VMware Workstation, VMware Player and VMware Server seem like redundant products. However there are quite a few distinctions, that are quite apparent...

Step 1, 2 & 6 only applies to hosted products, but not ESX Server. The other steps are regarding hw or guest environment and will also apply to...

When the client pc where the viclient is installed can't resolve the dns name of the esx host you get the following when trying to open the...

The amount of time a virtual machine waits in the queue in a ready-to-run state before it can be scheduled on a CPU is known as ready time. The...

A virtual machine in VMware Server, Workstation and Player can have virtual network cards that are "bridged", "NAT" or...

When trying to setup an NFS data store you get this cryptic error message and the data store is not mounted. The problem might be permission...

In vSphere 5 vCenter includes an optional web server component that is much better than earlier based on Adobe Flex that makes it possible to access...

All these tests were performed on an HP DL360G5 with local storage. The windows VMs tested were 32 bit Windows Server 2003 Standard with all updates...

ESX is an acronym for Elastic Sky X GSX is an acronym for Ground Storm X Both names were confirmed by VMware employee JMills in this thread:...

This message typically comes right after you've installed VMware tools inside a linux guest. VMware tools will at the end of it's process eject the...

Problem This  issue has been observed in environments where linked clones are in use. Provisioning of new VMs may suddenly stop working and...

Problem We have observed this happening in environments where we're using VMware Composer with linked clones. It will prevent new VMs from being...

We have observed this issue when upgrading from ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5 when only one of two nics that were uplinks of the switch of the management network...

When you download the UpdateXpress System Pack you have get a package with a bunch of files. Make sure to unpack all this package on the local file...

When trying to setup an NFS data store you get this cryptic error message and the data store is not mounted. The problem might be permission...

After adding a new ESX host to the environment provisioning of new VMs fails. We can see messages like these in View Manager event log: Desktop...

You are trying to install/upgrade vCenter 4.1 on a 32 bit host. vCenter 4.1 only supports 64 bit Windows architectures and will no longer...

When trying to upgrade a VMware ESX host to 4.0u2 using the VMware vSphere Host Update Utility may fail with the following error message:   ...

When installing Trend Micro OfficeScan to a desktop it creates a globally unique identifier. This is a problem in environments where you're cloning...

This situation has been repeatedly observed on many guests after upgrading an ESX environment from 3.5u4 to 4.0u1 on Windows Server 2008 guest VMs....