ESXi 5.1 and Web Client
I saw the great video from Chris Wahl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6E_-4dSlLY&feature=relmfu Looks though like it's only on vCenter Server? Not on the standalone free version of ESXi 5.1?
View Articlehp ilo2 serial console and esxi 5.1
Hello all, I'm trying to setup a serial console connection to an ESXi 5.1 host. The server is a HP DL380 G6. Through the Remote Serial Console within the ILO2, I'm able to see the ESXi 5.1 yellow...
View ArticlevSphere 5.1 HA / FT technical difference
Hello guys, I am new in 5.1 HA/FT and I am trying to understand more about this technologies.Neverthless I have surfed the internet and VmWare site for more details, I still need more information and...
View ArticleNIC Teaming with physical stacked switches
I'm a bit confused with NIC teaming configuration. I have a vSwitch (vSwitch0) that will have an untagged port group and about 3 other port groups that will have Vlan tagged traffic coming/going...
View ArticleUpgraded the OS on the server to Windows 2012. Now I can not logon to vcenter.
Upgraded the OS on the server to Windows 2012. Now I can not logon to vcenter.
View ArticleIssue with p2v - An error occured during the conversion:
Issue with p2v - An error occured during the conversion: Hi, Can you advise what might be causing this to occur. I am trying to p2v a machine, I am only doing one of the disk drives could this be...
View ArticleVirtual center server service will not start this after a data base failure.
Virtual center server service will not start this after a data base failure.
View ArticlevSphere client cannot connect to vSphere Server - SSL error
Hi, I built a new VM on 2008R2. Installed ESXi 5.1 using vCenter Simple Install. Then installed the Web Client, then installed the vSphere Client. When launching the vSphere client I get an error...
View ArticleESXi5 OVF import not working with monolithicSparse
It seems that OVF import only supports the stream format and not monolithicSparse,could someone confrm that? I ask as we are trying to give a hand-crafted OVF to ESXi for import. We use qemu-imgto...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Hangs on SSD
Hi, I have ESX 5.1i installed on a kingstond 60 GB SSD and rest of the drive is used for cache. My VM's are running on NFS storage.Installation of ESX went fine but is have an issue after a week or so...
View ArticleDebian VM Disk Full, how do I expand
Hello Everyone, I am a total newbie to VM so please excuse my lack of knowledge but I will make up for it with effort. I am playing with EXSi 5.1 and have 3 VM's on one host. 1 of the VM's is 50Gb in...
View Articlevcenter5.1 and NIS domain
Is that possible to join the vCenter 5.1 to NIS domain because there is no option in vCenter 5.1 Web Interface. Earlier in vCenter 5.0 this option was there. Anyone any idea on this?
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Windows7 VMs hang in "Shutting Down"
Hi, Since 1 month I am having troubles with all my Windows7 VMs. When I try to reboot them they hang on "shutting down" and they never restart. The problem happens on all my servers (ESXi 5.1-914609)...
View ArticleMonitoring Disk iops
§READs/s + WRITEs/s = IOPS my storage iops is good or bad ? what is ibm ds 3512 iops value . i didnt find any iops about ibm ds 3512 raid 5i want to check iops value about my system ''IBM DS3512...
View ArticleHardware status on ESXi 5.0U1 with HP CIM providers needs a sfcbd-watchdog...
After the sfcbd processes are restarted via sfcbd-watchdog restart I get a correct and complete hardware status. This status looses all sensors over time so that after 1 to 2 days you don't get any...
View ArticleUsing 3TB SATA harddrive w/ RDM passthrough under ESXi 5.0u2 / Win2003 Guest
Hello, I have a strange behaviour, using a 3TB SATA hard drive, connected to the onboard SATA controller as a RDM passthrough disk to a windows Server 2003 guest: - The size of the "-rdmp.vmdk" file of...
View ArticleESXi VSphere 5.1 HA + SQL Server 2008 R2 MS Failover Cluster
Hello,I am new in Vmware and I need some info from you:I am going to develop a production infrastructure based on ESXi 5 with SQL server 2008 Failover Clustering 2 nodes. The infrastructire is made up...
View ArticleHow to configue a MSCS (Failover Cluster) with a shared VMDK
Hi, we use in our enviroment (ESXi 5.1 / vCenter 5.1) some Micrsoft Windows 2008 R2 failover cluster. Before we upgraded from ESX 4.1 we can configure a full function failover cluster. After upgrading...
View ArticleChange Rollup Type of a Particular Counter
Is that possible to Change Rollup Type of a Particular Counter?
View ArticleVMWare ESXi 5 ultra slow on disk operations ?
Hello.I am trying to switch to virtualisation infrastructure, and maybe it is because i am still learning, but i have serious drop in performance. The server is IBM x3650 -HDD : 2 x 130 GB SAS 10k RPM...
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