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Snaphot space question - with pictures
Hi Folks,This is my first post here as we're quite new to this and I want to as what may be an obvious question.I've tried to search but as you will see from the question the specifics mean any search...
View Articlecreating a lab
I am trying to create a standalone lab on an esxi 5.1 host. I created 2 vm’s and a vswitch that is not connected to a physical adapter I added both vm’s to the vswitch How do I get the vm’s to...
View ArticleCopy physical RDM between SAN
HiWe have two virtual MSCS and we are now in a project to change SAN. The two cluster use physical RDM disk. It's one SQL 2008 and one Biztalk 2009. Both Windows 2008 x64.Our present SAN cannot...
View Articleafter Esxi box has power outage, all VMWare machines cannot automatically...
Or we need to configure on the VMware MACHINE. THANKS
View ArticleCannot disable alarms
Running vsphere5.1, esxi5.1 have a vm that continues to show an alarm error from a previous engineer that I cannot edit what so ever. When I double click any of the definition alarms I cannot edit them...
View ArticleRoot Directory Junk Files
I have an ESXi server that appears to have several junk files in the / (root) directory. I guess that an erroneous script accidentally created these files, but now I am not sure which I can delete, and...
View ArticleSCSI Disks showing as "unsupported"
Hi, I have a potential problem with a VM that has 6 disks Disks 1 and 2 are shown as ''unsupported' under the vm settings (disks 2 - 6 are as usual with the correct vmdk files) When opening up the...
View ArticleCannot complete login due to an incorrect username or password
Hi, We have an HP machine that ESX 5 installed on it and then some VMs we have above VMWare...Currently i have changed root password of ESX from vSphere Client, but now i can not access ESX...
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Move vCenter SQL Express database to stand alone SQL
HiIm trying to move vSphere 5.1 U1 vCenter database from SQL 2008 R2 Express (Windows 2008 R2) to a stand alone SQL 2012 Standard (Windows 2012) server.I have moved vCenter datbases several times...
View ArticleCloning a VM to reclaim disk space
I noticed that if I clone a Windows VM usually I have to re-activate it.I noticed as well that cloning a VM is a nice way to reclaim disk space by shrinking thin disks.Is there any way to clone a VM...
View Articlepowershell: how to determine when guest OS is in steady state after creating...
I'm writing a script that creates a new VM from a template and I need to change a file on the guest's hard drive. I believe Copy-VMGuestFile is the right way to do this, but it doesn't seem to work...
View ArticleCannot add Netapp LUN on ESXI 5 host
We have netapp (NetApp Release 8.1.2P3 7-Mode: ) and ESXi ( VMware ESXi 5.1.0 build-1021289)I created LUN/igroup with os type vmware. But when I tried to Add Storage - Disk/LUN it failed on...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 U1 (1065491) upgrade breaks Dell M710
There seems to be an issue with the latest ESXi running on Dell M710 blades using SD cards. We've recently added 4 extra blades to a new M1000e chassis and as part of the commissioning process we...
View ArticleESXI 5.1 Connection issue vSphere
Hello, I have a problem with vSphere, vCenter, ESXi. over all I try to connect to my ESXi via Internet and Dyndns. Router Fritzbox When I try to connect direct to my ESXi port 443. Its all ok i can do...
View ArticleWinnt4 SP6 vmxnet driver
Hi, I have P2V'd an NT4 machine and I can't get the network card installed: 1.I tried installing the AMDNET adapter as suggested in older posts, but the device could not be started with "no device...
View ArticleHow to check whether emc powerpath is installed in esxi 5.0 using powercli or...
How to check whether emc powerpath is installed in esxi 5.0 using powercli or putty.
View ArticleHow to check whether emc powerpath is installed in esxi 5.0 using powercli or...
How to check whether emc powerpath is installed in esxi 5.0 using powercli or putty.
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VMWare not responding to ping after management network problems
Hi everyone Last week a strange thing happened.We have a 3Node ESXi cluster, with a lot of virtual machine on itFor an uknown reason, one of the node had a problem on the management network (suddenly...
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 ArticleNo space on storage.
Hi. I want to describe my scenario and i hope that someone could tell me what i did wrong, because i could not see why there was no more space on the storage. I have created a vm with 2 partitions,...
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