Migrate Hyper-V virtual machine cluster to VMware
I have a number of windows clusters that are on hyper-v. The shared storage is presented to the VM's via iscsi. I need to migrate these VM's to VMware and as the shared storage is via iscsi i assume i...
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ESXi 5.x on new Apple Mac Mini 6,2 Late 2012 *NOT* working
Hello! I bought one of the new MacMinis, which were presented yesteraday, plugged two 8GiB DD3-1600 modules in (OsX reported 16GiB of memory, as the models before) and tried to install ESXi 5.1 Build...
View ArticleMigrating RDM in VMDK
Hi, I want to convert a Raw Decive in a VMDK. I've got two Disks: 1. Disk in Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed2. Disk RDM (in virtual mode) While Storage vMotion to another LUN, I have chosen the setting...
View ArticleESXi very slow boot times - VM guests also respond very slow
I have an ESXi 5.1.0 new install that worked great for the first couple of days. It is not yet in any kind production situation, as I am still just testing various configurations, in order to determine...
View ArticlevCPU Provisioning
Working on providing provisioining for a new VM host and I came across this:http://serverfault.com/questions/261108/what-does-the-vsphere-8-core-maximum-meanThe first reply mentions that vsphere will...
View ArticleSpace Utilization Graphs in Datastore Performance Charts
Space Utilization Graphs in Datastore Performance Charts :Space consumption of a VMFS Datastore in OTHER category reflects high usage (50 GB) and it spiking for every 2 hours from 10 to 50 GB. How to...
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 ArticlePSOD on Dell R515 BIOS 2.0.2 - ESXi 5.0 Updatetd
Hi, today i had a Purple Screen on a new Dell R515 with the latest BIOS (2.0.2).We bought 2 of these machines in 2012 with BIOS 1.10.0 and had no problems. Yesterday i installed 2 additional R515 with...
View ArticleOverhead in Hypervisor Per vSwitch
How much overhead is created by each vSwitch in Hypervisor?
View ArticleCan you use thin provision deployment if size on disk for thick provision...
I'm well aware of the issue regarding thin provisioning and oversubscription, but what about the following hypothetical scenario: - I want to deploy a VMware image, with a thin provision footprint of...
View Articlenetwork issues
I had an issue where a Backup Exec backup snapshot filled up the volume and locked up the VM. Eventually I got the snapshot consolidated, but to do it I had to create a new VM and link to the original...
View Articleesxi 5.0 esxtop question
i use esxtop but i cant find ABRTS/s on esxtop . which are keyesxi 5.0
View ArticlevCenter Inventory Service cannot start. Error reference System Event Log...
vCenter Inventory Service cannot start. Error reference System Event Log which states "The vCenter Inventory Service service terminated with specific-specific error Incorrect function.."
View ArticleOrphaned VMDK Deltas
I've recently run into a bit of a pickle with my Nutanix/VMware setup. We had an old VM that had our file shares on it. In an effort to simplify our environment we needed to move the 2nd drive on the...
View Articleesxi connect to localhost failed
I have a 10 esxi host 5.1 vsphere farm and one of my hosts 'out of the blue' lost all its performance metrics.. i.e. reported 0% mem/cpu etc. I then attempted to restart management agent from cli and...
View ArticleCan´t upload ESXi 5.1 image to Update Manager
When I try to upload the ESXi 5.1 image (VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.1.0-799733.x86_64.iso) to Update Manager I get this error:"Failed to import data. The uploaded upgrade cannot be used with VMware...
View ArticleStorage server what OS?
Picked up a new Dell R720 for storage needs, would also like to use is as a data store for vcenter. I know that 2008r2 has a plugin for ISCSI, but was also looking at going with FreeNAS, any...
View ArticleServer Cert USB-ROM Test
I am failing the USB CD/DVD test in the server certification test. I am able to use the USB CD/DVD-R from within Console, so I know the VM sees it, but when I run the test, the message is :...
View ArticleMigrate VM to datastore cluster
Hey everyone, Just starting playing around with datastore clusters and i created 2 new luns from my VNX and created a datastore cluster from them. When i go to test migrate a VM to the new datastore...
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