CPU Ready Time
I'm trying to understand why I am seeing high CPU ready time. I have a host with 32 physical processors (no HT). I have 8 VMs each with 4 vCPUs so a total of 32 vCPUs. From time to time I see very...
View ArticleQuestions about implementing storage clusters and SDRS on active cluster
I have some questions about implementing datastore clusters and Storage SRS in VSphere 5.1. We have a datacenter with about 15 HP blades and a few non-blade servers. The hosts are all either VSphere...
View ArticleIssues with ESXi 5, vShield Edge & vCloud Director - High CPU VSE devices
Hi all, We are having a few issues which have recently started popping up within VMware ESXi 5 / vShield Manager 5.0 / vCloud Director 1.5. 1) We are getting a vim.fault.invalidlogin occurring every 5...
View ArticleMac mini auto restart on power failure...... easy but not on ESXi 5.x
Hi All I think the macmini is the coolest option for vmware ESXi, but it has one major issue, the lack of auto power on on power failure There is plenty of info on how to 'switch' this mode on via...
View ArticleESXI install partiton
Hello, we have dell r720XD server and i am planning to install esxi 5.1 on it.i have one large raid 10 aray for the purpose of storing data vmdk files.i am not sure if i can install the esxi boot...
View ArticleUnable to run sample scripts in Linux using vSphere WebServices SDK
Hi, I have started with the installation of VMWare SDK on Linux (Ubuntu-12.04) and installed the VMware vSphere Web Services SDK from http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/developer/downloads. I...
View Articledas.isolationaddress question
Hello all, Just a quick question regarding the use of das.isolationaddress. If I have two management traffic networks for an ESXi host then the advice is to have one isolation address for each. Let's...
View Articlevmotion procedure issue
Hi Would like to know below procedure is correct or not when enable the vMotion in vCenter i have two esxi Server, they are esxi A & esxi B, they have their own storage, its not sharing...
View ArticleHA
If I have 20 VM’s on a server and with same restart priority is set. Now if server is failed which vm will be restarted first?
View ArticleSSD as Host Cache or Virtual Machine Swap File or both?
I recently acquired an 80GB FusionIO card for my ESXi 5.0.0u1 server. I've done some reading on how to properly configure SSD and I'm still unclear on how to proceed. It seems there are two...
View ArticleNew Vsphere 5 Infrastructure requirement
Hi, Can anyone suggest me on what is the vsphere 5 infrastructure setup required to host arount 1200 virtual servers. It will be helpful if anyone can give informations like how many hosts required,...
View Article2008R2 VM with EFI - how to fix EFI - boot partition after inconsistent backup
A customer uses Arcserve to backup his VMs.Now we had to restore some VMs after a VMFS datastore died after a power-failure. The restored VMs fail very early at boot with a problem that usually could...
View ArticleCommand
My client has setup a ESXi 5 host.There are 4 nic to that host. Now i want to check which NIC is assigned for management network.How can i check that ?
View ArticleESXi 5.1 on R510 scsi errors
Hello, People.I installed ESXi 5.1 on a Dell R510 last week.I used a 8Gb USB drive for ESXi installation and local RAID50 on PERC700 with 9 2.5Tb SATA disks.The array hasn't finished rebuilding for the...
View ArticleHP Flex 10 - Received Dropped Packets
VMware Community, We are having a strange issue, which so far VMware/HP support has not been able to solve. We have an environment where we are using 2 x 10GBps and 2 x 9Gbps adapters on a single DVS....
View ArticleVMToolsd.exe and Remote Desktop Services Environment
I have a question that I having a hard time finding an answer for. I have a large Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (terminial services) environment where i host multiple user sessions per VM. In my...
View ArticleSending keypresses from ESXi-host (ssh/console) to VM?
Hi community, is there any way to send keystrokes (i.e. Ctrl+C, Ctrl+Break, Ctrl+Alt+Del) from ESXi-host (console or ssh) to VM-consoles? I know I can do it from vSphereClient, but that is a kind of...
View ArticleMigrating Data Centers (MSCS VMs with RDMs) - How to?
All, we are migrating VMs from one location to another. New vCenter and all in the new environment. We had some standalone VMs that had Physical Compatibility Mode RDMs attached. For us to Storage...
View ArticleRHEL 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 ArticleVMWare VSphere ESXi latest version announcement
Good afternoon, please forgive my lack of knowledge as I am not a VMWare expert. I am seeking information about the latest announced server Operating System for VMWare VSphere ESXi. I realize that the...
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