http://www.virtualisation.co.uk Virtualisation Blog Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:02:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Have a script that automatically creates a VM prompts for memory size, number of CPU's etc. Worked fine on HyperV in 2008 SP2, but was getting intermitent failures on 2008 R2. After a little bit of head scratching found out it was failing setting memory size to an odd number (e.g 2047 ... http://www.virtualisation.co.uk/2010/02/hyperv-r2-broke-my-vm-creation-script/ A 2008 server with the Hyper-V role sometimes hangs at  Shutting Down and a power cycle is required to restart it.   This appears to occur with some servers due to BIOS incompatability, have read on some forums that upgrading to lastest motherboard BIOS has resolved issue. Personally had this happen on ... http://www.virtualisation.co.uk/2009/09/hyper-v-host-hangs-at-shutting-down/ On several occasions have received a 'Fatal Error' when trying to install Integration Components  into a Hyper-V Virtual Machine. This seems to happen when upgrading from a previous version or in my test lab when I have been doing some P2V testing. Uninstalling Hyper-V Guest Components using Add/Remove programs doesn't fix ... http://www.virtualisation.co.uk/2009/06/fatal-error-installing-hyper-v-integration-services/ One of the interesting things coming up in VMware Infrastructure 4 or vSphere as it is now known is the new licensing options aimed at securing a bigger slice of the lucrative SME marketplace. Many SME's were put off on the pricing of VMware Infrastructure 3 with Enterprise and Virtual Centre ... http://www.virtualisation.co.uk/2009/05/vmware-vsphere-essentials/ Software company Veeam have today released v3 of their free FastSCP program which now supports coping files to and from ESXi hosts without any hacking or modification required on ESXi. The solution is able to copy powered off virtual machines to or from a Windows machine, jobs can be scheduled if ... http://www.virtualisation.co.uk/2009/03/copying-files-to-and-from-an-esxi-host/ So you've loaded Hyper-V, created your virtual machine and loaded Windows server onto the virtual machine.  You are using remote desktop to connect to your Hyper-V host and power  on the virtual machine. The first thing you'll notice when you try to use the mouse is that you'll receive the message ... http://www.virtualisation.co.uk/2009/03/hyper-v-mouse-not-captured-in-remote-desktop-session/ I'd tried VMware server 2 back in beta but found I couldn't get on with the new management web interface so stuck with my trusted VMware server 1.0.x A colleague mentioned recently VMware Server 2 could be managed using the familair VI client usually used to manage ESX hosts. Sure enough after ... http://www.virtualisation.co.uk/2009/03/managing-vmware-server-2-using-virtual-infrastructure-client/ If you are running ESX or ESXi U2 or above and have an application that creates VMware backups using snapshots (e.g Vizioncore , Veeam ) you may notice sometimes you are left with a snapshot called Consolidated Helper Snapshot followed by a number. If you try to remove the snapshot on ... http://www.virtualisation.co.uk/2009/02/unable-to-remove-consolidated-helper-snapshot-under-esx-and-esxi/ During install of vmware tools on newly p2v'd server error 1606 was displayed and vmware tools would not install. Error ocured as location of administrators My Documents had been redirected to a network location which could not be accessed as no network driver installed. If you are unable to change the path ... http://www.virtualisation.co.uk/2009/02/error-1606-installing-vmware-tools/ Received this error today trying to create a new snapshot of a Windows VM guest running on VMware ESXi. VI client showed no existing snapshots, tried reboot of VM and ESXi host but still unable to create a new snapshot. Was eventually able to create the snapshot by renaming the ... http://www.virtualisation.co.uk/2009/01/esx-snapshots-an-invalid-snapshot-configuration-was-detected/