i copied or i moved?
During a migration from vsphere4 to vsphere5 it appears the mac address tied to the nic changed on a single vm out of 100. I am wondering why this may have happen. If I got this right by saying "I...
View ArticleESXi patching
Okay, I'm fairly new to ESXi and would like to patch my single ESXi host (its running 3VM's). I'm running the free ESXi 5.1 (5.1.0 build-799-733 x86_64 GNU/Linux), and would like to patch this to the...
View ArticleGetting #pf exception 14 error running vmware tools install
Hello,I am currently doing a vmware tools installation for a recently p2v'ed linux machine. I get the error above runningthe installation. I running on ESX 5.1i
View ArticleNetwok Connection is lost
I am new to VMware.I have ESXI 5 Hypervisor installed on server. By vSphere Client I changed the speed of vmnic0 from auto (100) to 1000. I have lost network connections. Also configure management...
View ArticleEsxi 5.1 scripted Install error
Hi all, I have one problem with my kickstart script install Semi-Interactive automated. i don't understand why is don't work when my script started i have an error: my variable $ipnew, $subnet, $gatew,...
View Articlestorage i/o control license issue
Hello,We are testing storage i/o control in a dev environment here and when looking to enable getting the followingmessage:"The datastore <ds> is connected to one or more pre-4.1 hosts that do...
View ArticleBeginner Question Hardware for ESXi 5
Hello, is follow Hardware possible for vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 5) ? GIGABYTE GA-H77-D3H with 32Gb-RAM Intel® Core™ i7-3770(Is only for private using) Thanks for Answers Frank
View ArticleSAN Communications Question, Jumbo Frames, IOPs, etc
My colleague and I have been tuning some of our vSphere installations that utilize a SAN and iSCSI for datastore storage. All iSCSI connections are configured for jumbo frames. Additional multipath...
View ArticleFC HBA showing as iscsi
DEAR VMEXPERTS, I am doing a new installation of esxi 5.1 on hp dl380 g7 having Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. HP 82B 8Gbps dual port FC HBA onto it and i have installed the esxi when i connect...
View ArticleWindows 2008 "unrecognized network
I have a VM ESXi server running 5.0 My management network is x.x.101.xon this same subnet I have a Win server running and it is member of the current AD domain. works just fine. I have another subnet...
View Articlewhich driver is in used with NIC card TP-Link TG-3468 on ESXi5.0
Fresh new install 5.1 from scratch very comon TP-Link TG-3468 NIC hardware on the server.just like many guys outhere, i found out: no network connectivity.So i followed the procedure described by some...
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....
View Articleserver won't boot (black screen) because disk needs consolidation
Hi, I have a esxi vsphere 5 server with 2 vms. Sbs 2011 and vcenter. The server started to be very slow, in a way that all users could not work. So I have shut down both vm's and restarted the esxi....
View Articlewhere files are stored in vsphere
i installed VMware-viclient-all-5.0.0-455964.rar .i installed xp in virual machine and i want to know where does the files will be stored.in which location.i want to display os configuration using...
View ArticleNeed NFS Server for Windows 7/8 so that I can access it from ESXi
Need NFS Server for Windows 7/8 so that I can access it from ESXi that I have running on VMware Workstation. I've tried FreeNFS, but it doesn't seem to work right. I can get ESXi to take it, and I...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 - netwrk shows as up but no traffic seen
Hi I have installed ESXi 5.1 on a laptop in my lab. it was previously running 5.0 without issue. IP address could be recieved from a DHCP server or via static. Installed ESXi 5.1 and no communication...
View ArticleManagement won't failover
I have 2 esxi 5.1 host set up the same way and have NIC teaming for the management networks, on one host it fails over just fine but on the other it does not want to switch over to the active NIC and...
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Tcp connection troubles on ubuntu after vmware conversion
Hi, We had an old vmware server on a 2008 server, this has 3 virtual machines. One I installed and two that were installed before i was here.We converted these a few weeks ago to esxi 5.0. Since then...
View ArticleESXI 5.1 snmp monitor HP dl380 temp sensors.
On our ESXI 5.1 server I have snmp enabled and I can do an snmpwalk without any issues. I have the ESXi 5.1 HP version installed. Ho do I get temp readings through SNMP for our DL380 g6 server ?We have...
View ArticleESX 3.x had LDAP, 5.1x only has AD?
According to your docs, in earlier versions of ESXi you could use esxcfg-auth --enableldap to connect to an LDAP database. You also included a seperate page for those trying to set up their ESX server...
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