It is absolutely impossible to obtain a license for HP Custom Image for ESXi...
As I said on a support call I've just raised. The funny thing is I have no confidence now and the clock is ticking, evaluation expires all too soon. Does anyone know how to obtain the free license...
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How do I force a mount of a VMFS volume ?
I have a Raid 10 volume with a 700 Gb vmfs-volume and cant mount it with Viclient. How can I mount it from cli ?
View ArticleESXi 5.1: can't mount .iso files more than 3GB to Windows VMs
Hello. I do have one server with ESXi 5.0 and another server with ESXi 5.1. Both used for Windows based VMs.When I mount .iso file on ESXi 5.1 VM with size more than 3GB VM can't see it (no disk in the...
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How to upgrade Vcenter to virtual HW 9 on ESX 5.1x
Hi ! As the Web Interface isn't available without a vcenter, i've created a VM with a V8 hardware (the highest available through the VSphere client) where i've installed the VCenter server. Now i...
View Articleguest with more vCPU than pCPU a bad idea?
Hi All,My understanding of vmware was that a guest with high parallelism should not have more vCPU than physical cores on the host. We have a high performance SQL server VM (Windows 2008 R2 soon to be...
View ArticleESX5 i Disk Partitions
I' m building a ESXi 5.0 host with (8) 1.2TB SAS drives. It will be used temporarily for P2V'ing servers at a remote site - then shipped back to corporate. The VMs will then be moved to SAN...
View ArticleCan't SVmotion machine
I am trying to SVmotion some machines to new storage. Most worked fine but I have 4 machines that continually fail. When trying to move it, an error pops up that says "Error caused by file...
View ArticleXP Windows Update never completes in ESXi 5.1.0
Hi all. I am trying to install, and update, a Windows XP SP3 machine under ESXi 5.1.0, but Windows Update doesn't work properly. The first problem is that the machine sticks on the "Checking for the...
View ArticleInstalling ESXi - fatal error 6 (Buffer too small)
I tried to install the evaluation version of VMware ESXi 5 server and I finished pretty fast. The only thing I could see on the screen was: Loading /tboot.b00Loading /b.b00Loading /useropts.gzLoading...
View ArticleSnapshot with more than 1 year
We have VMware ESXi 5 migrated from 4.1. Checking space I've found that a former admin trying to test a backup application left a snapshot for a vm. It was created on January 2012. There is only one...
View ArticleUbuntu 12.04 LTS - Buffer I/O error on virtual disk
Hi all, I am currently running an evaluation version of ESXi 5.1 (newest version).The server hardware is all ESXi certified components. I have set up Ubuntu 12.04.02 LTS with Kernel 3.5 It seemed to...
View ArticleESXi 5 Servers going down due to Exception 14 Error
ESXi 5 Servers were going down due to Exception 14 Error, I have seen the error on multiple Hosts, plase let me know the root cause for the issue and fix it. Here goes the screenshot of Exception 14...
View ArticlevCenter VM resets in APD state
I have an APD situation that I need help with - again! If our SAN fails (testing here) the we see the following: On all hosts, misc.APDTimeout is set to 30 secondsOn failing the SAN, the VM with...
View ArticleHP DL380p G8 - dropped packets on management port but not VM's.
I have searched through the discussions but not found a query that has matched my issue. We've added two new VM hosts to a customer's data center. They currently had 2 x DL380 G7's which have been...
View ArticleDirectPath I/O Configuration USB Not Working!
Several months ago I was running ESXi 5.0 and had no issues setting the USB ports on the host computer to be available via the DirectPath I/O configuration for assignment to a specific virtual machine....
View ArticleESXi installer can't see RAID Array
I have attempted to install ESXi 5.1 to an HP Proliant Dl160 G6, with 4 2TB hard disks in a RAID 1+0 array using an HP b110i controller. When it comes time to select the media to install ESXi to, the...
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esxi üzerine xendesktop 7 kurulumu connection hatası
merhaba;Vmware 5.1 esxi üzerinde sanallaştırma ortamında yapmış olduğumuz çalışmalarda sunucularımızı sanallaştırdık bir adet dc server ve bir adet vcenter kurduğumuz iki adet server a sahibim fakat...
View Articlemegaraid_sas 5.34 hangs at boot - what to do?
Hello everybody! This is what i have: Xeon E3110 @ Intel S3210SHLX, 8Gb DDR2 ECC, SRCSATAWB + BBU (WriteBack cashing), RAID5 4*250Gb.All work fine since ESXi 4 was installed three years ago.I've...
View Article"User root@127.0.0.1 logged in" every minute ?
Hi, We observe that 2 ESXi 5 Hosts in the same cluster (We only have 2 ESXi Hosts in that Cluster) get the following message every minute:User root@127.0.0.1 logged inUser root logged out Both ESXi...
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Esxi 5.1 iscsi performance issue
Hi All Setting up a small esxi environment and having major issues with iscsi Traffic. Environment- Dell R 720 with broadcom 57810 10GB iscsi NIC, VNX 5300 with FAST VP and Fast Cache All...
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