iSCSI LUNs not visible on ESXi hosts
So i have a bit of a weird one and hoping the wider community can help me figure it out. In my home lab I have 3 x ESXi 5.1 Build 799733 hosts of which 2 x hosts are the same hardware (Intel NUCs) and...
View ArticleDifference between Affinity and Anti-Affinity Rules?
Hi All, I have three question please help me in these Question 1- What is the difference between Affinity and Anti-Affinity rules and from where we create them? Question 2- The below document from...
View ArticleLosing Host Management
Dear Community,We are currently experiencing intermittent issues where on one site hosts are becoming unmanageable either from vCenter or the console. Not all the hosts are affected at the same time,...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 installation fails with "retryWrites" error
Dear ESXi5-community, this is my first post in this community and I hope that one of you could assist me with the following problem: I'm recently trying to install ESXi 5.1 on an older HP Workstation...
View ArticleHow to check vm is registered on which host
Hi all, I have a vm (abcd) in a datastore (1). I am unable to find the vm (abcd) on the Virtual Center.Which I right the vmx file from the datastore dialogue box the option for register vm is greyed...
View ArticleSSO !
Hi All, How do I come to know that which AD user accounts or AD groups are registered with SSO.Is there a way I can pull the info Also I would like to know how can I register an AD group in SSO Thanks
View ArticleHow to evaluate performance impact of more than 8 vCPU assigned to a VM with...
Hello, I wish to evaluate the impact on performance of the number of vCPU assigned to the VM hosting an application.I reinstalled the ESXi server in evaluation mode to have Entreprise plus evaluation...
View ArticleAssigning physical NIC to a VM
Hi,My host server has 4 NICs. How do I assign a physical NIC to a VM? The guest VM OS is Windows Server 2012.Thank you. Bernard Jen
View Article1441801 on creating RDM
Hi everybody. I have a problem with ESXi while creating RDM using vmkfstools. # vmkfstools -z /vmfs/devices/disks/mpx.vmhba2\:C0\:T1\:L0 /vmfs/volumes/Datastore/!RDM/Adaptec-Data.vmdkFailed to create...
View ArticleHow to Increase the CPU cycle - vSphere 5.1
Hi All, I have a Cisco C-Series C240 M3 with a CPU cycle of 2.4Ghz with 8 Cores. I am using Vsphere 5.1 and would like to install an OS as VM which require 2.8Ghz CPU Cycle. Is it possible to increase...
View ArticleHost Hardware status Unknown HP ML350p and HP DL380 G7
VMware ESXi 5.1.0 Build 799733The Host Hardware status is unknown. When I click refresh it stays unknown.When I try a reset it says Call "HostHealthStatusSystem.ResetSystemHealthInfo" for object...
View Articledatacenter lost in vcenter
My one of the datacenters are missing in the vcenter . I need to break the association/link of missing esx servers with vcenter so that i may create the new datacenter in vcenter and add missing...
View ArticlePurple screen error
Hi, I have a random purple screen problem on a server. I tested memory and CPU stability with memtest86 and prime without errors. I also changed the power supply and disabled the passthroughts. The...
View ArticleNew to VMWare
Hi, I am currently looking at implementing a virtual environment for a number of our servers with high availability in place. We are looking at using 2 physical hosts running vSphere 5 to host 3...
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ESXi 5.1 doesn't show the Active Directory groups to add permissions
Hi,I joined my ESXi 5.1 to my new domain(2012 domain).I went to the permission tab to add users for them to authenticate to the ESX with the Vsphere Client.It all went well when I add users, however I...
View Articleesxi 5 disconnects from vCenter server
One of our esxi 5 Update 2 (build 914586) shows disconnected from vCenter server (ver 5 update 1b). FDM log show, lost master, see logs below. SSL Cert is valid until 2024 and we are not using any...
View ArticleAdding physical disk to ESXi5.1
Hello all, I've added a 2Tb SATA drive (hot swap, to be used for backing up VM's) to a HP DL380 G8 server hoping that ESXi would pick it up. I've tried running a rescan/refresh in...
View ArticleWe are planning to buy an esxi server for hosting our VM's Need suggestiion...
Hi Team I need all the experts suggestion as i am newbie to vmware esxi We are planning to buy a vmware esxi host..i wanted to know if it is possible to host 300 or atleast 100 windows 7 vm's in a high...
View ArticlePut diskless ESXi hosts back into service automatically?
Hello again from DTCC. We have a number of PXE booting diskless ESXi hosts attached to remote storage, and we're running into an issue where when we reboot or power off the machines they come back up...
View ArticleESXi initial setup help
I've just recently bought components and put together a server that I want to run ESXi 5.1, which will host 10 to 15 VM's. I've installed ESXi onto a USB stick and gone through the basic...
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