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ESX4 or ESXi5 not getting installed on Dell R720 servers
i am getting below errors while installing esx4 and esxi5 please advise.. ThnaksSunil
View ArticleSQL Performance, high guest ram, low active ram VM parameter.
HI All, I have a question. I have a guest OS running SQL 2012. Inside the guest OS it shows memory at 95%, when I lookat the active memory counter or usage in Vmware in shows roughly 2-3GB. The VM...
View ArticleESXI 4.1 and 5.x configurations syslog to log specific events
Is it possible to change the logfile informaion in ESXi4.1 and ESXI 5.x? I want to only log the debug, warning, and error information. I am pointing my hosts to a Solarwinds SYSLOG server and I do not...
View Articleremediate hosts to 5.0U2, must vCenter be upgraded too??
It's been a long time since I installed VMware stuff and I've gotten rusty on it. We have HP host servers, if I remediate them to 5.0 U2 does that do any necessary HP driver etc. updates??Or should I...
View ArticlevSphere web client OSX plugin
hi, when will the firefox or safari or chrome plugin for the web client to view the remote console of a vm for OSX be available? The new web client looks great and a perfect sollution for us as a mac...
View ArticleFirmware Upgrade for HP/QLogic ISP2432-based 4Gb FC HBA
Hello, I'm a little confused as to what I need to do to get my firmware up to date for my HP ESXi hosts' HBAs. In vCenter the HBAs are listed as: ISP2432-based 4Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA...
View ArticleESXI Host Not Detecting ANY USB/PCI Devices
Hi Guys, I'm hoping someone can help me, I've been battling to get an ESXI host to detect USB devices. All the USB controllers are in passthrough mode, and VT-d has been enabled in the BIOS. I've also...
View Articleedit default virtual machine settings
Hi, Is it possible to edit the default "typical" settings displayed when creating a new virtual machine? For example, when I select "new virtual machine" in the inventory, the typical settings would...
View ArticleTagging a RAID 1 drive as SSD?
I'm running two SSDs in RAID 1 on an LSI 9260-8i adapter and ESXi 5.1 lists the RAID 1 virtual drive as "Non-SSD". I know I can instruct ESXi to recognize it as an SSD, but should I? What are the...
View ArticleESXI 5.1 Problems after adding drives
I have 2 EXSI 5.1 servers with vcenter. I shutdown and added drives to the raid card on one of them. When I brought it back up it could not connect to it's NFS datastore and it could not be connected...
View ArticleRecover after ESXi setup mistake with an overwritten datastore
Problem description: The host has two directly attached volumes ESXI 4.1 was installed on Volume1 Host was upgraded to ESXI 5.1 Then VMFS was upgraded from v3 to v5 Then ESXi5.0 was installed on...
View ArticleMissing the initrd.img in ESXi 5 Installer.
I am trying to PXEboot the ESXi 5, but I found that I cannot find the kernel (vmlinuz) and a ramdisk (initrd.img) in ESXi 5 installer ISO anymore, I remembered that I can find them in the ESX 4 install...
View ArticleHow much space does a virtual machine need?
Assuming I have 100 Windows vms of 40GB each on my datastore, would I need 3.9 TB on my datastore to accomodate all those vms? I'm guessing not, but how can I find out the actual space requirements?
View ArticleSetting up host connected printer within VM (HP Microserver N40L)
Hi, I have an HP MFP1132 printer that I want to plug into an HP Microserver N40L and then set up from within a Vista VM running on that host. I'm really struggling to get anywhere. Has anyone had...
View ArticleBurst Size – In Switch properties
Burst Size– In Switch properties.Is this mean the total data volume allow to this machine.or the maximum data rate at a time.? please cleare about the Burst size.
View ArticleHost machine disconnect 2 or 3 time in a day
Currently, ESXi 5.0 build # 623860 is installed on HP Compaq 8200 Desktop machine but I face network loss issue with host machine. It disconnects 2 and 3 time in a day and reconnects automatically...
View ArticleESX5i and 40 Gigabit
As ESX5i runs with 10 gigabit, can it also run with 40 Gigabit, if the networkcard in esxi support 10/40 Gigabit with the same driver ?Anyone test this ?
View ArticleESXi 5.1 hosts randomly disconnects from vCenter
Hi.After installing vSphere vCenter and ESXi 5.1 (with latest patches), we are starting to see hosts disconnecting randomly from vCenter.We have different server models but so far, we have only seeing...
View ArticleCustom Buslogic Drivers for the VM's
How to Install Custom Buslogic Drivers for the VM's?
View ArticleGet-ViSession Not Recognized in powercli 5.1
Get-ViSession Not Recognized in powercli 5.1. Can anyone help me out on this?
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