Nested 64bit VMs on a Mac

By Tom, on December 7th, 2011%

I have just come back to the Mac world, with a purchase of a Macbook Pro. Its fully loaded with 16GB of RAM, and I am planning on using it for my practice lab for VCAP.

Once I fired it up after upgrading the RAM, I started VMware Fusion, installed ESXi 5 and a Windows . . . → Read More: Nested 64bit VMs on a Mac

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Error 25030. Setup failed to load a kernel driver (vmrawdks)

By Tom, on February 1st, 2011%

When upgrading to the latest version of VMware Tools on one of my Server 2008 R2 VMs, I got the error message:

Error 25030. Setup failed to load a kernel driver (vmrawdks).

I restarted the server, hoping that would fix the problem, but I got the exact same error again.

I then found a . . . → Read More: Error 25030. Setup failed to load a kernel driver (vmrawdks)

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PowerCLI 4.1 Poster

By Tom, on January 12th, 2011%

I have been getting deeper and deeper into PowerCLI lately. It has been especially helpful in making changes to my 8 Host – 40 VM test environment.

I don’t have anything great to contribute to the scripting community yet, but I thought I would publish a link to the PowerCLI 4.1 Poster.

I picked mine . . . → Read More: PowerCLI 4.1 Poster

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vCenter Converter Task FAILED $Reconfig$

By Tom, on January 7th, 2011%

Recently I was running a P2V conversion of a Server 2003 file server. It had approximately 200GB in Hard Drives, so the conversion took a considerable amout of time. (25 hours and 46 minutes to be exact)

Finally at 95% it stopped with:

Error: An error occurred during reconfiguration

FAILED: Unable to create ‘\\.\vstor2-mntapi10-shared-69066906007E00000000000007000000\$Reconfig$’.

I . . . → Read More: vCenter Converter Task FAILED $Reconfig$

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Upgrade ESXi 3.5 to 4.1 – HA Configuration Fails “A general system error occurred: Invalid fault”

By Tom, on January 5th, 2011%

After upgrading my ESXi 3.5 host to ESXi 4.1 using the Update Manager, HA configuration kept failing.

I would get an error saying: A general system error occurred: Invalid fault.

I tried all the basic things like checking all the VMs to make sure VMware tools were not mounted on any machines. They were not.

. . . → Read More: Upgrade ESXi 3.5 to 4.1 – HA Configuration Fails “A general system error occurred: Invalid fault”

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Create a Windows Server 2008R2 Template for ESXi 3.5

By Tom, on November 15th, 2010%

Creating an activated sysprepped template of Windows Server 2008 R2 in VMware ESXi 3.5 is fairly straight forward. I found an excellent tutorial here:

http://d3planet.com/rtfb/2010/05/18/creating-an-activated-windows-server-2008-r2-vmware-template-using-microsoft-sysprep/

I did have one problem that I wanted to share in case it happens to someone else.

After creating the image, installing Anti-virus and all Windows updates, I sysprepped the . . . → Read More: Create a Windows Server 2008R2 Template for ESXi 3.5

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Hello World!

By Tom, on November 11th, 2010%

This is my first post on VirtualCitizen.org, I hope it to be the first of many talking about my experiences and lessons learned as a System Admin for a large enterprise. My main focus will be on Virtualization, Storage and Scripting with a few other things thrown in.

I welcome any comments and will do . . . → Read More: Hello World!

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