Odd Linux guest performance issue
Hi all Over the last month or two I have been seeing a strange performance issue on some Linux hosts (running the latest kernel from Debian 6.0 (squeeze) and 7.0 (wheezy)). It manifests itself as very...
View ArticleAutomatic startup timing
We have 4 windows XP images on our server. They are all setup via the vCenter to start at 1200 second intervals(20 min) However when when we reboot the server we get the following Win1 starts 16:00Win2...
View Articlemutliple links "online"to 1 switch without distributed switches (enterprise...
Hello, IS it possible to connect a standard virtual switch with 2 uplink NICs to 1 switch, without having the distributed switches enterprise plus license, and without putting the other ethernet card...
View ArticleVmware EXSI 5.1 a purple diagnostic screen eror cod 6512
Hello friendsI install VMware EXSI 5.1 on the Proliant DL380p Gen8 n i have some erors 4 days. somebody have a idea about my problems. It have in the 2 OS microsoft windows server 2008 std x64 n 2003...
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PSOD with esxi 5
We have 4 Bl460c Blades with Vmware 5. On an HP 4800 SAN system. They are running since march without any trouble. But recently I got 2 PDODs. Any hint where this comes from? The only thing that...
View ArticleVMDK Files show on old datastore after Storage vMotion?
I had a VM on an iSCSI volume. I moved it to a local volume using Storage vMotion. Now if I look on the old iSCSI volume I still see the folder for that VM and it contains just VMDK files. I'm a...
View ArticleSATA DLT Tape drive i/o errors
Hi all! I'm running VMWare 5.1 on a Intel Server and everything seems to work fine exept that I can't get my SATA Quantum DLT tape drive to work! The Intel serverboard (DBS2600CP2) contains a (onboard)...
View ArticleVMware FileSystem Sync Driver not expirimental any more?
I was installing vmware tools in Ubuntu 12.10 and it asked about the vmsync driver. My recollection is that the last time I installed vmware tools, it said it was still Expirimental. Now it doesn't...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 and IBM DS4700 SAN
Hi everyone.... I want to know if someone use an IBM DS4700 SAN with ESXi 5.1?I know this SAN his not officialy supported but i want to know if someone use it anyway? I'm ready to migrate from ESX 4.1...
View ArticleBackups fail after upgrading from v5 to v5.1
Hello Everyone, Recently we upgraded our vCentre & ESXi boxes from v5 to v5.1, then upgraded guests tools to latest version. Since then, our linux machines back up ok, but we have not been able to...
View ArticlePXE boot DHCP failure
And another obsure/strange issue ran into yesturday. Have a few vm's which are provisioned servers, they PXE boot citrix from a citrix 2.1 provisioning server. so yesturday i reboot one after updating...
View ArticlevMotion validation fails due to RDM mapping
Another weird problem here, just looking for some places to start / where to look to troubleshoot further, or just open a ticket. I have two exchange mailbox servers, with RDM's hosted on a netapp,...
View ArticleHypervisor Recovery - data?
I was going to revert back ab ESXi 5.1 version of the hypervisor by using SHIFT R question: will reverting back to a previous version cause me to lose the VMs thanks
View ArticleUpgrading local hard disks in ESXi
Hi, I have a DL380 I am about to install ESXi 5 (with no VCentre) on and I am planning to install to USB flash drive and use the local disks for the VMFS store. One of the main reasons for this is that...
View ArticleEvent: Device Performance has deteriorated. I/O Latency increased
Hi, Since upgrading to vSphere 5 I have noticed the following errore in our Events: Device naa.60a980004335434f4334583057375634 performance has deteriorated. I/O latency increased from average value of...
View ArticleSome kind of routing or security problem between hosts
I am having a problem and need some advice tracking it down. I'll try to give an overview of my setup and what the problem is. We have some software that talks on 3 different networks. Op-Primary,...
View Articlemy newly created vmfs volume is only version 3.46?
Hello, just trying to understand what is happening. I just created a new VMFS volume on my 5.0 (build 914586) and when I look at the version in vCenter it says that its version 3.46? When I look up...
View ArticleStrange problems on ESXi 5.0.0 (build 469512)
Hello, I just installed ESXi on a server and there are many strange problems. At first install I got boot image is corrupted error. So, I re-installed the system and now; * I can't access to...
View ArticlePERC H310 Controller vSphere Support
Hello, I am running ESXi 5 Free and have 2 VMs running on this host. We have a PERC H310 Controller with two RAID 0 arrays, a 500GB mirror and a 2TB mirror. The 2TB mirror is degraded and I need to...
View ArticlePackets dropped on virtual machine
Hi friends, I'm facing with packets dropping on some our virtual machines.I had problem with our up-link but I'm sure that there is no problem now.Anyone has idea about that? BR
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