Reclaim 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...
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Hang on boot, plus other multi-iscsi path issues.
I've 3 Nics of a Dell R610 running ESXi 4.1 connecting to all 8 nics in the MD3200i SAN.Each San nic has a seperate subnet, and I've set up a VMK for each port on the host for each port on the san, and...
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Upgrading ESXi 4.1.0 to 6.0. - upgarde and best practices
Hi guys, We are a small company with only one Physical server, with ESXi 4.1.0 installed and ca. 8 VMs. We are planning on buying ESXi 6.0 Essential Kit, as this is all we need at the moment. However,...
View ArticleVMware ESXI 4.1 cluster
Hello. Can anyone tell me if it is possible to connect together 2 SAN iscsi (1 HP MSA P2000 and 1 HP MSA 1040) to a cluster vmware esxi using a network switch? Thank you
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Recover Snapshoted VMDK file / consolidate a snapshot
Hi, I have a very huge problem and I don’t know how to deal with it in the right way, i had some old server that been setup with weekly snapshots.and we some hardware issue with the server that cause...
View Articlescripted install "Did not get an IP Address from DHCP server"
NOTICE: These IP's are in a test network I am PXE booting ESXi 4.1 using Ubuntu as the DHCP, TFTP and HTTP server (192.168.110.69).When I boot the server it picks up a DHCP address and loads the...
View ArticleESXI4.1 Datastore teilweise I/O-Error
Hallo hier, wir hatten einen Systemabsturz einer esxi 4.1, nach dem Neustart war die INstallation defekt.Wir haben dann die esxi4.1-Installations--CD eingelegt und die Reperatur durchgeführt. Danach...
View ArticleMPIO inside a guest vm?
Is it supported to configure MPIO inside of a guest OS running on esxi4.1? I was looking at our Exchange vm configuration, and for some reason the consultant configured our Exchange message store using...
View Articleesxi 4.0 installable and apple xserve raid
hi, i'm new to virtualization and am testing for our department. we have a dell poweredge 2950 connected via a qlogic sanbox 1400 to 2 apple xserve raid chassis. for those not familiar with the...
View Articlegetting host auto start up details
I have about 50 ESXi 4.1 servers that are hosting Windows virtual servers I need to be able to get a list of which virtual servers on each host is set to auto start on server reboot Any easy way in...
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ESXI 4.1 Drive Rebuild Stuck Question
Hi I am new to VMware. I took on a client about a year ago that has an ESXI 4.1 server with 4 virtual machines. These virtual machines include the domain controller/file server, email server, database...
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Datastore not accessible
Hey there, we got the same problem two weeks ago. One of our Datastores was suddenly unavailable.Back then there where machines running on that Datastore.We rebooted the server, the Datastore was back...
View ArticleUpgrade process for ESXi (on a USB key)
We've currently around 180 remote sites using mainly ESXi 4.1 with around a dozen on 5.1 booting from USB keys. We need to upgrade (due to backup solution compatibility) to a mix of 5,5 and 6.0 (the...
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HELP: Running ESXi 4.1 host just lost it's boot disk
One of our ESXi 4.1 servers lost a drive in it's Raid-1 boot array about a week ago. No biggie, bought new drive, inserted new drive today, array began rebuild. Other drive fails during rebuild....
View ArticleWhat's running on this esx instance?
the documentation has me totally baffled. Pointers would be welcome if this is covered elsewhere. I have ssh access to a machine that identifies itself as running esxi-41, (if /etc/issue can be...
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Help for a noob....
I really apologize for the noob questions, but I am not making any progress. I inherited a really old ESXi with vSphere 4.0.0. I am looking to get the backups running (I know this isn't the backup...
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VUM notification
Hi,I get a request to configure VUM to send notification to the admin be notified one week before the update will start. How can I set this option?
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ESXi 4.0 server died / how to recover user data
Hi, I had a problem with a server running ESXI 4.0.The server runs ESXi 4.0 and on the ESXi environment runs 3 virtualmachine.One of the virtual machine is OpenFiler, a file server application.The...
View ArticleDeleted vmdk files
i deleted 2 out of 4 vmdk files thinking the old ones were not needed. VM wont start now though, so i need to recover those files. VMware not really my strong suit obviously, can any one suggest how i...
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