VMware ESXi 5.0 hosts unable to communicate
am having issues with the VMware in our offices .The 2 ESXi hosts do not appear to be able to communicate with each other.Both are online and can access internet and i can connect to both (i am on...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 and Adaptec 6805 crash
Hello everybody I'm using VMware ESXi 5.1 (Build Number 1021289 (on previous builds of the exact same error)) with Adaptec 6805 (last driver AACRAID Driver v1.2.1-29900 for VMware).Periodically hangs...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 and Web Client
I saw the great video from Chris Wahl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6E_-4dSlLY&feature=relmfu Looks though like it's only on vCenter Server? Not on the standalone free version of ESXi 5.1?
View ArticleSeperate Cluster for single and dual core VMs
Just wanted some feedback on possibly separating single core and dual core VMs into separate clusters. If, for example, I have 4 hosts hosting a mix of single and dual core vms.. would the performance...
View ArticleSolaris and ESXi Fibre Channel
Completely new to fibre channel, so please bear with me. I'm trying to connect a 2006 Mac Pro running 5.1 to a Solaris 11 machine using fibre channel. Both machines have Sun branded LPe11000 cards and...
View ArticleESXi 5.0 to 5.0 Update 2 - Best practices / backup plan
I'm planning to patch my ESX cluster (2 ESXi 5.0 hosts) to 5.0 Update 2. While there's no DRS activated (only HA), the idea is to vmotion the VM's from one server to the other, leaving one of them at...
View ArticleOracle RAC VM
Hello, I am trying to build a VM for Oracle RAC cluster. When adding the disk I suppose to see the option "Support clustering features such as Fault Tolerance".Do not see it. Missing something....
View ArticleESXi 5.1 - Disable Flow Control
Hello - Found this article on disabling flow control: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1013413 After running the following commands, an error occurs stating "Cannot set device pause parameters: Operation not...
View ArticleWindows 2008 Servers Slow
Hi, I have ESXi 5.1 installed on a USB attached to my HP Micro Server with 8GB of RAM The Micro Server has P410 raid controller with 4 2TB Drives in a Raid 5 I have created 2 VM's with Windows 2008 R2...
View ArticleESX5.1 has difference disk function like Hyper-V ?
I am begginer of Vmware.ESX5.1 has difference disk function like Hyper-V ?I would like to make template Windows2008R2 VM disk and apply additional difference disk like Hyper-V to reduce disk usage.
View Article"Running usbarbitrator start" and RDM's / MSCS
Does anyone know if there is a relationship between the usbarbitrator service, RDM's / MSCS cluster? After adding RDM's / MSCS cluster, the "Running usbarbitrator start" portion of the ESXi host...
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Unable to power on VM - Cannot allocate memory
I've started to see this issue on random VM's on our companys ESX cluster (3 hosts). I've had to stop working on this cluster until we can resolve the issue I've run into a similar issue before that...
View ArticleESX5i Essentials on HP DL380G7 damn slow
Hello, I have the following system setup in use: System Configuration================- HP DL380 G7 (2x AMD Opeteron 6174 (12 Cores)) - Totally 2 CPU with 12 Cores each- 64 GB RAM- P410i RAID with 1024...
View ArticleRun PowerCLI Script everyday and send output to mail
Hi, Is there a way to run this script every day (whats the best way, windows schedules task?) and then sending the output to an email adress?Thats the command;foreach($vm in get-vm) { get-harddisk -vm...
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Has anyone attempted to load ESXi 5 on an HP Z620?
So has anyone attempted to load any version of ESXi onto the HP Z620? This is a new Workstation that is supposed to be an upgrade from the previous Z600 but it has several enhancements so just...
View Articlempt2sas driver for ESXi 5.0
Hello, On a HP Proliant ML350 G6 server with two LSI Logic / Symbios Logic LSI2008 SAS HBA's, I've got ESXi 5.0.0 (623860) installed. ~ # vmkload_mod -s mpt2sas |grep Version Version: Version...
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Configure delay on ESXi bootloader
Hi folks, I need to configure a delay of around 3 minutes on my ESXi 5 bootloader. It is installed on a pen drive and I have no idea of how to edit it's grub (or whatever does it use as a bootloader)...
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Don`t see the Fujitsu FC Tape Library in a ESXi 5.1
I have a Fujitsu LT 60 - tape library that works on Fiber Chanel.Actually the problem, laid out on the screen...In the end, the virtual machine is visible streamer, but is not visible library.Surfing...
View ArticleESXI 5.1 switching between 2 pNic.
I have 2 physical nic in esxi. The first nic was treated as the uplink port to the DHCP/management and i would like to utilize my second nic port to connect direct to a NAS server to do iSCSI with my...
View ArticleRedoing SSO to change from Basic to Primary Node for Linked
So recently we decide we are going to setup a DR site and are going to use vsphere replication. I wanted to setup Linked Mode so I can see and manage both sites in one login instance. When I go to...
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