Poor NUMA balance and high %RDY after latest patches - ESXi 5.0 build 1117897
Has anyone else noticed a poor NUMA balance, and increase in CPU ready time since patching ESXi 5.0 hosts to build 1117897? This issue was previously observed and fixed, but seems to me that it has...
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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 ArticleVsphere 5: How to install a software on all running virtual Machines??
Vsphere 5: How to install a software on all running virtual Machines?? I am using licensed version of Vsphere 5 I need to install an antivirus software on all virtual machines, there are more than 100...
View ArticleUnable to power on VM with two VMDKs
Hi All, I am using esxi 5.0, one of the vm not powering on due to no space in datastore and also error showed in summary page of vcenter "virtual machine disks consolidation needed". I tried to...
View ArticleSetting up a VMware Network
Hi everyone . I am very new to VMware and I have few stupid question that I would like to ask you . base on my needs . I want to setup a 5 Virtual Machine network that can be access remotely pretty...
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Increasing Datastorage
Hi,We just added new drives to our RAID 5 virtual server I am unable to increase the size of the datastore in ESXi 5.0. When I click on the Increase button, no extra devices are shown See the picture...
View Articlewhat is the right license for me?
Hi everybody! I have 4 blade servers. I want to create 2 virtual machines on each server. One of virtual machines will be installed VCenter my blade servers had 2 physical CPUs, 8 cores per CPU and...
View Articleunable to start esxi 5.1
Dear all,I installed esxi 5.1 as a vm in VMware workstation, it was working fine and expanded the size of primary harddisk(using edit settings) instead of adding a new one, afterwards I am not able to...
View Article2 nics cannot see iscsi traffic
A few days ago I added an Equallogic san and an additional esx host on my network. I am really close to having it all setup, but am scratching my head on this one.On my 2nd esx host I have 4 total...
View ArticleVery poor VM guest performance
We are experiencing very poor VM performance on all our Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 servers. All the VMs are shared from 2 different Netapp NFS volumes on our FAS2050 filer. We have 3 hosts and we've...
View Articlevsphere 5 (esxi 5) boot issues
After I installed vsphere on to a raid drive, it wouldn't boot off of the raid drive. The error I get is from the BIOS stating that it couldn't find a boot device. In the BIOS, the raid array is...
View ArticleAgain: The ramdisk 'root' is full. As a result, the file...
Hi, i'm on 5.0 ESXI Build 1024429. I already defined a new scratch location on a local disk: /var/log # cat /etc/vmware/locker.conf/vmfs/volumes/4f360e13-e321f854-e5d5-5404a6a6930b/.locker-ESX The...
View ArticleSSL Certificates
Our Audit requires to install SSL Certificates on all ESXi 5.0. We have several 100 ESXi servers and wnated to know if there are any suggestions to implement certs on the ESXi servers other than manual...
View Articlepxeboot on vmnic0 not working
i got a dell r710 server that cannot boot from pxe. but when the host boots up in esxi, I assgined a vm to the same vmnic0 vswitch manageent group and tried to pxeboot the vm and it works. any idea why?
View ArticleTrying to install ESXi 5.1, hangs of "timing"
Hi and help please! I am trying to install ESXi on a supermicro X9DR3-LN4F motherboard with LSI MegaRAID 9260-8i controller, 2 Xeon, 64GB RAM I get the boot screen, it then proceeds to load drivers...
View ArticleVSphere Client cannot "Connect to USB device"
Just installed VSphere Client (5.1 update 1) on a freshly built W7 x64 system (Intel Haswell) and I'm completely unable to connect any USB devices on the host via the VSphere Client to any of my guest...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 hosts randomly disconnects from vCenter
Hi.After installing vSphere vCenter and ESXi 5.1 (with latest patches), we are starting to see hosts disconnecting randomly from vCenter.We have different server models but so far, we have only seeing...
View Articlei cant able to add the LUN to my DATASTORE
While adding LUN TO RESPECTIVE DATASTORE ,it showing following errorCall "HostDatastoreSystem.CreateVmfsDatastore" for object "datastoreSystem-52" on vCenter Server "VCENTER" failed.Operation failed,...
View ArticleVMware Tools 5.1
I have a problem with VMware tools. After upgrade from VSphere 4.1 to 5.1 I tried to upgrade also VMware tools. I have done the upgrade on all the servers (all Windows Server 2008& 2008R2) but on a...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 and Windows XP compatability
Hello all, I recently introduced an ESXi host into a customers environment and moved those physical servers on to it. One of these servers was a file server. I created a new VM running 2008 R2 and...
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