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VLan tagging issues
Hi guys I am using VSphere Essential plus, I set up a Vlan 1955 for VLan tagging for the Front End. I created Vlan 1955 on my cisco SG300 and tagged all the ports The issue I am having is if I try...
View ArticlevSphere HA not cover failures on vSwitch?
Hi everyone, I'm studying vSphere HA and reading how vSphere HA detect host failures. Before I write my question here i'm going to describe in few works what I was studied about how High Availability...
View ArticleCan I Clone a Running Production Server Win2k8 R2 and Produce it as Secondary...
Hi all, My question is: Can I clone a running Production Server based on Windows 2008 R2 and produce this Cloned VM as secondary Windows 2008 R2 Server with just renaming HOST name and joining this...
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Queries on Production and UAT segregation
hi all, sorry if i am asking a repeated question i have tried searching around in the forums but can't find what i am looking for. need advise with the following: I have 3 x ESXi serverswhich is...
View ArticleHardware Spec
got a 3 Dell Servers available but have a few questions on CPUs Have a Dell 1950 (version 3) running 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5450 @ 3.00GHz, 16GB Ram and Dell T110 (Version 2) Intel Xeon E3-1270...
View ArticleUnable to use FCoE on Intel X540 cards
Hello.I have a ESXi host (5.1.0 build 1021289, latest) with intel 82599EB-based cards (3.14.3 ixgbe driver, latest).The cards are working fine, but... the "Add software FCoE adapter" option is greyed...
View ArticleESXTOP: % run 800.00 for idle row.
Hi,Have installed ESXi 5.1 and noticed the the ESXTOP command is producing a large % run for the idle (GUID 1) row.% Run for the idle row is 800.00 and the % used is 391.41.Can someone please explain...
View ArticlevSphere web service sdk VMCreate SOAP Fault - InvalidRequestFault
Hi all :when I run VMware-vSphere-SDK-5.0.0-429209\SDK\vsphere-ws\java\JAXWS\samples\com\vmware\vm\VMCreate.java The followings happen . anyone can help me? thanks I set the parameters as follewings...
View ArticlevSphere web service sdk VMCreate SOAP Fault - InvalidRequestFault——2
Hi all :when I run VMware-vSphere-SDK-5.0.0-429209\SDK\vsphere-ws\java\JAXWS\samples\com\vmware\vm\VMCreate.java The followings happen . anyone can help me? thanks HOST NAME : 192.168.20.203SOAP Fault...
View ArticleESXi 5.0 & QLogic 81xx
Hi all, this is possibly more for my own reference, but if it helps others then i'm happy to share. Recently i've been experiencing issues with the following, inherited, system: IBM XIV SAN storageIBM...
View ArticleHost not responding when IO load is high
HI everyone,I have a few ESXi 5.0 connecting to a NAS iSCSI.The server is sure to have sufficient for ALL VM to use all allocated memory. When the load is a bit high (around 100 ms latency) and if the...
View ArticleShrink Linux vmware?
I know this has been asked before, but I haven't found a conclusive and working answer. I have several Linux guests (Debian x64) servers which are thin provisioned on ESXi 5.1.Some of these guests have...
View ArticleVmotion Between ESXi 5.0 & ESXi 5.1
Hi Guys, We are in process to upgrade our environment from ESX/ESXi 4.0/4.1 to ESXi 5.1 U1. But we are having some HP DL380 G5 series server, which vmware says it won't support i.e. service support...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 vCPU consolidation and scheduling
Hi there..... This has probably been discussed before but were looking into buying 4 servers for our ESXi 5.1 Ent. Plus Cluster but can't deceide on server model - were looking at the HP DL580 G7 4CPU...
View ArticleRunning vSphere on host machine?
Is it possible to run vSphere on my host machine to log into itself? I have VMware ESXi 5.0.0 Release Build 469512
View ArticleESXi hangs on VMkernel initialization after RAM upgrade
Dear VMware users, During the memory upgrade, from 16 to 32GB, ESXI refuses to boot up. The OS hangs on the message; "Starting VMkernel Initialization". The problem is easy to solve (the system starts...
View ArticleOptimizing thin disk usage
I have several VMs hosted by a VMware vSphere 5.x infrastructure.Guest OS is mainly Windows Server 2008 R2 (with dome other Windows server versions) and all the virtual HD are configured as...
View ArticleEsxi 5 or esxi 5.1
We are currently running esxi / vcenter 5.0. Should i upgrade to 5.1 and is there a cost to doing so?
View ArticleESXi5 OVF import not working with monolithicSparse
It seems that OVF import only supports the stream format and not monolithicSparse,could someone confrm that? I ask as we are trying to give a hand-crafted OVF to ESXi for import. We use qemu-imgto...
View ArticlePoint of vCenter cluster with Essential license
Hi! I was wondering what is the point of vCenter cluster vs. placing 3 ESXi servers directly into DataCenter. As far as I've learned, benefits of cluster are HA and DRS, that Essential license does not...
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