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vRAM licensing capacity alert
Hi I'm having this alert in vCenter saying "License capacity monitoring" that won't go away. When I check the Licensing report it shows that my Purchased capacity is 0.02GB vRAM?We are running both...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Slow Write Speeds
Hi Guys, I am looking for some advice as to how to best troubleshoot this problem I am having as I am currently at a loss as to what it can be. I have just finished building an ESXi 5.1 Lab which...
View ArticleRAID (AMD SP5100) on supermicro H8SGL for ESXi 5
Hello all, I have a machine based on a Supermicro H8SGL -F motherboard. It has an Adaptec RAID chipset, identified as an AMD part.. AMD...
View ArticleIs it possible to over allocate virtual CPU's?
I have a Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise server that only shows one CPU in the windows task manager even though I have added multiple sockets and cores. The ESXi server shows 4 CPU Cores and 1 physical CPU...
View ArticleMaking new firewalls permanent in 5.1?
Greetings. There are some great instructions on how to turn on VNC access for VMs at: https://www.trouter.co.uk/wp/?p=933 Those instructions work fine for 5.1... until the hypervisor is rebooted. At...
View ArticlevMotion Fails At 14%
Hi Everyone, Having a bit of a strange issue with vMotion today. It's been working in my lab for months, and was still working fine after I upgraded to 5.1 last week. Now, today, for whatever reason,...
View Articlewhat Graphic cards support Esxi 5.0/5.1
hi everyone, i just bought an intel server motherboard and im trying to setup a server for virtual machines.i got many recommends about Esxi. anyway i just installed Esxi 5.0 and i want to know what...
View ArticleTrend Micro Deep Security Supported With Vmware
Trend Micro Deep Security Supported With Vmware
View ArticlevSphere Web Client and Mac OS X
Hmm... with the release of 5.1, they seem to be encouraging everybody to move to the web client. But it seems that Mac OS X is still not supported. What's the plan to support Mac OS X? I really...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Cannot connect to server
I installed ESXi 5.1 and I was not able to get an IP address from DHCP so I set a static address. After being POSITIVE I have a correctly set address, I still cannot ping the gateway from within the...
View ArticlePatch ESXi
Hi Guys, I have an ESXi 5 servers and I wan start patching them, I am new to patching esxi. Is there any best practise out there? Thx
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 Maintenance mode stuck at 2%
Hi I am building a new environment. I have 2 nodes where management network sits on a VSS.I am using vDS for eveything else (NFS,Vmotion,etc) .My cluster is configured for percentage (use 50/50%).I am...
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ESXi 5.0, Xyratex SAN's, slow boot (cmd 0x12 failed)
Hi there, we have a customer that's currently running 3.5u3. Needless to say, we want to get rid of it (they actually run 2008 R2 on it, which isn't supported until u4 or u5...). Anyways, they have 3...
View ArticlePurple Screen Of Death - Exception 14
Greetings, One of our ESXi hosts crashed recently with Exception 14. The server is a Dell PowerEdge R520 with a PERC H710p RAID controller (originally it had a PERC H310, but we replaced it with the...
View ArticleESXI 5.1 Bootbank cannot be found at path '/bootbank'
I saw warning in the event log:Successfully restored access to volume 4fd62ae0-607335c6-3a49-e840f2aca3dc (datastore1) following connectivity issues.info27.04.2013 6:07:46static Lost access to volume...
View ArticleESXi 5.1.0 - Event logs gone after reboot
When I reboot the esxi server, there is a prompt asking me to type in a message 'Enter a reason to proceed.' Where is this message saved to? How can I view the message after the reboot? The log entries...
View ArticleESXi 5.1.0 Fresh Install - logs are stored on non-persistent storage
I just did a fresh install of ESXi 5.1.0 on a new dell server and I get the following error message prior to seeing 'Welcome to VMware ESi 5.1.0 Installation' message:'Logs are stored on non-persistent...
View Articleserial port on ESXi 5
hi all, I would like to built this config ( cf attached doc).I have test some solution that I find on the web but nothing worke how i would ^^Please if you have suggest are good tutorial, i will be...
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ESXi 5.1: vmsvc warning guestinfo RecordRoutingInfo: Unable to collect IPv4...
Hi, we have two RHEL6.3 VMs which need 15 minutes to boot!The problem happens when starting the network interfaces in vmsvc. Host: ESXi 5.1, latest 5.1 tools from repo installed, two vmxnet3 interfaces...
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