Size of windows pagefile on win 2008 r2 servers running on ESX 5.0
Hey Admins,I have a lot of virtual servers that are configured with 16gb ram.By default windows will create a 16gb pagefile (auto manage page file size)What would you guys say is a good pagefile size...
View Article100's of "mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0" USB Warning messages per hour
We get hundreds of these messages per hour to syslog - vmhba32:C0:T0:L0 maps to the USB on our Dell 6x0's,7x0's and 9x0's running 5.0 -> 5.1 U1 WARNING: NMP: nmp_DeviceRequestFastDeviceProbe:237:NMP...
View Articlevmware windows templates and windows updates
I want to find out wht everyone else is doing regarding updating therir vmware windows templates. Are you converting your template every so often back to a vm and running windows updates on it and...
View ArticleThe initiator could not establish a network connection to the target
Whenever I rescan iscsi hba, I keep getting this message in the events tab Login to iSCSI target iqn...... on vmhba40@vmk2 failed. The iscsi initiator could not establish a network connection to the...
View ArticleWindows licensing for fault tolerence
I was planning on running 4 VM's in a fault tolerant environment.I'm now reading that I should get 2, Windows server 2008 R2 Ent. licences because they are counted as seperate servers (even though they...
View ArticleSoftware re-activation when moving VMs
Hello, I've got a question about moving VMs to different VMhosts. Windows normally detects processor changes and makes you re-activate their software when it detects a change in processor. There are...
View ArticleIgnore Power Button Events
I am running ESXi 5 on a Supermicro X9SCM and I am trying to figure out how to stop the server from powering down when the power button is pushed. I already changed the BIOS settings from "Instant Off"...
View ArticleHow to enable ESXi 5.1 vStorage API so the Symantec Backup 2012 can backup...
Hi, Any way to achieve as per subject ?! Thanks in advance...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Host local datastore freezes
Hi I have a very frustrating problem in that I have to keep hard rebooting a newly built ESXi 5.1.0 (Kernel build 799733) host machine. The machine is a 2 x Dual Core AMD Opteron x64 based server with...
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How to troubleshoot intermittent network problems with guest in ESXi 5?
We are having a problem with a guest dropping network connection intermittently, an i was wondering how to troubleshoot the network issues with the virtual network cards. Our system is a PowerEdge 2950...
View ArticleVMFS3 Datastore Reformat with VMFS5
Hi. Need some advice please.I would like to reformat all VMFS3 datastores to VMFS5 without unmapping the LUN on Storage and creating a new LUN.I know the correct way to remove a datastore from ESXi 5...
View ArticleHP P2000 SAN ISCSI, 2 node VMWare cluster - best performance?
Hi,I'm really not experienced with VMWare at all, at this level, so we've brought in some consultants to carry out our implementation. We've got HP kit, consisting of 2 x 2910 switches, a P2000 with 22...
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 ArticleRed Alert on the Alarm of Vcenter " Storage DRS Recommendation".
An unmanaged I/O workload is detected on a SIOC-enabled datastore: EMC_Cluster_01. Esxi Version - 5.0U1 Storage Used - EMC Symmetrix Even though there is enough free space on the storage, we are...
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Forward video signal from virtual machine to external USB graphic card
Hi all, I'm just testing some startech USB to DVI External Video Card with vmware. My idea was to connect some external monitors directly to my VM using USB external graphic card.My VM is able to see...
View ArticlevCenter Single Sign On master password
Hi guys i do not remember admin@system-domain password i wondring how to reset admin's account password i tried to reset password by rsautil command line but i dont remember master password. Anyway to...
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Windows Server 2012 VM shows RDM disk offline
Hi - Hoping someone can help me here. I created an RDM disk from a 1TB SATA disk I have in my ESX 5 machine. No issues creating the vmdk file, and I can add the VMDK to a Windows 7 guest I have, and it...
View ArticleResizing a Windows Server guest
I need to implement a Windiws Server 2008 R2 guest VM acting as a Remote Desktop Server.At the moment I can't predict how much the VM will be used, including the number of users and the way they will...
View ArticleLinux VM ( centos ) cant get more than xMhz of the Host CPU Resource
Hellowe have a Host with the Following Info Xeon 1240v2 Quad Core (8core with HT) + 32GB DDR3 RAM + 2TB SATA DISK i created a Centos 6.4 64bit VM ( 24G ram + 4VCPU ) with high resource shares on this...
View Articlei7-4770K Haswell core - ESXi5.1 hang on "initializing IOV"
Hi All, Just trying to install ESXi5.1 Upate 1 on new i7-4770k with Gigabyte GA-Z87-D3HP motherboard. The install hangs on "initializing IOV". Any idea's? Many Thanks, George
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