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A free-of-charge virtualization solution, which has now been discontinued.

VMWare Server is no longer maintained and will be replaced by other VMWare products. Support ended on June 30, 2011.

http://www.vmware.com

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MySql/RedHat, High I/O Wait ... for a few hours... then disappears

I've got a RH server as a VMWare instance logging GPS fixes 24x7. The transaction volume hasn't changed over the months (in fact I am pruning the transaction table more aggressively now) with only 600k to 800k records at a given time. There are no…
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Creating and Promoting new DC/DNS win2k3 server as ESX host

I have a win2k3 stnd dc/ dns as a vm server (1.0). I recently upgraded to Vsphere4 and want to move the dc to a new vm on our new ESX host. I've read that converting a dc vm is not the best idea and I should just create a new vm, dcpromo and…
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VMWare Host Not Responding - VMs are Disconnected (ESXi 3.5)

I have inherited a VMWare environement ESX v3i 3.5. When I opened Virtual Centre, one of the Hosts showed up as Not Responding. The error I am seeing is: Unable to acquire licenses because license source is unavailable: The license manager has not…
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vCenter 5.1 SSO Configuration option not available in Web Client?

Problem I just finished separately installing vCenter Server 5.1. I installed the components separately but on the same machine using a local SQL 2008 R2 DB (not SQL express). Everything appears to be working correctly with the exception of SSO. It…
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add space to virtual disk on vmware

I have a VMWare Server 3.5 system with 2 VMs. On one powered on vm I changed the disk size from 1TB to 1,5TB. But the vm didn't see any new unallocated space so that I reboot twice the server. But nothing was happened... the OS on guest is CENTOS…
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vCenter server with both academic and Federal licensing?

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing issue? Background We have two servers running VMWare Academic licensing and just purchased two more under Federal licensing. The academic licensing will be converted soon and we'll…
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VMWare Server VM Network Utilization

I run multiple blogs atop VMWare Server. I have been looking for a good way to monitor the bandwidth each of these blogs uses. I would especially like a tool that allows me to count the bandwidth from the first of each month, and the current…
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What does your SMB VMware cluster look like?

We are a SMB looking to bring on a second VMWare server. Currently our primary server is running local VMDK images. Assuming we have two nicely sized machines (dual quad xeons, 16gb ram), and abuot 6-10 instances to run supporting 50 users -- what…
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vmware unique cpu identifier

I'm looking for a way to generate, or derive, a unique CPU identifier. For example: If SERVER_A uses vmotion from HOST_A to HOST_B, I want to be able to tell the differences between the cpus. Any idea?
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vmware server to esxi 5 blue screen

I have a server centos 5.5 running vmware server 2 on it. I decided to install esxi5 on a different machine and test it. I copied one of my virtual machines on esxi 5. But machine I copied gives a blue screen error. I even converted copied machine…
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Issues with VMWare 2.0.2 installation on CentOS 6.3

I have an i7 machine (server) and on which I am running CentOS 6.3. I am trying to install VMWare 2.0.2.0 and I am having problems in identifying the headers for C Compilers when doing the configuration (when running vmware-config.pl). I have…
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*How to login to VMWare Infrastructure Web access without username and password

When I am on the local machine I want to access the VMWare Infrastructure Web access without typing username and password. The old gui console from the 1.x series could just connect locally without that. Another solution would be if Firefox somehow…
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Any way to stop VMwareUser process from crashing and consuming 99% of CPU?

I'm running Windows Server 2008 x32 under VMware Workstation v6.5.2. VMwareUser.exe process crashes regularly, and uses 95% of CPU until its shut down manually. When I shut down VMwareUser, I suddenly lose the ability to copy/paste between the host…
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VMware 2.0.2 on Windows Server 2008 R2 - Guest 100% CPU, Host 8%

I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 on 64bit machine with 16 GB RAM and 2 x E5620 CPUs. This host running VMware 2.0.2 with 5 guests: 3 x Windows 2008 2 x Windows 2000 (after p2v - VMware convertor) they all configured to use 1 CPU (not specified…
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How can I keep my vmware guest process fully resident in memory on Ubuntu linux host?

I am running a single Windows XP guest instance on a Ubuntu Desktop Linux (8.04) host via VMWare Server (2.0.0). When I initially start up the guest, it puts roughly 1.2GB of memory resident for the process (observing RES column for vmware-vmx in…
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