ISCSI multipathing and multiple ISCSI SANS in a single ESXi 5.1 cluster
Hi, We have two Dell MD3660i ISCSI SANs.We have a dedicated ISCSI storage network (physically isolated 10GbE switches )We have 10 ESXi hosts in a single cluster each with one dual port 10 GbE NIC...
View ArticleAdded SATA drive can't login to vSphere
ESXI 5.1 So I tried to add a SATA drive to run local backups and, after bootup, my vSphere client would not login. It kept on giving me a 'server took too long to respond,' error. I was able to log...
View ArticlevSphere vCenter5.1U1 and SSO on MS SQL 2012
I see in the notes "What's new" for vCenter 5.1 Update 1, that Microsoft SQL 2012 is now supported. Has anyone tried this yet? vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1 Release Notes We are currently in the proccess...
View ArticleResetting a host to evaluation mode
I installed ESXi 5.0 a few months and applied the free license. Since then I've upgraded to 5.1. I want to try and "reset" the license so I can get the 60 days eval while retaining the VM's on the...
View Articleiscsi RDM for SQL change to FCOE
Hi team, I have a question for FcOE RDM, can anyone advice? Thanks!currently my MS SQL server runing esxi4.1 has a RDM with iscsi direct access ,configured in windows servers. Now the esxi will migrate...
View ArticleRP-Reservations
I was playing with RP tonight specifically memory setting. I noticed that when I disabled expandable reservationIt required me to set a minimum reservation for the vms to even boot up in the rp even...
View ArticleESXi 5 installation on Supermicro H8QM3-2
Have anyone installed ESXi 5 on H8QM3-2 motherboard? We have Supermicro server with that board runs Ok on 4 but thinking of upgrade. I tried it but got blank/black screen after loading of the installer...
View ArticleESX 4 Upgrade to ESXi 5.1: How to Import VM created from ESX 4 on Datastore...
When upgrade from ESX 4 to ESXi 5.1, I chose the option to install ESXi 5.1 and keep VM on datastore instead of "migration". Thus, all the VM instances created from ESX 4 were not imported into ESXi...
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Faild to implement vSphere SSO CA Sined SSL Certificates
Dear team, i am tring to implement instal CA Signed SSL Certificates, i have going through the KB article for implementing this i was stuck in between (applying new certificate to three services i.e...
View Articlehow to find ESXi is installed on which device?
how to find ESXi is installed on which device? Like San or Flash? and the location also?
View Articlehow to create win 2012 server virtual machine with vmware cluster running...
hello, I had cluster running ESX 4.0 host, i have updated vcenter to 5.1 and added a new host running 5.1 when I try to create a new VM, it does not gives me option to choose win server 2012. I tried...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 slow on ESXi 5.1U1
Dear board, recently I installed four Windows Server 2012-VMs on my ESXi. It's a HP DL380G7 (Xeon E5645, 144GB RAM, HP P410i-Controller with 8 HP-SAS 500GB in RAID6). All four VMs have a very poor...
View ArticleDisk Latency ESXi 5.1.0 799733 HP-ML350 G6
Hello, We Deployed an HP ML350 G6 Server with ESXi 5.1.0 799733 and a P410i Raid Controller. The media I used was the Official Media from VMware and not a "Customised" HP Image.Since this server has...
View ArticleCPU LATENCY Counter ON ESXI 5.0.
I am having trouble understandingthe results from the latency counter on the vcentre for our guest VM. My understanding of the latency counteris that it will increase when there is contention for...
View ArticleThe VMRC conosole has disconnected...attempting to reconnect
I just installed ESXi 5.1 on a Dell PowerEdge 2950. I edited the hostname and added that hostname to DNS. I can ping the hostname from my workstation. I created a new virtual machine, powered it on and...
View ArticleDL385 G8 EVC Issue
I have 2 new DL385 G8s that i am trying to add to a cluster of G7 585s. The cluster is currently running at EVC 3. I am unable to add the new servers to the cluster because of CPU compatibility. I am...
View ArticleESXI 5.1 to U version
Hi,is there is away to update the Stand alone host ESXI 5.1 to U version? thank you
View ArticleVirtual Machine Configuration Parameters
Hi I'm doing some testing with my ESXi environment. You can add specific (VMware calls them 'experimental') settings in the 'Configuration parameters' window when you edit the settings of a virtual...
View ArticleMigration to host x.x.x.x failed with error Already disconnected (195887150).
I am getting this timeout error in vcenter when doing a vmotion of a vm. any idea what this is? this is on esxi 5.1 914609 Migration to host x.x.x.x failed with error Already disconnected (195887150)....
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...
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