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LSI SAS error?
Hello all. I've been running an evaluation version of ESXi [5.1] at my company, as we're trying to move torwards a more professional virtualization solution. I have a R515 however that doesn't seem to...
View ArticleHow do you change the device name of a storage adapter?
We have a host on which we forgot to disable iSCSI on its Emulex NICs. So the FC HBAs installed with device names vmhba3 and vmhba4 because the iSCSI initiators took device names vmhba1 and vmhba2....
View ArticleFailed conversion took up space on ESX 4.1 host
Guys a newbie in Virtualization needs your help. I tried converting a physical server with 16GB (Basic/Raid-1) and 370GB (Dynamic/Raid-5) partitions. I opted to increase the size of the 16GB partition...
View ArticleESXi 4.1 losing network connection
We have 2 ESXi 4.1 hosts that randomly (about once a month) completely drop off the network. All guests are inaccessible and the management network is inaccessible. You cannot ping any IP address or...
View Article"No bootable device" after successful ESXi 5 installation on Intel DG35EC...
So... Here's the deal. I have a desktop PC I'm using a test box for ESXi. The motherboard is an Intel DG35EC with G35 and ICH8 chipset. Back in the 4.1 U1 days I could install ESXi 4.1 w/ update 1 to...
View ArticleLinux guest OS has slow access times to NFS store
A bit of background to this issue. We have a SAN datastore for a number of servers. Originally we had a single HP Proliant ML 350 G6, connected to the SAN via NFS. The SAN served a number of Linux...
View ArticleHow to Migrate a VM from an Offline Host
Like the title says, I've got three ESX servers with common storage. One of the hosts has died and I need to force the VMs that were residing on it into the other hosts and power them up. Any idea how...
View ArticleDRS Issue - Two hosts hosting majority of VMs
Hello! ESXi 4.1 U2,Cluster with 5 Hosts (3 R900/2 Proc/4 Cores/8 Logical/128 GB, 1 R910/2 Proc/6 Cores/24 Logical/128 GB, 1 R810/2 Proc/10 Cores/40 Logical/128 GB),EVC Intel "Merom" Gen. (Xeon Core...
View ArticleTools to console into VM for guests
Hey Guys, My first post here on the VMWare community forum! I have a question regarding the possibility of allowing guests to console into a particular VM. Consoling into the VM is no problem for the...
View ArticleCannot create vm on esx 4.1
Hi. I have installed a ESX 4.1 on a host and i have tried to install w2k8 r2. The strange thing is that during the installation of the vm, at about 9% i get time out on the vmkernel. If i ping it, at...
View ArticleVMware Performance Analyzer
We've been seeing some drops in performance of our two hosts over the past month and I was wondering if there were any products out there, or maybe something built within VMware, that analyzes the...
View ArticlePipe name with VMWare ESXi 4.1
I am trying to setup a kernal-debugging between a VM (target machine) and my laptop(host machine). Both are running Win7. VM is on ESX4.1. On VM, while trying to set up a serial port using named pipe....
View ArticleVsphere client lost connection
Lately I`ve noticed that my Vsphere client just lost connection, inorder for it to connect again I have to restart Vcenter. any solution to solve this
View ArticleCan't delete folder from datastore
I was running a P2V job from VMware converter and the job failed 3 times. It did create the directories in the datastore with the VM name and only the vmdk file. However, I can't delete the directory....
View ArticleESXi Physical NIC details
Hi Wondering if anyone can hep with this small issue.......I am assiting our network admin in troubleshooting a dropped packets issue that I we are seeing on one of our ESX hosts. Between physical NIC...
View ArticleConfigure flow control on nx_nic ESXi 4.1
Does anyone know how I can configure flow control on an nx_nic (10G NIC) in ESXi? I found this article:...
View Articleadding rouge servers to vSphere cluster
Hello, In vSphere we have a cluster of servers. For a few days two of them are out of the cluster. For those two in summary we get the message "HA agent in cluster has an error: Cannot complete the HA...
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Networking problem, help tracing issue
Hi, I have a VMware ESXi 4.1.0 server that is running two Windows 2008 VMs.The VMware server has two 1Gb NICs. Now I have a problem where one of the VMs looses the network randomly for a minute or...
View ArticleiSCSI, jumbo frames, and vMotion question
Hello, I have an ESXi 4.1 cluster using vCenter and a MD3200i SAN. I am going to be doing an upgrade to optimise the setup, which includes the installation of quad-port NICs in the hosts which will be...
View Articleupgrade
I'm just new on virtualization infrastruture now i want to upgrade from 4.1 to 5 or 5.1, so what i want to know which procedure i must follow, for instance do I have to reinstate/renew my licences so...
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