Management network traffic
I currently have a 100MB management network on a pNIC and a second network on another pNIC which is 1GB. Due to the network setup, there is no way for me to use the 1GB pNIC as the default management...
View Articleloss of management network after passthrough enabled raid card
I tried to write the first occurance off as a fluke, but I just started over on the same equipment, recreating a lab environment...it occured again. When I try to enable passthrough on an lsi 9271-8i,...
View ArticleVMware ESXi 5 Free - Memory limitation - boot up
I'm looking at the Dell R320 server and the recommended memory install is to install the memory in groups of 3. If I have 48GB of memory (3 x 16GB), will the esxi 5 free work or will it complain and...
View ArticleOpenGL support for Vmware ESXi
Hello, I'm currently evaluating the VMware ESXi to see if it can run our software. VMware ESXi is great but we have issue with graphics. Our software required OpenGL 1.1 compatible graphics card and...
View ArticlePCIe Passthrough to VM
Hi All, Currently using VMware ESXi 5.0.0 and trying to configure Pcie passthrogh to Virtual Machine installed in ESXi. Steps Followed:Installed Windows server 2008 Virtual Machine.Enabled PCie...
View ArticleRecover thick vmdks from raw VMFS
In case you ever need it .... I found a procedure to extract thick vmdks from unreadable VMFS volumes that is fast enough to be useful.I only extract thick provisioned vmdks !!! The procedure only...
View ArticlePoor 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...
View ArticleGuest USB device not getting enough power
Hey all,We just put in a shiny new server for a client, but I am having an issue with one part - the payclock software. They use Lathem time and have a usb powered fingerprint scanner (a TS100 if...
View ArticleRestoring VMs after Building new RAID Array
Hello All, I am new to virtual machines so I apologize for the newbie question. Currently I have a HP ML350 G6 running ESXi 5.0.0 on a 4GB SD Flash card hosting two virtual machines, and licenses for...
View ArticleIdentifying native and upgrade VMFS5 LUNs
Is there a way to determine which VMFS LUNs are native VMFS5 and which are upgraded from a previous version?
View ArticleVM Memory Reservation
Need some info please.I have a host part of a DRS and HA Cluster. DRS set to manual at the moment for other reasons.Host has 104GB of memory. One VM runs on this host. VM has 100GB vRAMWhen trying to...
View ArticleBest Raid Practice
Hello, I'm somewhat new to the vmware world. Here is a breakdown of our system. we have 3 Dell R610 on 1 Md3200 with 15000K drives 24 drives totalwe currently have 40 VM's. now is it best practice to...
View ArticleQuestion on assigning CPU's to a VM
I am setting up a Cisco UCS chassis. According to vSphere client, I have 16 CPU's, 2 Processor Sockets, 8 Cores per socket. I am planning on deploying up to 6 VM's per blade. Based on that, I can...
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How to change the sha-1 certificate in my new esxi host
Hi guys.... since my lab crashed this morning (my computer got a blue screen) and all the vm's in my workstation crashed.when i got the my computer up and running again, and pressed "play" to start the...
View ArticleXenApp 6.5 on VSphere 5->Vm performance issue
Hi all,I am having some perfs issues with Vm (Win 2008 R2, 4 GB Ram, 1 vcpu and XenApp 6.5) and I am wondering if that could be a datastore issue because we are using datastore clusters.Has someone set...
View Articleimporting physical DRBD mySQL node into ESXi
I had quite a roller coaster ride importing a couple of db servers. I knew they were in failover configuration, but I mistakenly thought DRBD hadn't been used, or had been moved away from. The reason...
View Articlebuiltin network resource pools vs user-defined resource pools
Couple of questions regarding these two types: 1. If you create user-defined pools and assign port groups to them, is the new percentage based on the number of shares out of the total ones assigned to...
View ArticleHost profile error - activeDirectoryAll doesn't match spec
I am trying to configure a host profile for a number of ESXi 5.1 hosts. The profile is being applied to an HP Gen8 blade after updating it to 5.1 update 1a (build 1117900). After checking compliance,...
View ArticleBest practices for scratchconfig location in ESXi 5.x
What is the best practice for locating the scratchconfig location in ESXi 5.1? Is there a lot of traffic that goes from the ESXi host to the scratchconfig location so that you would want it on fast...
View ArticleVMware Tools Install Prebuilt Module Selection
The VMware tools installation decides if there are prebuild modules available in a executable called vmware-modconfig-console that's actually a symbolic link to appLoader. How does appLoader...
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