vmdk file disappeared suddenly
Doing some investigate why the Windows 2008 R2 Server was not responding I discovered the vmdk file had disappeared. This happened while I was at work. The file was located in a directory on a...
View ArticleHomelab with whiteboxes
Hi, I'm about to build my personal homelab. Does anyone tested a similar configuration with ESXi 5.1? I know this works with version 5.0 (at least the motherboards and processors) but I want to make...
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ESXi 5 Doesn't Like My LSI MegaRAID
Hi, I have an LSI MegaRAID SATA 300-8XLP PCI-E controller. This worked perfectly in ESXI 4 and 4.1. I just tried upgrading to 5.0, and the device is shown in the Storage Adapters list, and correctly...
View ArticleWhat is the fastest way to upload one TB to a ESXi 5.1 VMFS datastore ?
I run into one problem over and over again ...I am inside an ESXi environment that I have never seen before and need to upload or download a large amount of data - say 1TB or so - from an ESXi host.i...
View ArticleHow to Upgrade Dell MEM 1.1.0 to 1.1.2 in vSphere 5.0 using Update Manager.
Hello, I would like to know step by stpe How to Upgrade Dell MEM 1.1.0 to 1.1.2 in vSphere 5.0 using Update Manager. I have read few PDFs which say Update manager will only install the Dell MEM and...
View ArticleNetwork card automatic disconnection: error 1321
Hello, Yesterday I encountered a problem with a Windows VM. The network card was disconnected and when I wanted to reconnect it, it automatically was disconnected. In the vmkernel log there is this...
View ArticleVMWare standalone converter query
Hi, I am in the process of migrating our VM infrastructure from HyperV over to VMWare vSphere 5.1. I have converted the majority of our current systems successfully and they are working fine under...
View Articlestorage configuration booting to SAN
I am replacing my VMware host and have a question on the best practice to setup the local storage. Currently I have three Dell servers with embedded vmware 4.1. My new host have 4 300GB SAS 15k drives....
View ArticleHost memory usage Warning
An ESXi 5.x host member of a vSphere 5.x infrastructure and used in a lab area to host VMs used to test applications reports an Host memory usage Warning. Memory usage is about 118 GB with 131 GB...
View ArticleEmulex 10 Gb multichannel problem
Hello I have a problem with IBM PureFlex blade system Emulex 10Gb NIC OCl11120-F-X, which works fine in single mode, but when I tried configure FCoE with multichannels, it just disconnects from...
View ArticlevSphere Replication Traffic
vSphere Replication Traffic is sent over which vmkernel port?
View ArticleStop "ESXi shell for the host has been enabled" message from displaying
Is there a way to turn of the "ESXi shell for the host has been enabled" message that shows in the summary tab of an ESXi host, so that it isn't always listed as a "configuration issue" with an...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 with Windows 2012 guest networking issues
Having some weirdness with a new guest server. I'll try to summarize what I've seen and what we've tried to do to fix it. Issue: We set up the new server as a minor file server using Windows 2012....
View ArticleHard disk size reporting 0 in properties?
Hello, We have a virtual machine that is reporting hard disk size as 0 in the virtual machine properties window. At the moment the virtual machine is still running and working fine. There are no...
View ArticleMaximum allowed SCSI paths error
Hi, I'm trying to add a datastore to an ESXi5 host. The host access to the iSCSI storage seems to be ok but when I rescan the storage adapters I get an error I haven't seen before. Error while...
View ArticleESXi 5 does not see LSI 9240-8i at all
We installed ESXi 5 fine to an LSI 9260-8i. The installer sees it. After checking the Vmware compat guide, we see that Vmware says the 9240-8i is supported on 5. So we bought one. I tried everything,...
View ArticleExternal USB Drive not being seen by ESX1 5 host
I just bought a 2tb Western Digital Passport Hard drive for an ESXi host I have in India that I need to copy a vm guest over to another host offsite. The drive is plugged in but I can see it from...
View ArticleVM's Losing Network When Migrated to New ESXi Host
Ok, this has been a tough one to google (or the week has just been too long), but... We have a 10 host cluster, ESXi 5.1, with SAN storage. We also use a vSphere Distributed Switch with eleven port...
View ArticleMacPro Coredump with PCI passthrough
When doing a PCI passthrough of an Atto UL5D I get a pink screen and then it talks about a coredump. Where can I find this dump to post it online so you folks can help me out?
View ArticleHigh Guest CPU Utilization on vSphere 5.1
We're currently running a vCenter farm with 4.1 vSphere hosts. I'm setting up a fresh 5.1 farm in our test environment. To test out some guests in the new farm, I've mounted up the NFS stores that are...
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