Host memory always totally consumed, why?
I have 10 VM's and have allocated each 2048 MB through 'Edit Settings...'. I had assumed that this means, that the maximum amount of memory that the VM will draw is 2048 MB, but if the VM requires...
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 ArticleDatastore on an USB Device
Hello, I had a dream of my home server, now i have bought a server and have my first problem. My Hardware:HP ML110 G7 I hoped that it would be possible to install esxi 5 on an sd card (which works...
View ArticleMultipathing with FCoE
Hello Everyone, I have to configure multipathing on an ESXi box to storage Box and its a blade server with 2 FCoE adapters. need your valuable suggestions to configure multipathing from ESXi box to the...
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network adapter error in installation
hey how are you?, i have a problemim trying to install esxi 5 in a lenovo z475 it works fine but then it says that the network adapter is not identified, how can i fix this? its a realtek PCIe FE...
View ArticleRepair / Recover VMFS Volume
I have a situation where someone had an older vSphere 4.x cluster. The VMs were hosted off of a iSCSI SAN controller to the nodes in the cluster. The volume was 260GB originally when I made it a few...
View ArticleEnhanced Vmotion in Vsphere 5.1(vmotion accross clusters through non...
The main constarints for Enhanced vmotion is the Layer 2 Network and same CPu model and can only be done through webclient.But the thing that got to my mind is if vmotion is non routable as of 5.1 then...
View ArticleSetting ESXi root account to expire after 60 days
Is there a way to set the local root account on an ESXi host to expire after 60 days?I'm already using AD authentication but the root account is still available for use if AD is unavailable to...
View ArticleWhere to add Win Server 2012 Datacenter Key in VMware
Hi All, We have 1 ESXi 5 server with 2 CPU's, we have purchased Windows Server 2012 data center edition 2CPU license. As per the page no 7 of below article in you can use Windows Server 2012 data...
View Articleesx 5.1 usb lost
hi all. strange behaviour on my esx5.1my win2k3 vm server has an RDX backup solution (ArcServe D2D) which works fine... I have an issue now..i loose my usb connection to the local RDX drive...When i...
View ArticleHang!! ESXI 5.1 U1 - 1065491 on HP DL380 G7
Hi, we have a lot of problems with an ESXi 5 on a HP ProLiant DL 380 G7. The Installation an configuration works and we can finally connect via vphere client. After a short time (between 1-24 hours)...
View ArticleDistributed Switch - How to?
Hi to all. I am revising for the VCP5 exam. My infrastructure was installed by a third party and we use Standard vSwitches. Networking is a greay area for my grey matter! I have built a 'Test Lab'...
View ArticleVMware - Citrix XenApp 6.5 clone - How to?
Hi I am planning to install my Citrix XA6.5 farm on VI5. Does anyone have a a guide on how to deploy the Citrix application servers? I have created the farm and I am working from the second server and...
View ArticleMAC Pro Raid Card
Hit there, just wanne know if there are any plans in supporting the Mac Pro Raid Card in ESXI 5.
View ArticleiSCSI Storage lost after NICs replaced
Can anyone help with this dilemma.We have 3 identical HP 5.1 ESXi hosts with onboard Broadcom NICs connected via iSCSI to a shared iSCSI storage.All was working fine until system board failure on Host1...
View Articlebusybox Source Code available?
Could someone please provide a link to the VMware busybox source, if it's available? Thanks.
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 ArticleMajor Snapshot trouble!
Okay, So for some reason in one of my very important VM's I've ended up with 5-9 snapshots on every disk and I cannot get rid of them. I think Veeam is to blame for this but I don't know what to do to...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 install - Boot Drive vs Boot from RAID
Hello, Specs: Dell T420- PERC H710 R5 (4 - 1TB SATA drives)- ESXi 5.1 images on embedded 1GB SD card My main question:I was wondering if it is best that I should add a separate non-raid hard drive to...
View Articleiperf results for Windows 7_X64 much slower than Server 2008_X64
I have a situation with several Windows 7 VMs which are observably under-performing with their network issues. They are all X64 with plenty of RAM and CPU and the vmxnet3 driver. And I know iperf is...
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