Uncertainty with licensing
Hi, I'm hoping someone familiar with vSphere 5.1 licensing can help me. I'm looking to license 3 servers that I've virtualised with ESXi 5.1. Each server has 4 processors so need a total of 12...
View ArticleCannot Install Ubuntu under ESXi
I cannot figure out how to actually install the guest OS, in this case Ubuntu 12.4. from an ISO image on a DVD, or from a USB drive. For that matter, I can't figure out how to make the USB drive even...
View ArticleRecover missing snapshot chain
Hi all, We are facing a problem with snapshot chains. We started on a host using ESXi 4.1 which we updated to vSphere 5. When we updated the host, there was a problem with the vmx file (orphaned VM)...
View Articlei/o problem after upgrade to ESXi5
Hi, I'm experiencing a problem with disk I/O in PowerEdge R710 and R720 after upgrade from ESXi4 to ESXi 5.1.I have formatted and reinstalled all hosts from scratch. I'm using the build 799733, I have...
View ArticleESXi 5 and The ramdisk 'root' is full
Hi, I'm new to ESXi and have recently installed version 5 onto a server. Everything seems to be working OK, but the "The ramdisk 'root' is full" message is appearing frequently and I don't know why. We...
View ArticleThe ramdisk 'root' is full.
Hello After en updragd from ESXi 4.0 to ESXi 5.0 we are getting an error on one of the host. The error is: The ramdisk 'root' is full. As a result, the file...
View ArticleManagement and vMotion on same nic
Hi, we are having 10 nics cards in a ESX host. 5 goes to primary switch and 5 goes to secondary switch. Earlier, we had 1. 2 Nics for Service Console2. 2 Nics for vMotion3. 6 Nics for Virtual Machine...
View ArticleDuplicate MAC address on VMs.
We have VCenters in different locations and I am aware that MAC address conflicts happens occationally if VCenter instance ID is same. Instance ID is different now however we are trying to change the...
View ArticleDifference between host CPU usage on vCenter and guest CPU usage
Hi, Some times, I faced with high CPU usage on some virtual machines in vCenter but they have low CPU utilization in guest OS,Why these are different?
View ArticleBest Practices About vCPU Sizing
Hello, I know, more virtual CPU can degrading performance and increasing CPU ready but many times one CPU with single core can't do any tasks with high performance.I have a question, which is better:...
View ArticlevDS Port Groups
Hi We have 5 ESXi 5.0 servers, all configured to use a vDS switch. Each host has 4 uplinks to the vDS and are configured to use IP Hash (Etherchannel). Our problem is that we have some VMs that are not...
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Need advise on architecture
Hi all,I am new to ESXi and virtualization in general. Looking for your opinions on infrastructure setup.Please take a look at the chart and advise if that will be a good setup.ESXi host 1 is a new HP...
View ArticleAdvantages of upgrading Virtual Hardware
I have been unable to find any information on VMWare's KB regarding the benefits of upgrading to the latest virtual hardware, which I believe is 9. I know VMWare recommends that those running on ESXi...
View ArticleTiming Out Pings / Dropping Packets
We have the following scenario:ESXi 5.0 U2HP Proliant BL460c G7Network Adapters:(1) Emulex NC553i 10GB 2-port FlexFabric Converged Network Adapater(2) Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM57711E/NC532n 10 Gigabit...
View ArticleFiltering items from tasks & events
We use orion software for all of our monitoring, and orion logs into the hosts every 5 mins. This fillts up all of the events section making it unusable. So I am wondering is there a way that I can...
View Articlemoving VM in Datastore browser brakes the config.
Hi, Using ESXi 5.1 (build 1021289) in my lab(no vCenter server). Havdatastore is local. Have a VM Vyatta in root of datastore with 2 NICs - eth0 and eth1. When moving VM via datastore browser to the...
View ArticleESXi flash drive failed, how to retrieve previous setting files from it?
I have was running ESXi 5.0 off a Sandisk Cruzer 1GB USB flash drive but the system started acting weird (slow) so I rebooted it, when it came up the server couldn't boot from it so it appears some...
View ArticleDR Scenarios
Can some one help me with DR scenarios when SQLServer will fail and how we will recover that.
View ArticleProper way to shut down all hosts in a cluster
i have a small environment with 2 esxi hosts in a cluster. my company is going to have 2 planned power outages that i need to shut all the servers down including the esxi hosts. what is the right way...
View ArticleHow vmotion works in esxi 5 ?
Hi, Please anybody explain me how vmotion works in esxi 5 step by step.. Thanks.
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