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Now new version (6) of VMware vShere is released. When you open website for vShere Web Client you get following warning (vmware-csd):

The solution is to install VMware Client Integration Plugin. You can download it from here.

Or you can go all the way down on vShere Web Client website to “black space” and there is installation link for VMware Client Integration Plugin.

Let’s see some more newies from VMWare.

Have a nice day,

I was selected as vExpert 2015 in VMWARE for my support on their community.

Thank you 🙂

This year VMware granted me a non-technical certification vExpert. I helped out on VMWare Thinapp forum.

I’m so happy 😉

Problem

When I was installing VMTools on Windows Professional 2000 server I received weird error:

Server didn’t specify any error so I tried to dig into it.

Solution

When you do the installation of application, most of the time, this application installation unpacks its sources into temporary location. So I have looked into %temp% directory while error windows was displayed and I found one directory with actual date. So I have looked into it and I found couple files. One of them was called VMware Tools.msi. I tried to run VMware Tools.msi and it worked out.

I hope this saves someone time 🙂

I had to change NTP servers on 40 ESX servers today. When I started to click this settings via vShere Client I was bored after two pieces 🙂 Then I have decided to use vShere PowerCLI.

Run vShere PowerCLI. Then I had to connect to Virtual Infrastructure server:

Connect-VIServer vCenterSERVER_Name.domain

List all ESX servers and put this list into variable:

$hosts=Get-Cluster Cluster | Get-VMHost

And the last, run couple commands to proceed:

ForEach ($ESX in $hosts)

{

     Remove-VMHostNtpServer -NtpServer “NTP_SERVER_OLD1” -VMHost $ESX | Out-Null;

     Remove-VMHostNtpServer -NtpServer “NTP_SERVER_OLD2” -VMHost $ESX | Out-Null;

     Add-VmHostNtpServer -NtpServer “NTP_SERVER_NEW_01” -VMHost $ESX | Out-Null;

     Add-VmHostNtpServer -NtpServer “NTP_SERVER_NEW_02” -VMHost $ESX | Out-Null;

     Get-VMHostService -VMHost $ESX | Where-Object {$_.key -eq “ntpd” } | Restart-VMHostService -Confirm:$false | Out-Null

}

And everything was set in couple of seconds 🙂

Remove-VMHostNtpServer – removes NTP settings for ESX

Add-VMHostNtpServer – adds NTP settings for ESX

Last command restarted ntpd service.

Have a nice day,

Today I was at the VMWare ThinApp forum answering questions and I found out nice question asked in very funny and nice way:

Is there any Simplified Chinese language pack

I tried to copy and paste it into google translator and it really translated even Simplified Chinese questions 🙂

Have a nice day,

When you install ESXi server on brand made servers (IBM, HP, DELL,…) you should use customized ESXi ISO images prepared by vendors:

• HP
• IBM
• DELL

I hope this will help someone.

One Exchange 2010 server didn’t mount databases after each reboot. When I looked to Event viewer I saw following events:

The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service terminated with service-specific error %%-2137221213

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Today we tried to run Windows Server 2012 RC on VMWare. Our version of OS on VM was set to Microsoft Windows Server 8.

After first reboot after installation we got black screen with little circles going around forever:

Never ending cycling

We couldn’t make it work. But we found solution. Just change OS Version of VM to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit).

For Windows 8 it is required to change OS Version to Windows 7. Thanks to Róbert Švec.

We hope VMWare will fix this soon 🙂

Hey guys

I’ve just reached Expert Level at VMWare Thinapp Community forum by crossing 750 points 🙂

I hope I’ll get more and more points for good answers 🙂