {
If ($exportTab.ContainsKey($_.ObjectId) -And $_.State -eq "Success") {
...
}
}
}
Hi,
I have deleted a datastore from vCenter (no data on the datastore), when I try to re-create the datastore I can not see the storage in the list.
I have not done anything to the backend VPLEX, how can I recreate that datastore is there something I need to do on the backend?
Ubuntu server v. 14.04 appears only to be released in a 64bit version
That is not true, it's available in both 32-bit and 64-bit builds.
http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04/ubuntu-14.04-server-i386.iso
http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04/ubuntu-14.04-server-amd64.iso