Moving virtual DC
Hi, I've got two esxi servers and I'd like to move a virtual DC from the old one to the new one. What is the best option for doing this?
View ArticleTime to Upgrade to 5.1?
I am a student and been running ESXi 4.1 348481 for some time and I have been thinking about upgrading to the newest 5.1 for sometime but I have been hearing mixed reviews and some possible limitations...
View ArticleReclaim unused space on thin provisioned disk?
Hi all. I have ESXi host with 300GB space, and 5 Linux guests. All of them have been configured to use thin provisioned disk, and to use max 200GB. First guest used about 100GB. So I tried to remove...
View ArticleESXi 4.1 (348481) - AD permission lost after reboot
Hello, I hope someone can offer a suggestion to our small issue. It is not a show stopper problem, just a minor nuisance. We have a freshly installed ESXi 4.1 (348481) box that is joined to AD (single...
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ESXi 4.1 Update 3 Purple Screen PF 14
I keep getting purple screens on my ESXi 4.1 Update 3 host. Sometimes I get it a day after a reboot, sometimes a few days. Attached are the screnshots. My hardware:Dell R715 AMD Opteron(TM)...
View ArticleOptiplex 990 and ESXi
I've looked at the HCL and see that the Optiplex 990 isn't listed. Is there any change that it will be added down the road or the list is pretty static? Also is it know what component(s) are what...
View ArticlevSphere console error (not fully visible)
I have been using esxi 4.0 and 4.1 for several years. Sometimes I'm having problems when opening consoles within the vSphere client. See screenshot attached. The desktop of the vmware machine is only...
View ArticleESXi 4.1 Windows 2008 R2 SP1 vmtoolsd.exe high memory usage
I am running ESXi 4.1 build 348481 on a HP DL380 G& with 128 GB RAM. I have a Windows 2008 R2 virtual server that has 4 GB allocated and 2 vCPU and noticed the vmtoolsd.exe process is consuming...
View ArticleCan't clone win2008R2 64bit?
Hi I have a 64 bit win2008R2 x64 that will be 1/2 of a cluster I would like to just clone it (its is all pathced to rev) I am using esxi 4.0 787047using the stand alone converter using: "VMWare...
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Cannot install VMWARE Tools on new Virtual
Hi all I have just set up a new virtual running windows 7. I went to install vmware tools but got the following error: Unable to install VMware tools. An error occurred while trying to access image...
View ArticleChanges to the VMX file (network device type)
Hi I have a VM with 4 nics, the E1000, I would like to change this to the vmnet3. I have had some issues with E1000 and tcp offloading ! But I don't want to delete the NIC's and then recreate them......
View ArticleUnable to modify hard drive in vm through Vcenter
I have a server running Esxi4.0, today due to some electrical maintenance I had to shut it down. I shut down each vm through Vcenter and then put the server in maintenance mode and shut it down. Once...
View ArticleNAS VM with raw disk access to disk
I'm trying to build a NAS in a VM and would like to have disks as natively as possible assigned to that machine, but I don't know how to do it. I tried selecting raw device mapping when adding storage...
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Datastore missing after recovering from a RAID 5 disk failure
Hello everyone! Longtime lurker. I have and ESX server in my home on a Dell 2850 running a local RAID 5 off of the PERC controller. I had a drive fail so i shutdown the system, replaced the drive and...
View ArticleHyper-V role on a Win 2008 R2 VM?
Hi, Is it possible to enable the Hyper-V role on a Windows 2008 R2 VM image running on ESXi 4.1? If yes, what configuration changes do I need to make on the VM? Thanks,Alpesh
View ArticleAsterisk using Vm-Ware
I've been doing research to see about virtualizing our asterisk servers. And most of the information I have googled and searched on these forums are all roughly 2 years or more old. Most the...
View ArticleIdentify update version from build number
HiI have a esxi 4.0.0 host running, but I'm uncertain about what update version I'm running.In the vSphere client when I highlight the ESXi host it says ESXi 4.0.0 360236. I'm I then running update 1...
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Local Datastore become Inactive after long time
Hi, I'm running ESXI 4.1 (260247), on a DELL R410, with a DELL SAS6/IR SATA Controller, with 2x 500GB SATA Drives. Everything was running fine, but since one week, after some time, my datastore become...
View ArticleQuestion about sharedPolicyRefCount setting
We have 4 servers in a cluster running ESXi 4.1 U2. I was checking the profile on each host in vSphere and discovered two servers have a Config.GlobalSettings.guest.sharedPolicyRefCount setting of 0...
View ArticleSQL mirroring DRS best practices?
I am setting up SQL mirroing using SQL 2008 r2 servers I will have a principle, mirror and witness running on VMs in an ESXi 4.1 DRS cluster. It seems like I have read somewhere (I cannot find it now)...
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