Renaming the Hard Disk in VM Settings?
Is it possible to rename the "name" of the virtual hard disks in the VM Guest Settings? For example, when you add virtual hard disks, VMware defaults to something like:Hard Disk 1Hard Disk 2Hard Disk 3...
View Articleadvice for very small installations--where?
I work for an 11-person company that has about 8 dedicated (and small by modern standards) servers today. We have decided to replace our aging servers with virtualized servers on a hypervisor...
View Articlerestoring configuration bundle from different build number
-force is suppose to apply even if ver mismatch, however it seems like it doesn't work anymore? i thought it use to, i opened a ticket with VMware and the dude has been less then helpful. even using...
View ArticleVcenter Appliance 5.0 is showing incorrect Licenses
Hi Experts , I have 10 hosts with 2 cores each and when i add the hosts I get an error not enough licenses available but it does allow me to add the hosts. when I go to the...
View ArticleHP Monitoring ESXi 5.1
Hi, I have an HP DL380 G5 running ESXi 5.1.0 and all I really want to do it to get an email alert if one of the disks in the array fails or if a PSU fails. I have read so many posts about this but...
View ArticleIssue in Managment agent service of ESXi 5.0.0, 702118
Today, host machine was disconnected from vCenter Server. I tried to re-connect the host but it was prompted the Error message, some like this that “host is not available on network” but the same time...
View ArticleESX5.0 Cluster Logs
Hi,Can someone help me in picking up the log file that contains failure information pertaining to ESXi Cluster. Scenario 1:========Cluster is disconnected from vCenter server an event will be triggered...
View ArticleMonitoring LSI Megaraid 9240-8i in ESXi 5.1
Hi. I have a whitebox with LSI Megaraid 9240-8i running ESXi 5.1I would like to monitor the disk array state via vSphere client. What do I need to do to achieve this? Do I need to install any CIMs?...
View ArticleVMWare Tools not starting in Ubuntu guest
I have an Ubuntu guest which I have just migrated to ESXi 5.1 from VMWare Server 2.0. I upgraded vmware tools on the guest which appeared to run fine without any errors, however, while the vSphere...
View ArticleMSI Z77A-G43 Raid problem
Hello, I bought one server with MSI Z77A-G43 motherboard. Have raid option in bios. I enabled and work fine example with win svr 2008 r2. But if i want install ESXi 5.1 U1 or the last 5.0 the installer...
View ArticleUse different vlans / ips on vm's
Hi, I am new to vmware so apologies if anything i say doesnt quite make sense... Hopefully, someone will understand what i wish to do and can explain! Ok, we have had VMware on site for many yrs but no...
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How can I make LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i working under ESXi 5.0?
Hi guys, I've read a lot of discussion all around the Internet, mostly found some issues regarding LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-8i, which differs from mine card just by having 2 mini-SAS ports instead of one,...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 VM showing 7 CPUs in Device Manager.
Hi, I have 1 windows 2K8 R2 Std VM in our ESX infrastructure, when I right click the task manager it is showing 4 vCPU's but at the same time when I checked the device manager of the VM it is showing 7...
View ArticleUpgrade ESXi from 4.1 to 5.1 update 1?
Hello,i am looking for a upgrade-path from esxi 4.1 to 5.1 update 1. Can this done direct from esxi 4.1 to 5.1 update 1 using the update-manager? Thx
View ArticleGuest showing as having 0 byte presence on a datastore it's not on?
Hi all, I'm trying to retire a LUN and the storage it sits on but have several guests that are showing as being on that datastore in vSphere. The weird thing is they all show 0.00 bytes used space,...
View ArticleWhich would be faster - odd question perhaps...
Hi allIf I have a host with 64Gb RAM and 4 CPU's (4 cores each). If these processors ran at 3Ghz, I would have a total of 64Ghz processing power within my VMWare host. This host is perhaps 2 years...
View ArticleHow can I set up pam_passwdqc on an ESXi host?
I would like to set the password complexity for the new accounts on my ESXi 5.0 (updated 2) host to be a minimum of 14 characters, and have at least 1 of each of the following: 1 upper case char, 1...
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Deleting a dvPortgroup
Hi, Anybody knows how to delete a port group on a dvPortGroup? See screenshot below. I want to delete the Virtual Machines (the one with red arrow) port group on my iSCSI1 dvPortgroup. Can you please...
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HDD/RAID controller not showing in Health Status
I've recently upgraded several ESXi 4.x hosts to 5.1 and after the upgrade the disks and raid controller are no longer showing in the Health Status section in vSphere. The servers are all Dell...
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Convert VMware player virtual file to ESXi format
Hello all, Again, I'm new to the virtual world so bare with me. I recently downloaded and installed ESXi 5.1.0 which is up and running fine. Using vSphere Client 5.1.0 I tried to create a New Virtual...
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