vSphere HA virtual machine failover failed alarms
We are seeing several alarms being triggered for vSphere HA virtual machine failover failed on two of our clusters.We believe that the alarms are false positives and don't want our envirnoment clutter...
View ArticleCopying Virtual Machines Help
I am trying to copy 5 virtual machines(includes 2 domain controllers) in a working lab environment to another new server/host I have setup on a different vlan. I started off by clicking browse the...
View ArticleESXi message in /var/log/messages: HostCtl exception Unable to complete...
Hi all, I am always getting the following messages in my ESXi 4.0.1 Host: Aug 11 14:01:20 Hostd: ESXi message in /var/log/messages: HostCtl exception Unable to complete Sysinfo operation. Please see...
View ArticleUnable to find a supported device to write the VMware ESXi 4.1.0 image to."
Hello. I am having issues installing ESXi 4.1.0. I am getting the error: "Unable to find a supported device to write the VMware ESXi 4.1.0 image to.". The system information is shows is: System...
View ArticleWhat to expect for snapshot size?
General question here regarding the size of vmware snapshots (or for that matter any snapshots really). For the sake of asking the question here is a very basic example:If I had a 10GB VM and I take...
View ArticleVM's are not pinging until it is migrated to another ESX host
Hi I have some virtual machines in which suddenly are not pinging, but if you go to the console the OS is up ( but even inside the VM with a local account , if I try to ping to another server in the...
View ArticleCan't start master VM after linked clone pool is created
Using ESXi 5.1, I've created 3 separate floating linked clone pools of 10 clones apiece. Everything works fine until I try to power on the master after the linked clones are available. I get an error:...
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Need help in recovering data from delta vmdk
Hi, I am having a big issue. There was a Ubuntu 8.04 Server guest installed on VMWare ESXi 4.1It was a VM of 200GB size.Since, it was running on 99% full i tried to increase the size usingvmkfstools -X...
View ArticleHow best to graph disk IOPS (aka CMDS/s)?
vSphere can show me this data, but with several caveats: 1) If I pick 'Datastore' as the 'chart option', then I can only look at 'real time'. I.e. I can't get historical data. ok, then how about...
View ArticleESXi sysboot.log question
I'm interested in the sysboot.log introduced with ESXi 4.x. Which process creates this logfile, is it one of the syslinux daemons? Which component 'owns' this log, Hostd? Does this log file get...
View ArticleSnapshots left after CommVault backup job runs
Our virtual infrastructure is all ESXi 4.1, and we use CommVault Simpana as a bavkup solution. For some reason, when CommVault finishes the backup, the snapshot it created does not get deleted. So far,...
View ArticleAdd a new ESXi host to Vcenter cluster
Hi.... Today we have 2 Esxi hosts (DELL PE R710 ESXi, 4.1.0, 260247) in our vcenter cluster.We are now going to add an new ESXi host to our cluster a DELL PE R720 (ESXi 4.1.0, 502767).My question is...
View ArticleNetworking not working in normal mode.
I have a server with ESX 4.1 installed. It's connected to the net via a DMZ. It worked fine, but then i disconnected it (had to check some hardware) and when i connected it back the networking stopped...
View ArticleNetspp Old Storage and VMWARE Cluster Questions
Hello I have seen a NETAPP FAS 2020 old storage connected and confiigured with 4.1 cluster Customer is polanning to install new vcenter and ESXi 5 new hosts and want to migrate VMs to new Cluster and...
View ArticleTrouble removing ESXi 5.0 hosts from cluster
Dear All, Good Day, We have a cluster with three ESXi 5.0 hosts in production environment. The vCenter Server is running in a physical machine. Now we are facing some hardware issues with the physical...
View ArticleVMDirectPath and ATI Radeon
I am using VMware ESXi and I am trying to setup a guest that is Windows 7 that will have an ATI Radeon video card passed through to it. I actually had this working on a previous system but I had to...
View ArticleHA agent on ESXi host in cluster NAM in GDC virtual data center has an error:...
VMware cluster operational status shows me the below:- ESXi host : Secondary Role : HA Issue - HA agent on ESXi host in VMware cluster in the Virtual Data center has an error: Cannot Complete the HA...
View ArticleWhy is there swapping when I have free memory?
Hello All, This is my first post on the forums so please bear with me. We have two datacenter in vCenter which are separate. One is in NJ and the other is in FL. Anyway, the hosts I am discussing here...
View Articlecan we add L5420 and E5649 CPU model Server in EVC enable cluster
Hi, In HA Cluster we have 2 ESXi 4.1 hosts and CPU model are L5420 and E5649, and I am not able to enbale EVC mode. Please suggest how we can enable EVC in my cluster
View ArticleCan't connect to ESXi 4.0 Host & no vmWare guest are running
Hi All, I have an issue with my vmWare ESXi 4.0 Releasebuild 208167, running on HP Pro Liant DL180 G5 (2 x Intel Xeon CPU E5430 2.66 GHz with 16 GB of RAM). I could not connect to my ESXi 4.0 host with...
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