Redundancy Lost Alert in ESXi 5.1
I have an alert in Health status tab in ESXi 5.1. What the error is that and should I ignore it?
View ArticleNo LUN available when trying to increase datastore size
I am trying to increase the size of my datastore. When looking at the properties of the datastore I can see that the current capacity is 738.29 GB and the local device has a 2.73TB capacity.(see image...
View ArticlePassthrough (Direct Access) not working under Linux
I have a vsphere 5.1.0 U1 server running on a Supermicro X9DRE-TF+ with an LSI Megaraid SAS 9271-81 HBA. All firmware is the lastest current I setup the Megaraid HBA for passthrough in vsphere. I...
View ArticleAbysmal Upload Speed in ESXi 5.1
I have been reading thread all over the Internet for two days and every discussion of this gets into the weeds and goes nowhere... and usually ends with "use Veeam", which doesn't seem to really work...
View ArticleSerial port emulation
I have a windows xp box that I want to convert into a vm instance, a program that runs on the box requires a serial port to connect a dongle to communicate with the program so that it detects whether...
View ArticleHP UPS - graceful shutdown
I know that graceful shutdown of VMs and ESXi during a power loss is possible with an APC UPS. Is it possible with an HP UPS?
View Articlevmware esxi desconecta los usuarios de red
Buenas Noches Pongo a ustedes el siguiente problema, Tengo un servidor hp dl380 tiene dos maquinas virtuales instaladas con windows server 2012, cada maquina tiene su adaptador de red independiente y...
View ArticleInsufficient disk space on datastore
Hi all, I am facing a strange problem when I resize a VMDK. When I trying to increase the size of VMDK of a runing VM, it got a error dialog Insufficient disk space on datastore "". I have checked the...
View Articlerunning web access service problem
HiI am trying to run web access service on my ESXi 5.1 host. I found the documentation regarding how to enable the web access service here. Following the instructions, when I write the command "...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Host local datastore freezes
Hi I have a very frustrating problem in that I have to keep hard rebooting a newly built ESXi 5.1.0 (Kernel build 799733) host machine. The machine is a 2 x Dual Core AMD Opteron x64 based server with...
View ArticleRemoved Cluster from my Datacenter
Hi,I had removed my cluster from one of our datacenters.Can someone help me where can I get the log snippet which describes this event ? i.e. Cluster removed eventI had gone through all ESXi5.0 Logs,...
View Articlerunning web access
HiI am trying to run web access service. I used the instruction in this page to start the service in vcenter server. I found how to start it.now i am trying to connect to the server and host.this is...
View ArticleHow to determine the driver of a VNIC
Hi Everyone, I just want to ask, how can we determine the driver of an assigned virtual NIC or what is the initial driver of a Virtual NIC assigned to a Virtual Machine. What im trying to say here is...
View ArticleESXi 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 ArticlePowercli connection problem
Hello Sir, I am not able to connet the esx by powercli, am using given below command. Please help us. Connect-VIServer -Server <IP Address> Please find the error attachment.
View Articleadd disk
i have one guest ( 2008 r2) on esxi 5.0 and it has one hard disk. I want to add another hard disk . this hard disk can be from different storage. we have two raid-5 on same stogare . total 12 hard...
View ArticlevCenter, SRM and Multiple Customers
Is it possible for muliple different Customers to have the ability to use SRM or other forms of replication such as Evault CDR to a single vCenter Server?Would this be secure? Or would I need a vCenter...
View ArticleLogin to VC 5 without AD authentication
Hi All, I have ESXi5.1 hosts and 5.1b VC. If my DC is down then I am not longer able to login to VC via VI Client.I have installed SSO - Inventory Service and then VC. What changes do I need to make so...
View ArticleStrange iSCSI port binding issue
I'm having a very strange problem with my iSCSI SAN that I can't work out.Previously, I was running ESX 4.0 with multipath iSCSI working just fine. I did an upgrade to ESX 5.1U1 and now I can't get...
View ArticleHigh ready time & i/o Latency after upgrading to Vsphere 5.0 U2
Hello gurusWe have an infrastructure based on a ibm blade center h with a mix of 7 blade servers (Hs22 hs23, hs23p) Since the upgrade from vsphere 4.1 to 5.0U2 we have noticed a slowdown with a few...
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