Passmark Performance
We currently have three vsphere 4.0 hosts, each has 4 x X7460 processors and 148gb of RAM running on IBM x3950 M2 servers. We plan on adding three new hosts to our environment and upgrading everything...
View ArticleSingle Sign-On Experiences
Does anyone have any experience, best practices, etc. with the install ation of Single Sign-On using an external - remote SQL database? Does the port have to be 1433 or can it be something else as long...
View Article5.1 Enterprise plus license - performance tab looks like ESXi free
I've got 2 hosts here that are showing enterprise plus license on the summary tab but the performance tab looks like the free version. Is there an extra module that needs to be loaded? ...never seen...
View ArticleLatency support for Storage vMotion
Like the latency support for the vMotion is 10ms. My question what is latency support for storage vMotion?
View ArticleVM Network
Hi Folks, Need your expert advise. Need to setup a LAB enviornment where we have to run multiple users on same ESX host. The architecture is that the preconfigured ovf format VMs will have same IP...
View ArticleIntermitent network disconnect in VM using E1000E NIC
Hi, We just installed three new Windows Server 2012 and one new Windows 8 VMs on ESXi 5.1. On those VMs, we get a lot of errors in the System Event log about network disconnects. According to the logs,...
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....
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Network restore, auto-confguring network failed.
Hello, I have a problem.Server was moved from one network to another. There used to be manual configuration, and was moved to network with DHCP - but that is not a point.The problem is that I could not...
View ArticleESXi 5 - How to disable unsigned kernel modules
Hi. The 5.0 Hardening Guide "briefly" mentions "disabling unsigned modules and removing the offending VIBs from the host". What's the best way to do both, i.e.: same/separate CLI commands? Just looking...
View ArticleTime issue with vSphere
Hello, I've have 2 hosts installed (demo right now). I've setup Host A as my vmView admin/Vserver etc server and some other servers. My Host B is going to be my workstations. Anyway, I had Host B...
View ArticleESX5.0 be2net 4.2.327 driver stable on HP BL460C G7 blades? Panic seen
Hi All, We have ESX5.0 installed on a couple of HP BL460C G7 blade servers. Having faced issues during VMotion and having gone through the community discussions/recommendations, we upgraded the nic...
View ArticleWindows 2000 Server Conversion
In these modern times of vSphere 5 & 5.1, what's the recommended approach to P2V a Windows 2000 Server? VMWare converter standalone dropped support for P2V of Windows 2000 servers from 4.3...
View Articleset /etc/ssh/sshd_config KeepAlive 120 but sshd refuses connection
I've installed ESXI 5.0 UPDATE 1 and one of the tuning requirement is to set KeepAlive 120 in /etc/ssh/sshd_config However, upon server restart, sshd refuses network connection via putty with port 22....
View ArticleUSB arbitration service fails to start
Hello, we are currently evaluating ESXi 5.1. On the clients (Windows Vista) where we run vSphere Client 5.1 we receive error messages every 10 seconds, stating that the startup of the vmware usb...
View ArticleBest practice in installing and configuring HP ILO
Not sure if thisis the correct forum. Des any body know of prefered way to install and configure ilo on host running esxi 5. Will it be as simple as restarting the host and going into the bios and...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 host accepts no network connetctions
Hi guys, I installed a new 5.1 ESXi Server from Scratch and there is no network activity!Through boot process I can see the Intel E1000 driver is loaded.The physical Link is up and shown correctly on...
View ArticleHP management agents
Hi were installing the HP management agents for our DL380 G7and DL580 G7, we've downloaded the correct HP Agents from the HP website however after installation and we've configured the HP Insight...
View ArticleAlerts in virual machines
Hello, I have an esxi 5 infrastructure with 16 hosts. After a restart , i see a red icon on couple of virtual machines, (alert) Sadly, the alarms are already acknowledged by the end user, but the...
View ArticleHost does not have persistent storage
Helloesxi 5.1 build 914609 install on USB drive.server have a adaptec 3805 raid controler(bios update for latest version)connect to esxi, then add datastore, its ok.after reboot server esxi lost...
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