ESXI 4 server periodically rebooting
I have a server running Vmware ESXi 4.1.0 that's been in production for ~ 2 years. Lately the server has started to reboot every couple of days, causing all the VMs to restart, etc. I'm trying to track...
View ArticleESXi 4.1.0-Patch download via wget
Hi Forum, I found several posts regarding downloading patches via wget but none seems to help with my issue.I used wget for quite some time now to download the patches like thiswget...
View ArticleBest way to connect a SAS Tape drive to a Guest?
I am planning to connect a SAS tape drive to a VM in our ESXi 4 server (on certified hardware). I expected this to be trivial, but as I researched the proper way to do it, I found a lot of confusing...
View ArticleQuestion about sharedPolicyRefCount setting
We have 4 servers in a cluster running ESXi 4.1 U2. I was checking the profile on each host in vSphere and discovered two servers have a Config.GlobalSettings.guest.sharedPolicyRefCount setting of 0...
View ArticleHow to increase ptys in ESXi host.
Hi All, With ESXi 4.1, I found that I can only open 8 ssh connections at the same time, when I try to open the 9th, there will be error "connection refused,can not allocate ptys", and I found there...
View ArticleError connecting to server
I'm attempting to install a bundle from my workstation to an esxi server but not having much luck with vcli... Another co-worker ran the same command on his pc and it works so the issue is on my pc but...
View ArticleEnable VT-x switch for HOST
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop 64Bit LTS guest in my ESXi 4.1 as my development environment. For some reason, I would like to create virtual machines inside it to run some emulators but seems like...
View ArticleESXi 4.1 - how to apply Broadcom driver update??
Hi, we are facing issues with slow speed connection at our server (Dell R410 with Broadcom BCM 5716) and after contact Dell support team, they recommended to install driver update for that NIC, so we...
View ArticleAccidentally changed IP address, cannot log in now
I'm using vSphere ESXi 4.0. I logged in to my host server through vSphere client. Then on the vSphere client interface, I went to "Configuration" tab -> "Networking" link under Hardware, ->...
View ArticlevSphere console error (not fully visible)
I have been using esxi 4.0 and 4.1 for several years. Sometimes I'm having problems when opening consoles within the vSphere client. See screenshot attached. The desktop of the vmware machine is only...
View Articlea host selectiopn
Maybe this is a dummy question : I tried to migrated linux VM from one stand alone host to a clustered host. It is telling me there is no space on one of iscsi drive --4.7 GB left Is it supposed to be...
View ArticleVMs and Templates - Unable to move VM into Folder "The operation is not...
Hey everyone, We are currently running vSphere 4.0. For the entire time that we've been using vSphere, we've been using vApps and Resource Pools in Hosts and Clusters to organize and manage the VMs...
View ArticleHardware info from ESX / ESXi hosts
HI All,How to o identify devices (DOM/HPSIM/ HP SMH/CISCO UCS/ IBM) installed and Hardware vendor applications from ESX 4.x/ ESXi 4.x & 5.xAdvance
View ArticleAdding new array to ESXi 4.1 server
Hello, I'm looking at adding a new array to an ESXi 4.1.0 server. Is it possible to build the array and add it without rebooting the host? The server is an HP ML350 G5. I've installed ESXi 4.1 on a...
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A general system error occured: Migration failed while copying data. Already...
A couple of issues. When I vmotion a vm from one host to another, validation suceeds but after 14% it gives this error Also, I changed DRS automation level to manual but when i try to power on a vm,...
View Articledatastore is not big as the drive
Hi,I have just install ESXi 4.1 update 3 on my fujitsu primergy rx300 S3 with 6x500GB mounted in RAID5, 2x 1.6Ghz XEON 5110 and 8GB of memory.The ESX wassuccessfully installed except the datastore : it...
View ArticleCannot get Network adapter to connect
I just converted to Hyper-V guest over to my VMware platform, however, am not able to get the network adapter connected on one of them. When I go to "edit settings" and click the connected box in the...
View ArticleMemory Reservations and Disk I/O
I am evaluating these settings from VMware KB: Troubleshooting hosted disk I/O performance problems.MemTrimRate = "0"mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE"sched.mem.pshare.enable =...
View Articleoh dear, removed the management interface from vswitch0
Hi guys, I was tired this afternoon and by mistake removed the management interface from the vswitch0. I now cannot get back onto the console... rats. There was another card configured with vswitch0...
View ArticleManaging VMs: Which to use, "Hosts and Clusters" or "VMs and Templates"
Hello everyone, As the subject suggests, when you are managing individual VMs, which is best to use? Hosts and Clusters? VMs and Templates? This is our setup:Previously we had been solely using "Hosts...
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