ESXi 5 iSCSI bug still here in 5.1?
Hi everybody, I have deployed ESXi 5.1 on an HP P2000 G3 iSCSI array (see my post on this at http://communities.vmware.com/thread/402472?start=0&tstart=0). So far I have had no issues, but recently...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 SNMP configuration issues - .trp files accumulating after SNMP is...
Hi, We have encoutered 2 issues with our new ESXi 5.1a servers: 1. vMotions fail at 13%2. Some of the VMs are not accesible through their consoles. (Unable to contack MKS) In order to solve these...
View Articlehow to ESX(i) to start using RAM again and immediately
Hey folks -- suppose ESX has decided to swap out certain pages of a guest VM to swap space on the host because there was severe memory crunch -- how do we make sure ESX recalims all pages back from...
View ArticleVMWare ESxi 5 wan simulator?
Hi, Can I use ESxi 5 to emulate a wan situation. Specifically I want to simulate a 1 mbit link and have low latenciecy? It looks like it has some traffic shaping but I wanted to find out from others...
View ArticleCondition Length for Events
Hi, Here is my configuration: I have hosts with two alimentations, one directly on sector, and the other on a UPS.I would like to use the default "Host hardware power status" Alarm to put my host in...
View ArticleMonitor/alerts from ESXI 5.1 of local storage
Hello,i am using a HP-branded installation on my ESXI 5.1 host.I am looking for a option to monitor local raidsets and alers of my Host.I have tried this by HP SIM, but can not find the configuration...
View ArticleNFS Perf issues with VMXNET3 driver on Linux Guest
Hi - We're trying to convert some of our Linux VMs from using the e1000 network driver to the VMXNET3 driver. We've encountered a problem with NFS when using the VMXNET3 driver, where performance is...
View ArticlePerc6/i and ESXi 5.1 - VM creation failures
Hello, This is my first venture into RAID. I'm running an AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ on a ECS A780GM-A mobo with 8GB Ram. This is just a home VM server for educational purposes. I recently purchased a...
View Articlevsphere 5 - floppy images (read only?)
I am trying to shuttle some config files around via floppy drives as we don't have copy/paste enabled on our vpshere client. I used the vsphere client to create a floppy image on the local datastore. i...
View ArticleConfigure Windows Server 2012 with Failover Clustering issue
Hi, hope someone could provide some light here. I tried to configure the cluster above but met with quite a number of issuesI followed the guide here:...
View ArticleVMware ESXi Version 5.0.0 Build 1024429 patched with ESXi-5.1.0-799733-standard
Hi, Please help me understand. The goal is to update to ESXi 5.1.0 to get support for the latest and the greatest (for example Mac OSX 10.8) VMware ESXi Version 5.0.0 Build 1024429 was patched /...
View ArticleVMs not getting IP from DHCP
Hello! I'm just switching from Xenserver to ESXi. Created a couple of VMs and neither of them gets an IP from our DHCP server (DHCP server is a physical PC), and instead they get some 192.168.x.y...
View ArticleHA Failover
What is the easiest way to find out what server moved off of a host and were powered back on another host after an HA failover due to loss of a host?
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Possible Security Breach Concern
This morning, unexpectivily, my esxi 5.1 box was completly shutdown, I powered it back up, and I verified and found these logs entries, and I became concern when I saw the root,dcui, and even a login...
View ArticleGoing from Essentials to Essentials Plus
We have a very basic installation and a limited budget and are using Essentials and will go to Essentials Plus. A couple of newbie questions: 1. If I buy a new Essentials Plus kit/license rather than...
View ArticleNetwork/CNA Adapters Compared? Emulex vs. Intel vs. ???
Network/CNA Adapters Compared? Emulex vs. Intel vs. ??? Trying to find anyone that has done any independent testing or real experience with NICs on vSphere 5, of specific interest is latest Emulex...
View ArticleDetermining Memory shares for a sibling VM when Resource Pools are used
If I have a resource pool with 1000 shares and 10 VMs, and one other VM with 4GB of RAM which is not in a resource pool in the same compute cluster, how do the number of memory shares get calculated...
View ArticleCreating encrypted backup for esx 5 VM
Hi I have a esxi 5.0.0 host running 4 virtual machines. I wanted to create backup's of the VM's, encrypt them and transfer them to a outside server which will hold this esxi VM backups.Until now in the...
View ArticleCheap NIC
Hi, I currently work for a charity and we are currently using hyper-v for our virtualisation and am looking to move to vsphere 5 due to the lack of usb and serial passthrough in hyper-v. I also now...
View ArticleUnable to increase datastore size , Increase Button Grey out
Hi, really can use some expert advise, I can not find answers or solution anywhere else. Situation: we increase a 100 GB SAN disk to 175 GB (VMFS 5.58 1MB block) , but when we go to the datastore...
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