Physical Adaptec RAID PCIe passthrough - cannot see more than 2 TB on VM guest
I am having a problem with a VM which I cannot get a 10.9 TB RAW storage to be seen from the guest. Here is the environment: -ESXi 5.1 - latest-Adaptec 5805 PCIe (passthrough to vm)-Windows 7 Ultimate...
View Articleplanned power outage: shut down all hosts in a VSA cluster
i have a vsa cluster environment with 2 esxi hosts. a recent unplanned power outage has corrupted vsa cluster as vcenter is treating one of vsa as a vm instead of storage. i had a consultant coming in...
View ArticleInstalling vmware tools in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 64-Bit
Hi, I would simply like to install vmware tools in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 64-Bit VM from a RPM. I don't want to install kernel files and gcc at all, so compiling is out unless I absolutely have...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 no network issue
I hope that someone can helo me with this issue:I installed ESXi 5.1 on a Dell R410 serverI am able to use the management networkThe status of the network adapter connected to the vsvitch is "networks:...
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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 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 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...
View ArticleHelp Host Disconnected 5.0
Hi experts please helpVmkernel Logs Shows this information regilarly can u decode that Please for me 013-04-20T22:31:06.899Z cpu8:12543)NMP: nmp_ThrottleLogForDevice:2319: Cmd 0x85 (0x41240146ad80,...
View ArticleProblem with Promise vTrak e610f (NMP errors)
I've been running an ESXi 4 server connected to a Promise vTrak E610f SANS connected via fiber channel and was running fine After the upgrade to ESXi 5 I've been having problems with my logs filling up...
View ArticlePSOD - Purple Screen of Death
Hi everybody! I'm experiencing curiously a problem with our ESXi 5.1 hypervisor. When we power up the server, it's stay available to accept connections, run VMs, edit ESXi config and etc. When we power...
View ArticleVMWare Network Design Help
So my brain has become quite scrambled by over-thinking this design and I am hoping someone here is kind enough to set me straight. My overall goal is to adhere to best practices, eliminate single...
View Articlerestore shadowprotect image to esxi
Had anyone successfully restored Storagecraft's Shadowprotect image to ESXi 5 without having blue screen for Win 2008 R2 VM?If yes, how did you do it? Thanks for any info.
View Articleno"">BUG REPORT "...kern.notice] vmxnet3s:0: getcapab(0x200000) -> no"
/EDIT changed to bug report (is there any other place where I can file this?) Various users report having the issue using VMXNET3 and Solaris 11 (b173), Solaris 11 Express (b151) and OpenIndiana...
View ArticleTotal VMs based on CPU and Memory
Hello,Below is our current ESXi details for 2 environment; ENV 1:ESXi Version: 4.1Number of ESXi: 4 in one Cluster with DRSCPU: 12 CPUs * Intel Xeon X5650 @ 2.8Socket: 2Cores: 6HT: EnabledLogical...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 no management services?
Hello, I had an ESXi 5.0 instance running on a server and tried upgrading to 5.1. The install seemed fine but now I have no management connectivity to the server via Workstation 9, vSphere Client 5.1...
View ArticleDesign advice for fastest disaster recovery vSphere 5
I have a 1TB LUN1 VMFS 5.58. 3x 600GB 15 SAS drives local to host I will be loading SBS2011 and want to use seperate virtual disks on the LUN1 for disaster recovery speed. I know I can't carve up LUN1...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Virtual Motherboard Name
Anyone who can tell me Virtual Machine Virtual Motherboard Name?
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