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hostd not running on startup / 503 Server Unavailable / 503 Service Unavailable
Hi, Our work is starting to look at VMware ESXi server and I thought it would be nice to play around with the technology at home. I recently downloaded the free version of VMware ESXi 5.1 and...
View ArticleEsxi 5.0 U1 - Multicast support for CIM SLP?
Hi, i have an IBM x3650 M2, with an LSI Raid Controller Onboard. Recently i installed the LSI Vibs in order to get the "Health" of the raid Luns in the Configuration -> Health Status -> Storage...
View ArticleMicrocode upgrade - should I worry ?
Hi Just installed Server 2008 R2 SP1 in one of our VM guest and I keep seeing these log entries: Message from myserver.local: CPU microcode update available. The guest OS tried to update the microcode...
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 ArticleRunning datastores on RAID device provided by Z77 chipset
This is a bit of a long shot but... has anyone with a motherboard using the Intel Z77 chipset managed to use the onboard SATA RAID funtionality for a data store in ESXi? My whitebox server is an ASRock...
View ArticleSingle vCenter Server; vSphere replication without SRM
I am looking to test vSphere replication without SRM functionality. Setup:- 1 Windows vCenter Server- 2 VM hosts in single datacenter called "datacenter-1"- No clusters configured.- Deployed 1 "vmware...
View ArticleHas anyone installed Symantec Security Virtual Appliance?
If so, would you mind sharing how you went about doing installing it.The directions are very confusing to someone who has never done it before.
View ArticleESXi 5.1 - crashes...need help please
Hi, I am a true newbie. Every so often my ESXi will crash....dead. I have obtained a copy of the dump file but I really need some help. Many thanks Jonathan
View ArticleMultiprocessor initialization failed - noobie here
Hello First post - I'm a total vmware noobie. I'm trying to install vmware esxi 5.0.0 on an hp xw8400 workstation with a Xeon CPU 5130 and bios v02.38. I don't believe it is on the hcl but it would...
View ArticleDoes VMware vSphere Essentials Kit vs vSphere 5.0?
We have a small company and have been using the free version of Vsphere 5.0 on three servers (one has 32GB or RAM, the other two are smaller). Does the VMware vSphere Essentials Kit (the web site says...
View ArticleInstalled ESXi on USB/Flash but swap does not seem to have been placed on...
Hello, I have read many times that when you install ESXi 5.1 on to flash media it creates a scratch space on a 4GB ramdisk in /tmp/scratch so that the USB drive itself is not used for temporary data to...
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vSphere Client 5.0 cannot connect to ESXi server.
Hello, I recently restarted the management agents (using the VMWare tutorial) in order to solve some issues. However, that did not correct the issues, instead it has introduced more problems : Now, I...
View ArticleIssue with datastore creation
Hey All I had installed ESXi 5.0 update 1. I have a default datastore created out of the local disk on which the ESXi is installed.I tried to create a new datastore out of the remote iSCSI storage...
View Articlestorage timeout problem - esxi 5.1 fusion-io hp proliant dl380p g8
Hello! Setup: HP Proliant DL380p g8 HP 785GB Multi Level Cell G2 PCIe ioDrive2 for ProLiant Servers ESXi 5.1.0 799733 HP IO Accelerator for ProLiant Install Package for VMware ESXi...
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The Evaluation Mode license assigned to Host has expired. Recommend updating...
Hi All, I have installed HP Customized ESXi 5.1 in one of HP servers. When logging into the host using vSphere client it is showing 60 days evaluation period. But when i am trying to add the server to...
View ArticleVUM and autodeploy
Hi, i am trying to figure out if I can use update manager with autodeploy hosts. I have worked minimally with VUM on ESX 4 and 4.1 standard boot hosts so far, I am now working in 5.0 and 5.1 labs with...
View ArticleStorage for 22 virtual machines
HiI am running Vmware Capacity planner about two weeks, Results got until now, are attached on, see below What would be a better Storage between the following two: IBM Storwize V3700:Two...
View ArticleDoes the vCenter in the Essentials kit offer cloning/linked cloning and...
HiDoes the vCenter in the Essentials kit offer cloning/linked cloning and templates? I currently only have the trial of vSphere and don't see cloning enabled and don't want to "rig" some sort of copy...
View ArticleAll options were disabled in VM - Changed permission settings for vm and esx...
Hi friends, I just changed the permissions from "read only to administrator" and results in all options were disabled. I couldnt able to "Power on (or) Power off (or) Shutdown or restart the VM". But i...
View Articlelisting non-stateless VIBs in an imageprofile
I have honestly never felt so helpless... I have an image profile, it has non stateless VIBs in it, I want to take them out of it... can I fiure out how to list them??? no. If anyone could please tell...
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