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Can anyone offer some assistance?.... I'm having trouble staging the patches to the ESXi hosts. The patch definitions do download successfully. The VUM DB is on a separate SQL server, and the DSN is...
View ArticleChange block tracking (CTK) is supported for this VM but has been declined....
I am having trouble with a VMware image level client in an EMC Avamar backup. So far, we have not been able to find any information about this message in the backup log file. It is causing the backup...
View ArticleTemporary umount datastore
Hi to all, this is my first post, i'm glad to be here! Here my question: Scenario: I have a cluster with 10 Esxi hosts (4.1 latest build), connected to those hosts a FC storage. From this storage i...
View ArticleAutomaitcally install ISO/OVA and Configure Network
HI Guys, I have a requirement for my Testing Environment where I need to Automate installation procedure for ISO/OVA on ESX. following are the tasks i want to automate.Install ISO/OVA Automatically...
View ArticleMy Esxi4 is reported as participating in NTP Distributed Denial of Service...
Hello, I received a report that my Esxi 4.1 host is participating in a NTP Distributed Denial of Service attack. I posses limited Vmware skill set and this is what I have done so far: Stopped the...
View ArticleHost battery status alarm
Hi,I have installed ESXi4 on some servers and they all come up with an alarm in vCenter:Status: WarningName: Host battery status These are all Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers. Does anyone know what this...
View ArticlePossible to extract driver from base installation media?
I am having some storage disconnect issues with all of my esxi 4.1 hosts in one site. EMC and VMware have recommended we roll back HBA drivers to their base package that was included in the...
View ArticleDelete Existing VM and Create New
Hi Guys, Is there any way to delete the existing VM from ESX and Create New one programmatically. I will be using Linux (Centos) as the operating system. I have read some articles and blog about the...
View ArticleChanging iSCSI storage IPs
Hi, We'll be consolidating 2 sites into one soon, and as part of that we'll have to move blades and iSCSI storage from one site to the other and re-IP them in the process.This is what I had in mind,...
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 ArticleIssues following host failure
Hi, This morning we had an issue with our ESXI 4.0 host. It appears that we have a failed drive in the array and once this was fixed we faced an issue with error - PANIC - Error while reading file 5 -...
View ArticleSnapshot files
Hi, Does anyone have any script/cli to delete the Orphaned snapshot files? Thanks
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Reclaim a dead space from FC lun [ESXi 4.1]
Hi,I have Esxi 4.1IBM DS 3400 FCI have problem I move a 1 TB machine from LUN so I should get that space... Esx showing that i have the space but when I'm trying to upload a machine with 250 GB it says...
View ArticleXP VMs sticking on boot at Windows Black Splash Screen
I run an estate of about 800 ESXi 4.1 installations that each power 2 XP VMs. Each site is a carbon replica of all other ESXi hosts and the VMs running on them are identical too.Lets call the VM on...
View ArticleHigh upload of host ESXI 4.0
Hi From few days I have high outgoing traffic from VMWARE (not virtual machine). How can I block eg. udp traffic in ESX 4.0? There is no firewall, netstat.Thanks for helpDariusz
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create virtual machines 64bit
when I'm trying to create a virtual machine windows 2008 64bit is giving the error attached. Would have any solutions? Server: DELL POWER EDGE T610
View ArticleUsing USB Passport drive with ESXI 4.1
I have a need to restore an image on a newly made VM on ESXI 4.1. The image is on a USB drive, which is directly connect to the ESXI 4.1 Host. We are using Acronis software for restoring the image. I...
View ArticleCorrupted VMFS data stores - how to root-cause?
Hi all, We are running Lab Manager 4, so we still have ESXi 4.1 hosts in our infrastructure that we cannot upgrade to ESXi 5.x. At one of our sites, we regularly see VMFS corruption, where some VM...
View Article[msg.disk.configureDiskError] Reason: Invalid argument.
I see this more and more often on ESXi 4.1 A VM can not be started with the error [msg.disk.configureDiskError] Reason: Invalid argument. A typical log extract looks like: VMXVmdb_LoadRawConfig:...
View ArticleSetting HA problem with mascine failure [Vcenter 4.1]
HiI don't know what i did wrong in my setup. I create a HA cluster with any problem i have 4 host (right now they using less then 50% of Memory) for test i move one test machine to one of the cluster...
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