ISCSI Lun Gone after reboot ESXI-host
Hello,i am having 2 ESXI 5.1 hosts and 1 QNAP for iscsi-storage. When i reboot one of the host, one lun is gone (other 4 luns are available). I have to the following procedure to fix this: #...
View ArticleESXi 5, Link Bundling, VLANs, and Management Interface
Greetings - I suspect that the answer to my query is: "Buy another Intel NIC" but here goes: I have an ESXi server here with 2 Intel GigE NICs, connected to the same upstream Cisco managed switch. One...
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anyone using this? and provide some feedback? can this replace san and servers?
View ArticleUnresposive 5.1 host - possible management services issue
Hello, I was enabling SNMP via SSH and unfortunately the host has become unresponsive. I can ping the host, I can SSH on to the host and I can see the VMs are still running on the host via esxtop so...
View ArticleSyslog Collector
We have ESXi 5.1 environment and I have configured Syslog Collector on the VCenter server and I can see the syslog.log created under the Host IP - subfolder. But my query is about the other logs other...
View ArticleTwo VMs on same host very slow
I have seven hosts with ESXi 5.0 and two storage. When two vms are on the same host, the performance is much poor "in vms with Windows Server 2008 R2."
View ArticleUpdated VMDirectPath documentation?
Hi Everyone, I am looking for an updated VMDirectPath document. I can find the 4.x version but not a 5.x version and I am aware that there are updates as per this KB1010789 KB -->...
View ArticleExtent vs Increase Size - Not sure of the difference
I have a question about Extent vs Increase the size of a datastore. I am not sure if they are one and the same. If I have a 200GB LUN Presented to me and I make a 200GB Datastore. We realize that we...
View ArticleTAR, VMTAR and GZIP
I've come across this topic and just want to be certain that I have all the info correct: 1) You need to tar the files/dirs first, which will create a .tar file, i.e.: start w/foo, end up with...
View Article2 NICs, Separate IP range for VMs and NAS.?
Hi all. The following is all running in VMware Workstation 9 (not that it should matter really) Is it possible to have my iSCSI NAS storage on a completely different network to my VMs.?For example, I...
View ArticleContinous problems with vSphere client 5.1
Hi all, I have continous problems using vSphere client 5.1 agains an ESXi 5.1 free hypervisor. Every time that I can try to "Open console", same error appears: "The VMRC Console has disconnected .....
View ArticleESXi 5u1 to 5.1 and VM version 9
Hi everyone, I have a "little issue". I successfully upgrade my ESXi 5 to 5.1 but I didn't find any sign of that: "Newvirtual hardware. New virtual hardware. VSphere 5.1 introduces a new generation of...
View Article2 2k8r2 VMs on same host- slow network. different hosts, FAST!
Hi all-troubleshooting a network performance issue.2 VMs, patched 2k8r2 4cpu, 4gig, no firewall. e1000 nic.standard switches, 1 uplink nic (1gig). Testing with iperf -P 4, I get the following-2 VMs on...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 on R510 scsi errors
Hello, People.I installed ESXi 5.1 on a Dell R510 last week.I used a 8Gb USB drive for ESXi installation and local RAID50 on PERC700 with 9 2.5Tb SATA disks.The array hasn't finished rebuilding for the...
View Articleclearpart kickstart install on san drive
what do I need to put on my kickstart file to install esxi on the san drive. there are no local drives attached. this was the line to install on local drive clearpart --firstdisk=local --overwritevmfs
View ArticleIntermitted network connection problem to Server 2008 VM running on vSphere...
HiI am very new to VMware and was forced to use it to get a critical server up and running after a hardware failure. The problem I have is that the network connection between client computers and the...
View Articleopenwsmand not reachable till restart solves problem a few days
Hello everybody, our ESXi hosts are monitored by Dell Openmange Essentials, which uses openwsmand.The Problem is, that openwsmand from time to time isn't reachable. (Conection was tested with Dell...
View ArticleSoftware Update issues in OSX
I have had issues updating OSX 10.8.1 on my VMs to 10.8.2. The automated software update doesn't work because the VM's don't advertise as a specified piece of Apple Hardware. I attempted to manuall...
View Articleesxi 5.x upon importing a vm , vm won't start acpi.sys error.
I have an ovf that I'm importing with vshpere client verion 5.0.0 build 455964 and vmware esxi version 5.0.0 build 469512. the importing of vm is successful but when I start the vm , I get an error...
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deleted folder on ESXi 5 through ssh but I still see the folders
Hi,I deleted the folders using SSH but I still see the folders on the SSH and through the ESXI 5 client.when I try to delete the folder through the SSH I get: rm: cannot remove 'Folder': Directory not...
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