Good candidates for resource pools?
Hi, I do not currently use resource pools but often feel I should look more in to it. On our four node 5.1 cluster we have 16 web servers (among other VM's) that are exactly the same and perform the...
View Articlevmxnet3 and MTU 4500
Looking to enable jumbo frames on several of our ESXi 5.0.0 VM's which are doing iSCSI to an IBM Gen2 XIV. The XIV supports jumbo frames -- but only at MTU 4500 rather than the more common 9000. Our...
View ArticleCommands in Esxi
HI I am new in Vmware . I have started practise in Esxi 5. Now i want to upgrade my self in Command line .So can u please help me to learn Command line for Vmware . Regards Sumit Sharma
View ArticleVM Backup solution
Hi,I have a ESXi 5.1.0 799733 server which hosting three VMs (one is AD+SQL2008R2, one is a SharePoint 2010, one is XPP3+Veeam+Vsphere). I am trying the free Veeam Backup but it failed on two manual...
View ArticlevCenter Server is not working After p2v
Hi, I have installed vCenter server 5.1 in one physical machine. Using vCenter converter I am taking backup of my vCenter server. It is working ok. But after p2v when I start my virtual machine,...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 AD authentication
I am using windows 2003 active directory. first I install a esxi 5.0 without vCentor, and config to use AD authentication. when login in the with the vSphere Client, I check the "use windows session...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 host accepts no network connetctions
Hi guys, I installed a new 5.1 ESXi Server from Scratch and there is no network activity!Through boot process I can see the Intel E1000 driver is loaded.The physical Link is up and shown correctly on...
View Articlecpu1:4156 WARNING: PageRetire: 659: Number of user private MPNs selected for...
Hello All, I am starting to see some MPN warnings in my vmkwarning.log on one of my hosts. Has anyone else experienced these; I am thinking it could translate into a bad memory chip or some hardware...
View ArticleMultiple Gateways
Hi All , Is it possible to add an addional gateway to VM kernel port . Requirement is we want to segrigate the management vlan traffic and the iscsi traffice . Say for managmenet - use vlan 99 and...
View ArticleDll Error -
Hi All , After upgrading the virtual hardware from 7 to 09 we are getitng the following error on this virtual Guest . The Procedure entry point GuestApp_openURL could not be located in the dynamic...
View ArticlevSphere client remembers sessions
Hi all, vSphere client remembers all connections that it ever had made, even those to servers that are gone for a long time. Where is that information stored? I checked the registry and could not find...
View ArticleUCS iSCSI Boot related question- use iscsibootvSwitch for Datastores as well?
VMware - ESXi 5.0H/W - Cisco UCS BladesStg - NetApp (iSCSI) I just got iscsi Boot working for our ESXi hosts (running on Cisco UCS Blades). It works great but I have a "best practice" question now. I...
View ArticleHow to do delete RDM (physical mode) mapping file via ESXCLI
I made a big booboo! I deleted a virtual machine from disk but for got to remove the RDM mapping before I did that. Now I can no longer see the RDMs when I'm trying to map them to a new vm. I'm sure...
View ArticleNeed help with QLE220 HBAs urgently
Hi all. I have 3 Dell R810 servers with QLE220 HBAs.The problem with the HBAs is that the ESXi 5.1 cannot recognize them.The first thing you'll answer is that those HBAs are not officially on the HCL,...
View ArticlevSphere Replication Traffic
vSphere Replication Traffic is sent over which vmkernel port?
View Article"No VIBs specified with -n/--vibname or -v/--viburl." when trying to install...
Hello all!I am trying to install Dell's OpenManage Server Administrator using ESXCLI. I have downloaded the "OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-6.5.0-542907.VIB-ESX50i_A02.zip" file and copied it to an iscsi...
View ArticleHow do I copy VMDK files off Esxi file system?
Hello, I have HDD with ESXi install which is not bootable, I'd like to copy just VMDK files off those HDDs to external HDD. What is the easiest way to do that? I envisioned something like booting...
View ArticleIs it possible boot Linux guest os from SAN?
Hi, ALl Because I was asked to install RHEL5 guest os on our ESXi5.0 as follows. I know /dev/mapper/mpath(xx)means Linux MultiplePath but I think booting ESXi, Physical Linux/Windows Server from SAN is...
View ArticleTwo ESXi Hosts with all Live Servers.
Hi guys I have a requirement to simulate an Enterprise level network as far as possible, with two ESXi5 Hosts & on those I want to install all OS like Linux(CentOS, Debian), UNIX(Solaris,...
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