WHY ESXi is not builded with mdadm
Just question WHY esxi is not builded with mdadm, i know it's not but the question is why?it can be easily builded even into vsphere client gui and pretty easy to manage ( /dev/md0 can be formatted to...
View ArticleSlackware 10.2.0 NIC Compatibility
Hi All, Would anyone know of a NIC driver in vSphere 5.0 that is recommended for Slackware 10.2.0 ? Thanks,
View Articlehard drive information from esx
I am wondering how i would get hard drive information(serial numbers)from the hard drives in my esxi 5 server.
View ArticleHardware required for 6-8 servers
Hi, tried to Google but can't find any answers. Required assistance here. i need to set up an environment with approximately 6-10 VM servers - active users can go up to 10K Basically i am trying to...
View ArticleChanging Management Ports in ESXi 5.1
Is it possible to change the default management port in ESXi 5.1? For example, I want the ESXi host to listen on a port other than 443 for incoming connections from the vSphere client. I know it was...
View ArticleBlock device - CD rom
Hi everyone, i have a problem i am trying to install Windows on my ESXi but i am having problems, i am doing it over a blade server, the problem is, first of all i present the windows cd on the blade...
View ArticleWindows Cluster RDM or VMFS?
In the VMWare Knowledge Base article (http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1037959#consid), it mentions about windows clustering and the...
View ArticleProvisioning vcpu's question
I have a cluster of 12 host. Each host has 2 proc. sockets, 6 cores per socket, 24 Logical procs. I am running ESXi 5.0. This cluster is currently housing 225 VM's (vdi desktops presented by...
View ArticleSSH view RAID configuration command ESXi 5
I have several ESXi 5 servers that have failed HDDs. I want to confirm that the drives are in a RAID configuration before I hot swap the drives as these are critical production servers and can't be...
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Can VM Port Group migrate to from one vSwitch to another vSwitch?
Can VM Port Group from 1 vSwitch automatic migrate to another vSwitch if the nic went down on the vSwitch? let say:vSwitch1 have 2 vmnic and have VM Port Group call "production Network"vSwitch2 have 1...
View ArticleHow do I move a VM from Workstation v9.x to ESXi v5.1?
Hello all. I am having problems moving a VM from Workstation v9.x to ESXi v5.1. I have tried numerous ways to accomplish this and run into the same apparent issue every way I go. If I 'move' the VM...
View ArticleAll Paths vmhba1:C0:T0:Lx is Dead !
There are 3 ESXi 5.1 Hosts in a cluster. For a particluar ESXi Host (Host2), we find that the all vmhba1:C0:T0:Lx paths are dead. On the other hand, we don't get any error message from the SAN / FC...
View ArticleVMware Tools Heartbeat Failure during Snapshot Removal ?
We are using vSphere 5.1 with vRanger 6 for backup. For a particular VM with VMDK file of size around 600GB, we find that we get the "vSphere HA VM monitoring error" whenever the vRanger completed and...
View ArticleHow to reserve part of memory from RAM [ ESXi]
I am using ESXi5.0. Actually the system having 16GB RAM (physical memory). I would like to reserve 4GB memory from my RAM. So that , 12GB out of 16GB will use by vmkernel and rest of 4GB reserved by...
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Performence issue, and high CPU Ready
Hello, On one (the most used) VM i have performence issue and very big load average, but there is nothing worng about the cpu from ESX side, just one thing i spot is READY% is pretty big, and the...
View ArticleLUN sizing and max VMs per LUN
Consider a fiber channel SAN (EMC CLARiiON for example), and the limits around SCSI reservations, queue limits etc. per LUN. What are you guys doing with regards to the number of VMs you are placing...
View Articlesnapshots_
Is it possible to take snapshots or clones of a Virtual machines on a low performance disk(NL SAS or SATA) even if the VMDK of the virtual machine in on high performance FC disks?
View ArticleESXi 5.1 - Health Status Unknown
Upgraded an Intel S5520HC Serverboard based system from ESXi 5.0 U1 to 5.1. Configuration; Hardware; Health Status from vSphere Client in 5.0 U1 always showed data - typically "Normal". Using vSphere...
View ArticleIs the ESXi 5.1 Emulex BE2Net driver downgrade required when NOT using FCoE?
I posted this on the HP blade forum, but got no responses. Hopefully, I'll have better luck here.. We have a number of HP BL465c G7 blades running ESXi 5.0. They have the NC551i Emulex based flex-10...
View ArticleESXI v5.1 free - question about updating
Hi, I would like to update my free esxi 5.1 server, but am a bit unsure, could anyone please confirm this is correct way to do this? Also is the patch 2001 including the patch 1001??I have downloaded...
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