RHEL 6 and VMware Tools
Hi All,I have some Linux RHEL 6 servers in a vSphere 5 environment. There's something with RHEL 6 that doesn't start VMware tools automatically. Has anyone run into this? Any thoughts? Thanks!
View ArticleNested ESXi Hosts and iSCSI POC
Folks, I want to set up a proof of concept for a two host, two NAS model for my workplace. At this stage I have set up nested ESXi hosts using this guide from vCritical -...
View ArticleESX5i hypervisor and PowerCLI
I just installed PowerCli on a VM that is hosted by my ESXi5 hypervisor host. When I try to use it...I keep getting errors. It's as if the PowerCLi can not see the host . Am I missing something?...
View ArticleRecent Tasks missing some items
tl;dr: What permissions allow a non-admin user to see tasks? As an admin, I see everything. One of the users recently cloned a VM from a template. It was SDRS'ed around before it was ready, and the...
View ArticleVM Ping/ARP issue
We are having a problem with some of our virtual machines intermittently losing communication with each other, and I’m at a loss as to the source. We have about 250 VM’s running on about 20 HP BL465C...
View ArticleSteps to upgrade to ESXi 5
Hi. I am in a process of upgrading from VmWare ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5. I would like to know if there is a guide which could best describe me the process for doing this, starting with upgrading th vCenter,...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 (914609) not manageable anymore
I made an update from ESXi 5.0 to the build mentioned in the topic.Also a custom VIB was created and installed. After this I made an reboot of the ESXi host. So far so good, ESXi is pingable, VMs are...
View ArticleSlow Performance Storage on VNXe3300
Hi people,we have a cluster with 3 hosts (ESXi 5.0.0 623860) and EMC VNXe3300 (sw 2.1.3) connected to same switch (Juniper ex4200) in bonding (2 Gbit). Performance during vMotion, Storage vMotion and...
View ArticleHost agent Pre-Upgrade Checker error
I am preparing to upgrade from ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5 update 1. When I run the Host Agent Pre-upgrade Checker and it scans all 8 of my Host it gets a connection error on each one. It does not give you very...
View ArticleAccess to resource settings on the host is restricted to the server 'x.x.x.x'...
Attempting to create a new vm on an ESXi 5 host using vSphere API produces the following error:"Access to resource settings on the host is restricted to the server 'x.x.x.x' which is managing it." This...
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Auto Deploy - Unable to properly boot ESXi 5.1 properly on HP Blade Servers
We have recently upgraded our vCenter to 5.1.0b, and ofcourse I wanted to update our running (stateless) ESXi blades right away. It appeared this is a little harder then I expected it to be. The image...
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SSD Disk show as non-ssd UCS B-230 Blade
It appears that the SSD disk in B-230 Blades show up as non-ssd in esxi5.If you want to use this as Host Cache you have to change the disk via cli following the following procedure : First get the naa...
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ESXi 5.0.0, 623860 and HP Procurve 2810-48G Teaming/Trunk
Hello, I have a VMware ESXi 5.0.0, 623860 host running two Windows VM's pretty well. The host hardware is an HP Proliant DL 380 G5 server. This host is GBit Ethernet connected to an HP Procurve...
View ArticleESXi - free version
Hi , Can any one please provide me a link for official documentation where I can find the limitation on free ESXi 5.1 version . Thanks ,Shashi
View ArticleMCSC Shared Storage Type
This may be a simple question but I know you can use an FC or iSCSI connection to shared storage from the 2 cluster servers but can you use a SAS connection? We have a DAS with SAS connections to the...
View ArticleWhat else do I need?
Hi, after much consideration - i decided to go for Blades. 2 x BL460c with 2 x 8 physical cores with 128GB RAM each + 2x600GB HDD RAID1C7000 Chassis Can i check if only 2 blades allows VMotion and...
View ArticleRDM .vmdk file in Browse Datastore
Why the RDM .vmdk file in Browse Datastore is equal to the LUN attached by you with the VM?
View ArticleWhat is Recommended for the vCenter Server Deployment
vCenter In Each Branch office and Head Office / vCenter Only in Head Office ?
View ArticleMemory Compression Memory Reclamation Technique
How Memory compression can detect the idle pages those are inside the VM?
View Article10 GB iscsi realistic throughput
Hi All, For our Iscsi network( 10gb*2), during SVmotion we are getting a throughout of 300 to 500 MBps. Is this the max I can get from Esxi ?backend storage is VNX 5300 with SAS and FC SSD tier....
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