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Would that only work if the drive was thin provisioned? Not the case on this machine unfortunately.

Hah, VMWare vCenter Standalone converter is going ~10x faster than the datastore browser. Total time for 220GB is projected at 6 hours.

Not your fault. I just wish I knew a faster way to get 220GB from a drive formatted as NTFS to a VMWare datastore.

1389 minutes. Wow, this better not crash.

There are quite a few elements to that question. Could it have been prettier with my hardware? Yes. Is it prettier on my PC than it is on a console due to some graphics settings and higher resolution? Yes. Could they have squeezed better graphics without substantially adding to the development...

That does sound really good, but it is $1600 on Amazon. Still a good deal I think, though I'm not familiar with ASUS' recent laptop build quality and remember it being an issue a few years ago.

That's all I'm doing, still 1700 minutes left on my 220GB VM file copy.

Apparently. 2560x1440 with everything maxed is very playable on Home1, and the view distance is long enough to allow ridiculous sniping with arrows if you feel like it. Could it be better? Sure, but it isn't bad. Is there a decent article on the subject?

Bought DiskInternals VMFS recovery program, mounted the drive and a 2TB WD to my machine, and got a copy to a FAT32 formatted disk. Now uploading the files to another disk on another running ESX server. It currently says it will take 2100 minutes to finish the copy of this 220GB file. When I...

Dude...just pointing out that this isn't a great time to be awake.

The range on that thing is exceptional, at least 150' for my headset and 200'+ for my Logitech diNovo Edge. Through walls.

I used to use the Linksys Bluetooth dongle with some stuff, but Bluetooth itself just isn't reliable enough for connections. Went back to the Logitech proprietary for key/mouse and wired for everything else.

Google has "Google Checkout" and "Google Wallet" which are used by a bunch of online vendors. They also own YouTube, have e-mail services, and about a million other things.

Scandisk shows nothing. Moved some spare files off the drive to free disk space and checked for updates. Now it won't start saying out of disk space. Great.

They only know it if you have registered with one of their services and signed in from that computer before. Cookies do the rest.

Copy failed again. Now trying to download to my local machine, but it shows 760 minutes to complete. Not sure what to try next, I'll do a scandisk in the OS and then try moving the drive to one of the other ESXi boxes and copying from there.

Take a look at the top-right of the top bar....does it have your e-mail address listed?

When was price determined by manufacturing costs? I always thought that price was determined by the following: Demand (basically the usual) Competition (not much in this case - primarily from themselves) Benefit (measurable improvement to the previous model - moderate in this case) So it...

Mine hasn't changed. Still at the top, still with shopping. Perhaps because I am logged in?

Now that I was able to kick everyone out, I've got the machine shut down. Turns out that was taken while a backup was being attempted. After the backup was stopped, the snapshots were removed. Now that I'm in the Datastore Browser, I'm just trying a file-by-file move from the 250GB Intel SSD to...

My wife got me this shirt ;)

Ah, I wasn't sure if vCenter or the ESXi machine itself had something of the sort. I'll be able to run this scan tonight when the machine is offline. Yup. 2GB .vswp file, I'll look into relocating it. There is a .vmsn file, but it is 28.25KB, should I be worried about this? I tried the...

Just tried a Veeam backup, and these are the errors it throws:

Thanks for the detailed assistance Handruin, I appreciate you taking the time. The VM is powered on, and is functioning funkily (occasional 60ms+ latencies and the resulting queue length pile-up, rarely bits of information not being saved). That is one of my worries; backups are not succeeding...

I suspect the disk is failing? What would be the best practice for recovering the VM files to another drive if a clone fails? Is there a more robust method?

Error as follows:

Nope, gave them to his friends with Ubuntu installed. Really cool kid.

A friendly teenage geek was bored this summer, to I gave him a dozen dead compaq laptops. These were all failed screens, power connections, motherboards, etc. Really dead. Just through part swapping he has revived 4 of them. Not financially feasible, and certainly not worth my time, but cool for...

There is only one console-based annoyance (tab to cancel, enter to accept) but less than an hour in that was the new instinct anyway. I understand the principle of the argument, but I can let it slide this time.

I believe that to be a Ferrari F430 with a body kit. That white 512 was very lucky his car went no further under the guardrail.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is a very good game. Some quests cause a very deja vu feeling, probably related to the previous games, but it is pretty, combat is fun, and the dragons are beautiful.

Didn't resize the partition, simply deleted one that wasn't needed (from when it was a physical machine years ago). I'll have the exact error code when I get into work.

I remember my first jaw on the floor audio moment. The first set of speakers I'd ever owned was the original 4.1 channel creative labs cubes. Really awful, but I had no idea. My roommate let me borrow his low-end Grados...that was eye-opening. Since then I've slowly worked my way up the line. My...

You guys keep focusing on substance. There is nothing substantive about trying to game on a laptop.

The "move" keeps failing. This isn't good.

If you want a gaming laptop, image is a higher priority than performance. That means nothing is better than an Alienware.

Actually I was grateful you did the research, and am trying to figure out if I want to go that way. I don't think I'm up for swapping the connections to the fully balanced ones, though.

With all snapshots removed it will let me increase the size of the virtual disk, but not decrease it. Next I'll try using the vSphere vCenter Converter Standalone Client (damn that is a long name) to migrate it to my desktop and then back.

Alienware it is. I suppose you could go with a workstation-grade Lenovo, or the 17.3" XPS, but if they want a gaming laptop, then they really want something that looks like a gaming laptop. That would be the thing with the alien head on it.

The partition resizing is done; it had a partition that is no longer needed. The "resize the disk with VMWare's editor" is the part I'm stuck on. I shut down the VM, right-click on it and choose "edit". Selecting the disk shows everything greyed out. I know having active snapshots can cause...

I now need to reduce the size of a VM's disk. Inside the Win2003 VM, the partition only consumes the first 140GB of the 220GB disk (the other partition has been deleted). Now I would like to make the disk itself only 140GB. Suggestions?

The new version of Veeam has a neat field, when performing a backup, right below the backup speed in MB/s, it states what the bottleneck is (Source Disk, Target Disk, Client, Proxy, etc).

I'm still thinking that that car is totaled. Had he gone into your rear bumper maybe not, but that is a lot of damage at the rear.

Yup, tonight it should be 31F...but by tomorrow it will be back up to 34F. That may be one of only two or three freezing nights all year.

3 year wedding anniversary. Doing Filet Mignon and a Caesar Salad with a Stag's Leap Merlot. Life is good.

That is catastrophically slow. I'm able to convert machines of that size in well under 4 hours.

Wow, I haven't encountered that problem either. Can you try exporting it to another ESX server or other machine running VMWare Player just to rule out the hardware?

Awesome. They must be doing well financially.

Yup. Between you and Santilli. It did get down to 34F last night.

R2 wasn't explicitly on the OK list for vCenter, so I stuck with 2008 Standard. VMWare is currently offering a 40% off deal on their VSA as part of a bundle with some Essential Plus licenses. The whole thing (1 vCenter, 1 VSA, 3 Essential Plus, all with 1 year support) was about $11k.