Ways to monitor health status of the Dell servers running ESXi 5.1
I know that Dell has the OpenManage Essentials and the vCenter Plugin for monitoring the health status of the Dell servers running ESX, but we are having a lot of trouble getting OpenManage to work...
View Articlethe best form to configure CPUs on VMs (number of virtual sockets x number of...
Hi, I have a HP ML110 G7, with a Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1220 (Quadcore, 3.10 GHz), and i will configure two VMs, one Win2008SeverR2 and one LinuxDebian 6.I have found some tutorials about...
View ArticleSlow transfer of VMs to ESXi - will a license key help?
I have researched this issue and seen no answer for this anywhere... but I still have to solve the problem. Transferring our VMs from Server 2.0 to ESXi 5.1 is taking an extraordinarily long time. For...
View ArticlePresent iSCSI Target to Guest OS
We are running ESXi 5.0 U2 in a clustered environment and would like to present a target on a separate SAN to a guest OS for testing purposes. Is it possible to present an iSCSI target directly to a...
View Articlemaintenance mode Question
How long does it take after exiting maintenance mode for my guests to return back to their original home? For some reason they are not doing it... I want to make sure there is no set time before I call...
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Hard drive size - 2 specs??
Please excuse the newbie question but I'm completely confused why I can mount, format and use a 3TB drive using the vSphere client but the hardware spec says the maximum is 2TB - 512kb? Formatted drive...
View ArticleDebian Squeeze guest idenfication
I've imported a Debian Squeeze 32-bit guest to ESXI 5.1. Using vSphere Client 5.1 Build 941893, I do not have Debian 6 (squeeze) as an available guest OS. (For the mean time I've used Linux Other...
View ArticleKeyboard repeat rate corruption after vsphere 5.0 upgrade
I am currently have a problem with some of my XP VM's. We have a cluster of two hosts which i upgraded to esxi5.0 recently and ever since upgrading the tools on a number of machines i have had the...
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Developmental Virtual VSphere 5.1
I am currently have a problem with setting up a virtual esxi development enviornment. I am interested in trialing a number of new packages in the vsphere suite namely VSphere replication, VDP, and...
View ArticleDefault DRS Group
Morning All, Is anyone aware of a method of ensuring all new virtual machines are added to a specific Virtual Machine DRS group? We have a VM that for political reasons ideally needs to be run on its...
View ArticleDirectPath I/O Configuration USB Not Working!
Several months ago I was running ESXi 5.0 and had no issues setting the USB ports on the host computer to be available via the DirectPath I/O configuration for assignment to a specific virtual machine....
View ArticleWhat is the Average Speed Conversion of VMware Converter?
Hi Everyone, I really need some help on getting the information about the average speed a VMware Converter can do, because with that information I will know what will be my recovery point and recovery...
View ArticleFile Server Access Speed
HI All, I have a File Server VM ( Windows 2008 R2, 1 VCPU, 4 GB RAM, 1 Nic ) This is connect to my iscsi NAS ( QNAP) with 800GB Disk. I got one Crop Share for all the Branch Office Users. Branch...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 - Health Status Unknown
Upgraded an Intel S5520HC Serverboard based system from ESXi 5.0 U1 to 5.1. Configuration; Hardware; Health Status from vSphere Client in 5.0 U1 always showed data - typically "Normal". Using vSphere...
View Articlewhat is the difference between web client and web access
Hi every onecan anyone tell about what is the difference between web client and web access. I am using ESXi 5.1 and ran web client on my vcenter but still thinking of difference between web client and...
View Articleesxi 5.0 not able to detect FCoE LUN from netapp3210
Hi Team,I have a question regarding the esxi5.0 / FCoE/CNA with netapp3210,anybody can advise please ? I have a pair of filer 3210, installed FcoE license. NFS and iscsi tested ok. Now moving to FCOE.2...
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Cannot delete old snapshots
HelloWhen I run the VMWare vSphere Health Check script I´ve spotted some old snapsshots(some older than 200days). We use vSphere 5.0.0 and NetApp Virtual Storage Console 2.1.2and the retention time for...
View ArticlevCenter Operations Foundation Edition
Hi all, Just had a couple of questions around vcenter ops foundation edition. I understand this is free, with a vsphere license. Is it only available with a vsphere 5 license or can it be downloaded...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 (SOLVED) Not detect 10Gb nic NC-550SFP
Hi. The problem is: I've installed ESXi 5.1.0 upd 1 on a DL380 G6 with a NC-550SFP nic adapter. I've used the specific CD for HP ESXi 5.1. Instead of upgrade, till now I had ESXi 4.x in this server,...
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