ESXi has detected 24ms round-trip vMotion network latency
Hi all, Whenever I vMotion a VM between hosts I get something along the lines of the following logged: ESXi has detected 24ms round-trip vMotion network latency between host source_host_ip and...
View ArticleRemovable drive bay for vmdk backups
Free ESXi 5.1, GA-Z77-UD3H, I5-3570k, 512GB SSD, 8 VM's I don't think this would be an issue but I want to be sure before I buy the bay and drive. I want to install a removable bay and have a backup...
View ArticleDHCP (broadcast) packets not transmitted between hosts of a...
Hello, I've been banging my head against the desk for most of the day and need some help. From everything I read/researched, I'm told that within a dvPortGroup broadcasts are distributed, not blocked -...
View ArticleVM stuck at 15% at power on task and eventually fails after 8 vCPU
I have VM running windows 2008 r2 server in VC 5.1 on ESXi 5.1. When I try to power on the VM after I upgraded the VM with 8 vCPUs, it gets stuck at 15% and eventually fails with the error "a general...
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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 ArticleWhy Failed to clone disk: There is not enough space on the file system for...
The Situation:1. We have two SuperMicro servers running ESXi 5.1, and do cross-backups each night between the servers using vkmfstools. Each server has Windows 2003 Server VM running Windows...
View ArticleAccidentally deleted snapshot in snapshot manager...
Hi, In Snapshot Manager I accidentally deleted (instead of consolidating) a veeam snapshot which was not correctly handled. The VM requires still consolidating and when I try to do that, it exits with...
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Marvell 88SE9172 SATA Controller issues
Hello, I am setting up an ESXi 5.1 server on my home-lab machine, based on mobo ASUS P8Z68-V PRO (spec: http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8Z68V_PRO/#specifications).This mobo has two...
View ArticleOdd behavior via vSphere Web Client
I deleted a previous thread related to this issue as it hadn't received any responses and I have some more details to provide. We are running ESXi 5.1 on three clusters and manage them via VCenter....
View ArticleCreate the Questions to Power On the VM's
How to Create the Questions to Power On the VM's?
View ArticleCloned DNS server issues
First let me preface this by saying I cloned our production DNS servers via clonezilla and restored that clone to a VM on our private network. Here's what I have and what I'm trying to accomplish.What...
View Articleguest with more vCPU than pCPU a bad idea?
Hi All,My understanding of vmware was that a guest with high parallelism should not have more vCPU than physical cores on the host. We have a high performance SQL server VM (Windows 2008 R2 soon to be...
View Articlemigrate problem
ha and drs are active on datacenter. i moved to the virtual machine to another host but it didnt work . it still waiting %36. what is problem and how to control problem. I can't find a fix for my...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 NLB is not working on Esxi 5.1 (Unicast & Muticast)..
Hi, We are under progress to deploy Exchange 2010 on Esxi 5.1, HUB/CAS roles will be in NLB mode.NLB is getting created successfully on VMs but after reboot, nodes will be unreachable in NLB console "...
View Articleesxi 5.1 and adaptec 6405 installation fails
Hi, I'm trying to install esx 5.1 with adaptec 6405.AACRAID service fails to load (as stated in the yellow installation screen) and when I'm propted to choose the disk/partition to install I can't see...
View ArticlePoor performance on datastore during read and write actions on one esx host
Hello, I just build up two new ESXI servers with esxi version 5.1.0 build 1021289. They both have the exact same configuration one performs good the other has a weird performance issue. When i clone a...
View ArticleCopy speeds, within same virtual drive are < 2Mb/sec
I -- in a bit of a pickle. Copying a 1Gb file (albeit with many files) is taking...20-40 minutes at speeds varying between 256Kbs and 2Mb/sec, on a new drive I just installed. And, not much faster...
View ArticlevSphere Data Protection problem
HiJust installed VDP and have some questions.Added a backup job and it worked fine with some exceptions. 2 VM:s fails and is listed as "Out of Date " ? What does that mean ?Have searched but can't find...
View ArticleAbout VCPU Sockets and cores
When creating a VM it gives a option to select N0. of Sockets and N0. of core .What is the differance I select 2 sockets and 1 core per socket or 1 Socket and 2 cores per socket.
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