Why does upgrade from 5.0 to 5.1 change MAC addresses in guests?
Out of curiosity, why does upgrading from ESXi 5.0 to 5.1 cause the virtual adapter in Linux guests to change MAC addresses? Before and after, Vmware reports it's an E1000 adapter being presented to...
View ArticleProcessor Cores Died / Disappeared?
I had a PSU die in one of my ESXi hosts last night. Swapped the PSU and everything came online. Weirdest thing is thta this is a Quad core processor and it suddenly shows only 3 cores....
View ArticleOverhead in Hypervisor Per vSwitch
How much overhead is created by each vSwitch in Hypervisor?
View ArticleWhat is the best wat to copy a vm?
I want to copy a vm to a new host. i have seen Veeam , WinSCP but wondered if it there was a better way to copy the vm faster . Would it help if a PC was on the same IP address listing ?I have tried...
View ArticleHas Anyone Virtualized Coins??
Hi, Has anyone virtualized Coins (HR/Payroll) onto an ESXi 5 host using VMs running Red Hat?? For those not familiar with Coins, it uses a ProgressDB and normally a Unix host. We've been advised by...
View ArticleUsing VMWare-Mount on to mount snapshot VMDK on another PC
Hi I'm using vmware-mount (v5.0) to try and mount a snaphot of a VM linux server that is having issues, and I need to explore the snapshot to get some data from it.I have copied the VMDK file I want to...
View ArticleWill disconnecting and reconnecting the Host change scheduled Tasks
If disconnecting the server is a mandatory step, then is there anyway to preserve the scheduled tasks associated with the ESXi hosts? I have multiple scheduled clone tasks that I use for backups -...
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Upgrading ML350 G6 to ESXi 5.1 and seeing 'Warning' on Smart Array p410i...
I always have my installs on external USB thumb drives, just in case the install fails and I need to get the system back up ASAP. Anyways, I popped in a fresh USB thumb drive, installed 5.1 and...
View Article5.1 ESXi standaard
I installed a new 5.1 ESXi and after that I created a new resource pool I installed a server 2008 r2 on that pool which has a ad, DHCP and DNS installed.If I want to use the my laptop I have to...
View Articleunable to install vmware tools
Upgrade and Install VM Tools not working.Error: Unable to install Vmware Tools. An error occurred while trying to access image.
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ESXi 5.0 wwwn's are changed
I have installed ESXi 5.0 on an IBM Blade HS 21 XM (type 7995) using the boot on SAn option. The boot disk (size 3 GB)for the ESXi 5.0 I have created on IBM disk system DS 3400 with fiber channel...
View ArticleESXi 5.0 - Clear SEL without vCenter
Hi there, I keep getting warning messages with CIM as below. And this is a problem because we use a python script for hardware monitoring. WARNING : IPMI SEL - Server: HP ProLiant ML350p Gen8...
View ArticleMigration Path from 3.5 to 5.0
We have two hosts running esx 3.5 with vCenter 3.5 and we want to migrate to vCenter 5.0 with two brand new 5.0 ESX hosts. What is the correct migration path to make this work? Is it possible to have...
View Articlehealth check vmware install
i have health check setup exe but i dont know how to install and configuration it. any idea or document / video
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 ArticlevSphere Client for Server 2012
I have installed Windows Server 2012 on my laptop and tried to install the vSphere client (VMware-viclient-all-5.0.0-623373) but it comes up with "This product can only be installed on Windows XP SP2...
View ArticleDaylight Savings settings on the Esxi Host
Schedule task are not running on their schedule times since Day light savings time.
View ArticleVMFS Issue, FB Inconsistecy found, (xxx,xxx) allocated in bitmap but never used
So we had a storm last night, and a server with ESXi 5.1 and local (LSI RAID Array) went down in a less than clean manner due to an UPS issue. All the VMs on the machines look OK, ran some chkdsks on...
View ArticlevSphere Web Client and Mac OS X
Hmm... with the release of 5.1, they seem to be encouraging everybody to move to the web client. But it seems that Mac OS X is still not supported. What's the plan to support Mac OS X? I really...
View ArticleVcenter database Shrinkage
vCenter Server Database is 40 GB is size and experiencing slowness with other databases on that SQL server. We have 32 ESX hosts in our environment.
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