What is SCSI Hot Add in VDP?
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SCSI Hot Add in VDP
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Moving VM from ESX 3.5 to ESXi 4.1
I have a situation wherein I have a VM in a vCenter 2.5.4 with ESX 3.5 hosts and I need to migrate it to vcenter 4.1 update 3 with ESXi 4.1 hosts.
Other than shutting down the VM and locally copying it to the new vCenter, do we have any other method?
Another query I have is regarding licences. I have the above ESX 3.5 hosts with 4 CPU licence. Is there anyway I can upgrade the licence of the ESX 3.5 hosts from 4 to 8 ?
Regards,
Sunil
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change mtu on portgroup
how do I change the mtu from 1500 to 9000 on a portgroup?
vim-cmd hostsvc/net/portgroup_set
I did not see mtu options there
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Connect ESX 5.1 to Clariion CX500
Hi,
Just upgraded a couple of our ESXi 4.1 test hosts to ESXi 5.1, and the Clariion CX500 they were connected to
prior to the upgrade can no longer see the hosts... The ESXi servers are using Emulex LP10000 HBA's. Rescanning
the HBA's does not display any of the LUN's.
Has anyone got ESXi 5.1 working with a CX500, as I know it's not on the compatability list??
Thanks,
Gary.
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ESXi 5.0 and older Emulex FC
Just a warning about upgrading or testing ESXi 5.0 on (older) servers with Emulex LP10000-S.
(This FC card is not on the HCL list for both Vmware 4 and 5).
I have two servers with this working fine with ESXi 4.1 and they could see the storage.
After upgrading (or even installing a new one) the ESXi reports "Mgmt IO is Blocked d00 - mbox cmd 5 still active..." and you don't have any connectivity to the SAN.
Reinstalling ESXi 4.1 solved the problem
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ESXi 5.1 Host loses network connectivity after startup
Hello, community!
I decided to experiment and installed ESXi 5.1.0a onto a USB stick and ran it from my HP ProBook 4540s laptop. It installed successfully so I assume that the NIC drivers are present and the NIC is supported (because when I tried to install it on my old PC it wouldn't let me and told me that there are no NIC drivers for that interface).
After the system loads it successfully acquires the IP address from my DHCP (which is on my home router) or if I assign a static address -- it also works. I can ping the host and even login via the vClient. However after about one minute the host loses connectivity and I cannot ping it or log into it. Neither can I ping the router from the ESXi itself.
Tried doing this with direct connection (without the router) -- same thing.
Could someone suggest any solutions?
Thanks in advance!
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Android Tablet Access
I currently run the free ESXi 5.0 at home, and thinking of buying the Nexus 10 Tablet..
What do I need to install on the tablet and/or the ESXi server that will let me
1) Access the vSphere client
2) Access and interact in the VMs
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How do set up LUNs?
Hi
We are in a project of migrating from vSphere 4.1 to vSphere 5.1 and EVA 6400 to 3PAR.
One thing I have been thinking of is how to create/use LUN to gain as best performance as possible AND easily maintain it.
Today we have over 40 LUNs, RAID1 and RAID5, different sizes. So when we install a new host theres lots of work to present it to all LUNs.
How do you guys do?
What do you think about just having one LUNs per RAID? Eg, one gigant for RAID1 etc.
Cheers
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Installing OMSA on ESXi 5
Anyone have any luck installing Dell OMSA on 5?
When I do vihostupdate.pl it responds "This operation is NOT supported on 5.0.0 platform."
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ESXi 5.1 License - Still showing vRAM limit
Hi All,
After installing vSphere ESXi 5.1 and selecting our upgrade license (Same key as 5.0), it still lists the vRAM Entitlement limit (96GB).
Is it simply listed as part of the license field?
and then is it ignored as part of the new license structure?
Anyone else seen this?
Bernie
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cannot connect to profile-driven storage service
Hello,
I want to test the profile-driven storage features,
but I'm stuck in the beginning...
I was able to enable VM storage profiles for my cluster.
Ever since then, when I open the vi client and log on to vcenter,
the following error pops up:
"vSphere Client cannot connect to Profile-driven storage service at https://vcenter:443/sps/sdk"
The "VMware vsphere Profile-Driven Storage Service" windows service seems to be running,
but after a couple of minutes it always seems to stop again.
Whether it is indicated as "running" or "stopped", the vi client keeps giving me the above error message.
The Orchestrator service is not running,
The Web client service is also not running.
In the windows system event log,
I can see the following:
"The VMware vSphere Profile-Driven Storage Service service terminated with service-specific error Incorrect function.."
Any ideas ?
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Downgrade Esxi 5.0 to 4.1
Hi I had Esxi 5.0 installed, but little that i know we actually buy Esxi4.1 license. Therefore, is there any way to downgrade the Esxi5.0 to 4.1 without losing any data including virtual machines running in the 5.0?
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Canonical Name in Storage device Naming Convention
Who Assigns the Canonical Name in Storage device Naming Convention? Storage Vendor or ESXi?
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How to setup/utilize the two NIC in the physical ESXi server...
