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While doing the VMware vCenter 4.1 setup on Windows 2008 R2 recently, I have encountered a problem “Error 28038. Setup cannot create vCenter Server Directory Services instance” after re-setup vCenter server.

The solution is simple as below:

Remove Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) server role on Windows Server 2008.

• Click Administrative Tools
• Click Server Manager
• Click Roles
• Click Remove Roles
• Click Next
• Un-check Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
• Click Next
• Click Remove
• Click Close

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I’m getting an “error message: 28038″ just before the VMware VCenter Server installation end as screen shot below:

Workaround:
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I have a OpenSuSE 11 running on my laptop VMware Workstation 6.5.1 recently. During VMware Tools installation, I found a weird error show as below:

“The following VMware kernel modules have been found on your system that were not installed by the VMware Installer. Please remove them then run this installer again.”

vmblock
vmhgfs
vmmemctl
vmxnet

Execution aborted.

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