Esxi cluster issue
Hello everyone. I'm having an issue in my VmWare enviroment, we have a 3 hosts cluster configuration running on an HP BladeSystem C7000, Esxi 5.0.0 and VCenter.Two days ago our first node tried to move...
View ArticleProblem with Shared storage (SAN)
Hi, I have a SAN Storage DX440 S2 system, and two ESXi 5 (two physical servers)I could assign Disk to single virtual server using LUN disk created on SANHowever, I couldn't create a shared storage...
View ArticleBackup
Hi,Good Afternoon.I need to take backup of VMDK files in VMWare ESXI 5.0.0. could anyone help. Thanks in Advance...
View ArticleGuest RAM performance
Hello, I am experiencing a problem with a slow guest and have been completing some performance tests and notice that the RAM performance seems to be poor. The Host server is a DELL R715 with 2 AMD 6212...
View ArticleHow many VMs inside a LUN
Hello together, with ESX3.5 we build small LUNs 300-600 GB and approximately 5 VMs in the LUNs. How do you configure you LUNs in your environment. I'd like to use bigger LUNs in order to be more...
View Articleraw device mappings
The upside of using a raw device mapping is that I can have a volume greater than 2TB. What are the issues with these?
View ArticleFailed to open disk scsi0:0: Unsupported or invalid disk type 22. Ensure that...
Hi,I manually copied a vmdk file from local system to datastore, then edited *.vmx file of existing VM and changed name vmdk file to my coped file.But, after that I could not start the VM and getting...
View ArticleESXi5 losing internet connectivity
Hi all, I have a ESXi5 box (Dell PE 2950) running Win2008 as a DC and DNS server as well as a ClearOS Pro 5.0 appliances running. They have been running fine for the the last year with no problems and...
View ArticleEsxi 5.1 and Data ONTAP 8.1
I was trying to assign a LUN from our new netapp running ONTAP 8.1. Unfortunately ESXi fails when creating the VMFS on the LUN.We never had this problem with ONTAP 8.0Any had simialr experiences ?...
View Articleunable to connect to the MKS: internal error
Hi - can anyone help with this please I've been using Vsphere 4 for a couple of years at my last company - no problems, bullet proof reliaility Recently changed jobs and my current company is now...
View ArticleNexus 1000v and Dell m1000e, m610 blades, 2 cisco switch blades in A1 and A2
Hello, This is probably a question for cisco, but I find lots of answers to these types of questions here so I thought I'd start here first. I have recently installed the nexus 1000v in a lab, in a...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 and Web Client
I saw the great video from Chris Wahl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6E_-4dSlLY&feature=relmfu Looks though like it's only on vCenter Server? Not on the standalone free version of ESXi 5.1?
View ArticleESXi 5.0 Install Issue
Hello, I'm trying to install ESXi 5.0 on my HP DL360p Gen8 server. The problem is it can't see the local hard drives that are mirrored on the server. It only recognizes the internal SD storage. Has...
View ArticleChange to ICMP ping response behavior in ESXi 5.1
Hi, I have a problem with ping response on the ESXi 5.1 hosts, in last febrary VMware published a a following KB : VMware KB Article UnavailableBut it's not authorize nowIn this KB it was a workaround...
View ArticleDisk performance issue in the VM cluster node 1 in ESXi5
cluster node 1 is having disk performance issue in the SQL DB when cluster node 1 becomes the Active node. while in cluster node 2 there is no disk performance issue when it becomes the Active node. DB...
View Articlevmware-tools as service on ubuntu guest
Hi, when I start: /etc/vmware-tools/services.sh restart I get: Stopping VMware Tools services in the virtual machine: Guest operating system daemon: done...
View ArticleAdaptec 7805 PCI Passthrough Issue w/ ESXi 5.1 and Ubuntu 12.04 + Windows...
Hello, I am pretty new to VMware/ESXi but I am taking ESXi 5.1 for a spin (free trial license) to see if it will become the hypervisor of choice for my home server. So far so good, until I wanted to...
View ArticleLogin to VC 5 without AD authentication
Hi All, I have ESXi5.1 hosts and 5.1b VC. If my DC is down then I am not longer able to login to VC via VI Client.I have installed SSO - Inventory Service and then VC. What changes do I need to make so...
View ArticleESXi Host has how many luns presented to it
Hi, I have close to 24 hosts in a cluster. On some of them all luns are presented and on some of them only few of them are presented.I have vms with RDMs and it becomes hard for me to track how many...
View ArticleReporting on NIC Driver stats
We have HP DL380 G7/G8 servers with the Emulex NC552SFP NIC. The driver puts all sorts of interesting stats like number of drops, fragments, pause frames, errors, etc. in text files stored in...
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