Re: High latency during backup on the virtual machine
I have a Database Server installed as a virtual machine on a host. I found that every time when there is a backup, the latency increases to a few hundred millisecond. And the event log in vSphere shows...
View ArticleSource vm's disk goes thick to thin after consolidation
The customer had a vm with 2 virtual disks on the same datastore. The 2 virtual disk were configured as Thick - Lazy Zeroed.The snapshots grew and ate up all the storage. The datastore went down to 2MB...
View ArticleESXi - 799733 VMvisor Installer compatible for view 5.1?
Hi, As the title says. I still didnt try but can i actually used the VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.1.0-799733.x86_64.iso for having Vmware View 5.1? Some ideas? Thanks.
View ArticleESXi 5.0, 5.1 and 4.1 vCPU limitation
Hi there, I have a query regarding the vCPU limitation per VM on ESXi 5.0, 5.1 and 4.1. Currently we have a Vmware ESXi 5.0 Std. cluster and were looking at increasing the vCPU per VM however it seems...
View ArticleEVC with Intel X5650 - Westmere Intel ES - Sandy Bridge
Hello all, I have four servers connected on a single cluster with Intel CPU X5650 - Westmere - and I need to connect more two servers that uses the intel ES -Sandy Bridge processor.Question: 1 - It's...
View ArticleESXi network install issue with QLogic CNA
Hi all, I'm running a network install against HS23 Blades (IBM) with QLogic CNAs. Unfortunately, this setup is impacted by the following issue...
View ArticlevCenter Sessions
Hello, We're using vCenter 5.0 and I'd like to know if I can tell where sessions are coming from? If I check the sessions, I can see the username and time they connected, but I'd also like to be able...
View ArticleESXi Unable to create Datastore on P2000 SAS LUN
So I'm using ESXi 5.1. My system is an HP C7000 blade chassis with ProLiant BL620c G7 Blades. My storage is P2000 G3 SAS. They are connected via HP 6G Virtual SAS Switch in the back of the chassis. I'm...
View Articleiscsi connection pswitch
hello,when i create a vmkernel port-iscsi in a vlan or in a different subnet what should i do in physical switch to connect with the storage array?for example the pswitch is in 192.x.x.x network and my...
View ArticleESXi Raid Controller
Hello people, I have question about ESXi and my Raid Controller. In my server i'm using a ARC-1222 SAS/SATA raid controller from Areca.When i try to install ESXi it doesn't recognise my disks.First i...
View ArticleExtremely high disk latency spikes
We are investigating an issue where a SQL-based report is taking excessively long on a sporadic basis. At first glance, I noticed bursts of high latency at the VM-level. Checking the host and array,...
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Developmental Virtual VSphere 5.1
I am currently have a problem with setting up a virtual esxi development enviornment. I am interested in trialing a number of new packages in the vsphere suite namely VSphere replication, VDP, and...
View ArticleWhat is the difference between vmware.log vmware-1.log,vmware-2.log ...why...
HI Experts , need Some advice What is the difference between vmware.log vmware-1.log,vmware-2.log ...why are there different logs created. I understand the vmware.log is to check when the Vm is not...
View ArticleWhy are snapshots with memory so slow?
Can someone please explain why snapshot with memory are so much slower than without? Snapping a 400gb vm with 8gb a ram without memory is extremely fast. Snap it with memory and it could take 15...
View ArticleHow to retrieve data returned by a target using vmk apis?
I am a newbie to VMWare plug-in development. I have written code to issue a SCSI READ 10 command to a target. After allocating memory for all the variables, I am calling vmk_CreateSCSICommand() to give...
View Articlebug in VMFS 5 ? - stale data in .sbc.sf
I would expect that deleting a VMFS volume and reformatting it removes all references to files that existed on the volume before the format.That assumption either is wrong ??? - or the format process...
View Articlewhat happens if "Error saving dvport" is logged
Hello fellow vmers, I have an intriguing issue. Last week i performed a full power cycle test for my hardware.(10 hp bl460c g7 blades) all running vsphere 5 on a vcenter server.After the PowerOn event...
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Guest VM shows 90% memory usage, doesn't match vSphere
We have a monitoring software that is alerting that a virtual server has high memory usage, when the admin of that server logs in to the Windows Server 2008 box he see's windows is reporting 90% memory...
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...
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