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ESXi 4.1 reboot causing errors in datastore hindering recovery
Datastore comes and goes. Returns after several refreshes. Physical Disk (1TB) appears fine. VMFS Partition appears fine, VM disks appear fine. 2VMs are browseable and files appear correct. I/O error...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Freeze
Hello I have virual machines on esxi 4.1 hosts. 3-5 of them (server 2008 R2) are freeze randomly. i have created dump file but don't know how to open and read it. Can you give me any advice? file name...
View Articlevim-cmd on ESXI fails with cannot connect to localhost
Hi. I think the subject says it all. I'm playing around with ESXi 4.0 and all seems to work well so far. But when trying to issue commands from the "unsupported" console like "vim-cmd...
View ArticleRAID5 volumes on ARC-1222 not recognized by ESXi
Hey guys, I am a n00b & I just setup my first official esxi server. I have the latest version of ESXi installed. I have created a 2TB RAID5 volume out of 3TB using ARC-1222 Raid Controller. When I...
View ArticleHow to span multiple LUN's onto One (or less) Datastore(s) in Vmware vSphere...
Hey guys- I currently have 2 ESXi Hosts (version 4.1u3), 1 vCenter Server, and 1 EMC VNXe3300 SAN (20TB via iSCSI) that make up my virtual environment. On the EMC VNXe, you create VMware Datastores...
View Articlemsg.hbacommon.outofspace
I have single datastore with 3 thin provisioning partion....use for SQL 2012 database. suddenly datastore shows zero free space, but partion shows free space.
View ArticleIs there a ESXi version 4.4 or 4.5
My apologies if I am posting this in the wrong area. I am trying to install VMware 5.5 on a Sunfire x4600, but I get a blank screen after the installer.It was suggested I install 4.4 or 4.5 as 5.5 does...
View ArticleHighpoint Rocketraid & Multiple Arrays
Hello! I have configured some old hardware for re-use. It's old but still rock solid and nice for storage virtualization. (2x Openfiler)The problem is that there is no access to pci passthrough so I...
View ArticleESXi with a queued task
Dear all, I have tree ESXi and my ESXi number 2 have a task queued since 29-10-2014. Anyone have this issue? How can i remove this task safely? My task is: Register Virtual Machine. Thanks,Joel Ricardo
View Articlestrange esxtop output, excessive pktrx = slow iscsi
So I have a Nexenta Community 3.1.2 VM on my ESXi 4.1U2 box, with the intent that it is able to take my physical storage/datastores and put them into a ZFS RAID format so my data has some redundancy....
View ArticleOptions for accessing cluster when vCenter server's database is down
The SQL server that we use for one of our vCenter servers (4.1) went down hard, and for various reasons, it won't be back up for several days. What are my options for managing the cluster in the...
View ArticleUpgrading a Server running 4.1.0
I have a Dell Power Edge R2970 that had one CPU and four GB RAM installed and was running ESXi 4.1.0 build 502767. It was used for some older archived VM guest the we need to maintain for historical...
View ArticleSSH login not responding/keyboard not responsive.
Hi this is my first post here- I had a quick look for similar issues but none immediately apparent, so bear with me or point me to the appropriate resource if you could.I have two exsi hosts in a...
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Datastore - Free size in minus values, and then suddenly in huge size.
Dear All, We came across with a strange issue last month.We have a vmware cluster with 2 esxi 4.1 hosts.Friday morning, suddenly we lost connection to all VMs running on both esx hosts and lost...
View ArticleCan we Add ESX4.0/ESXi4.1/ESX4.0 host to Vcenter 5.0/5.1/5.5 and expect HA...
Will HA work when ESXi4.1 or older version of ESXi is added to newer version of Vcenter?
View ArticleNeed help installing OpenSSL 0.9.8zd
Greetings, I first want to let all know that I am not very experienced with Linux. I can can do some minor things (browse directories, look up permissions, shakey with VI). I guess my first questions...
View ArticleWhat are best practices for upgrading host hardware? (4core -> 6core)
Hello, Been searching for documentation on how to physically replace/upgrade my host hardware. Currently have 2 ESXi hosts in our cluster, each with about 2 dozen guests. Some/many guests are...
View ArticleAstaro firewall change, hosts disconnect seconds later, can't find any...
We recently implemented a firewall change for some SQL traffic on one of our LAN segments that seemingly had zero impact (or shouldn't have had any impact) on vCenter <--> host connectivity....
View ArticleESXi 4.1 Update 2 Host Battery Status does not detect BBU Failure
We have several hosts running on Cisco UCS C210M2 with LSI MegaRaid SAS 9261-8i and ESXi 4.1 Build 582267. We are observing in Vsphere Client Hardware Status the "Battery" status is Normal and the...
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