What are the log files to look in a PSOD of ESXi 5.0
What are the log files to look in a PSOD of ESXi 5.0
View ArticleNPIV support for fcoe?
Hi Guys, NPIV supports on FC as we create multiple VPORT on physical HBA. I just want to know, will NPIV work on FCOE or CNA interface. can we create multiple VPORT on CNA interface/FCOE regardsVinay
View ArticleInvalid Virtual Machines
Last Thursday our datacenter had a major power outage. We were able to bring everything back online however there are a handful of VMs which are showing up as invalid with no wayt to power them on. We...
View ArticleAdding Hard Drives to a Host server?
I will be up front and let you know I am new to VMware. I literally just started working with it yesterday. We are looking to start using VMware very soon, and plan on getting on some trainnng but...
View ArticleEvery time I restart vcenter, I get an alert on one host. Alert: Host storage...
Every time I restart vcenter, I get an alert on one host. Alert: Host storage status
View ArticleHow to Check for whether the Scratch Partition is configured ESXi 5
How to Check for whether the Scratch Partition is configured ESXi 5
View ArticleI'm trying to remove a host from vCenter but I get an error: general system...
I'm trying to remove a host from vCenter but I get an error: general system occurred. Invalid Fault.
View ArticleVspere Web Client external "connection timed out"
Hi all Im receiving connection timed out error message from the vsphere Web Client, when trying to access the console of a virtual machine, On the internal network it works fine but if I access the...
View ArticleVMware snapshot size problem
Hello, We have Windows 2008 R2 with only one 50GB virtual harddisk, after done the snapshot, entire virtual machine increased to 100GB size. Will snapshot increase double size ? Thanks
View ArticleESXI 5 and win server 2008 r2 - network setup
I made a fresh install of win server 2008 r2 enterprise on esxi 5. I am a linux person new to the windows world..I went to Local Area Connection Properties and setup IPv4( IP address, subnet mask,...
View ArticleRe: Hosts lost connection from iSCSI SAN storage
Hi all, I'm now encountering a weird issue that the hosts lost connection persistently. I really need help for this issue. The whole system is mentioned as follows. ESXi 5.02 hosts: HP Proliant...
View ArticleIs ESX 5.0 Enterprise Plus Server License Transferable? If i purchased used??
I bought a server that came with "VMware vsphere 5 enterprise plus licensed for unlimeted number of vms" already installed on it, this was one of the old decomissioned servers with the software on it...
View ArticleVMFS 5, Storage Profiles, Storage DRS, and FAST-VP
I have been presented with a conundrum. Migrating to vSphere5 and a new EMC storage platform, should I suggest leveraging: - EMC FAST-VP across large high performance VMFS5 extents for as many...
View ArticleFaulting application vmtoolsd.exe (2008 R2 64 Terminal Server)
I would love to know if anybody has a fix for this one. I've been getting the below error randomly on various terminal users sessions and can't seem to get it fixed. The only issue seems to be the...
View ArticleChoosing the best Version
Good Morning, I'm currently running ESX 4.0 Update 2 across both my UAT and production environments. Over the next few weeks I plan to move to a more recent version, either ESXi 5.0 Update2 or ESXi 5.1...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 network configuration
Hi All, We are in the Process of implementing the ESXi 5.1 in our infrastructure. There are 4 NIC cards on my server and they are cabelled to two physcial switches ; two nic cards per switch.All these...
View ArticleESXi 5 NTP
Trying to determine where NTPD (it appears to be version 2) is started, what line options it is started with (example: -A vs -a). It appears that the services.sh script is involved in startup, but I'm...
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Who has seen this damagepattern on a VMFS-volume ?
Who has seen a damagepattern like this and knows what causes it ? After powerfailure I often see that the MBR or GPT-table is wiped blank - or occasionally overwritten with garbage.Right now I have...
View ArticleErrror - CBT: 986: Unsupported ioctl 58
Hi, I am seeing the following error a lot in wmkwarning log files on ESXi 5.1 host (all latest patches applied) CBT: 986: Unsupported ioctl 58 Any suggestions as to what is up, where I could look to...
View ArticleESXi PCI Passthrough testing issue
Hey guys, I am new to VMWare and I have been testing it with Elastix and the PCI passthough. Unfortunately with Elastx 2.3 and ESXi 5.0 PCI passthrough causes kernel panics on CentOS every so often. Is...
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