Hi,
As per the attachment, I have three VMs (two are core as serves as SharePoint / AD+SQL2008R2). I just only plugged in one NIC and it is connected to the DMZ from the FireWall.
Would it be automatically balance the traffic if I plug in the 2nd NIC to the 2nd DMS zone port to the physical ESXi server or please provide steps on how to achieve this.... !!
Thanks in advance ... !!
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creating vmfs volume in kickstart
how od I create a vmfs volume during kickstart?
I have a 5gb boot frm san lun.
I have
clearpart --alldrives --overwritevmfs
install --firstdisk --overwritevmfs
part datastore1 --onfirstdisk
but part datatore1 --onfirstdisk gives an error
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Solaris 11.1 - Jumbo Frames?
Has anyone successfully got jumbo frames, mtu 9000 to actually work in solaris 11.1?
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vmxnet3 attempt:
root@media5:~# dladm show-linkprop -p mtu
LINK PROPERTY PERM VALUE DEFAULT POSSIBLE
net1 mtu rw 1500 1500 1500
root@media5:~# nano /kernel/drv/vmxnet3s.conf
mtu=9000,9000,9000,9000,9000,9000,9000,9000,9000,9000;
root@media5:~# dladm show-linkprop -p mtu
LINK PROPERTY PERM VALUE DEFAULT POSSIBLE
net1 mtu rw 9000 1500 9000
root@media5:~# dladm set-linkprop -p mtu=9000 net1
dladm: warning: cannot set link property 'mtu' on 'net1': operation not supported
For some reason the below setting went through (for this nic only) but had no effect
root@media5:~# ifconfig net1 mtu 9000
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e1000g0 attempt:
The driver seems to have jumbo frames enabled by default but i cant enable it on the interface
admin@media5:~$ sudo dladm show-linkprop -p mtu
LINK PROPERTY PERM VALUE DEFAULT POSSIBLE
net0 mtu rw 1500 1500 1500-16362
root@media5:~# ifconfig net0 unplumb
root@media5:~# dladm set-linkprop -p mtu=9000 net0
dladm: warning: cannot set link property 'mtu' on 'net0': link busy
root@media5:~# ifconfig net0 mtu 9000
ifconfig: setifprop: Invalid argument provided
It seems that the link is busy no matter what i do, i have tried disconnecting the nic and it is still busy.
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The below is a ping initiated from each nic (one active a time) to a solaris 11 express VM that has jumbo support enabled and working (verified using pings to and from a VMKernel and windows workstations)
root@media5:~# ping -s 10.0.0.36 9000 4
PING 10.0.0.36: 9000 data bytes
----10.0.0.36 PING Statistics----
4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
Some of the guides out there use ndd -set to kick on jumbo frame support however this command no longer works in solaris 11.1
Im using ESXi 5.1.0 914609 with the latest vmware tools installed.
Does anyone have an suggestions or tips?
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Recovering a lost partition table on a VMFS-5 volume with GPT ?
Hi
I have ESXi 5
due to a resignature ( partition ), probably a iSCSI LUN that is still visible under the target , cannot be seen as datastore no more
Help all data , VM's and servers are lost...( they are still probably, but not seen anymore ) How to recover or remake it again as DATAStore ?
PSE HELP
i've seen that article http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1002281&sliceId=2&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=291642884&stateId=1 0 292764722
handles this for VMFS3, and use Fdisk u
Can anyone tell how to do it with Partutil ?
Tnx for quick answer
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Connecting a Fibre Channel Tape Library directly to a VM
Hi,
I have a customer who wants to connect his Fibre Channel Tape Library directly to a VMs cause inside this VMs he has installed the CA Brightstor Server Software.
The first idea I had was installing a FC HBA in the ESXi Host where the VM runs and using Pass-Through technolgy asociate the FC HBA to the VMs.
The other idea is using N-Port ID Virtualization. The question is, can I used N-Port ID Virtualization for this case? I saw this technology can be used to access a LUN using a RDM inside a VM, but canI use it for access to a Tape Library?
Thanks,
Guido.
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Adding local Dell Disk Datastore - Times out - Hangs server
I have a new Dell R620 server and PV3200 DAS. The DAS volumns are mounted on the ESXi host, though when I try and mount the disk physically in the server, I get to tjhe screen that says: Current Disk Layout. On the lower 1.3 of the Screen it says: Loading...
A few minutes later I get a dialof saying that the Connection has been lost and it is attempting to reconnect.
The only want I can get vCenter Client to connect back to the ESXi server is to reboot ESXi from the console.
This happenes on two servers that are setup the same.
Any suggestios?
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name resolution failed from console
Hi guys,
I've noticed a strange issue from the ESXi phisical console: if I want to test the management network in a fresh installation, I logon to the console, go to the "Test Management Network" and filling up the 4 fields (usually ping gw, dns1 dns2 and lookup for the host name). If all is right, I'll have 4 ok. But if I repeat the test, the name resolution go failed. Restarting the mgmt network, still have name resolution failed. Rebooting the host will reset the error only for the very first time, the second one will fail...
This is not a big problem, but it is very boring in a production environment if you have to troubleshooting some connections problem...
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