ESXi CPU question
I have a server/computer running ESXi 5.1 (was originally set up with 5.0, then upgraded to 5.1, if it makes a difference).I have two VM's on there - a Windows 7 Pro VM, and a CentOS/cPanel VM.I have a...
View ArticleChange default options of a NEW VM in ESXI 5.1
Hello,i am looking for a solution to change the "default" options of a new VM created in ESXI 5.1 I want to have settings like "cpu/Memory HOT-add" default on Enabled instead of Disabled.Maybe there...
View ArticleSuspend on Solaris guest not enabled
I am running Openindiana 1.51a7 (Solaris 11 64) and the suspend icon is greyed out. The hist is esxi 5.1.0 799733 and the guest has the lastest vmware tools installed. Other guests have the suspend...
View Articleesxtop replay mode problems
I've been attempting to run esxtop in replay mode to do some studying for VCAP-DCA. My problem is with esxtop in replay mode.As I understand it, you would run the vm-support -s > filename.tgz to...
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Problem with USB WiFi device assignment in ESXi 5.1
Hi,I have a USB WiFi adapter that I would like to pass through to a virtual machine.But I am not able to make this work correctly. My setup is like this:ESXi 5.1.0.799733 running on a Supermicro...
View Articleissues with host profile in 5.0
Hi, I seem to be seeing some strange behaviour on host profiles and autodeploy in 5.0. I have now edited the profile, gone to security and set an administrator password numerous times, applied the...
View ArticleiSCSI in ESXi 5.0 performance poor, MS iSCSI initiator fast
Hi all, I suppose i'm not the only one posting performance issues. I really did try a search, but couldn't find anything usefull. So, here it goes. I have a ESXi 5.0 box configured with a software...
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Memory reclamation with balloon driver in CentOS 6
Hi, I have problem with memory reclamation. See output of free bellow. What I muset set to faster reclamation balloon memory to host? It is LAMP server. [root@wh01 ~]# free -m total...
View Articleshared iscsi, inaccessible vm's after host reboot -
Looking for a way to make my ESXi setup more robust. I am using three ESXi 5.0 servers in free mode - no HA, no vCenter. I've configured a single iSCSI target with 5 VM's sharing 3TB of...
View Article5.1 networking question to lacp or not
Hi I have a dell r620 with 2 x 1G ports going into a stacked 8024f. * should I be setting up lacp on the switch and ip has routing on vswitch ? been looking and looking and can't find that say which...
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IBM x3650 M3 Slow HDD performance?
Hey guys I've been getting puzzled at the slow HDD performance I'm getting when installing Windows Server 2008 in a VM. This is the scenario: I'm creating a VM with these settings:20 GB HDD (SCSI...
View ArticleGuest shows dropped packets but nic does not
I have a quad port gig nic in the host and vcenter shows zero dropped xmit / rcv packets. But in vcenter when viewing each of the guests, I am seeing some dropped receive packets. So far xmit packets...
View ArticleVM vCPU
Hi there, I am currently deploying a new ESXi host.Server Model: Dell PowerEdge R510CPU: 2x Intel Quad E5607My ESXi hosts states that it can see 8CPUs x 2.266 GHz as expected. However, the question I...
View ArticleDeleting a Virtual Machine
I have three VM's loaded. The first one i loaded didnt work for whatever reason. Its just sitting there taking up space and resource allocations which im trying to free up. When I select that VM, the...
View ArticleBlog post: How much CPU ready is OK?
How much CPU ready is OK? Checkout my blog post on the topic http://wp.me/p2lYCN-fh
View ArticleESX 5 network drops randomly
I have a new Dell PE R810 that we have deployed ESX on. It is version 5.0. The reason I am using 5.0 is because there was not a hard lock on the maximum physical memory. Server specs...4 x 2.0GHz...
View ArticleESXi and AD authentication
I am configuring my hosts to use AD authentication. I created the ESX Admins AD group and put myself in it. I joined my hosts to AD successfully. I can connect directly to a host using the vsphere...
View ArticleHow ESXi detects network card during installation
How does esxi 5.1 detects the network cards ? I am trying to use script (kickstart) installation there are mutliple vlans and different nics cards, I want few nics to bind to Management network and few...
View Articlevmware host profile host requires reboot before previously applied config...
Hi All, hope this is the correct place for this. I have autodeployed two hosts. I have created the host profile from the reference host and applied it to the second host. This has all been working...
View ArticleManagement and vMotion on same nic
Hi, we are having 10 nics cards in a ESX host. 5 goes to primary switch and 5 goes to secondary switch. Earlier, we had 1. 2 Nics for Service Console2. 2 Nics for vMotion3. 6 Nics for Virtual Machine...
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