Essentials License Upgrade Problem with Ram
We currently jsut upgraded to the vSphere 5 Essentials License. According to the License vRAM per CPU entitlement is 32GB We currently have 64GB Physical Ram in the Host, but when we tried to change...
View ArticleCertificate for Security and Connection Servers
Hello there, I have the below setup 1 Security server - myview.domain.com (mapped to public IP when accessing through the internet)1 Connection server - myview.domain.com (same FQDN mapped to an...
View ArticleHow a VM guest OS support sound audio?
I have a linux guest os installed in vsphere5, however no sound can be heard when I open youtube in broswer. I can't find any sound card can be added to vsphere5. May I know is vsphere5 support audio...
View ArticleDifference Between vmklnx_register_blkdev and device_initialize
Hi all, We are porting sample Linux block disk driver into esxi 5.0 .In linux the device registered and itialized using the register_blkdev(sbull_major, "sbull") having only two arguments . But in...
View ArticleI can not clone my VM
Hi,I am very new to the world of VMware. I setup a host, installed ESxi 5.1, and then from a second PC connected to my host using VM client.Then installed server2008 and now I want to clone this VM so...
View ArticleHow to write device drivers for ESXi 5.1
hi, recently i got one requirement to develop a pci driver on Vmware ESXi 5.1currently installed ESXi 5.1 on my machinebut could not find a way on how to proceed further with writing device drivers...
View ArticleVMware xcopy
Dear guys, i have been advised from the storage vendor that the use of xcopy command might cause a controllor block.Now my question is : is this command used only with VAAI or also during normal...
View ArticleSnasphot space used in storage view,why remainder of 44,00B?
Good morning, I notice in "storage view" in my vsphere client that we have a snapshot remainder of 44,00 Bytes.Do you know how it creates ? We are surprized because a snapshot remainder had been...
View ArticleExpand 3.46 VMFS over 2TB
Hellowe have a virtualized environment with two ESX 4.1.0 (988178) hosts, and an external storage (SAS-based IBM DS3512). On the external storage we have a VMFS (version 3.46, 4MB block size) of 1.95...
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Auto Deploy - Unable to properly boot ESXi 5.1 properly on HP Blade Servers
We have recently upgraded our vCenter to 5.1.0b, and ofcourse I wanted to update our running (stateless) ESXi blades right away. It appeared this is a little harder then I expected it to be. The image...
View ArticleLicenses
I have a new license key for one of my hosts, and can't figure out how to apply it. I do not have the option to add it via the Client, because when I click..Administration...< there should be...
View ArticleAdding RDM but bo SCsi controler is added
Hi, I am trying to create a cluster between two virtual machines which are on two different esxi servers. I am using SAN VNX 5100 . My esxi version is 5.1. i am trying to add RDM hard drive but when...
View ArticleToo much verbose in log
Hi, (sorry for my English)I upgrade from ESXi 5.0 to 5.1 but now I have too much logs in my event as you can see on the attached files.Do you know what's happend?
View ArticleGet IOPS via SNMP
Hi there,how is it possible, to get IOPS of an ESXi via snmp? Which mib should I use? Which OID or which name is it? Until now I was not able finding anything about this.Help is appreciatedRegardsMichael
View ArticleImprove ESXi Performance
Hi,I have an ESXi server in my office with 10 VM. Sometimes VM's performance start to come down and we have very slow speed at that moment. Finally I restart ESXi server to get best performance. What...
View ArticleCan I use SE Sparse files in the free ESXi 5.1?
Can I use SE Sparse files in the free ESXi 5.1? I want to use them to avoid the current process required to clean up thin vmdks. I read the Hogan article vSphere 5.1 Storage Enhancements – Part 2: SE...
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vSphere Client: USB device stuck at "Connecting..."
Hello.Normally it works as it should, but sometimes I have trouble connecting a USB flash drive from my client to the VM via vSphere Client. It gets stuck at the connecting stage and I cannot cancel...
View ArticleStrange ghost network
Hi. After I upgrade vCenter/ESXi from 4.1 to 5.0, some strange networks appear.Please check the attachments. Some VM contains some inactive networks, which are not listed in the property windows of...
View ArticleNFS Perf issues with VMXNET3 driver on Linux Guest
Hi - We're trying to convert some of our Linux VMs from using the e1000 network driver to the VMXNET3 driver. We've encountered a problem with NFS when using the VMXNET3 driver, where performance is...
View Articlelacp supported now in vsphere 5.1?
hi all, i tried doing lacp on my cisco switch 3750 putting lacp on (channel-group xx mode active) vpshere 5.1/esx 5.1, it didn't work. i have lacp on my openfiler two nic i can see the policy that's...
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