How to resize the c Drive
Hi,How to re size the c Drive in virtual machine (Running windows 2008 OS)
View Articleperformance gathering
Hello to all! I have 3 ESXi hosts (5.1) I'm now trying to export performance data to zabbix server. I'm planning to use perl sdk with remote esxtop. So my questions are: 1) Is there any other way to do...
View ArticleClone / Storage vMotion Fails: cannot access *.vmdk
Enviroment:- vCenter 5.1- ESXi 5.1(both latest Build) - NetApp NFS Sotorage- NetApp VAAI NAS Plugin 1.8 Problem: If i try a Clone by vCenter i get the Error "Failed to access *.vmdk" (see Attatchement)...
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ESXi5.1 / vSphere Client: "Unable to connect to the MKS:"
I have got the same error message as in discussion 2007405: "Unable to connect to the MKS: The remote host certificate has these problems:" The "problems" are not specified. The above mentioned...
View Articledetermine which files belong to a vm
Hi, once I copied a vm into an other folder. Then I used some parts of the vm from folder "A" and some of folder "B". I don't know why I did this, but it happend. Now I'd like to keep only these files...
View ArticleAdaptec 7805 PCI Passthrough Issue w/ ESXi 5.1 and Ubuntu 12.04 + Windows...
Hello, I am pretty new to VMware/ESXi but I am taking ESXi 5.1 for a spin (free trial license) to see if it will become the hypervisor of choice for my home server. So far so good, until I wanted to...
View ArticleBest Practice for Resource Pool Creation and Maintenance
Hi All, In My current environment, we have got a resource pool ( for all the applications -prod and or non-prod) and under this resource pool we have got multiple other resource pools for different...
View ArticleManagement Traffic Failover
We are preparing to replace some of the network switches that our VMware environment runs on. When I ran a test with a production host running a couple of test vm’s I saw some unexpected results....
View ArticleQuestion about kickstart script for ESXi 5.1 installation
Hi, I want to install ESXi and to do so I am using a kickstart script. Everything goes well until the booting tries to read the variable: install --firstdisk=vmhba1:C0:T0:L0 --overwritevmfs I want to...
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ESXi 5.1 799733 PSOD sadface
So we have been running along just fine for months, then all of a sudden 2 of the hosts went PSOD yesterday. We restarted the hosts, and another PSOD happened today on one of them. Its been very...
View ArticleDisable DirectPath I/O SATA AHCI Controller
Good day, I have an issue with disabling the DirectPath I/O for my SATA AHCI Controller.On this forum I found an older post (http://communities.vmware.com/message/2012833) but unfortunately the steps I...
View ArticleESXi RDM and sata card
Hello ! two simple questions. I already have an esxi server at home that works well. I have another computer which is my NAS. I want to combine them, so I'm in the process of moving my NAS server to a...
View ArticlePoor guest performance on new ESXi 5.1 host
This was recently installed with a P2V'd Windows 2000 server and a fresh install of SBS 2011. The 2000 server was already so slow that I didn't really notice the issue until we loaded the SBS2011...
View ArticleHBA to communicate with SAN
Can we restrict the vm to use a particular HBA to communicate with SAN ( FC and ISCSI) or not? If yes then please tell me how?
View ArticleWrite I/O for SCSI0:0 is out of range
Hello, I have this warning on my VMware log:[FFEACA90 warning 'Statssvc'] Calculated write I/O size 524544 for scsi0:0 is out of range -- 524544,prevBytes = 32941955584 curBytes = 32943004672...
View ArticleReporting on NIC Driver stats
We have HP DL380 G7/G8 servers with the Emulex NC552SFP NIC. The driver puts all sorts of interesting stats like number of drops, fragments, pause frames, errors, etc. in text files stored in...
View ArticleESXi 5.0 & DELL R720 Network Connectivity Loss
Ok there have been a lot of threads about trying to get the Dell R720 working with the Broadcom 5720 daughter card. You can inject the drivers post build or you use the DELL recovery cd...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 SNMP Caching
Hello, I've got an issue using SNMP on ESXi 5.1. After a fresh install and adding the host under SNMP monitoring, it appears that the returned values (ifInOctets ifOutOctets for instance) are...
View ArticlePCIe eSata Card?!?!?!
This is driving me batty. I incorrectly purchased an Adaptec 5445 thinking that it would be able to handle a cheap external NAS I built some years ago using Addonics branded SI3512 Internal HBA and...
View ArticleStorage Adapter Latency Metrics
Hi there, I am noticing some read latency's across most of my hosts showing a maximum of 19 ms, as high as 31 ms, while currently running around 3-7ms. Is this acceptable? For some reason I feel like...
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