VM with Win2012 as Domain Controler when turn on, change the esxi 5.1 host...
Hi! This is a weird issue i think, I have a Virtual Machine with Windows 2012 (64b), whit the role of Domain controler, in addition i have 4 more VMs, with my apps, (linux & Windows), when i turn...
View ArticleESX host cannot ping default gateway
I've got ESXI 5.1 installed on a Dell Power Edge R620. I have a VM deployed running as a VCenter server. I was able to manage the physical host through VCenter okay. I configured two virtual...
View ArticleHP NC375T quad NIC and ESXi 5.0 - NIC's dropping
We have an ESXi 5.0 on an ML350 G6 with an HP NC375 quad NIC. We've just been using the two onboard NIC's (one VM network - 6 VM's, one DMZ network for security VM). Recently, we attempted to get the...
View ArticleHow to recover or reset password in ESXi 5.1
We have few ESXi 5.1 host with a problem on root login. We added a bunch of ESXi host in Power Keeper in that list of servers few host not added properly and we lost access to root. Those hosts are...
View ArticleHow to set CPU affinity and memory.
We have explicit recommendations from our application vendor to set CPU affinity for one of our VMs that runs their product. However this process is not entirely clear to me despite available docs....
View ArticleChanging the host for a virtual machine on a cluster and Host is not in...
Hi all,I have 02 questions.1. We have a cluster which has 02 physical hosts (Host1 and Host2). On the Cluster we have 02 virtual machines. DRS enabled on the cluster.But the problem is my 02 virtual...
View ArticleCan't log in to vSphere Client via hostname
Hi there,I'm new here and a total beginner.I want to start learning virtualization with VMWare and was wondering if you could help me out.I managed to install ESXi5 on a seperate machine.I configured...
View ArticleMSCS Configuration on vSphere 5.1
Gents, I was going through the new document on MS Failover Cluster configuration on vSphere 5.1 and found one recommendation I could not understand. it says "If you must overcommit memory, the swap...
View Articleconfigure jumbo frame for ip san with 10G NIC and vpshere 5.0
hi all, i would like to turn on jumbo frame for my vpshere 5.x primarily for my ip-san for now. what i need to configure after i turned the jumbo frame on my switch and ip storage on my vpshere5.x?...
View ArticleHost IP Address
I have a question on my hosts, we have various different IP ranges & recently the network has just been re-designed adding more ranges. Two of which are an IP range for management & one for...
View ArticleHosts and guests losing round robin setting
Aloha, We have a troubling situation we don't understand. On each of our LUNs and all of our Windows guests we have MP set to round robin mode.We are upgrading our RAM on the hosts. On each of the...
View ArticleCannot access disk S.M.A.R.T data
I've just upgraded a whitebox lab server from 5.0U1 to 5.1U1 today with the hope of accessing S.M.A.R.T. data for some directly attached SSDs (no RAID card). Unfortunately all I get is:# esxcli storage...
View ArticleDisk Latency ESXi 5.1.0 799733 HP-ML350 G6
Hello, We Deployed an HP ML350 G6 Server with ESXi 5.1.0 799733 and a P410i Raid Controller. The media I used was the Official Media from VMware and not a "Customised" HP Image.Since this server has...
View Articledatastore can not be mounted from virtualbox
I installed ESX5.1 in vmware player.And I tried to boot that VMDK file by virtualbox because virtualbox has snapshot feature. I could boot ESX5.1 but I could not mount datastore. Is there any way to...
View ArticleESXi 5 not allowing me to bind to LDAP
I have several ESXi hosts and I'm trying to get them to join AD so I can roll out administrative permissions through AD groups. I have joined the servers to the domain and that part worked as...
View ArticleCan't log in to vSphere Client via hostname
Hi there,I'm new here and a total beginner.I want to start learning virtualization with VMWare and was wondering if you could help me out.I managed to install ESXi5 on a seperate machine.I configured...
View ArticleMSCS Configuration on vSphere 5.1
Gents, I was going through the new document on MS Failover Cluster configuration on vSphere 5.1 and found one recommendation I could not understand. it says "If you must overcommit memory, the swap...
View ArticleMS cluster
Hi W are planning to build MCcluster(3 nodeA-A-P) in our environment running with ESXi 5.0 what are requirements please suggest.
View ArticleUnable to create snapshot The error message was: 'VssSyncStart' operation failed
Dear All, we are try take VMDK backup, after firing the backup we got 'VssSyncStart' error in vcenter... we try to upgrade vmware tools and uninstall reinstall vmware tools...
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