Step 1, 2 & 6 only applies to hosted products (Workstation, Server, Player, Fusion), but not ESX Server. The other steps are regarding hw or...

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...

VMware only provides a Virtual Infrastructure Client (also known as VIC or viclient) for the Windows platform. VMware have stated (during VMworld)...

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 VMDK file can be grown while no virtual machine is using it. Growng the VMDK only makes the virtual harddrive bigger - filesystem within the VMDK...

You can't mount a snapshotted LUN and get immediate access to it.  You might in some rare occations also lose a LUN even though you're not...

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:...

You might see variants of this error: "Host CPU is incompatible with the virtual machine's requirements at CPUID level 0x80000000001 register...

There are actually three different versions, namely ESX 3.5 ESXi Embedded and ESXi Installable. ESXi used to be called 3i. Differences between ESX...

vmkusage used to be a very nice VMware provided non supported application that existed for ESX 1.5x and 2.x. In the beginning you had to download it...

Converting a physical computer into a virtual one is also known as p2v (physical to virtual). Converting a virtual one to a physical one is also...

It depends. Usually the difference is marginal. VMware has published a performance benchmark

This error message indicates that your VM didn't start properly and was powered off. This typically happens if your VM is trying to start in 64 bit...

With newer versions of ESX/VC (3.5u1/2.5u1 and newer),  installing under 64 bit windows is not a problem anymore. It used to be a problem in...

Few thoughts on snapshotting (and reverting to those snapshots) Active Directory Domain Controllers. "Hey, I'm going to patch this Domain...

If you are using update manager and notice intermittent messages in the task panel of VI Client which state that com.vmware.vcIntegrity is...

VMware have released a comprehensive document that describes all the guest OSes they support on all their virtualization products. It can take some...

When trying to bring up the interface I get the following error messages: Reconfiguring network interfaces...SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0:...

VirtuaCenter database grows overtime, and may become slow. Databases with sizes over dozens of gigabytes are not unheard of. If the size becomes a...

1. VMware Tools on Linux systems is not installed automatically 2. Many new linux distros now includes the open source version of VMware Tools...