Mixed Cluster 4.1/5.1 & Cisco Nexus 5020 in the mix; strange vmotion failures
I'm an independent consultant, working with one of my clients. We are in the process of upgrading our farm from 4.1 to 5.1 and ran into a performance problem as follows: Servers are Dell R710 with...
View ArticleUsb Disk Host Device Hard Disk Spin Down / Energy Saving
Dear all,I have 2 usb disks attached to a ESXi 5.1 host and addess as USB devices to a Windows 7 Machine. They never spin down. Power settings in Windows 7 machine are fine. Is there anything I can do...
View ArticleCreate Storage on ESXi 5.1 with more than 2TB
I have ESXI 5.1 installed. It has a direct attached RAID (3.8TB). I try to create a storage (DISK/LUN) using VMFS-5, The max I have is 2TB. Is there a way to have a 3.8TB storage? There are 16 disks...
View Articleyet another esxi5 vs esxi4 memory limits confusion
If the memory limit of the free esxi5.1 are 32gb, meaning that I cannot boot a host that has 32gb or more of ram, what are the limits of 4.1 U3 ? Is 4.1 u3 better, or less restrictive than 5.1 re:...
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High CPU load when network is busy
Hello,forst time poster and user of free ESXi (novice with virtualization, decent understanding of networking and computer hardware), my problem seems simple yet I'm having a hard time finding out what...
View ArticleESXi 5 esxcli installation of VIBs fails
Well to tell you the thruth it doesnt even start..... I`m trying to install 1000v VIB via CLI directly on the host via SSH. Here is what I get [CODE] esxcli software vib install...
View ArticleDirectly using physical disk without virtual file system ?
I am wondering if it is possible to use directly the physical disk with VMware vSphere Essentials Kit and will this increase the performance of MS SQL database if located on it compared to located on...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 licensing ?
Hello.I am currently having 2 servers, with 2 procesors on each of them.I need just a virtualisation of a couple of Linux and Windowses running on them.I read the license options, but i dont get the...
View ArticleCan I use VMware vSphere Hypervisor™ with vSphere Client ?
This is the next question poped up. - Can I use freely for my company needs VMware vSphere Hypervisor™, and what will be the difference with VMware vSphere Starter Kit ? and - Can I use VMware vSphere...
View ArticleNeed help assigning proper Roles at proper points
Let me first describe my situation. I am a Lab Assistant at a University and we are trying to see if we can find a solution to a small "problem." There are about 30 computers all with VMWare...
View ArticleESX 5.0 U1 hung on "Initilizing ACPI"
I have a whitebox I'm trying to install ESXi 5.0 U1 on that is getting hung on Initilizing ACPI. Is there a way to bypass this stage? Maybe with kernel options? I have tried acpi=off and noacpi options...
View ArticleESXi 5.1, IBM DS3200 SAS - high disk latency with 2 hosts running
(2) IBM x3650 hosts running esxi 5.1 with 2xHBA SAS connections to IBM DS3200 dual controller SAN. I have 2 arrays, both set to multi-host access for vmware. With a single host powered on and running...
View ArticleEvent: Device Performance has deteriorated. I/O Latency increased
Hi, Since upgrading to vSphere 5 I have noticed the following errore in our Events: Device naa.60a980004335434f4334583057375634 performance has deteriorated. I/O latency increased from average value of...
View ArticleUpgrade from ESXi 4.1 to 5.1
Hi, Currently we have 4 ESXi hosts with HA/DRS and running on ESXi 4.1 and VCenetr server Standard 4.0. We are planning the upgrade to version 5.1. And the license we have is VMware vSphere 4...
View ArticleNetwork Adapter problem
Hi all, I am installing vmware esxi 5.0 on a machine with following specification:RAM:8 GBProcessor: intel(R)core i5-2400 cpu@3.10 GHzNetwork adapter: 1 x 1GB Intel(R) 82579LM...
View ArticleMSCS Configuration on vSphere 5.1
Gents, I was going through the new document on MS Failover Cluster configuration on vSphere 5.1 and found one recommendation I could not understand. it says "If you must overcommit memory, the swap...
View ArticleHow do I backup free ESXI VMs?
Hi all, I've tried using Veeam but for reasons beyond my comprehension they dont support free ESXI! The only other way I can think of is to do OVF exports of each VM but that is very cumbersome. I am...
View ArticleSymantec Backup Exec with ESXi Free Version
Hi All, I using ESXi 5.1 Free version one host and 3 windows server 2008 R2 guest OS.I need to backup and plan to purchase Symantec Backup Exec 2012 on next month but vendor said "all backup software...
View ArticleFree Backup / Cloning Solution with Scheduling for ESXi 5
Hello. I’m fairly new to ESXi, so I pre-emptively apologize if this is a dumb question. I found only one similiar question on the forum with a single response. I’m currently working with a small...
View ArticleBackup time after upgrade to ESXI 5.1 horrible why?
Hello,we use an Dell RD1000 S-ATA for the backup on an host.All works great with ESXI 5.0, the backup throughput was 1500MB/min.The RD1000 was added with help from this post#13...
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