noob question about virtual hardware, pls help
I have a problem. I have a system with vmware not made by me but now i have to take control of it and make backups of machines. I want to buy vsphere essentials and veeam essentials. Today i have read...
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We hate HP SIM, alternatives to monitor c7000 chassis and VMWare?
HP SIM has never been popular here.Are there alternatives that can use SNMP/WMI etc to get stats, but is a decent monitoring product? I'd appreciate any suggestion for me to explore
View ArticleThe TSC of physical machine is synchronize, but ESX print 'Disabling TSC...
The TSC of physical machine is synchronize, but ESX print this message in vm's log.Disabling TSC offsetting since host TSCs are not synchronized. Add the parameter 'host.TSC.maxDelta = 5000000' in the...
View ArticleFast question about backups
I have already made this question on another forum but I did not received an answer. I have seen that here there is a really nice and polite community, so i will try here too. I have to make a backup...
View ArticleEsxi 5.1 USB keyboard/mouse pass to VM problem
HiI set a Dell poweredge 2950 / Intel Xeon L5320 (Vt-x = yes EPT=no) / Esxi 5.1, 3 Windows XPpro VMs.I need to connect to one VM a Keyboard and mouse.I connect at Host 3 different sets of USB...
View ArticleHow ESXi handles the Network requests of Guest vm's?
I am quite clear how the VMM handles and schedules the CPU and Memory for guest vm's. But I am quite vague when it comes to handling of network requests of Guest VM's. Appreciate if someone could...
View ArticleUnable to connect to Vcenter 5.1 after installing Win2k12
Hi, Unable to connect to Vcenter 5.1 after installing Win2k12.Installation was successfull.but when we try to login through vsphere client I am getting the error as "You do not have permision to login...
View Articlebackups halted after adding datastore
Has anyone observed any issues when adding an additional datastore to an older host to share the data that used to be just on one datastore? I'm wondering if the differences in the two datastores has...
View ArticlevSphere 5.1 + IBM DS3500 iSCSI dead path
Hi, I have 3 vSphere 5.1 with 2 iSCSI 10Gb cards with 2 virtual iSCSI ports each, and an IBM DS3524 dual controllers with 2 10Gb port on each controller.I have declared the 4 iSCSI IPs in a VMWare...
View ArticleInstallation of ESXi on SDCard or Harddisk
Hi,I have installed vmware esxi 5.1 on a system that has SDCard and Raid1 disks. I have done the installation on SDCard but how do i find out to confirm the host installation is done on SDCard not on...
View ArticleVM Provisioning
Hi, My environment physical host have 2*6 core processor and 64 GB of RAM, Can you advise how to calculate the resource pool and how many vm can be provisioning. If any calculation need to workout,...
View ArticlevDP File Level Restore on Linux Fails
I am backing a vm which has Redhat Linux ES 5 and as follows... :/root# df -hFilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on/dev/mapper/vg00-root 3.9G 1.5G 2.3G 40%...
View Articlewhat happened to the LVM option in 5.x
I went to set my disk signature option under host/configuration tab/advanced settings but there is no LVM option.Anyone know where you go to set re-signature options, or did they just take away the...
View ArticleHP Smart Array P420i warning
Hi, I got a brand new DL380p gen8 Server with 8 300GB SAS disks in 2 raid 5, and installed esxi from the branded image: VMware-ESXi-5.1.0-799733-HP-5.34.23.iso on the first raid.Everything seems to be...
View ArticleESXi 5 critical Issue
I have 20 standalone ESXi 5 Servers in the vmware farm . For some reason we did not put them in cluster & SAN is not attached. all 20 esxi 5 servers have only their local storage . I am facing many...
View ArticleAdd hard disk - disk provisioning section grayed out with thin provision...
ESXi 5.1 cluster - 4 physical hosts - connecting to NetApp via NFS for storage (and iSCSI for boot) On random VM's we are experiencing a grayed out disk provisioning section when we try to add disks....
View ArticleVM losing network connectivity
I have an ESXi host with 2 Windows 2012 VMs running on it. Several times over the past couple of weeks, one of the VMs (I'll call it vmA) has lost its network connection. When it happens, I can log...
View ArticleError (1) saving state to /bootbank on ESXi 5.1.0 build-838463 - Please help
Received the below alarm from VC for the ESXi server ( VMware ESXi 5.1.0 build-838463). The ESXi servers are booting from SAN. Alarm Definition: ([Event alarm expression: Host error] OR [Event alarm...
View ArticleUrgent - VM Will not power on
Have a single ESXi Host 5.0 and 3 VMs. Local Storage is a RAID-1 datastore, 553 GB with 256 GB free. The Database Server VM will not power on - getting a message of "Virtual machine disks...
View Article2 Networks, 2 NIC's, 1 Management
I've looked in lots of places but I can seem to figure out how to get my ESXi Management Console to "answer" from 2 different subnets. I have 1 ESXi 5.1 server, it has 4 NIC's. I have two separate...
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