Removing hidden snapshots
Has anyone experienced the following issue with snapshots and if so do you have a recommendation for a solution? We have a VM with snapshots that do not show up in Snapshot Manager. It is running on a...
View ArticleCreated an NFS datastore for ESX 5.1 but showing 0.0 gb capacity
I created a folder on my bufallo NAS setup for NFS sharing. I then mounted it as a datastore to one of my VSphere hosts following these instructions...
View ArticleCannot see the option to add a new hard disk to Virtual Machine
I am trying to add a new hard disk to my VM, but when I open the wizard to add a new hard disk, there is no option to add one. There is an option to add a cd/rom drive and all the other options. Just...
View Article4.1 Hosts need Bigger SD Cards. Backup Restore then Replace?
Hello to the VMware Community. I have gotten a great deal of various ways to do this but I just want to simpliest and safest method. We have 2 hosts, dell poweredge 910's. Both of them have 2 SD's...
View Articleunable to launch VCENTER Error :Call "ServiceInstance.RetrieveContent" for...
Unable to launch Vcenter Call "ServiceInstance.RetrieveContent" for object "ServiceInstance" on Server "vcenter" failed Product 4.x
View ArticleESXi 4.1 Kickstart - unable to use 'mkdir' to create directories
Hi Guys, I've been building hosts using kickstart for quite some time, but have recently been asked to add a directory under /etc for NTP purposes at build time, and i'm unable to do so. I can create...
View ArticleIndex was outside the bounds of the array
Hello! This is my first post, so first of all let me say hello to everybody out here. Guys, I came here with unusual problem which I can't solve. Here is some background info: - OS Type: Windows 7 Pro...
View ArticleDisk Provisioned Size Greyed Out
I have a virtual SCSI drive for a Windows 2008 64-bit guest. I have recently run out of disk size and need to increase it. From the online help, apparantely I can increase the size even while the VM...
View Articlevcenter 4.0 build 208111 – Error - HA agent on esx 1 in cluster cannot...
vcenter 4.0 build – Error - HA agent on esx 1 in cluster cannot complete HA configuration. This occurred after we turned off hosts for maintenance and brought back up.
View ArticleDisplay on desktop unusable - black background
Hi I am not quite sure how we got there, but when I try to log onto the server the screen shows black where it should be white or grey, and I cannot see any information/programs or text on the desktop....
View ArticleVMware Esxi 4.1.0 stopped detect any USB Device
Hello everybody, it's been a while since my Vmware Server 4.1.0 stopped detecting any USB device that is plugged into. We have done several procedures but any device is not detected, thus we can not...
View ArticleESXi - 4.1 Build Numbers Not Updating After Patches/Updates
I have applied about 3 patches and an update, all went successfully and it stated that it needed to reboot for it to complete. After rebooting each time it still shows the original build number from 3...
View ArticleBest Option for 4.1U1 to 4.1U3 Upgrade
I have the ESXi 4.1 update 1 currently installed (vSphere Hypervisor). We do not use vCenter. I'm trying to figure the best option for upgrading the ESXi 4.1 U1 hypervisor to ESXi 4.1 U3. Should I: 1....
View ArticleESXi Hosts ISCSI latency poor until restart
Hi all,I am facing a strange issue, that I cannot reproduce but appears every couple of months on different ESXi hosts.It is very annoying, because all the VMs on this host become very slow and are...
View ArticleHow to Migrate and Convert Physical RDMs
I figured someone needed to step in and straighten this MESS out. This is what you need to do, fully explained the way each and every post should be. You must power the VM down to do this, there is...
View ArticleHP NC365T shown as Broadcom iSCSI adapter
Hello, I've recently installed ESXi 4.1 (HP ESXi 4.1 U1Build 348481) on a DL380 G7 with a NC365T to be used as quad network interface card (besides a dual FC HBA). The ESXi recognizes this quad NIC –...
View ArticleIOMeter Performance and PS6010 10Gb
Hi, We have a PS6010vx RAID 50 16 x 600 SAS 15K connected to 2 x Dell 8024f 10Gb switches. 4 x Dell 710 ESXi 4.1 running Dual Port broadcom 57711 Nics. Over the last month or so we experienced a bit of...
View ArticleHelp with resxtop for dummies
Hi all, need a bit of help here, i'm a newbie to the CLI I need to find out which nic my VMs are using, and I was told that resxtop will give me this information.I download CLI 4.1, installed it,...
View ArticleESXI brigend network
Dear All,i installed my ESXI 5 for Test Lab, however the VM are not detecting IP adress from my physique Network,can someone advise why? thank you
View ArticleMemory Ballooning
Hi all,I'm new to this forum and kinda have a noob question on memory ballooning. Now i know that memory ballooning is one of ESX RAM reclaiming techniques and it balloons a guest OS RAM and swaps it...
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