Failed to start quiescing operation in the virtual machine. Quiesce operation...
When I try to take a snapshot of a particular VM with the "Quiesce guest file system " parameter enabled and "Snapshot the virtual machine’s memory" parameter disabled It fails with:Failed to start...
View ArticleCDP Information is not available
Hi , I was wondering if someone can help? Today one of the NICs failed to connect and gave the statis CDP information is not availableVMware KB: Broadcom 5719/5720 NICs using tg3 driver become...
View ArticleModifying path information for ESXi/ESX hosts
Good morning all! I hope you guys can help me. I have about 47 hosts that I am needing to change there storage path information to Round Robin. If I make the change in vCenter and reboot the host it...
View ArticleESXi 5.0 u2 - Unable to verify whether export of OVA will re-deploy
There is no way to verify whether a VM exported as an OVA will re-deploy as VMware does not provide a md5sum for the file which can be checked and verified against on the system where the OVA has been...
View ArticleActive Directory Restored from Virtual Machine Clone not authenticating
Hi,We are running Active Directory and DNS Server on the Same Windows Server 2008 R2 as Virtual Machine on vSphere 5 Platform. Since it is for College environment every month we have to delete or...
View ArticleNFS Volume Showing Incorrect Provisioned Space.
I have a 1TB NFS Volume on a NetApp that is showing 284GB of free space, with 739GB's free... the problem is, the Datastore is empty. We currently "ran out of space" on it, but come to find out, it...
View ArticleWhen to increase number of ports on standard vSwitch?
I have a question about the number of ports needed on a standard vSwitch. I have a cluster of 6 hosts; each host has 2 10G NICs (each host is ESXi 5.1 - not U1). On each host I have a standard vswitch...
View ArticlevSphere client 5.0 Summary shows Vmware Tools not running (not installed)...
I installed ESXi 5.0, vCenter 5.0 and vSphere client 5.0 successfully. Within vSphere client, created a VM under a host which is managed by the vcenter. With the VM turned on, installed the VMware...
View Articleerror loading s.v00 fatal error 33 inconsistent data
hi, i was shuffling around things in the office and when i turned on the server again now i'm getting:error loading /s.v00fatal error: 33 inconsistent datawhat can i do to fix it?please advise asap.any...
View Articlecan i use vmkfstools -i to convert splitted vmdk file?
Hi,i have to convert a win 2008 server, because it is running with vmware server 2.x. I didn't created the Host/Guest System so i was looking for the *.vmdk files.There are two HDDs in use, "Virtual...
View ArticleReducing ESxi vDS MTU to 1460
Hi, We're looking at a network team request to reduce the MTU on our ESXi Servers from 1500 to 1460. We've a single Distributed vSwitch (2 x 10Gb Uplinks & NetIOC) with all the Management, FT,...
View Articleallow users to manage own servers
Hi,we would like users to be able to access serves for their respective depts. this would allow them to snapshot, reboot etc their own machines. I am aware that you are able to set permissions with...
View ArticleVsphere 5.0, Windows 2012 & RemoteFX/PCoIP
I'm trying to find out whether I can incorporate RemoteFX/PCoIP on a high-latency WAN configuration in our company. We have 2 * VSphere 5.1 physical hosts, with a Windows 2012 RDS server providing...
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ESXi 5.0 crashing weekly
Hi, i have a problem with esxi 5.0, it keeps crashing weekly and it's getting worser. Picture of console:
View ArticleStorage Question
Hello, My test environment (home lab rather) conists of the following:1 x Synology DS1812+ Diskstation2 x Whitebox ESXi 5.0 systems (5.0.0, 469512)3 x network interfaces (1 x onboard Realtek 8111E, and...
View ArticleRemove Domain entry
Hello, I am using ESXi 5.0.If i go to "Configuration -> DNS and Routing -> Properties" and remove the Domain Entry the OK Button is disable.But how can i remove this Entry? BTW.: The Server is...
View ArticleMigrating a replica
I am replacing some Gen7 Blades with Gen8 Blades and am trying to migrate the VM's to the new Gen8's.In vSphere 5.0 The VM's are ok but I don't know how to migrate the replicas. I've checked out a few...
View ArticleAlarm for VM Profile Compliance: noncompliant
Is it possible to set an alarm for "VM Profile Compliance: noncompliant" status indicated in the VM Storage Profile Tab of a Virtual Machine?
View ArticleNo heart beat issue with ESXi 5.1
I have fresh installation of ESXi 5.1 which is crashing quite often. Almost everyday I can see purple screen with no heart beat. I am using custom made server which was working fine on 4.1 and since...
View ArticleVMware Guest OS shutdown despite adequate space
We had a Guest OS shutdown and refuse to start saying the datastore was out of space, yet the datastore had 60 GB of available space. Has anyone seen this before? If so, what did you do to sort it out?
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