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Can you ping the blade switch that is mapped directly to a vmnic on a ESXi host? So for example, vmnic2 on my ESXi host is mapped to a port on my cisco blade switch. When I have VM's running through...
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I would like to connect an usb harddisk to an esxi host. It is possible to present the usb disk to a guest with the usb device. But I would like to present the usb disk to the host and use it as a...
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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...
View ArticlePerc6/i and ESXi 5.1 - VM creation failures
Hello, This is my first venture into RAID. I'm running an AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ on a ECS A780GM-A mobo with 8GB Ram. This is just a home VM server for educational purposes. I recently purchased a...
View Articleimprove I/O performance - ESXI 5.1
Hi Which parameters i can set to improve performance on Guests under Host ESX 5.1 connected to Ecological PS 4100 Having 24 Disks 900GB SAS, Total size -> a little more than 14TB The volume is...
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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 ArticleHow to show custom error message if Custom takes has error using VIJAVA api
Hi , I trying to create the custom task and in case of error I would like to show the custom error message on vsphere client. My code to show the error message as below :...
View ArticleHow can i let a ESXi VM use my fibre channel SAN Volume as Shared Storage for...
Does anyone know how to let a ESXi VM guest use an fibre channel SAN volume as a shared storage volume (for a microsoft failover cluster) for multiple VM's? The ESXi machines (2) already use the Fibre...
View ArticleHow to relocate VM's to different datacenter?
We have two different data centers. Each one has its own set of hosts and uses its own local SAN storage array. Each data center has its own VCenter installation. The hosts and VCenter are all at...
View ArticleESXi Environment During Switch Upgrade
We are planning on upgrading our core switch and some of our distribution level switches. I am looking to determine the best way to protect the VMware installation during periods of intermittent...
View ArticleLSI-9210-8i (LSI SAS 2008) in HP ML150 very unstable
Hello! I have a serious stability problem and I am not able to figure out what the problem is.When I start ESXi and create a VM with a large disk (90% of the physical disk) the creation process freezes...
View ArticleBug check in VM running Windows 2008 Server
I'm having a strange problem with an Windows 2008 server (actually SBS2011) running on an ESXi 5.1 host. Every so often - I'd say about once every couple of weeks, the server stops responding with a...
View ArticleRevert to snapshot on shutdown missing option
RTFMed, searched, read in docs in multiple places that I should be possible to set revert to last snapshot on shutdown, and I can get there via VM->Settings->Options->Snapshot. No such option...
View ArticleEtherChannel y LACP
Señores, tengo el siguiente caso, necesito hacer EtherChannel/LACP desde VMware y mi consulta es la siguiente, saber si puedo implementar desde vmware que versiones? hacia cualquier swtich y que marcas...
View ArticleiSCSI Storage lost after NICs replaced
Can anyone help with this dilemma.We have 3 identical HP 5.1 ESXi hosts with onboard Broadcom NICs connected via iSCSI to a shared iSCSI storage.All was working fine until system board failure on Host1...
View ArticleErrror - CBT: 986: Unsupported ioctl 58
Hi, I am seeing the following error a lot in wmkwarning log files on ESXi 5.1 host (all latest patches applied) CBT: 986: Unsupported ioctl 58 Any suggestions as to what is up, where I could look to...
View ArticleExtend my VM Harddisk space
How can I increase my harddisk space. I have done under Edit Settings virtual disk 60 to 80 gb. It is showing as provisioned disk space under VM 80 but when I log in to server it still says 60 GB.
View ArticleThin vs Thick Lazy Zeroed + SAN thin provisioning
Is there any benefit to using Thick Lazy Zeroed and then using Thin Provisioning at the FC LUN level vs just using Vmware Thin provisioning? I guess I could use Thin for both VM and LUN, too. Does...
View ArticleResource Pools - CPU resources for guest VM's
Hi all, Quick question, I googled around, saw a lot of documents, but I still have this doubt. When I create a resource pool in a cluster of 2 hosts, for example, can a windows guest VM uses CPU...
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