Scratch config vs syslog
What is stored in the defined scratch config location? Is what gets written to a defined syslog location, a duplication of the contents of "scratch config"? Does it make sense to have both scratch...
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Upload/Download performance ...
VMware ESXi 5.1 server (Dell PowerEdge R410 4CPU x 2.127GHz, Xeon E5506 @2.13GHz 4 cores NIC=2, 16GB Ram) We have installed three VMs (1) Windows 2008 R2 AD+SQL server 2008 R2 (assigned 8GB ram)(2)...
View ArticleImpossible to upgrade/install esxi 5.1 HP build 799733
Currently installed : Esxi 5.0 HP Build. on ML 350p Gen 8 2xIntel CPU E5-2650 2Ghz 136 Gib MemoryUpdated latest HP firmware :...
View ArticlevShield Edge
While provisioing a vShield enabled vDC I see that the VM's deployed inside that vApp is getting an IP range of 172.xxx. How these VM's are getting this private range. Is it assigned from vSM or...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 and UCS Blades
Hi, I have heard that there is an extremely performance degradedation issues currently with Vpshere5.1 running on UCS Blades, I am wondering if anyone has confirm this or has any documented information...
View ArticleNIC teaming and Link Aggregation groups
We currently have an ESX5.1 host which has 4 * NICs and is hosting 3 VMs including the company's main file server. The 4 NICs form a vSphere "Standard Switch" and the "Load Balancing" on this switch is...
View ArticleBest Hardware Components for a High Performance vSphere Infrastructure
Hi I have a very difficult question. What are the best hardware components to build a high performance vSphere infrastructure? The focus is here on the server hardware, because the storage...
View Articleunknown VM after reboot of NFS storage
Hi on our esxi5.1 hosts are some qnap storages connected with nfs and iscsi. If this qnap is booted the storage is gone (both iscsi and nfs, which is normal)after qnap is back both stores are comming...
View Articleupdate esx host not using update manager
hi,we have some esx hosts and for security reason we are not allow to connect to the internet and update manager is not/prob cant be installed (security) so i need to download and install patches...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 no management services?
Hello, I had an ESXi 5.0 instance running on a server and tried upgrading to 5.1. The install seemed fine but now I have no management connectivity to the server via Workstation 9, vSphere Client 5.1...
View ArticleEnable 3D Support
Hi I have installed Google Earth on a Windows Server 2008 R2 vm but can't get the 3D graphics to work. Google Earth runs but only dispalys the outline of countries.The enable 3D support option is is...
View ArticleFusion-IO Cards / SSD / Flash solution?
Hi All, I'm currently going throug an alignment exercise and need to re-align >1000 misaligned VMDK's - this is approximately 40TB of data. My thoughts at the moment are to buy 2x Fusion IO cards to...
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Esxi 5.1 pci passthrough broken
I got a purple screen when I start up a vm with a pci device With Esxi5 was working fine. I tested it with 2 vm on different hosts ( but same hardware) i7 2600 32gb mb: dq67sw What can I try
View ArticleDell Optiplex 790 Ethernet
I'm trying to install ESXi 5 on a Dell Optiplex 790 desktop computer. This desktop has a built in INTEL Ethernet NIC and ESXi doesn't recognize it? How is that possible? It is a very popular NIC and...
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vRAM licensing capacity alert
Hi I'm having this alert in vCenter saying "License capacity monitoring" that won't go away. When I check the Licensing report it shows that my Purchased capacity is 0.02GB vRAM?We are running both...
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How to convert Solaris 10 to vMware Esxi 5.x?
Hello all, I'm looking for a software to convert a Solaris 10 to VMware Esxi 5.x? Thanks for your help.
View ArticleVM Nic Sleeping
VMWare 5VM - Windows 2008 R2 64bitNetwork Adapter - VMXNET 3 We just set up a new server a few weeks ago. For some reasone the NIC seems to be going to sleep, we can't ping, attach to the server, or...
View ArticleUnable to access file vmdk since it is locked
Hi guys I have a customer running vSphere 5 with ESXi 5.0.0 build 914586. On a datastore I have a template for W2K8R2SP1-Enterprise. When I try to deploy a VM from this template it states: "unable to...
View ArticleHA and hosts with shared and non shared storage
Hi, I need to know whether a proposed config is feasible and whether there's a much better way of doing it. I have 2 x ESXi hosts8 TB SQL Estate (I'm looking at implement SQL 2012 AlwaysOn)20TB backup...
View ArticleSound (in and out) on linux guest
Hello, Say I have multiple linux (OpenSUSE) guests on an ESXi host. Would it be possible to play and record sound on these guests? The sound playing/recording would have to be done on the computers...
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