unable to quiesce an application
hi, i have my backup exec 2010 r3 running for one year without problem. i have my production running in Vsphere 5.0 (vcenter U1 and esx 5.0 U1) still running ok. but when i started my test esx1 5.0...
View ArticleHP Smart Array P420i warning
Hi, I got a brand new DL380p gen8 Server with 8 300GB SAS disks in 2 raid 5, and installed esxi from the branded image: VMware-ESXi-5.1.0-799733-HP-5.34.23.iso on the first raid.Everything seems to be...
View ArticleWin2k3 VMs stop responding to HTTP requests
Appologies if this is not the best place for this post. I have two Windows 2003 SP2 VMs that work fine for up to a week, but then stop responding to HTTP requests. They continue to work in every other...
View ArticleDisk consolidation taking extremely long time - should I be worried?
First post in the forums (Hi everyone) - I have found lots of good answers here in the past via search, but I am striking out on this one... Situation: 2 VMs (1 Windows 2000 server, 1 Windows XP Pro)...
View ArticleVery slow shutdowns of Windows 8 guest
Maybe two months ago I built some templates for Windows 8 on Workstation 9 and set them up with ESX compatibility so they could be deployed on vSphere 5.1. Well we just upgraded to 5.1 and I'm getting...
View ArticleRDMs & vSphere replication
Dear all, i have to support a migration project from site to site and i have to move VMs configured with RDMs in physical comp mode.My idea was to use vSphere replication and i was wondering if there...
View Articleinstall Vmware Tools without Reboot
We have the need to update VMware Tools automatically without a reboot. The reboot will be done during a security patch rollout. What is the procedure for this.?
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vRAM licensing capacity alert
Hi I'm having this alert in vCenter saying "License capacity monitoring" that won't go away. When I check the Licensing report it shows that my Purchased capacity is 0.02GB vRAM?We are running both...
View ArticleMemory Alerts on ESXi
Last week , couple ESXI was reporting that memory module need to replace. After replacing the DIMM, i tried to update the sensors / reset the sensors / restarted the virtual center agent twice , but...
View ArticleRestarted my ESXI 5.0 today.... imgdb.tgz error
Hi! I have a bootable USb for starting my ESXI 5.0.Today I had to shut down and restart. Booting stuck on Error loading imgdb.tgzFatal error 10. (out of resources) Any suggestions what to do? Regards...
View ArticleMigrating VMs from a non-EVC cluster to an EVC cluster
Hello all, I've walked into an environment that has a single cluster of 9 hosts without EVC turned on: HostProcessor FamilyProcessorESX(i) VersionHost1PenrynXeon E54504.0.0 Update 2Host2PenrynXeon...
View ArticleiSCSI Problem
I recently misconfigured my NAS when adding additional storage, and I need to move my iSCSI targets from the current pool over to a new pool temporarily while I reconfigure the original pool. This is...
View Articleunable to Collect Logs Errror:Unable to connect to the Remote Server
I am trying to collect Diagnostic information requested from VMWARE and I am getting an error message HOST Status Error XX.XX.XX.xx...
View ArticleESXi 5 Hard Drives Issue
Hello all,Sorry for the stupid question but I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I have a server with 2 500GB SATA SSD drives. The hard drive controller is set to AHCI and in BIOS I see 2 hard...
View Articlepurple screen with one server esxi in cluster HA
Hello, First of all, I am pleased to join this community. This is my first post with a little problem I cannot solve.I do not understand.I have 2 identical servers esxi in a HA cluster. It's two DELL...
View Articleperformance on ESXi
Hello all i try to get some information about performance measurement of an ESXI server.in the performance tab of the esxi are a couple of counters - for example CPU, Memory, Storage ...what i have...
View ArticleProper alignment for 320k chunk size
Hello, I know that by default Windows 2003 aligns partitions with an improper staring offset, usually 63.. I have read multiple links on the web stating to use create partition primary align=64.. My...
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Storage Controller Warning in ESX5.1
Hi all VMware experts, Our company have aquired a new HP DL380p Gen8 Server. We installed ESX 5.1 with it using the Custom ESX5.1 cd (HP) downloaded from vmware.com.But we have realised warnings on...
View ArticleESXi5 datastore not mount
Hi All, I cannot get my datastore mount after ESX server restart, below is the error msg from kernel log. 2013-03-20T19:00:42.646Z cpu0:2651)<3>ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0...
View ArticleVM Inaccessible
After RAID was rebuilt (lost 2 disks) we are experiencing issues with seeing some of the VMs in the vCenter console. Two out of 5 show up. Wondering if there is a way to recover the other ones. I can...
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