Format Local VMFS Datastore
Hey guys, my local VMFS datastore on my ESXi 4.1 hosts shows as 1.8TB.. Server has 5x500GB RAID5 only. All VMs are on SAN I would like to reformat this to a larger block size to support 512GB VMDKs...
View ArticleESXi 4.1 with "errors in active directory operations" during integration to...
Hi, I'm getting mentioned error while adding VMware ESXi 4.1.0 build-721871 to domain. below are the hostd.log, I cannot able to find why there is error : "The Workstation service has not been...
View ArticleHow to determine whether an ESXi 4.1 host was previously upgraded?
A client of mine is seeking to upgrade some vSphere ESXi 4.1 hosts in remote offices using Update Manager. Virtual Machines are located on Local Storage. Update Manager seems to be the logical...
View ArticleI need to create script that locates one or more VMs depending on a number of...
Hi, I am a relative newbie to both perl and scripting for vSphere management -I have an environment set up with 2 ESXi hosts, vclient and vMA.I have connected on vMA through ssh on the vclient, I have...
View ArticleCPU Usage is not showing in vCenter
ESXi 4.1 is running on Proliant DL 380 G7 model. I observed, vCenter is not reporting the CPU utilization of Server in the Resources portion of Summery Tab.Snapshot is also attached with this post for...
View ArticleBalooning in windows 2008 R2
Hi , Is there any realtion between large pages and the balooning I have checked multiple windows 2008 servers in our environment where balooning is always zero . Thanks in Advance !!..
View ArticleThe Host Returns ESXUpdate Error Codes: 7 ????
I had this posted in the VUM, but it does not seem like anyone looks in that sections so I decided to move it to this locations to see if I can get some help. Version: ESXi 4.1 When I stage patches for...
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PSOD - IBM blade server
I saw this PSOD during reboot on one of blade IBM server which worked fine for a long time.Does anyone have an idea what could be causing this?
View ArticleTrying to mount additional Datastore various ways, none work.
Now that Hyper V 2012 is out, I plan on converting my hosted server's OS to windows server 2012 from esxi 4.1. Main reason being I can have live replication to an in-house server for backup. When...
View ArticleIssues with vMA
We have three clusters of ESXi 4.1 host servers in our environment. Each host is configured the same, and each host is a part of the same vSphere Management Assistant. I have noticed recently that on...
View ArticleNFS Multipathing within ESXi? Possible?
Hi community I set up a redundant storage system (active-active) and did not find any information about NFS multipathing within ESXi. Is that possible? I only read about Multipathing with iSCSI,...
View ArticleHow to install windows 8 on esxi 4.1 ?
Hi I would like to install windows 8 on my current esxi 4.1 environment, of course without success. I receive the error about thatHAL_Initialization_Failed I've found serveral forums that only...
View Articlehow to increase memory from esxi command line
Hi! how to increase memory from esxi command line? We have a virtual center which is virtual. We want to increase the memory. But we must take down the windows 2008 r2 (virtual center).
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One of Two vSphere ESX4i hosts cannot find new iSCSI LUN
Current Setup:Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SAN2 ESXi hosts (esx01, esx02) running ESXi 4.0.0vSphere version 4.0.06 LUNs configured2 Datastores shared between esx01 and esx02 (Datastore01, Datastore02) What...
View Articlegeneral question about VMWare Auto Deploy dependencies and restrictions
Hello, I'm a Network Engineer, so forgive my ignorance of what might be some basic VMware concepts. In my company, we're deploying VMWare Auto Deploy. I've read this...
View ArticleVirtual Machine IOPS
Hi I'm looking to get some statistics on vitual machine IOPS ahead of some storage migrations. What is the best way to get the relevent infomation from vCenter? Which counters provide the most accurate...
View ArticleManage ESXi with Puppet?
I'm looking at configuration management solutions, and so far I can handle just about everything with Puppet, except possibly ESXi. Can I use Puppet to manipulate common system-level configuration...
View ArticleSMUX-Error caused by E1000-Networkcard
Hey everyone One of our virtua lSQL-Server Server has a Problem. The Server takes 100% PCU.The user getting a Error-Message: SQLSTATE = 08S02 [MICROSOFT] [SQL NATIVE CLIENT 10.0] SMUX PROVIDER:...
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vmware datastores sizes are smaller than expected
Why might my Datastores be so small? Header 1Header 2I created 3 new disk arrays in my IBM SAN.I then attached them to my vmware 4.1 ESXi server.Why do they show up so small compared to the actual...
View ArticleHealth Status Not Showing Information
We have an ESXi 4.1 host (HP ProLiant DL180 G6) that is not connected to a vCenter.When we go to Configuration -> Health Status, no sensors or monitoring show up there. We confirmed with HP that...
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