What filesystem is mounted as / during firstboot?
Hi, i am trying to do various bits of automation during the firstboot section of a scripted ESXi5.0 installation and while most stuff is working, I am having trouble debugging steps that aren't. I try...
View ArticleESXi 5: Sharing 4 cores with 3 VMs - vCPU settings
Hey folks, First, I shamefully recognize that I'm relatively new to ESXi and while I could probably find the answer in the plethora of documentation, I've spent hours and come up with nothing. Looking...
View ArticleESXi v5.0 - Out of space error with more than 40GB of space reamaining
I am currently running ESXi v5.0 setup in RAID5 with 146GBx3 (Total: 268.50GB) I have added 2 virtual machines running all with thick VM Machine 1 - HD1 Thin Provision (200GB Provisioned Size)VM...
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esxi 5.1 install problem on LSI 9240-8i: loading module megaraid_sas
It hangs on loading module megaraid_sas for a very long time and it didn't pass. Any ideas? LSI 9240-8i (2 750GB RAID 1, 4 4TB raid 5) Thanks Jason
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 ArticleIs Load Based Teaming supported for NFS vmkernel ports?
Hi. My customer has 2 x 10 GbE uplinks per host, which we use in a dvSwitch that handles all types of traffic (mgmt, vMotion, NFS, VM-traffic). Since they don't have LACP/Etherchannel on their...
View ArticleESXi 5 Connection Drop-outs
Hi, student of ESXi. Having a little issue with a home server lab. CPU: Celeron G530Mobo: ASUS P8H61-M LE using onboard Realtek 811E Gigabit NIC Had Hyper-V setup running 4 VMs flawlessly on same...
View ArticleHP Smart Array P400 and ESXi 5.1
Hi, This is probably a discussion for the Hardware section however I dont have permission to post in there so I am posting here. I have just come into 4 X HP Smart Array P400 all complete with 512MB...
View ArticleSeeking advice on very large snapshot
Hi everybody - I am engaged on a project where they have a mission-critical SQL server with a HUGE snapshot (delta.vmdk) in place for 7 months. Here are the spec's.:flat.vmdk is 1.0 TBSnapshot was...
View ArticlePCI Passthrough of µPD720201 USB 3.0 Controller w/ ESXi 5.0u2
Hello! I'm trying to "passthrough" a USB 3.0 Host Conroller PCIe Card with the NEC/Renesas µPD720201 4-Port Chip to a Windows Server 2003 guest with ESXi 5.0 update 2: - The USB controller card shows...
View ArticlevSphere appliance dvSwitch errors after power off
I have a test environment setup with a couple of PCs running ESX 5.0. I installed the vSphere appliance to manage them and created a dvSwitch. I can add hosts to the dvSwitch and bind guest NICs to it...
View ArticleVMware ESXI 5.1 and ISCSI
Hi, After having upgraded from esxi 4.1 to 5.1, we can't get our Dell R715 servers to write data to our iscsi storage area. We've configured both software iscsi and hardware iscsi to see if that made a...
View ArticlevSphere webclient issue with console - connection timeout
community memebers.i am trying to troublehsoot a problem in my web client where everytime i try to open the VM Console, it comes back to me with the attached error. i looked into the logs and found the...
View ArticleESXI 5 and VM start up
Dear All,can i configure the VM to start automatically with the ESXI,i have 4 VM running in my test pc, and i am test power failler and i want if the host starts all the 4 VM starts too!can i configure...
View Articleupgrade from 5.0 U 1 to 5.0 U 2 using Update manager
upgrade from 5.0 U 1 to 5.0 U 2 using Update manager Any suggestion for Crisp documentation
View ArticleESXi3.5 hosts copy to ESXi5.1
Hello, I have ESXi 3.5 and 4.1 machines with multiple VM's. I have a new server and would like to take advantage of VMFS5. If I do this will I be able to copy the VM's on my older systems to my new...
View ArticleMethods to "reserve a virtual machine"
I'm currently managing about 100+ virtual machines across various ESXi hosts for our development team. I'm curious if possible to have one developer exclusively reserve a virtual machine and others...
View ArticleRedhat 5.8 Guest showing unusual load average
Folks, We have our applications running on a redhat 5.8 guest OS on ESXi 5.0The load average reported by linux is around 5 times what is seen with the same OS and application running on a rackmount...
View ArticleNeed to check whether ESXi is installed
Hey i've done PXE boot of ESXi on specified bare metal.Now i need to check through powershell/powerCLI function whether it is installed or not?How cn i do this..?
View ArticleDuplicate (DUP) ping requests (and replies)
Hi there, I'm writing to describe a strange problem. Here are the facts:- hosts are all ESXi 5.1 (upgraded from 5.0) and are part of larger cluster- source guests and target guest are part of the same...
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