Help on time sync issue with my 5ESXi
Hi everyone, Hope you are all doing great! Hope you can help. I did some researches but I am still confused. Currently, I just installed the freeware 5ESXi on a Dell server. One the VM Host, I...
View ArticleDell essential
we are having some issue in monitoring esxi 5 using Dell essential according to the article below there is a known issue but the workaround mention below only works at one time (it works few minutes...
View ArticleWindows Server 2003SP2 (VMW4) to Windows Server 2008R2 (VMW5)
Greetings! We would like to upgrade our finance server 2K3 to 2K8. But that upgrade requires an upgrade from FRS to DFS. Since this can cause issues we'd like to test it first on our new server in two...
View Articlelocal Storage Question
If I spin up a few local Exchange (2003,2007,2010) Mailbox servers on an ESXi5 host via vCenter can I add LUNs directly to the VM's using RDM? If so is it officially supported by VMware? Thanks
View Articleesxi 5.0 virtual storage partition raw device mapping can be a snapshot?
ESXI version is 5.0,the storage is EMC's CX-480.A virtual machine to map a raw device partition, the virtual function can not be cloned or snapshot?Thanks !
View ArticlePresent additional VLAN - vSphere Standard Switch
Hello everyone. I currently have two Exchange servers, both with NIC's that sit on the same IP range. ("abc") I need to add secondary NIC's to each server, but the IP's need to sit on a different VLAN...
View ArticleZombie VMDK issues.
Hi All, I'm looking for a way to control or monitor the amount of zombie VMDKs that show up on our datastores. Currently, I manually check for them using RVTools about once a month and usually find...
View ArticleHP ProLiant Onboard Broadcom NIC negotiates 100mbps only
Hi guys, I have been having some strange link speed problems with some of the ProLiant servers. It seemed to have started after some recent firmware updates but I can't pin-point them exactly....
View ArticleVMAutomationTranslateGuestRpcError
Hi Guys, I having this issue where my virtual machine with OS Windows 2003 showing black screen when booting up. VM log is attached with. Thanks.
View Articlesynchronize time server on ESX 5.1
I'm use VMkernel VMS1 5.1.0 (ESX server) Now I want to synchronize time server but don't have ntpdate command . Please help !!!
View ArticleVCenter 5 Web Client Host and Clusters VM View
Hi All, I am having an issue viewing my VMs from the Host and Clusters view. I can see them all but they are not under the Host that the are attached to. They all just show up on the same Level as the...
View Articleconfiguration of IPMI hangs vCenter and ESXi 5.1 on Supermicro X9DRW-3LN4F+
Hi, we will use IPMI suspend and wakeup or Hosts. With IPMI Tool it works fine but when i will setup the settings in vCenter on Host -> configuration -> powermanagement there is a timeout.I've...
View ArticleIssue with SCSI Controller Type MisMatch on a new virtual machine
Hello I've created a virtual machine with Windows 2008 Server as Os on it. I'm using its VHD to act as template (by creating copies) for my new Windows 2008 virtual machines. I'm doing it using ESXi...
View ArticleMoving a VM which have a mapped raw lun on SAN
Dear All, I need advise from experts for this case. I have a VM on a host with esxi 4.0 but due to many VM's same host we are having problem of memory and have decided to move this VM to another host...
View ArticleChanging Network Label from VSS to VDS VM ping is not rechable
Hi, We have setup of HP-FLEX 10 for physical network and for Virtual Setup we created VDS 5.1when we change the network connection of VM from working VSS to VDS ping is not rechable. Steps Taken,1>...
View ArticleESXi not reconnecting after VUM Reboot?
I'm in the process of applying the latest updates to my ESXi 5.1 servers via VUM and I'm noticing that after the host reboots I have to manually reconnect the host to virtual center. After this...
View ArticlevMotion Fails At 14%
Hi Everyone, Having a bit of a strange issue with vMotion today. It's been working in my lab for months, and was still working fine after I upgraded to 5.1 last week. Now, today, for whatever reason,...
View ArticleProblem with HP P2000 G3 SAS and HP BL460c Gen8 Servers
HelloWe have 2 HP BL460c Gen8 Servers connected through 2 6GB SAS switches to an HP P2000 G3 (SFF) SAS Enclosure with dual sas controllers. We have connected a total of 4 sas cables to the enclosure (2...
View ArticleVMware tools in Ubuntu 12.04 - can't get it to autostart
Good afternoon- I have a couple 5.1 hosts running a handful of Ubuntu 12.04 vm's. I have successfully installed VMware tools, but the tools don't automatically come back on after a vm reboot. To be...
View ArticlevCenter Server 5 install in a VM or Not?
Hi to all.We have a small assisted living healthcare environment with about a dozen sites/serversOne server has 3 VMw4 vms on it.We received two new servers with ESXi 5 installed. They will host...
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