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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 ArticleHow to recover deleted files "vmdk" on a vmfs partition ?
Hello,I've a problem. after deleting vmdk files on a vmfs partition with "rm". I search a solution to recoverthem. Do you have an idea ? thank you Didier
View Articleconverter P2V Linux Unable to query the live Linux source machine
Hello! I'm having difficulty performing a P2V on a CentOS 5.10 box to ESXi 4.1. The process fails with an error message of Unable to query the live Linux source machine After searching most of the day...
View ArticleMy vmdk files don't visibles from vpshere but visibles from ssh console
Hello I would like to use my virtual appliance dataontap from Netapp Communities tar file.From their installation guide, they just suggest to put this tar file on datastore.This tar file contains files...
View ArticleCannot Migration P2V or V2V via VCenter Converter Standalone
I have a probleminvmwaremigrationofSymantecendpointserverintoVMwarevCenterConverterStandaloneviaVMWareClient. I've donea variety ofwayssuch asP2Vconvertererrorappearslikethis: Failed:Ageneral...
View ArticleCannot open the disk or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. Reason: No...
Hi, this looks like a helpful community, so I thought I would get some input on a situation I walked into. Here's the story. This school has three ESXi 4 host machines all sharing drive space via NFS...
View ArticleStudents cannot “Connect/disconnect the CD/DVD devices of the virtual machine”
Let me begin with this some background (and an apology for the wall o’ text): I am a newbie. I have taken the VMware course that the local community college offers [VMware ESXI Server Enterprise...
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ESXi 4.1 Westmere EVC not working with Ivy Bridge CPU
Hi All, I'm running 4.1U3. I have a cluster that has 8 hosts in it. 6 of them are E7-2860 CPUs. Two of them are E5-2680v2 CPUs (new). vCenter will allow me to enable EVC. However after enabled and I...
View ArticleDisk Not Available in My Computer
Hello, I had 2 VM's with Microsoft Clustering sharing RDM disks. These VM's run SQL 2008 (development) - and someone thought it would be a great idea to CLUSTER them (NOT ME) its development!!!.My...
View ArticleCorrupt heartbeat detected at offset 3514368
We are running into an issue where we get on /var/log/vmkernel.log Volume 506c2094-6f2605e7-a69f-0026b92820e0 ("ABCDE05") may be damaged on disk. Corrupt heartbeat detected at offset 3514368: [HB state...
View ArticleVM performance
hello, i am having a strange problem. my VMs start responding very slow from different hosts and from different LUNs in one cluster.That time CPU RDY value under 5 and no swapping, ballooning on host...
View ArticleGetting errors in syslog.log when I get the alert nagios monitoring...
We are using nagios as monitoring for ESXiWhenever we get this alert CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 20 seconds.We restart or stop/start the sfcbd-watchdogBut this happens a lot Most of the time the...
View ArticleReclaim thick provisioned disk space
What's the easiest way to reclaim think provisioned disk space? Assume that the disk was already reduced at the OS level and shows the space I want to reclaim as unallocated. Where do I go from here?TIA!
View ArticleMy Server Raid is corrupted :(
Hello.How are you?I have an Asus server and use Esxi 4.1 on it. My server is RAID 5 and When I open vSphere, It show me that a HDD is failed. I upload a photo about this error and Please advice me how...
View ArticleDatastores monitoring with SNMP
Hi all, I'de like to know which OID I've to use to monitor my datastores.I've add ESXi MIBs in my monitoring appliance (PRTG and Zenoss). I'm particularly intreresting in the following stats : -...
View ArticleLicensing for server at DR site
Not 100% sure of my terminology as I am new at all this, so please bear with me!At our HQ we have a solitary VMware server running ESXi 4.0.0 and we are using vCenter and vSphere 4.0 license (2xCPU).So...
View ArticleESXi 4.1 Host Profile 'Enable/Disable Profile Configuration' not available
Dear All,I have enterprise plus license for ESXi 4.1. I created host profile from one ESXi 4.1 server from vCenter, to reset the root password at security section. I want to update the security section...
View ArticleVpxClient crashes when trying to create a VM as a restricted user in a...
The host is running ESXi 4.1.0 Build 721871 with vSphere Client 4.1.0 Build 491557. All of my users including myself use Windows 7 x64 Enterprise. What I am trying to do is grant a user his/her own...
View ArticleFailed write command to write-quiesced partition
I am receiving the below error on multiple hosts. All hosts are in the same DRS/HA cluster, and are using the same LUN as a scratch partition. The error has been seen on multiple LUNS(some datastores,...
View ArticleVirtual platform physical relocate - suspend or power off vms?
Hi, I am running a cluster of ESXi 4.1 Dell PowerEdge servers and in need to physically relocate from one data centre to another geographically apart. Whilst the plan on how to power down the...
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