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Beginner setup
Hi I am fairly new to configuring ESX from the bottom - I have worked with preconfigured ESX-hosts for a couple of years. I have a few questions about configuring the network-cards.I think its best if...
View ArticleHow to configure Dell Cachecade for ESXi
What's the procedure to configure Dell Cachecade for use with ESXi 5.1? (assuming its supported) I have a Dell 620 with 6 SAS drives and a 200Gb SSD - how can I configure it to boost IO of the VMs...
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 ArticleESXi 5.0 - Extracting the VMXNET3 drivers from the VMware Tools .iso
Where can I get the NIC driver for ESXi 5.0?I can't find them in the same place they used to be. It looks like they bundled up all the drivers in both the x86 and x64 setup.exe / setupx64.exe files....
View ArticleNFS Disconnects with 10GB installation
Hi all, I have the following issue in my production environment (solved by now using 1Gb cards and switch) 2 HP Proliant DL380P with HP 530T adapters1 Netgear M7100-24X1 EMC VNXe315 with 10GBe ports...
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 ArticleVery Rookie Question
So I had a vision that I could build a server in the following setup, using the free Vsphere hyper-visor. (2 Drives) RAID 1 - Windows 8 w/ the Vsphere installed on same drives1 Drive - No RAID -...
View ArticlevSphere Client windows session credentials fail
My ESSXi v5 server is configured to authenticate to active directory. However, if when starting the vSphere client installed from that host I flag the box marked 'Use Windows Session credentials' the...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 integration with HP SIM
I am looking for some help troubleshooting some problems I am having setting up some ESXi hosts to show their critical events in Systems Insight Manager. I have, on all systems, set up the root...
View ArticleESXi realtime performance chart don`t show in vCenter 5.1a
Hi expert My vcenter server don't show esxi performance data.I found KB:2009291 Cannot view the realtime Performance Overview charts after upgrading to vCenter Server 5.0 (2009291) But My vcenter...
View ArticleHow do I edit files in the /opt directory and keep after reboot?
I figured out how to edit them, but the changes disappear after immediate reboot. I read this other post about using the autobackup.sh script, but that was for '/etc' and not '/opt' directory. The...
View ArticleAfter RAID5 problems which are now solved, I am not able to mount VMFS
Hi All, After a Raid5 failure which was solved by Dell Pro Support we cannot mount our main Datastore 1. See below what we get when doing a : DF -k command, a Fdisk -l command and a sxcfg-volume -l ....
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 ArticleMicrocode update on ESXi 5.0
Hi, We've one blade system bl260c g5 and install the ESXi 5.0 inside this blade system. And we also install the Windows 2012 Datacenter inside that ESXi host. However, when we do the Windows Update on...
View ArticleXP VM does not completely shutdown
Hi, I have never come across this in any project that I've worked on, so I really hope someone in the community has and has a solution. The platform is ESXI 5.0 (623860). The servers are Dell R620's....
View ArticleSome vmware tools warnings vix.dll / hgfs.dll
Hi everybody, we updated our ESXi host from 5.1 to 5.1.0 u1 yesterday. Whith this update we can update the vmware tools also ....After I updated the vmware tools I face the following error in my...
View ArticleIdentify ESXi Installation on Local Disk
Hi Teams We are using ESXi 5.0 and have 2 Local Disk datastore detected. I want to know where the OS of ESXi installed and how to get it? RgdsPet
View ArticleSite impact vCenter another location from ESXi Host..
Hi Teams We have 4 esxi 5.0 Host at Shanghai and we also have 2 esxi Host at Hong Kong. We have vCenter at Hong Kong but none in Shanghai. I am planning to add 4 esxi at Shanghai monitor at Hong Kong...
View ArticleESXi antivirus
Hi Team, please suggest what could be the best anti-virus for ESX/ESXi. or is it required to install any antivirus on ESX/ESXi ? regardsVINAY
View Articlevmotion for MS SQL, Domain Controller, Oracle database
We have vsphere 5.0 essential plus installed on 3 physical hosts and a vcenter 5.1 virtual appliance managing them. We have VM with MS SQL, Domain Controller, Oracle DB and etc on those 3 physical...
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