Eaton 9130 + ESXi 5.0 + automated shutdown
Hoping that I can find someone in Melbourne (Australia), or even just anyone in Australia, who is using ESXi 5.0 with Eaton UPS and has successfully configured Eaton's virtual appliance to...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 - Dell T320 cpu/raid status
Hi, Is this normal? esxi reports the cpu with a 0?vsphere client -> configuration -> processor -> esxi is reporting the cpu with a '0' -> Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2420 0 @ 1.90GHz In health...
View ArticleWhich kinds of pci device will be added into hidden list
Except device owned by VM passthrough, is there any other pci device will be added into hidden list?
View ArticleSQL Server Memory
Hello I have a SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1. The Server needs about 26GB of memory. This whole memory is only actively used for about 60 minutes a day. The rest of the day the server idles. As it is a SQL...
View ArticleI/O latency warnings / DL380 G7 / HUS110
Hi all, On our newly fresh installed vSphere 5 Update 1 environment, we are seeing latency warnings. First of all, a short overview:2 x HP DL380 G7 (each host has 2 x QLE2560 FC Single Port HBAs)1 x...
View ArticleStorage Layout Advice
Hi. We have a customer who needs more that 8 spindles within a ESXi 5.1 server to get enough IOPS out of it. The problem is that the server hardware we are using normally (HP ProLiant DL380 gen.8) is...
View ArticlevCenter Single Sign On master password
Hi guys i do not remember admin@system-domain password i wondring how to reset admin's account password i tried to reset password by rsautil command line but i dont remember master password. Anyway to...
View ArticleAutomatic shutdown of non critical VMs
Hi, I would like to know if it is possible to automatically shutdown non critical VMs in case of an ESX server failure. We are runing about 25 VMs in our 3 ESX server cluster. Some VMs are critical...
View ArticleVmware tools not initializing...
Hi,I can not install vmware tools on Red Hat 5 (32-bit) after upgrade from exsi 5.0U2 to esxi 5.1. The installation ends:"Initializing...This configuration program is to be executed in a virtual...
View ArticleDisplaying the Default Monitor Mode
From the putty i wrotegrep -i MONITOR vmware.log but no action
View ArticleRename virtual machine name
Hi everyone I have a vmware esxi 5.0 setup locally and I've created a virtual machine on it with Windows 2003 Server as guest operation system. From my development machine, I want to rename this...
View ArticleESXi5 Hosts cannot host more than 24 guests - VM Network doesn't respond
ESXi 5.1, Cluster of 6 hosts, running on Cisco UCS M3 blades firmware 2.1(1a). Leveraging Cisco UCS Fabric Extenders for VDS. Once I hit the 25th VM, the guest network fo rthat VM does not work, it...
View ArticleESXi 5.0 does not recognize 4TB storage array
Hello all! This is my setup: HP ProLiant ML350 G52x XEON E5345 quadcore12GB RAMintegrated Smart Array E200i connected to single 250GB SATA diskSmart Array P400/512MB connected to two 2TB SATA disks in...
View Articlerdm occupancy
Hello, does anybody know if there are best practices about the occupancy of the rdm disks? I know the threshold alarms in datastores, but I don't know if these applies to rdm disks. Thanks!
View ArticleChange SC ip without downtime
We have 4 esxi5 hosts and we have been asked to modify the SC ip's from a 10.x to a 192.x and no routing exists between these subnets. The vmotion subnet is separate and will not change. My plan...
View ArticleNetwork Adapter Will Not Communicate With Network
Hello - I recently obtained a dell CS24-SC and I have installed ESXi 5.1 onto it. So far so good. My only problem is with one of my network adapters not fully functioning. The host has two onboard...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 HP branded installed on USB stick not showing Hard Drive Health
I have installed the HP branded ESXi 5.1 on several HP servers. The ones that I have used the internal SD card show the Hard Drive health status.The ones that I have installed using the internal USB...
View ArticleIntermitent network disconnect in VM using E1000E NIC
Hi, We just installed three new Windows Server 2012 and one new Windows 8 VMs on ESXi 5.1. On those VMs, we get a lot of errors in the System Event log about network disconnects. According to the logs,...
View ArticleAdd snapshot file from original VM to cloned VM
Hi everyone, I think this my very first post on the vmware support forum, so please excuse my ignorance or lack of understanding of acronyms. I am working on something at the moment which requires me...
View ArticleIncrease the partition size limit
Hi ! I have to manage an ESXI server that has been configured by someone else. I got 8 VM on the server. I want to increase the size of the partition the file server has from100GB to 1TB ....
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