Category Archives: VMWare
Running an OEM operating system as a virtual machine – “This system is not supported platform”
I recently had to install Windows Small Business Server 2011 for a small client of ours. As with almost every install at the moment, the decision was made to do the install as a VM on ESX 5 as although … Continue reading
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VMware vCenter Error Call “PropertyCollector.RetrieveContents” for object “propertyCollector” on vCenter Server failed
When trying to convert a template to a VM in order to make some adjustments to the image I came across the following error: Call “PropertyCollector.RetrieveContents” for object “propertyCollector” on vCenter Server “VC” failed. After a lot of confusion and … Continue reading
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Tagged Template, vCentre, Virtual Machine, VM, VMWare, vSphere
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VMWare View 4.5 Fix for Windows 7 provisioing error: “View Composer agent initialization state error (18): Failed to join the domain”
View Composer linked clones fail to finish customizing when they are created from a Windows 7 parent virtual machine and the Active Directory is configured on Windows Server 2008. Details Most linked clones that have this problem cannot join the … Continue reading
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Tagged Linked Clone, vCentre, View Composer, VMview, VMWare, vSphere, Windows 2008, Windows 7
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vSphere 4 Active/Active iSCSI
With vSphere 4 iSCSI is now able to bind 2 network adapters via a single vSwitch with two port groups, or bind 2 vSwitches with a single adapter and port group each to the built in software iSCSI initiator. This provides an active/active configuration rather than active/passive and doubles the bandwidth available for storage traffic. Continue reading