NAS hardware for ESXi 5.1 lab?
I am looking to build a NAS for my lab at home. I was thinking about putting ESXi on a home built NAS and using the EMC VNX storage appliance. If I wanted I could also maybe throw vCenter and AD on...
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How to prevent SQL transaction full
Hi all,Here's the story.vCenter 5.0, SQL express 2005. Last week, I changed the settings of Log history in vCenter from unlimited to keep 30 days.Then after few days vCenter crashed because the SQL...
View ArticleWhat is use of vFabric Gemfire
Hi All, I'm new for vFabric Gemfire and I don't exact use of Gemfire, so it will helpful to me sharing your knowledgeI've gone through few Gemfire documents but no clue what is exact use of Gemfire....
View ArticleHP Smart Update Manager, unable to connect to CIM Service
Hi, I have a bunch of HP DL380p G8 servers built with ESXi 5.0 Update 2 using the HP custom ESXi install ISO. All of the hardware integration is accessible via vCenter, so it would appear that the CIM...
View ArticleVMkernel Default gateway
We have two virtual switches, vswitch0 has management network which is VMkernel port. For some reasons, we must create vswitch1 to add vmkernel port for VMotion. I Set the default gateway IP which is...
View ArticleSCSI tape device passthrough errors
Hello, I am running an ESXi 5.0 host with an adaptec 29320LPE SCSI PCI-E Controller card and a Quantum DAT160 SCSI Tape drive connected. The Tape drive is passed through as a SCSI device to a virtual...
View ArticleDesparate to recover files from within VMDK, praying someone can help
I'll do my best to not make this painfully long to explain. Desktop ESX setup using (2) 2TB Sata drives, running fine for about a year. A key VM was a Win2k12 with a 1.2TB (I think) drive that hosted...
View ArticlePXE install ESXI with persistent config
We just setup PXE for ESXI, and thankfully I rebooted the system to move it to the back before it bit me in the ass. So everything installs fine, no problem. But when we reboot, we get "No Active...
View ArticleHow do I unpresent 30 luns containing vmfs datastores on multiple esx5.1 hosts?
We have about 30 fiber channel luns containing vmfs5 datastores connected to 10 esx 5.1 hosts. We need to unpresent these.How do we need to do this?Can we just unmap or unpresent them to the esxi...
View ArticleUnable to configure IP address and subnet mask after deploying .ovf file from...
Im probably new to vmware so please bear with me .Im trying to create a new virtual appliance on a windows 2003 server . I copied the .vmdk and .vmx files from an existing virtual appliance from its...
View ArticleSQL Server 2012 performance issues running on ESXi5
ESX Host:IBM x3650 M3 – 2 X 6 Core CPU (Hyperthreading enabled)ESXi 5 Update 2144GB RAMVM:Windows 2008 R2 Datacentre running SQL 2012 Enterprise with CAL licensing model SP1 CU4.24 vCPUs140GB RAMHot...
View ArticleHost stops responding esxi5.1
I am using ESx5.1 in our environment.All of sudden one of host stopped responding (not pinging), showing disconnect from cluster. (HA & DRS enabled).We have rebooted the server to resolve the...
View ArticleSingle Host, essentials, how/if do you run vCenter Server?
I am having quite the challenge using the vCenter Server & update manager. First I found the great prepackaged Vcenter appliance (I expected it was logical to have one) and thought what an elegant...
View Article"Terminating on fatal IPC exception" after 5.1U1 update
Hi, after update ESXi from 5.1.0-799733 to 5.1.0.update01-1065491 there are alot of IPC exceptions logged in /var/run/log/syslog.log ! 2013-06-28T08:44:13Z lsassd[5317]: 0x49ee0b90:Terminating on...
View ArticleCan VMESXi5 be virtual machine?
Hi, All I have two physical ESXi hosts with ESXi5.0 installed. However, our physical servers just have one physical NIC card.Because we want to test some functions such as vMotion, HA, we tried to...
View ArticleSupid Redundant, CPU Question
Everyone, I must be dense but I am having performance problems and need some help.I have a server with two physical processors, 8 cores per socket with a total of 32 logical processors.I have three...
View ArticleRedhat 5.8 Guest showing unusual load average
Folks, We have our applications running on a redhat 5.8 guest OS on ESXi 5.0The load average reported by linux is around 5 times what is seen with the same OS and application running on a rackmount...
View Articletwo IP Subnets on LAN for virtuall server
Hey guys, i'v the following scenario: 1x ESXi Server with two RDS Server running W2K8R2 (IP for this Host: 192.168.0.224)several virtual Servers running on the ESXi host assigned IPs from within this...
View ArticleCertificate issue with vCenter Web Client any idea's how to resolve?
Hi all, I just installed vCenter in a test environment and irritatingly I can't console onto the VM's using the vSphere web interface. I get the attached message, strange thing is that I could have...
View ArticleMax Disk DSize that can be presented?
Hi, Just want to double check that the largest disk i can allocate to a VM is 2TB in ESX 5.1? Thanks
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