Why can't partedUtil rewrite my partition table?
Long story made a little short - I had the ESXi 5 installation on the same LUN with datastore.It was an ESXi 4 before, upgraded then exchanged the server with a new one (the LUN resides on a storage,...
View ArticleESXi PciPassthrough with Dell R620 and H710 Perc controller
Hi VMware gurus out there,I've read most of the discussions around the pros and cons of pcipassthrough for storage but have a strange one for you.ESXi 5.1 (dell customised), all firmware, bios, etc up...
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VMware 5.1 passthrough problem
I've setup a VM with an AMD Radeon HD6570 on passthrough. I know this is all not supported by VMware but.....still trying With hdmi over ethernet the idea is to build a vm that will replace my media...
View Articlempt2sas messages in /var/log/vmkernel.log?
Hi I just noticed all four of my HP DL380 G8 ESXi 5 hosts are showing tons of these messages in the /var/log/vmkernel log. All LUN's seems to be showing/working fine, but wondering what the messages...
View ArticleHow to enable jumbo frames for iSCSI traffic?
Hi all, I have my iSCSI traffic going out of a dedicated NIC in a separate vlan.Now I have enabled the switch for jumbo frames, the qnas 869 pro for jumbo frames also and I have (as far as I can tell)...
View ArticleRealtek-network on ESXI
Dear All,today i bought a new Computer for next LAB ESXI for test purpose, this ESXI is HP Pavilion p6-2450ed desktop-pc with Realtek-networkcontroller 1GB NIC,i tried to install ESXI on it but it...
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 ArticlevSphere 4 to 5 License Upgrade
Hi,We are planning to upgrade as below; 1 vCenter 4 server to vCenter 5 3 ESX 4.1 hosts to 5.0 Currently they are licensed for vCenter Standard 4 and vSphere 4 Enterprise Plus We also have vCenter...
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Recovering Lost DataStore ESXi 5.1
Hi Guys. I need help to mount a VMFS file system lost. My host turned off some virtual machines and I saw that the datastore2 was unavailable. After reboot the hypervisor it didn't mount again, and I'm...
View ArticleAgain: The ramdisk 'root' is full. As a result, the file...
Hi, i'm on 5.0 ESXI Build 1024429. I already defined a new scratch location on a local disk: /var/log # cat /etc/vmware/locker.conf/vmfs/volumes/4f360e13-e321f854-e5d5-5404a6a6930b/.locker-ESX The...
View ArticleCluster with a free ESXi?
Ladies and Gentlemen, I have a pair of hosts running free ESXi. Both hosts run a Windows Server 2012 VMs. Both VMsrun native vSAN thing basically being able to provide a shared LUN to each other. Can I...
View Articlelicensing problem with esxi host using eval license
We just purchased three x3650 M4 from IBM for our virtual environment. Due to time constraints i need to get this up and running so i can roll out some virtual machines for an application we must have...
View ArticleDriver for Intel X540-AT2 and Intel Corporation 4-Port SATA/SAS Controller
Hello together, i'm currently evaluating VMWare vSphere for our company and got stuck on the installation of two devices in an ESXi 5.1 host running on an Intel S2600GZ server board, where both are...
View ArticleNetwork on ESXI standalone
Dear all,i have ESXi Standalone with two NIC 1GB,i have in the meantime one NIC is availble for the management and on the same time for the traffic, the second NIC is down just for failover backup,can...
View ArticleProperty 'Password' must be configured - 1000V
Has anybody come across the following error when trying to boot up the 1000V for the first time? Property 'Password' must be configured for the VM to power on. I'm not exactly sure how to do that, or...
View ArticleESX5 HA
Hi, We are planning to setup Vsphere 5 in our environment.Before going to setup i have few doubts1.we have two Dell power edge 810 server each contains 500GB*2 HDD and 128GB RAM and two Dell equilogic...
View ArticleManual backup on VSphere 5 Essential Plus.
Hi to all,a very simple question. I need to do, each month, a cold backup of my virtual machines. I want to do it manually.Is it enough if i copy only .vmx and vmdk files or is it better if i copy all...
View ArticleResource Pools
Hi Guy's, Just a quick question about resource pools. We over subscribe our CPU's as I gather most people do. Does anybody know if vms within a resource pools get guaranteed low CPU Ready times also?...
View ArticleHardware alerts question - VMware mibs vs Dell OpenManage
Hi, We have several Dell & HP blade servers that are running VMware ESX 5.1 We are currently receiving hardware alerts from SNMP traps. We have also have another choice for receiving hardware...
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