Graphical corruption when trying to install ESXi 5.5
Hello. I have a new server and when installing VMware ESXi 5.5 update 1 the installer experiences graphical corruption (the screen shows random moving pixels of strange colours). Other operating...
View ArticleUpgrade ESXi installation adding more nodes
I'm currently have one ESXi 4.1 physical host running some virtual hosts. All is working perfect, but the resources is starting to get lower. Instead of change the whole machine by a new one with...
View Articleunable to install VMwareTools
I'm trying to install the vmware tools however the client cannot find them. How can I get a copy of them? I think that there must have been a hickup during the upgrade from 3.5 to 4.0. Does any have a...
View ArticleWhy does it take so long to import OVF with Thin provisioned disks
Hi, I have a vApp defined in a OVF. It contains four machines, each with different size disks between (100GB - 300GB).The vmdk for each machine is approx 750MB in size. When I was testing this I set...
View ArticleWindows Guest LSI_SAS Errors
We have some Windows 2008 R2 SP1 guests running on a 3 node cluster where the hosts are ESXi 4.1.0. When heavy IO disk operations occur, there are application problems on the servers, and in the...
View ArticleVSphere with Nexus 1000v and two seperate System Uplinks
Hello, our ESX network configuration has two 1000v System Uplinks: System Uplink 1:VLAN 1,2,3,4Two network adapters System Uplink 2:VLAN 5,6,7Two network adapters We created this second System Uplink...
View Articlecannot enter vsphere license
Hello, We are upgrading vsphere 4.1 to vcloud suite 5 standard . After upgrading vCenter to vcenter 5.0 we started upgrading ESXi to 5.0 , but we are unable to add the new vsphere key .we got the...
View ArticleSo...is ESXi 4.1 still supported?
I was planning on upgrading from ESXi 4.1 to 4.1 update 3 using update manager. If I run into issues, can I still open a support ticket (my support is valid until 2016) or will they just assist me...
View ArticleArcconf / CMI - is it working at all?
I have a couple of boxes with The latest ESXi and adaptec controllers.I've noticed that the CIM provider is now included in the ESXi distribution so I wanted to try arcconf/Adaptec Storage Manager to...
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Disk 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 ArticleNTP and ESXi's Firewall
I am trying to run ntp on the ESXi 4 server but seem to have an issue. In "Time Configuration" of the host, I have setup the NTP server and it NTP service is running. But when I look at the properties,...
View ArticleESXi 4.1 and MSI K9n Neo V3
Hi everyone! I tried to install ESXi on my old PC but got several problems.If I use ESXi 4.1I get the error that network adapters are not supported. DO I need to integrate some drivers? If yes, is...
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Help with snapshot and delta files
Hi, Yesterday night, an ArcServe backup on a single VM failed. Not the end of the world, happened before. This morning, got an alert from a script I coded to look for *delta* files on our Datastore....
View ArticleSystem Board 8 Memory - Uncorrectable ECC
We setup ESXi 4.1 with latest patches applied on a brand new HP DL380 G7 with latest FW and latest ESXi Offline Bundle, which shows the ECC problem you can see from the attached screenshot. We opened a...
View ArticleESXi SSH access not working?
Hi all,I'm trying to access a ESXi host via SSH using putty and when I enter the (proper) admin user and password I get "Access Denied" as a response. SSH is enabled in dcui as is the Tech Support...
View ArticlevMA 4.1 find a host
Hello Team We recently deployed the vMA 4.1 appliance in our environment. Can anyone help me with the script to find out the host of a specific VM, enter the host name and it should display on which...
View ArticleErrors in Active Directory operations when attempting to join an Active...
I have been struggling with joining an ESXi 4.1.0 host (build 260247) to an Active Directory Domain. The Domain consists of 1 Domain Controller running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise R2 SP2 32-bit....
View ArticleESXi host not listening on 902
Hi Guys, We have an ESXi 4.1 host that disconnected from VC recently, and can't be re-added. When we try, on the ESX host we get "the specified key, name or identifier already exists", and errors such...
View ArticleGuest OS hanging after a couple of days.
Hello, I need some help with debugging my roll out. We have a single ESXi 4.1 server running 2 VM's (Win2003 and Symantec Messaging Gateway) and every couple of days both guests just stop...
View ArticleVMware ESXi 4.1.0 build-348481 Update : Connection to datastore not stable
Hi, We are experiencing issues with VMs deployed in a cluster of 14 servers running VMware ESXi 4.1.0 build-348481 Update 1. Some VMs looses connection to the datastore . Processes in the guest...
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