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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VMWare Server is no longer maintained and will be replaced by other VMWare products.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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Can VMWare Server 2.0 be useful in Production for easing backups?

Let's run this idea by the group here. I am thinking about using VMWare Server in production to host a 2008 Domain Controller with DHCP and DNS, a 2008 member server with WSUS, some virus software, and other "management" utilities a second 2008…
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Any issues with running VMware server on an Active directory server

I am in the proccess of setting up a few virtual servers and i decided that our active directory server has the most free resources currently but when i started the install it returned a warning saying that it is not a good idea installing vmware…
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VMWare Raw Device Mapping Not Working

While I'm waiting for VMWare support to get back to me, I thought I'd ask here. I have a 400 gig LUN presented from a fiber channel SAN to my VMWare host. It's legacy from another virtualization platform and I need to keep it as is to avoid a long…
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VMWare server host agent service won't start

I'm using VMWare Server 2.0 on Windows Server 2003 R2. Sometimes after restarting the host machine, the VMWare host agent service won't start due to an error. This is the error messages from Event Viewer: [Service control manager] Timeout (30000…
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NAT and vmware 2.x

Usually with vmware server 1.x I used NAT mode so that I can reach guest from host and it did work well. Some days ago I upgrade to vmware server 2.x and I noticed that with NAT mode now I cannot reach guest from host (while guest can reach…
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Does this disc configuration make sense

I have a customer with the following set up, does it make sense...? A large VM machine, 64 GB with SAN Then a sql server machine that has Partition C:\ on LUN with Raid 5 Partition D:\ on LUN with Raid 1 Both Partitions are in a Disk array of 10…
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Destination Net Unreachable on an ubuntu VMWare cloud virtual machine

I am configuring a virtual machine to host an API for an application. I entered the vCloud director page and followed these steps: Generated the edges network Created a VDC organization network (192.168.0.1/24 as a gateway and a pool of addresses…
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CPU load high when accessing host disks from guest

I've been trying out VMware server for a while using different guest OS. On all of them I've seen the same thing - a lot of CPU is used when accessing the host's disks from the guest. The System process is using the most. I've tried with both…
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VMWare Server High Processor Usage (Disk I/O)

I have a Dell Power Edge 6850 with 2 physical Dual Quad Core Processors and 24GB of Ram as our VMWare Host Server. We have VMWare Server (Old GSX) installed on this box and have 5 Virtual Servers (Guests) running. The Guest OS's are running off…
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vCenter in a ESXI host that it manages

We have 2 physical servers (A and B), each with ESXI 7.0 installed. We'd like to manage them with vCenter. Can we install vCenter on one of those servers? Is it advisable?
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Getting the name of the Snapshot from a specific VM?

How can I get the name of the snapshot that the particular machine is using? I have tried: Get-VM -Name vdix-test-01 | Get-Snapshot but it returns blank.. I am trying to retrieve the name of the base image here: VMWare Horizon 7 Console Any help is…
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Ram question in VMware Server 2

I understand from the VMware Server 2 documentation that VMware Server 2 is capable of running a 64-bit guest OS underneath a 32-bit host OS, as long as the hardware running the box is 64-bit capable. Here's my situation. We currently have an…
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How to add folder in share in Active directory domian user in vmware

I have window 2008 server as host OS. Then in VirtualMachine i have server 2008 with AD installed with one domain Now i have one laptop with XP and i have joined with that AD Domain. NOw in MY original Host 2008 i have one movies folder which i want…
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Why one of my NICs is going to sleep?

I get a virtual server with RHEL5 in a VMWare infrastructure. This server has two network cards, into different VLANs. Everuting looks to work fine but in a moment, one of the NICs become inactive. If I hold a ping, the first three or four tries…
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DHCP Default Gateway disappears at high load in Windows Server 2003 Enterprise

I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post this, but I can't seem to figure out if it's a VMware problem or not. I have an Ubuntu 32bit 8.04 Server runninng with VMware Server 1 installed and running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise edition.…
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