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Locked file on VM

We had an issue last week with a host server that resulted in the guest VMs being removed and re-added to the vCenter inventory. This has worked fine with the exception of 1 VM that seems to have a...

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Can't move a server from a Datastore to another one.

Hello, First post on the forum  I can't move one of my VM server from a datastore to another one (when it is stopped of course).The "migrate" option is disable. If i clone this server, i can move the...

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How can I enforce password maximum age for ESXi 4.1 Server(force to change...

How can I enforce password maximum age for ESXi 4.1 Server(force to change after xx days)

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Help/Suggestions with setup

Hi, I'm new to the community and as well as with VMWare. I'm now supporting the VMWare ESX 4.1.0 in the company using Dell PowerEdge R710 with 8x2.4Ghz CPU, 24GB ram and 4TB HDD. The server runs the...

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The VMware ESX server does not have persistent storage

Hi, we have an HP Proliant ML350 G6 with a p410i RAID controller. The raid was created using 4 1TB disks, as this: Disk 1: RAID 0Disks 2-4: RAID 5 The server is running ESXi 4.1 since 2011 without any...

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ESXi Service Console : Resource throttling

Hi, We have 2 HP Proliant Servers (ML350 G5 and ML350 G6), each running ESXi free licensed.VM's are on shared storage (SAN, connected via dedicated gigabit, mounted via NFS)jumbo frames are enabled. We...

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PSOD Exception 14 when adding a NIC dual gigabit NC360T

I have ESXi 4.1 running on a IBM SystemX 3250 that makes use of the two onboard gigabit NICs.Now I'm trying to add a dual gigabit NC360T card.When rebooting the server after connecting the NIC, I get a...

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Convert large VM 2TB multiple disks with spanned dynamic volume

ENVIRONMENT: VMware ESXI 5.0 Enterprise LicenseSource Datastore - NetApp ApplianceDestination Datastore - New NetApp ApplianceWindows 2003 Server OS VMware Disks LayoutHard Disk 1 - Thick Lazy...

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Problems with LFN and transfer speeds/TCP Window Scaling

We have a 1Gb link between two sites. The latency is 19ms. This limits transmission speed to about 25Mbps with the default max TCP window of 64kb. Is there a way to turn on window scaling in 4.1? Does...

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ESXi 4.1 Update manager

Where do I download the Update manager for ESXi 4.1 , I am going to upgrade to 5.1.1 and it seems that Update Manager is the way to go.

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Multipath Design with 5 hosts and 3 MD3000i Storage

We currently have an existing system iSCSI network that has been running for about 3 years now and it work, but has serious performance issues.  Image 1 shows our current setup.  To improve on this...

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Default Gateway changing when configured from DCUI

Hi Community, We have a couple of re-purposed ESXi 4.1 hosts. They were moved from one blade server chassis to another to be put into service for another project. We are re-configuring them (re-IPing)...

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Benchmark Testing

Greetings, We use VMWare (ESXi 4.1 and VSphere 5.1) to run automated tests and we are wondering if there are tools to manage VMs performances in order to benchmark our system. If our typical setup is...

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Issue installing DELL MEM pack on ESXi 4.1

Hello, I am having an issue with one of the ESXi 4.1 host when I try and install the DELL MEM pack for EqualLogic. Error: Installing packages: cross_oe.....

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My VMS does not initiate more in VMWARE ESXi 4.1 after turning off and...

Hi,I have avery serious problemwithVMWARE. I havefourVMsinstalled on aDellPowerEdgeR710server. TheseVMshave theRed Hat 5 64 bitsor CentOS, bothwere runningperfectly.SoI took ashutdownin threeof the...

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Could not complete network copy for file....

All of a sudden, we are not able to deploy from a template to one of our ESXi 4.1 U3 clusters.  It goes to 87% and then we get "Could not complete network copy for file".  We can deploy from this same...

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How to get updates for vCenter??

Hi all. Earlier in 2010, a client bought an HP Solution with vmWare. The licenses say this: - VMware vSphere adv 1p 1yr9x5Nm lic (have 4 of theese)- VMware vCntr FND for vSphere1yr Nm Lic (just one)...

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expand vmfs volume online

Thanks all your help. I have a VMFS volume with 200G and 1 vm running on it, I want to expand it by: - expand the lun size from san storage to 500G- expand that VMFS to 300G from vcentre.  Is it safe...

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RAID5 Datastore - Crashed/Blank Data Store

Hey Guys, Question. I have ESXi 4.1 U1 and as it was booting it crashed. (lost power) ever since I was unable to boot into ESXi (says no boot device) but RAID show's OK. So after fighting for a few...

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raid degraded, datastore stuck in limbo

I am running esxi 4.0.0, so apparently, I can't install plug ins to use the "maps" feature and see if anything is still pointing to a stuck datastore that won't delete. The raid drives for the...

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