After 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 ArticleHow to move VM's to new RAID
I am using ESXi 5.1 free and have installed a second RAID set. The first set was running out of space. What I would like to do is separate the OS's of multiple servers from their data. I'd like to...
View ArticleOdd problem with vmk network for vMotion
UPDATE: Problem has been fixed, but I wouldn't say the mystery has been solved. Please see my entry near the end of this thread for further details. summary at bottom Current setup:H/W: 4x Cisco UCS...
View ArticleBest ESXi 5 hardware?
I was planning to get a Dell PowerEdge r515 configured with ESXi already installed (2x Opteron 8core 4386 3.1ghz, 32gb ram, 6x2tb raid5). Weighing in at 7k+.Now, that's going to be a hard sell to the...
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 ArticleCannot open configuration file: File already exists
I've run into an odd problem with a VMWare host that underwent several hard reboots yesterday. Most all of the VMs are booting up fine but a few can not be powered on. The host is running ESXi 5.1...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 U1, Powered on VM take snapshop takes more than 5 minutes
Hi guys, I have several HP BL460c Gen8 server with ESXi 5.1 U1 installed, and the servers were managed by vCenter Server 5.1. The problem is when i taking snapshot on a powered on VM, it takes more...
View ArticleNetworking on cluster, am i doing this right?
Hello, I have a lab with the following configuration 3 esxi hostsVcenter installed on W2008 R22 NFS shares on different servers I've created a DRS/HA cluster and on every host mounted the two NFS...
View ArticleUpdates of ESXi standalone and vSphere ESXi
Hello all, I am currently struggeling with a bunch of ESXi servers which are part of a vSphere Center in the Essential licensing. First of all the update plugin in the vCenter via the vSphere Client...
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 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 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
View Articlecreating multpile vitual machines with a .vmdk file.
Actually I am facing problems creating multiple virtual machine with the .vmdk file. I have uploaded the .vmdk file on the datastore and created a virtual machine with that file and want to create...
View ArticleEsxi ballooning and Swapping what happens when memory pressure is no more there
We are running in to lot of problems lately with vSphere Resource Pools. We have overcommitted memory in our resource pools. let me explain with an example. Assume you have a resource pool with 3 VMs...
View ArticleUnable to increase disk Space
Hi there,I'm having troubles to increase the size of a Virtual Machine that has been converted previously from a Physical machine with VMware Converter Standalone. The matter is that all the disks are...
View ArticleHelp installing Windows 7 on VM
I have installed ESXi 5.1 on a new server and migrated my VM's from VM Workstation to the server. I access these VM's through Vsphere client. I've just created a new VM on the server using the...
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