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VMware design - SRM, vMotion and redundancy
Greetings VMware geeks, I am currently consulting a company with VMware, and i've met some .. uncertaints on my way, and i would like to hear if the community has any advice The current setup is as...
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USB Passthrough Entirely Broken in 5.1
Dear all, there is a thread that already covers the broken PCI-passthrough feature. In my case, USB passthrough is completely gone! I can check each controller (00:1a.0 and 00:1d.0), but after the...
View Article10Gbe NICs
Hi All,Just installed ESX5i on a DELL R320 with 10GbE PCI NIC connected to SFP+ switch.ESX has correctly picked the NIC and speeds 10000 full etc. but the VM's are showing 1GB and being connected to...
View ArticleESXI install hung
Hello everyone, Brand new to virtualization and VMware but I thought I'd give it a try and see what it's all about. I downloaded the free product called hypervisor and followed the document to do the...
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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 ArticleMigration to host x.x.x.x failed with error Already disconnected (195887150).
I am getting this timeout error in vcenter when doing a vmotion of a vm. any idea what this is? this is on esxi 5.1 914609 Migration to host x.x.x.x failed with error Already disconnected (195887150)....
View ArticleQuestion about Oracle conversion in vSphere
Hello there! I'm new to VMware and have tried to find this answer prior to posting here, but no luck yet. We have a client that is going to be virtualizing their servers onto an ESXi 5. The current...
View Articlevmnic2 and vmnic2b?
Hello! I've installed a Chelsio T320, dual 10gb nic and the vmware signed vib, everything went well. But, ESXi(5.1.0), only lets me use one of the two ports. It shows both under network...
View ArticleStrange behaviour of virtual machines taking all dhcp range free addresses...
Hi to all, It happens to me a very strange thing on 2 esx servers (free edition) 5.1 version. On this servers there are a 2008 windows sever and a 2003 windows server. In the structure there'a a...
View ArticlevSphere Enterprise Plus -> vCloud Enterprise Licensing Question
My company took advantage of the vCloud Suite upgrade pricing last December to assist in a DR project. With vCloud I am implementing three new Cisco ESXi hosts that will utilize the new vCloud...
View ArticleUsing a compute-block model
What does it mean to use a "compute-block" model to design your infrastructure? Is it: -Standardizing the size of VMs to use only certain standard specfications of number of cpus, amount of ram, and...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Configuration Parameters
Hi I'm doing some testing with my ESXi environment. You can add specific (VMware calls them 'experimental') settings in the 'Configuration parameters' window when you edit the settings of a virtual...
View ArticleObtaining vCenter Params From Within a Web Client Plugin
I am somewhat experienced with vCenter server plugin development, but completely new to this whole Web Client Plugin development, so be gentle please. I did a few searches online, but could not find...
View ArticleNeed help on cleaning VMDK files
I have a windows xp vm image which takes up to 57g of disk spce. While I am checking inside the vm, the total disk comsumption is only around 51 g. Then I tried to delete some files on the vm's disk...
View ArticlevMotion Multi-NIC setup / network outage
Hello Together.I have since a few month a strange and serious problem with vMotion in a Multi-Nic setup. This issue doesn't happend in a single NIC configuration Unfortnately the VMware support didn't...
View ArticleCIM Server Start and stop with host not working
Hello, I have several ESXi 5 servers with Intel/LSI raids that I'm trying to monitor. I have been able to get everything set up and working, however whenever the physical host is restarted, the CIM...
View ArticleIs Asus P8z68-V LE supported by ESXi5?
I have an Asus P8Z68-V LE main board and install vSphere 5, at first I can ping gateway from ESXi host and vSphere client can connect the host directly, but later on vSphere client is denied because...
View ArticleESXi vs Asrock X79 Extreme4
So... I've been checking out the Asrock x79 Extreme4 motherboard, and the i7-3820 CPU, for my virtualization server...But I'd like to know that ESXi 5 works with that setup... According to the...
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Host Profile Creation Failure - "Invalid Domain Name" Error
Hi all, I was creating a host profile and got this error: "Call "HostProfileManager.CreateProfile" for object "HostProfileManager" on vCenter Server "vCenterSrvA.5EVC.COM" failed.Invalid domain name"...
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