Sysprep does not seem to be available
Hi, A relative new VMWare vSphere environment with 3 ESXi 4.1 servers and one (virtual) vSphere server.The vSphere server is a Windows 2008 R2 Ent server.I am using the vSphere client local on the...
View ArticleCannot SVmotion one VM to a new datastore
Hi Guys, I have Mutliple Cluster environment in my datacenter with each cluster having more than 100 Datastore. Recently we had planned for datastore size upgradation for the VMs. As per the plan, we...
View ArticleESXi Host uploading bandwidth when all VMs are shut down?
I am fairly new to ESXi, but as of last night One of our Hosts started uploading over 300mbps of data. I have shut down all of the VMs on the host and the data is still uploading, the only way to get...
View ArticleBlock ports from Esxi 4 server
Hi, I did not find iptables or any other firewall installed in my server. If I want to block specific port or ip address how can i do that? Thanks
View ArticleESXTOP info needed
Hi All, I have a ESXi host running on 4.1 U1. It has close to 14 vms running on it. Client has complained of the application opening slowly during peak morning hours (on one of the VMs on the host)...
View ArticleDCUI: COMMAND NOT FOUND
Hello All; I'm about to update my ESXi server from 4.1 to 5.1 in the next couple of days. I have update manager through vCenter & have taken the appropriate researching steps. My question &...
View ArticleUnable to map shared lun in ESXI 4.1 cluster
Hi,recently I have installed esxi 4.1 U3 and created a 2 Node cluster on IBM Blades HS22 with Intel x5770, enabled HA and DRS.Blade chassis has internal SAN MT886Problem is that when I assign a shared...
View ArticleReclaim unused space on thin provisioned disk?
Hi all. I have ESXi host with 300GB space, and 5 Linux guests. All of them have been configured to use thin provisioned disk, and to use max 200GB. First guest used about 100GB. So I tried to remove...
View ArticleProblem to add host VCENTER
Hi guys. I have worked with VCENTER 5.1 with ESxi 4.1 and ESXi5.1 a two week ago I have started migration hosts from old VCENTER to new VCENTER 5.1, when start process add host the process fail...
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Datastore missing after power failure ESXi 4.1
After a power failure an shared datastore connected through FC to two ESXi hosts 4.1 is missing. The datastore is located on an storage IBM DS3400 dual controller. The hosts are installed on two IBM...
View ArticleFeature vsmp not licensed
I just built a CentOS VM with 8 virtual CPUs on an HP DL380p Gen 8 running the free ESXi 4.1.0. When attempting to start the VM I get "there are insufficient licenses to perform this operation; feature...
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High VM CPU Usage when low host CPU usage
Hello, Every once in a while my VMs will go off the deep in and use a ton of CPU usage, when I log in and review the alert, I see there's plenty of extra CPU usage available on the host. What causes...
View ArticleHPSIM 7.3 discovers host as VMware ESXi Alternate Boot Bank
I have 12 of the same Esxi 4.1 update 3 servers all at the same build. This is the only server that is not working correctly with HPSIM. I built a brand new SIM server, and this server works in the...
View ArticlePb with 4.1 (Build 1363503) / Centos 6.5 / I3 3240
Hello everyone, I just noticed a problem with one of my esxi (Dell R210II) : Unable to install a vm with CentOS 6.5 on my hypervisor 4.1 (build 1363503) with 3240 intel i3 processor. I have the...
View Articlevmnic0 missing
Couple of days back vmnic0 in one of ESXi 4.1 host was showing as disconneted in Vcenter. It is HP Proliant BL680c G5 server. There is no issue with the ethernet adapter and it is also showing in the...
View ArticleResource Pool Setup Question
We are currently not using resource pools within our environment. What we are looking to do is implement resource pools with memory reservations based upon our VM sizes. For example, we'll create a 4GB...
View ArticleHow to remap datastores from iscsi to fc (to esxi hosts)
Hello, till now we've used our Hitachi SAN AMS2100 only with ISCSI protocol.Now we've connected the SAN also via FC connection to the Vmware infrastructure.The SAN is presenting 9 LUNs (1TB each) with...
View ArticleInconsistent write speeds to a shared "Thick Provision Eager Zeroed disk"
We have two VMs with basic 50GB Debian OS hard disks These Vms share a 500GB Thick Provision Eager Zeroed disk and both Vms have a mount point sbd1/var/mydata We use OCFS2 as a clustered file system...
View ArticleDatastore and LUN id
Hi, I am having a strange problem with my storage.I cant see the one of the Datastore which is mounted on my ESXi. esxcfg-scsidevs -m also doest show that LUN/datastore. but when i see with...
View ArticleFCoE and Jumbo Frames
Hello-I am running an ESXi 5.1 cluster on Dell blades with 10 Gbps connectivity up to a pair of Nexus 5K switches. The switches have ethernet connectivity out to a catalyst switch and fibre...
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