Is Exchange 2010 Supported on VMware?
Nov17

Is Exchange 2010 Supported on VMware?

KB ID 0000333  Problem At time of writing (30/09/10) it seems I cant get a definitive answer! My colleague tried to log a third line support call with Microsoft this week, as soon as they found out that Exchange 2010 was running in a VMware environment, they (literally) hung up on him. Solution Well Microsoft’s own documentation says it IS Reference: Fair enough Exchange 2010 is supported on a “Third party Hypervisor ONLY...

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GNS3 Cannot Connect Network Interfaces when running on VMware vSphere
Nov17

GNS3 Cannot Connect Network Interfaces when running on VMware vSphere

KB ID 0000671  Problem I have plenty of real ASA firewalls to play with, but it’s getting round to re-certification time, so for ease I thought I’d run up a Virtual ASA on my vSphere 5 box just for testing and breaking. However no matter what type of Virtual Network adaptor I used (vmxnet3, e1000, etc) I could not connect to the virtual firewall. Solution 1. Firstly make sure you actually have an IP address in the correct...

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IP Address Conflicts with VMware ESX and Cisco ASA
Nov17

IP Address Conflicts with VMware ESX and Cisco ASA

KB ID 0000635 Problem My colleague was setting up a DMZ server for one of our clients, it was a virtual server that was presented to the DMZ of a Cisco ASA 5510. Every time he gave it a static IP address it popped up an IP address conflict (no matter what the IP address was). Windows has detected an IP address conflict Another computer on this network has the same IP address as this computer. Contact your network administrator for...

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