Enabling vPMC support in guest VM
From what I understand, I can only do this from the vSphere Web Client, which is only available from the vCenter ISO. Unfortunately I don't have vCenter. I tried adding vpmc.enable = "TRUE" to my guest...
View ArticleBackup with vSphere Essentials
I'm currently evaluating the vSphere Essentials kit with 3 physical servers, each running ESXi 5.5 with a total of 16 virtual machines. What are my backup options, without spending another 500 on...
View ArticleError: License not available to perform this operation
Hi, Recently I have upgraded VCenter 5.0 to VCenter 5.5 and existing host i.e. ESXi 5.0 is working fine till now with VCenter 5.5 server but today I found that ESXi 5.0 got disconnected with below...
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iSCSI boot fails when connecting to LACP configured storage
Hi! This is something that I've discovered in my lab configuration, and now I'm not quite sure of how to report/confirm this. So I thought I'd start here. What started this was that after having...
View ArticlePowerCLI reports incorrect snapshot size on local datastore
Hi everybody, Long story short. ___________________________________ Environment Summary: vCenter 5.1, ESXi 5.1 Remote Server:Windows 2008 R2PowerShell 2.0PowerCLI 5.0 Shared Storage File System: VMFS...
View ArticleESXi 10-15-2014 Patches break Citrix Netscaler VPX Appliance
Part warning, part question....My ESXi Hosts were v5.5.0 206190 (straight from the 5.5U2-RollupISO2 cd), I applied the following patches: ID: ESXi550-201410101-SG Impact: Important Release date:...
View Articleovftool slow but vSphere Client OVF export fast?
vSphere 5.0 system, gigabit NICs everywhere. I'm trying to use ovftool (3.5.0, Win64-bit ver. running on Win 2008R2) to export and import a large set of VMs. When I use the ovftool to export from...
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the number of vsphere HA heartbeat datastores for this ones is 1
I only have one giant lun created and do not have space to create another. So on My HA hosts it gives me this error what should i do?
View Articlemoving esxi 5.1 hosts on vcenter 5.1 with nexus 1000v to vcenter 5.5
how should i be migrating my cluster that are currently on nexus 1000v currently on vsphere 5.1 to 5.5? I am not upgrading my vcenter. I builted a new vcenter that I need to migrate from the old...
View ArticleVMware ESXi 5.5 U2 - VMware Tools downgrade
How can I downgrade the VMware Tools from ESXi 5.5 U2 to ESXi 5.1 U1 on the guest OS? I'm having TcpAckFrequency issue with Exchange 2013 on win2k12 R2 on ESXi 5.5 U2.VMware ESXi 5.5 U2 -...
View ArticleGhettoVCB and Snapshot Question
I'n try to back up a VM with GhettoVCB and its failing saying a snapshot is present. There isn't one in Snapshot Manager so I've created a snapshot and then done a delete all but it is still failing....
View ArticleVMware ESXi 5.5 U2 - TcpAckFrequency
Looks like there is a bug in VMware ESXi. Exchange 2013 SP1 on win2k12 r2 on a physical server: no slow upload issue with Outlook. Exchange 2013 SP1 on win2k12 r2 on VMware ESXi 5.5 U2: has slow upload...
View ArticlevCenter question
hello, i am having 4.1 vcenter and many esxi 4.1 in production. But I am planning to add some more servers probably 5.5 and attach with old vcenter 4.1.Does any one see any problem with it regardless...
View Articleesxi 5.5 NIC not detected
I have an ASUS M4N68T-M V2 with built in Nic, while I am installing eSXI 5.5, I am getting an error of NIC not detected. any advise please. Thanks in advance :-)
View ArticleESXI 5.5: performance difference upon guest-reboot (win7 guest, VMDirectPath...
To evaluate performance and compare a system natively vs virtualized+passthrough (and to some other solutions), I ran a couple of benchmarks on each. For some reason, my windows 7 guest os seems to...
View Articleinstallation stops with "can't detect last level cache"
During installation ESXi 5.0 proccess stops with "can't detect last level cache" message VMware ESXi 5.0.0 [Releasebuild-469512 x86_64]Can't detect the last level cachecr0=80010039 cr2=0x0 cr3=0x3e7000...
View ArticleWhat is the process for installing OS X 10.9.x on ESXi 5.5 host?
I've tried this a couple different ways and I always get the same result, which is a spinning beach ball during the boot process. My current setup is ESXi 5.5 running inside a Fusion 6 VM, with 8GB of...
View ArticleESXi 5.x on an Intel J1900 board (Q1900-ITX Asrock) issue
Hello everyone! I have been trying to install ESXi 5.1u1 & 5.1u2 & 5.5u1 on the following configuration to no success so far:Asrock Q1900-ITX mobo (Intel J1900 Baytrail SoC, BIOS 1.20 with VT-x...
View ArticleNAS on local esxi server?
Hi all, I'm kinda new to ESXi, even though I'm running a server with it for a little more than a year now. I'm running a HP Proliant ML350 G6 witha P410i raid controller (onboard). I'm running a...
View ArticleLocal pooled storage
Hello All, I've been doing some searching on trying to satisfy my goal, but can't come to a clear solution. I'm trying to pool all my disk drives like Windows 2012 Storage spaces but on ESXi. VSAN...
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