Specifications

Administration Guide
278 VMware, Inc.
Failover in Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 Guest Operating
Systems
For!the!Windows!2000!and!Windows!Server!2003!guest!operating!systems,!you!can!
increase!the!standard!disk!TimeOutValue so!that!Windows!will!not!be!extensively!
disrupted!during!failover.
To increase the TimeOutValue
1 Select!Start!>!Run,!type!regedit.exe,!and!click!OK.
2In!the!left!panel!hierarchy!view,!double‐click!HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,!
System,!CurrentControlSet,!Services
,!and!Disk.
3 Select!the!TimeOutValue!and!set!the!Data!value!to!x03c!(hexadecimal)!or!60!
(decimal).!
By!making!this!change,!Windows!waits!at!least!60!seconds,!for!delayed!disk!
operations!to!complete,!before!generating!errors.
4Click!OK!and!exit!the!Registry!Editor!program.