Installing ESXi on a Dell PowerEdge R820
Greetings, I am trying to install ESXi onto a Dell PowerEdge R820 server. I am having trouble with the installation reason being is because the NIC is not supported by the OS (ESXi 5.1). I have been...
View ArticleOpenManage CLI for ESXi 5.1 ?
I am trying to determine if there are any ways to get omreport and other openmanage command line utilities to work on ESXi 5.1? From reading the Docs, it looks like an Installation of OpenManage...
View ArticleDetach datastore = sometimes host doesn't come up after reboot
ESXi 5.1 - Desktop board (GA-EP45T-UD3P)I'm doing regular backups of my ESXi host by plugging a SATA hard drive into a removable drive bay (with host off), attaching the device under storage - devices,...
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Servers not Communicating on vSwitch1
Hello, I have two vSwitches as shown in the image below both on separate physical NICs. VMs on vSwitch0 are communicating with each other properly. This vSwitch is also connected with Management...
View Articlehow can I extract guest machines' config through vm-support data
Hello I have lots of vm-support outputs of my customer's vsphere 5.1 servers.I am trying to create a report for my customer which has includes virtual cpu/ram/disk/network configurations. So I need...
View Articlevm can not power on due to "current connection state of the host"
I encontered an strange error, when we try to power on a VM through a vCenter the error message appears :The operation is not allowed in the current connection state of the host, to solve the problem,...
View ArticleNTP client stops syncing time with its peer
Hi All, I'm having troubles stabalizing time among ESX servers which all use the same time source. NTP is configured to use a network device as its time source (Juniper NetScreen) and this all works...
View ArticleESXi 5 Multiple hosts crash
Hi,I experienced a very strange issue this week and I am trying to get to the bottom of it. At 10:07 we lost pretty much all virtual infrastructure, on our monitoring kit/syslogs etc some events were...
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...
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All Server shut down - Process vmtoolsd.exe Reason: Shutdown Legacy-API
Hello, today all of our VMs shut down and rebooted some minutes later. We are using ESXi 5.0.0 and 3 of 3 Hosts were affected. All of them had the following Event in the System log: (Translated from...
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ESXi 5.1 and passthrough for a P212 controller
A colleague found a lot of articles where people use a P212 controller successful with ESXi 4.x, so we used that in an HP ProLiant DL360 G7 and tried to use passthrough to one of the VM, which would be...
View ArticleHow can i sort VM's by high i/o in vSphere ?
Hi, I have an ESXi cluster running several hundred VM's - i'm keen to establish which VM's are generating the highest level of storage i/o Is this possible through vSphere - so they can be ranked to...
View ArticleWhat is the interval for time sync between Linux virtual machine and ESXi host?
I have ESX5.0 with one linux virtual machine of centos6 installed on it.After installing vmware tools to Linux virtual machine, I enabled time sync between linux virtual machine and ESXi host via...
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Recover ESXi 5 Install - USB Failure
Hi guys, I have ESXi installed on my HP Microserver N40L. I installed the OS on a USB stick, and all the VMDK files etc are on the HDD that came with the Server. Today we lost power in the house and I...
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Windows 2008 R2 "Time machine"
Dear everybody, I'm faced to the following problem: (first of all I'm not sure is this a esx issue) I have a Windows 2008 R2 server on a ESXi 5.1 a few days ago I need to restart this server. The...
View ArticleHow do I access files in a data store folder from a VM?
Hi All, I'm fairly new to Virtualization in general (I'm learning!) and have a question. I have a VMware ESXi 5.0 host server set up with various VMs configured within it. I also have various data...
View ArticleConverter VM Version 4 para VM Version 8
Boa tarde a todos! Gostaria de uma grade ajuda de todos deste Fórum! Possuo em meu ambiente o vmware vcenter server 5.1 e o ESXi 5.1 e a versão de algumas VMs (VM-Version) são 4 e outras 7. Sendo...
View ArticleI have 2 ESXi 5.1 Hosts that reboot every 2 weeks, how can I stop this?
Hi VMWare Friends, I have 2 ESXi 5.1 Hosts running on Dell PE 710R's that automatically reboot every 2 weeks at the exact same time. Log shows ESXi host initiated system reboot.This may have been set...
View Articlevcpu and Core
Hi, How ESXi server hardware is selected based on VCPU requirement ,what is the best option for VCPU V/S CORE ESXI Server calclation . What is vmware best practise for telecom Processor ,core v/s vcpu...
View ArticleDell T610 slow data transfer to datastore ESXI 5.1
Hello All, This is my first post so hopefully I am doing it right. I have a Dell T610 server, 2 seagate x2TB SAS drives, 32mb ram, 2xIntel Xeon E5620. My problem is if I add a 6gb ISO to the datastore,...
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