what's the command to conduct an upgrade from esx4.1 to esxi5.1?
Basically, I copied 5.1 U1 ISO file to the host's /tmp folder, and renamed it to v51.iso. the host is running ESX4.1. I then mounted the ISO file to /mnt/cdrom successfully. I can go...
View ArticleESXi 5.0 STIG (Security hardening)
I performed security hardening on an ESXi 5 host (test area), and I cannot figure out what portion of it is completing stopping the ESXi shell service to keep stopping. Lockdown mode is not enabled,...
View ArticleCannot add VMFS datastore to ESXi host
Hello all, I have an issue with 1 FC LUN that can be seen as a device through multiple paths on all 10 hosts in a cluster but it only appear as a VMFS datastore on 6 of the hosts. Other LUNs from the...
View ArticleSlow NFS DataStore Performance
With ESX 5.1U1, I’m observing slow I/O performance from VMs on NFS database exported from NAS Storage system. With 512KB Sequential Write workload within the VM on a NFS Datastore provides...
View Articleuse PowerCLI to resignature and mount a snapshot datastore
Hi sirthis moment, I need use the Powercli to resignature and mount a snapshot datastore, so I what to do it ?I found the following command , but not sure is correct...
View ArticleHow can I passthrough PCI devices that are not listed?
Hi all,I want to passthrough my on-board sound card to a VM, but the sound card does not show up in the list of PCI devices.Is it possible to add devices to the list?I also would like to passthrough on...
View ArticleProblems with USB device in virtual machine
Hello everyone, I'm new to VMWare and all this virtualization stuff! Please be verbose. I have host running ESXi 5.1 and VM running Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.I use vSphere Client on my laptop to...
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i have the unrecognized error with ESXi 5.1.0please help to solve hardware:HP ProLiant DL380 G5Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5160 @ 3.00GHz10 GiB Memory
View ArticlevSphere 5.1 shared storage failover support ?
Sorry for my poor english, I have using 2 iSCSI share storage connected to 3 esxi hosts with Enterprise license installed and created a Cluster in vCenter, I wounder how to perform the storage HA like...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Update 1 - Exchange issue
Hi guys, I started upgrading our ESXi 5.1 hosts to ESXi5.1 Update 1 Build 1065491 ( VMware-ESXi-5.1.0-Update1-1065491-HP-5.50.26.iso) downloaded from VMWare.I encountered 1 issue, I used Update Manager...
View ArticleTCP Chimney Offload in Virtual Machine?
Hi, We are running vSphere 5.1 with EMC CLARiion CX4 as our Storage Array. Virtual Machine - WIndows 2008R2 with SQL Server 2008.We encounter the error message "ERROR [08S01] [Microsoft][SQL Native...
View ArticleKernel header
Hi Guys, I am running OpenSuse 12.2 64bit on ESXi 5 host and I am trying to install vmware tool during the installation I am getting this message The path is not a valid path to the 3.4.42-2.28-desktop...
View ArticleWhat's the best way to get a customized version # out of an ESXi host?
Every quarter we generate a suite of updates (including patches and security scripts) that are manually run on our ESXi 5.0 hosts. I don't have internet connectivity so I have to do it this way. I...
View ArticleMKS: could not connet to pipe \\.\pipe\vmware-authdpipe
Hello Formum members, I am having a little problems with ESXi 5.1 and had the problem appear with the previous 4.1. Details as follows:We had ESXi 4.1 installed on a Dell 1950 (2xdual core 3GHz 16GB...
View ArticlePERC H700 Integrated + 6x SAS 6Gbps SSD = Non-SSD drive type?
Hi All, Hopefully something quick and easy ... I have installed a PERC H700 Integrated into a Dell R815 server and fully populated the 6x disk bays with 400GB SAS 6Gbps SSD drives. I created the...
View ArticleServer memory configuration
Hi guys, Have a question regarding memory configuration on hp gen8 servers.Have anyone done any performance testing with various memory configurations i.e with full 1900mhz bus speed vs 1333mhz bus...
View ArticleHP Smart Array P420i warning
Hi, I got a brand new DL380p gen8 Server with 8 300GB SAS disks in 2 raid 5, and installed esxi from the branded image: VMware-ESXi-5.1.0-799733-HP-5.34.23.iso on the first raid.Everything seems to be...
View ArticleVery High Latency In One VM
I am seeing intermittent very high disk latency in one of my VM's, it is running server2003 and occasionally will spike the latency chart, todays peak was 28 seconds which occurred twice in 5 minutes....
View ArticlePossible to have two vMotion vmk ports on an ESX Host?
Hello community! I believe it's possible to have two vmk ports marked for vMotion traffic on the same host? I'm preparing to migrate VMs to a new cluster and the vMotion VLAN is different on each...
View ArticleDisk Latency ESXi 5.1.0 799733 HP-ML350 G6
Hello, We Deployed an HP ML350 G6 Server with ESXi 5.1.0 799733 and a P410i Raid Controller. The media I used was the Official Media from VMware and not a "Customised" HP Image.Since this server has...
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