SCSI inquiry to identify Device type as "SSD" and "Non-SSD"
Hi, I have an ESXi 5.0 host connected to multiple storage arrays, When I provision devices from the Storage arrays to ESXi host, some of the devices are recoganized as SSD and some as non-SSD, I want...
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Has anyone attempted to load ESXi 5 on an HP Z620?
So has anyone attempted to load any version of ESXi onto the HP Z620? This is a new Workstation that is supposed to be an upgrade from the previous Z600 but it has several enhancements so just...
View ArticleRunning VM in a different geographical location (run your VMs on site A while...
Hi I am asking the question regarding running a VM's from a datastore located in a different datacenter in another geographical location? is this possible? I am asking because I don't think it will...
View ArticleAdditional VMDK in VM Folder on Datastore
Hello All, I received a disk space notification from one of my hosts today. When I dug deeper, I found that there are additional .VMDK files that have appeared with my virtual machines. For example,...
View ArticleMap spanned vmdk
I exported a 2,2 TB vm from ESXi 5.1 to ovf, it took about 4 days because it capped at about 60 Mbps.In my desperate search for quicker solution I figured out it would be faster to create a new VM, and...
View Article.vmdk's across separate storage units
I have a few virtual servers that have at least 5/6 virtual disks currently on one storage unit, currently I have 4 storage units available to use. Would I see an increase in disk performance if I...
View ArticleMixed size hard drives?
Hi, I'm trying to confirm something about hard disks before I proceed. I recently obtained a few servers I visualized with ESXi and opted for direct attached storage. I soon realized I wanted to do a...
View ArticleEsxi5.1启动事件如何解决
XXX esx.clear.coredump.configured.formatOnHost not found XXXXXX esx.clear.coredump.configured.category not found XXX2013-04-30 8:39:25VmserverXXX esx.audit.net.firewall.port.hooked.formatOnHost not...
View ArticleArchitecture server ESXi5
Hello everyone,I am a trainee in VMware security and I have to carry out a study about the security of the ESXi environment.However I only found a paper about the security issues of ESX2 dated back...
View ArticleVSphere Client 5.1 VM Console, Linux guest OS - no console output after...
Hello, Yesterday I've converted one of our physical Linux (Slackware) servers using VMware Converter 5 to virtual machine (hardware version 8). Everything was OK, machine converted successfully...
View ArticleLICENSE Vmware vSphere 5.x Essential (Hp Gen8 vs Gen6...)
Hello, i have 2 server HP with esxi free- HP DL180 G6 --> esxi 4.1.0 build 260247- HP DL380p GEN8 E5-2620 --> esxi 5.0This second server is a Gen8 so it needs the specific installation designed...
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 ArticleDRS does not work
Hi, I have configured a cluster with 4 vSphere 5 Enterprise hosts,with DRS and HA, but it seems that DRS does not kick in. There are many VMs on one host, so DRS should kick in and start...
View ArticleServer side validation cannot be performed when datastore
We have created a datastore cluster and when I migrate VM's to the datastore cluster I get the message "Server side validation cannot be performed when datastore cluster is part of the destination" I...
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ESXi 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 ArticlevCenter Single Sign On master password
Hi guys i do not remember admin@system-domain password i wondring how to reset admin's account password i tried to reset password by rsautil command line but i dont remember master password. Anyway to...
View Article10GbE SAN / Switch Upgrade
I am looking at upgrading our environment, but budget is very limited. I was wondering if I should even bother with this route or just stick with 1GB iSCSI and purchase better components. I can...
View ArticleInstall Windows 2003 R2 failed on Esxi 5.1
Recently I installed Vmware Esxi 5.1 on IBM x3650 M4 server with 16Gb RAM and 1.36Tb disk (Raid 5). And installed hosts SBS2011 and SBS2008R2 (64bit) ok. Just need create another VM utilise the old...
View Article10GbE with 1GbE standby?
ON paper this should work, but I just wanted to see if anyone has done something like this. We are upgrading the VM hosts to 10GbE, but the adapters we can find from HP only come in 2 port models....
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