vSGA with Nvidia Geforce Cards?
Will I get any benefit by using GeForce GTX 690? VMware and Nvidia say only Gird/Tesla and some Quadro cards are supported. The architecture difference between Geforce and Quadro is not that much from...
View Articlevicfg-hostops clarification
I need further explanation on what exactly vicfg-hostops --operation shutdown --force does. All I've been able to gather is what I've read in the documentation "if the host is not in maintenance mode,...
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Long time to delete snapshot (4+hours) plus long snapshot Stun
Hi,I am working with a VM that is presenting problems with snapshot delete and Stun time. The snapshots are taking 4+ hours to "delete" (I still think the correct word is "commit") and the Stun during...
View ArticleISCSI 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 ArticleDell M620 and M820 ESXi 5.1 installation
I'm relatively new to VMware on Dell hardware. The closest thing I find to a customized image is the "VMware ESXi 5.1 Update 1 Recovery Image"...
View Articlemoving virtual machine from one lun to another - doing it right?
Hello. reaching out to make sure we are doing this right. Overview: We have an HP c3000 enclosure with some HP SAN storage. Just added a new IBM v3770 storage. Lun's have been created and presented....
View Articlevswp file usage if reservation is set to max ESXI 5.1
Hello,I have a question and I cannot seem to find the answer to. I have an esxi 5.1 host with 8 vm's on it. The host has 128 GB of physical memory and each vm is given 14 GB of memory. So with all 8...
View ArticleSwapping I/O card order
I need to add some additional I/O cards to my Vmware host and it looks like I am going to need to move some cards around on the motherboard to make room. Like moving a Quad Nic from a full height to...
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Disk Alignment on guest VM's
Hi All, We have a fair amount of legacy Windows 2003 servers with misaligned disks in our environment and I would like to resolve this to ensure that we are getting the best out of our storage, and not...
View Articledisk peformance of local and SAN/NAS
I am thinking about using local storage with 7.2k drives. Peformance wise, has anyone tested out how much gain/loss when using local 7.2k vs SAN 10K/15K?
View ArticleESXi 5.0 Total Lock down Mode
Hi, We are having ESXi 5.0 in our environment with Vcenter 5.1. Since last week we are facing issue with our two ESXi 5.0 servers which is automatically disconnected from vcenter.We have not done any...
View ArticleVSwitch and Network handling
Hi, Ihave a question:HowdoesaVSwitch work, if twoVMscommunicatebetweeneach other.If thenetwork data is sentto thenetwork card andthento the hardwareor communication ishandledwithin theVSwitch?Greetings...
View ArticleDoes ESXi5 support iSCSI
Hi pals I have two systems with ESXi5.1. & a laptop with RHEL6. Now i have a requirement of a shared storage for both the ESXi5 Hosts. Does ESXi5 supports iSCSI? If it supports & it is...
View ArticleApplications and Database in the same VM?
Hello, I have aquestion: If I have a VMrunning. On that there are Applications that accessanotherVMon where adatabase is installed.BothVM'srunning on the sameESXiserver.Is itin...
View ArticlevSphere Authentication proxy - HELP !!!!
Hey All I've been trying to get VAP to work but it keeps failing and I dont even know where to start troubleshooting the problem. My issue is simply when I try to install it it keeps coming up with an...
View ArticleHow to upgrade?
I have version 5.1 right now and there was an update already. It is very easy to update any "Windows" based operating system. Pretty much just a couple of mouse clicks and it is done. How much of a...
View ArticleDo I want to MSCS cluster my File and Home servers - advice appreciated
Hello, I look after a relatively small VM environment: Vsphere 5, ESXi 5:150 Vms, 4500 users, 2 datacenters split either side of the county, each with 3 esx hosts, fibre channel presentation to HP EVA...
View ArticlePCI-E card passthru
Hello, I have an HP DL380p gen8 with ESXi 5.1.0 u1. The machine has a PCI-E riser board with a custom PCI-E card called "VP Mark IV" made and used by a relatively small company. The card is shown with...
View ArticleIntermitent network disconnect in VM using E1000E NIC
Hi, We just installed three new Windows Server 2012 and one new Windows 8 VMs on ESXi 5.1. On those VMs, we get a lot of errors in the System Event log about network disconnects. According to the logs,...
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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...
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