Gen 1 HP blades and ESXi 5.1
Hello, As far as I can tell running ESXi 5.1 isn't supported on a Gen1 HP BL460c. http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/vmware/supportmatrix/hpvmware.html ESXi 5.0 is supported. I was wondering...
View ArticlevMotion and vSphere 5.1
Hi all,i have read about some new features in vSphere 5.1, in particular about vMotion without shared storage.I have tryed to migrate one local vm from one host to another but selecting the destination...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 installation network card problem
I am trying to evaluate the software, but I do not have a valid network card. I was wondering if there was a list of supported NICs so I could purchase one.
View Articlesimulate a network failure
Hi Folks, I have an ESXi 5.1 enviornment with two uplinks (vmnic0 and vmnic1), both configured to vDistributed Switch. I am running some tests to validate the network and want to simulate one of the...
View ArticleProblem with USB Vsphere 5
Hello,Please, Is there the answer or links or tutorials that explains why my usb is not detectable at vCenter....Thank youcordially
View ArticleMaximum vCPUs per logical cores
What is the maximum number of vCPUs that are recommended per logical core? If I am NOT contstrained in terms of available GHz, when are there "too many" vCPUs logical core?
View ArticleBoot failure with 2 SATA disks on 5.1
I have a stable 5.1 installation on an Ivy Bridge based laptop. I have 1 SATA SSD and everything works fine. If I add a second SATA disk (in the DVD-ROM bay via a 2.5inch HDD bay converter) the system...
View ArticleHow do i create a private network in ESXI 5.1 using virtual switches?
I'm currently a rookie in VMware and was wondering how would i setup a virtual test lab on my dell workstation running ESXI 5.1. My aim is to have a virtual network with the IP addressing of 10.171.0.0...
View ArticleRename a virtual switch in ESXi 5.1
I've built two ESXi 5.1 servers that I am managing through vSphere. I have been doing network testing to set up 10GB communication for vMotion. I need to know how to change the virtual switch name...
View ArticleI have a server that is using up 200GB more than what is actually on the...
I have a server that is using up 200GB more than what is actually on the server. It is a OES11 NSS volume and stored on a nimble box.
View ArticleFresh install: Invalid MPN range .. and VMserver crashed 2 times already
Hello, We've just bought 2x HP DL380 Gen8 servers with MSA p2000 storage. We want to run ESX5i on both servers for redundancy and we've installed the HP ISO for VMware ESX 5i Both servers ran fine for...
View Articleesxi 5.1 network issues Windows 2003 terminal server
Blade BL460c Gen8, ESXi 5.1 build 799733 from iso VMware-ESXi-5.1.0-799733-HP-5.30.28Network interface vmxnet 3, Guest OS Windows 2003 32-bit There’s a separate DB with MS SQL server (not a virtual...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 installation info
Hello, We have installed 16 esxi 5.1 servers in a c7000 HP blade chassis with BL 460 G6. Some of them have SD card esxi installation and some hard drive installation. I have been tring hard to figure...
View ArticleESXi PSOD (PF Exception 14) on VM Install
IBM x3550 M4 server, RAID 10 and fresh ESXi install. vSphere client connects fine but any attempt to install Server 2012 or 2008 causes ESXi to crash to a purple error screen with the following...
View ArticlePhysical Parallel Port No Longer Supported in ESXi 5.x?!
We have a very, very antiquated system running some old software (from about the year 2000) that requires a parallel port dongle to validate the license. It seems that version 5.x of ESXi is no longer...
View ArticleUsed Reservation calculation ESXi 5.0.0
Hi, Wanting to understand the calculation that determines the "Used Reservation" under the Resource Allocation tab of the Default Resource Pool with memory view highlighted. We have 21 Vm's in this...
View ArticleWorking out which vmnic is trunked as the ESXi Management ?
Can anyone advise if there is an easy way of working out which vmnic is the ESXi Management connection without having to get someone in a remote secure datacentre to physically disconnect the one...
View ArticleAdding static route on esxi 5
Hi, Our client has recently impletement vm backup strategy which does backup on the management network. They would like to move this traffic to additional unused switches on the hosts. Is this...
View Articlevmsphere client lists no USB devices for passing to client
Hi, before ESXi 5.1 I had no problem passing USB-Sticks or even my Sony eBook Reader to a guest.The List which opens when clicking on the "passing USB to the guest" shows every USB device, even my...
View ArticleI’m getting an error on one of my host every day at 7am stating “net app host...
I’m getting an error on one of my host every day at 7am stating “net app host discovery- details run time fault error while updating task state, status stuck at 15%
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