vt-d enabled Ivy Bridge motherboard recommendations
I'm finding it difficult to find solid information about vt-d support on IB boards and was hoping the community could confirm/deny support on the current offerings. The only manufactuer I've seen that...
View ArticleConverting HP UX system to VM
We have a VERY old HP UX system (version 10). We still use it as a production server and are afraid of a hardware failure. What is the process to convert something like this to a VM? I am using ESXi...
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ESXi 5 VLAN VST mode configuration issue
Hi, im trying to configure 2 vlans 1600 and 1601 for 2 vmsit works fine in VGT mode on portgroup with VLAN ID 4095 here is the config: But i think it would be much better to use VST mode because i have...
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 Articleesxi v5 with onboard NIC PowerEdge t420
Please spare me how I shouldn't be using the oboard NIC for anything on a server. Anyway, I'm wondering if there are some drivers I can load that would allow me to use the onboard NICs on the...
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Datastore partition table corrupt or missing on ESXi 5.1
I assume the yellow highlighting means that my partition table is jacked. partedUtil get /dev/disks/naa.600605b0008753401647ba843bf15150 364485 255 63 5855465472 Original partition was a single VMFS 3...
View Article/bootbank/boot.cfg question(s)
Let's say I have a customized .vgz file the contains some information (files) that normally wouldn't persist across reboots. I move the "customized.vgz" file to "/bootbank". Then I believe I need to...
View ArticleESX5.0 Windows 2008R2 VM Hangs
We recently deployed a Windows 2008 R2 VM in our environment. The server is also running Microsoft SQL and Microsoft SCCM. We have noticed that the server tends to hang or freeze every couple of days...
View ArticleActive Monitoring VMWare ESXi Host
Hi all, I want to monitor a VMWare ESXi Host in a active manner. In other words, I want that this host send performance informations to my monitor machine instead of my monitor machine ask for these...
View ArticleLocal Storage Question
Is there a way for me to determine how the local storage on one of my ESXi5 hosts was configured / allocated? I have one HP DL host that has 8 local 146 gig drives and I have a need to re-create the...
View ArticleHP Flex 10 - Received Dropped Packets
VMware Community, We are having a strange issue, which so far VMware/HP support has not been able to solve. We have an environment where we are using 2 x 10GBps and 2 x 9Gbps adapters on a single DVS....
View ArticleESXi 5.0 & DELL R720 Network Connectivity Loss
Ok there have been a lot of threads about trying to get the Dell R720 working with the Broadcom 5720 daughter card. You can inject the drivers post build or you use the DELL recovery cd...
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SSD cache + iSCSI storage
Hello, I was just wondering if I could a setup like this:ESXI 5 on USBiSCSI for storageSSD for cacheIf that is possible, how can I do it?Thanks
View ArticleUSB Boot - Logging to Datastore
We recently upgraded to ESXi 5.0 U1 and are utilizing booting to USB. For this reason, we have chosen to have our logs redirected to a datastore on our SAN. My understanding was that all we needed to...
View ArticleMaximum Performance - 1 Socket / 4 Cores / 8 Logical Processors
Variations on this question are asked fairly often, but I'd like to get further clarification for my scenario. I have an ESXi 5.1 test server with a single i7-3720QM processor, with 4 cores, and 8...
View ArticleGroups missing after upgrade to 5.1 from 5.0 Update01 b623860
I did my first upgrade to 5.1 yesterday on a test system and all that appears to be wrong is this situation. Anyone have any thoughts?
View ArticleHow to retrieve data returned by a target using vmk apis?
I am a newbie to VMWare plug-in development. I have written code to issue a SCSI READ 10 command to a target. After allocating memory for all the variables, I am calling vmk_CreateSCSICommand() to give...
View ArticleVMware ESXi on Hs23 blade server IBM
Hello all Im facing some issues while installing ESXi on my HS23E blade servers, it gets stuck in the middle of the installation, mostly on TG3 modules, is there any way i can get this sorted out, is...
View ArticleDeploying OVF Template in ESXi v5.1
Hello All, I am trying to deploy an OVF template that was created from a Windows XP SP3 VM in VMWare Workstation v9.0.1 to an vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) v5.1 located on a Dell Poweredge server. Every...
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Couldn't shrink vmdk with converter
I've red a lot of posts on how shrink a vmdk, but I don't know how to proceed. I have a 450GB vmdk containing only 40GB, ESXi 5.0 U2 and 2 datastore (500GB + 250GB). So this is what i've done: i've...
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