extending eager zeroed disk
hello everyone I extended a disk format eager zeroed from 60 gb to 200 gb using the gui and I found that the disc format has become lazy zeroed both from commandline interface with the command...
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ESXi 5.1 - PSOD LINT1 motherboard interrupt
Upgraded a server from ESXi 5.0 to ESXi 5.1, but now when I power on a VM that is passing a device through PCI Passthrough, I get this immediate LINT1 PSOD on the server. Anyone else experiencing...
View ArticleHow to limit I/O into a Datastore ?
Hello,Not sure if Storage i/o control can accomplish what I want. so, here is the scope. We have an EMC VNXe 3300 connected via iSCSI to our ESXis 5.0 U2. We have a VM that is generating lots of I/O....
View Articlesame storage disk is showing up as GPT and MBR
hi we have 2 ESX server farms and recently storage team mapped 2 LUNs which were already mapped to ServerFarm1 to ServerFarm2 as well.On ServerFarm1 they were directly mapped to VM and data stores...
View ArticleP2V - hardware issue on physical
If I am having hardware issues (memory) on a physical machine, will converting to virutal fix the problem?
View ArticleDownside to changing HostD and vpxa logs from verbose to info?
vSphere 5.x defaults to verbose logging for hostd and vpxa logs. While having more log data is generally a good thing, it is not a good thing when sending this data to Splunk, where you pay by the...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Login banner
Greetings, Is there a way to use host profile to push ligib banner to ESXi 5.1 hosts. Not the message of the day banner Joseph
View ArticleF5 LB DNS Virtual IP not working with VSphere for name resolution
We recently implemented F5 LB DNS VIP for Internal Name Resolution in our Infrastructure which works really great with Windows Servers. Infact we also moved few Windows machines to point to the new DNS...
View ArticlePatching an HP Custom ESXi 5.0 Image
We are running vSphere ESXi 5.0 on Proliant servers. The servers were recently deployed using the HP Custom Image. vSphere Updates manager was just installed and we wanted to be sure it is getting the...
View ArticlevMotion Fails At 14%
Hi Everyone, Having a bit of a strange issue with vMotion today. It's been working in my lab for months, and was still working fine after I upgraded to 5.1 last week. Now, today, for whatever reason,...
View ArticleVsphere can't log in to ESXi 5.1
Hello, I have 02 VMware ESXi 5.1 servers and I have a windows server 2008 R2 server running the VCenter server and the Vsphere client. I can't login to Vsphere client as I did before - I used to login...
View ArticleDowngrade to 5.0 after period on 5.1
Back in February I upgraded a cluster of my servers to v5.1. Before doing so I checked the VMWare HCL and everything checked out fine so I went ahead with the upgrade. We were running fine until this...
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RHEL VM migration from Intel to AMD
Hi everyone I deployed an OVF template of RHEL6.2_x86_64 on ESXi5.1(with AMD processor) from VMware workstation 9 (with Intel i7 processor). I originaly installed that guest OS on vmware workstation9...
View ArticleNFS Mounting ,Netapp and ESXi5.1
Ok working on a client site They have set the followingESXi Mmgt on 10.190.10.#/24NFS to be 10.190.11.#/24 NFS filer is 10.191.2.### So i have createdvswitch0 with Mgmt vmk0 portvswitch1 with NFS vmk1...
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esxi 5.1 install problem on LSI 9240-8i: loading module megaraid_sas
It hangs on loading module megaraid_sas for a very long time and it didn't pass. Any ideas? LSI 9240-8i (2 750GB RAID 1, 4 4TB raid 5) Thanks Jason
View ArticleHow to update a VM template and reseal it
HiI have a VM template out of date on the HW Version, VM tools and Win Updates. How do I update it and reseal so when it's next deployed it asks me for machine name and all (sysprep) This is a...
View ArticleActivating DRS and HA before hardware upgrade
Hello. I am in progres of moving the virtual servers from the ESX4 platform to the ESXi5 platform. Som of the servers are already on the ESXi5 hosts. I did not upgrade the VMs hardware just yet....
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Our Setup
Dear all, After seeing the great support being offered on these community forums I just wanted to see if anyone would help in confirming our current setup and whether or not I have done everything to...
View ArticleAvoid sharing interrupts in virtual guests
Hi all, Is it possible to avoid sharing interrupts in a virtual guest modifying vm configuration? For example, I have a vm with 10 vnics, and: interrupt total rateirq1:...
View ArticlevCenter Single Sign On master password
Hi guys i do not remember admin@system-domain password i wondring how to reset admin's account password i tried to reset password by rsautil command line but i dont remember master password. Anyway to...
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