Reduce size of VM
Hi! I've got two server installations in my vSphere 5.1 enviroment that are 2 TB in size, and I have the well known (ridiculous) issues with taking snapshots. This in turn leads to backup issues, as...
View ArticleGraphic Desktop doesn't work after migration VM from VirtualBox.
Hi guys! I need your advice very much! I've just installed an Oracle Pre-built VM for SOA development that had been preconfigured for Virtual Box. I have successfuly rebuilt it through OVF tools and...
View ArticleAdvice needed on Dell™ PowerEdge™ Express Flash PCIe SSD
Hi all, We are looking into buying servers with Dell™ PowerEdge™ Express Flash PCIe SSD drives.As far as I can see these drives can be used as IO acceleration devices under Hyper-V. Does anybody know...
View ArticleServer 2003 Performance Issues After Upgrading To VM Version vmx-09
We upgraded to vSphere 5.1 and updated all VM Tools and VM Hardware to vmx-09. Since then users have been complainnig that the SQL Server that runs on Server 2003 is performing slowly. The VM has 2...
View Articlehow to work drs
i have two host (esxi5.0) i shut down one host and virtual machines migrated another host. there isnt any problem. i power on host again but all virtual machines are running same host . they arent...
View ArticleConfigure UCS/VMWare integration
We are implementing a new Cisco UCS system with 4 B-series blades running ESXi 5.0 Update 2. All was good until I tried connecting my new hosts to vCenter (version 5.0 Build 804277). The hosts...
View ArticleFiber Channel RoundRobin
I was trying to use RoundRobin for the access to my storage and started seeing some performance issues. Has anyone seen anything like this before. here is my config EMC vMaxESX5.0 8 hostsUCS Blades16TB...
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ESXi 5.x on new Apple Mac Mini 6,2 Late 2012 *NOT* working
Hello! I bought one of the new MacMinis, which were presented yesteraday, plugged two 8GiB DD3-1600 modules in (OsX reported 16GiB of memory, as the models before) and tried to install ESXi 5.1 Build...
View Articleadding new datastore
Hi, i am sorry if some one already raised this question before. i am just starting with VMWARE. my senior at work gave me an old DELL Poweredge 2950 and asked me to install esxi 5 and configure a...
View ArticleRAID Performance Options
Hello - I'll try to keep this as short and sweet as possible. We have 2x hypervisors hosting 4x virtual SQL Servers per physical hypervisors, so: VMHOST01 - SERVER01 VMHOST02 - SERVER05VMHOST01 -...
View ArticleVirtualizing Sql Server with Vmware
I have 8 Esxi and Want tto Virtualize Vcenter Database ...Any best Practise ?
View ArticleUpgrade failed to update database
Database logs below [4/15/2013 10:58:28 AM] Info: Beginning upgrade process.... [4/15/2013 10:58:28 AM] Info: VMware VirtualCenter has been detected as a SQL server.[4/15/2013 10:58:28 AM] Info:...
View ArticleMissing Datastore from Vcenter but can browse directly from the Host
unable to browse datastores through vCenter. If I connect directly to a host I can Browse the Datastore
View ArticleSynology - Anyone using one for ESXi?
Kind of as per the subject I guess. Is anyone using a Synology for ESXi as either an NFS or iSCSI target? If so I'd appreciate any feedback, positive or negative please.
View Articledifference between netflow and port mirroring
what is the difference between netflow and port mirroring? and when to use which one?
View Articlehow do i add additional virtual NICs in VSphere Client for the host
Currently i'm trying to build a private network and need additional NICs, but i have struggled in attempting to acheive this. i go to the host Network Adapters, and can not find any option to add the...
View ArticleDHCP Reservation Problems with ESXi 5.1
About a month ago I started using DHCP + reservations for my hosts' management NICs. This had been working fairly well until this week when I added 3 new hosts and had repeated alerts complaining of...
View ArticleESXi MPIO FC connection to storage
Hi guys, how to works Esxi embeddded MPIO for FC connection to storage ? If i have 2 HBA Esxi using both for balancing the connection to storage or using only 1 hba as active and other as standby for...
View ArticleEMC PowerPath for iscsi connection or ESXi emebedded mpio
Hi guys, for my new ESXi 5.1 server farm i have a lot of server and a big one EMC storage that i need to use with iscsi adapter and for this new setup we are thinking for use a EMC Power Path or do...
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