VMA 5.0 ip address pool required ?
Hi ,I've downloaded and imported the VMA 5.0 472630While importing it I noticed a warning about the fact that it requires an IP POOL but gave it no much importance as I wanted to assign a fixed IP.So...
View ArticleNewbie question about accessing vmware host from the internet using vsphere?
I am looking to access a vmware host from outside of a network. Basically, I have a lab in one location and I am looking to access the vmware host from any location from the Internet. I prefer to use...
View ArticleCan't run VSphere on Ubuntu Linux box
I installed all the pearl libs, and installed vshere with success, but, whenever I try to run vmwarectrl, I got the following error: VMWARE_CTRL Extension not found. How can I do to fix this? Thanks
View Articledetected to be a snapshot:
Hi Folks, I'm facing a problem with some datastores. Suddenly they become snapshots datastores. I found these messages into the vmkernel.log: 2013-03-19T12:47:08.670Z cpu36:876189)LVM: 8445:...
View ArticleAdding a Video Card to ESXi 5.1
I would like to add a Nvidia video card to our HP Proliant ESXi 5.1 server for our Windows 2008 R2 virtual servers. Is this supported? Will our virtual servers be able to use this video to improve the...
View ArticleDR site proposal
hi, guys can any body share a project proposal for vmware DR site (without SRM). It uses only VR. i need a sample project proposal. thanks
View ArticleIm getting tons of errors from a network adapter. thought I would remove it....
So Im inheriting this vSphere environment and its a mess. im trying to sort through all the issues and im comin up short on this one. Login to iSCSI target...
View ArticleNetwork Health Monitor Status Unknown
While using the new vSphere 5.1 Web Client, I have got a vCenter 5.1 with Distributed Network Switches. I have enabled "VLAN and MTU health check" and "Teaming and failover health check". However, when...
View ArticleCPU and Memory Stress for ESXi 5
Hi, Does anyone know a free tool or can point me to a script that I can run to CPU and Memory stress an ESXi server? I'm not worried about disk,,
View ArticleRamdisk on esxi
Hi, folks! I have some troubles with ESXi ramdisk. #vdf -h Ramdisk Size Used Available Use% Mounted onroot 32M 7M 24M 21% --etc...
View ArticleESXI 5.1, NAS, RAID 5
Hello All I am fairly new to ESXI so I apologies in advanced if this has already been covered or is a stupid question. I have recently got myself a HP Microserver running ESXI 5.1 (via a USB pen drive)...
View ArticleTransfering files from client to server VM
Hi, I have Vsphere running on a client desktop that's manager a few VMs on an ESXi server. I'm trying to transfer files from the client to the server. Currently I'm doing it via USB stick, physically...
View ArticleCloning VMachine (II)
Just a quick question about cloning Vms in ESXI. 1. How do i go about cloning a VM already in Esxi - ( i read it is just copy and creating a new folder in the database right?) 2. When i clone a VM...
View ArticleYour ESX/i Record uptime
Mine is on a R710 17:47:19 up 608 days, 4:12, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
View ArticleDownload/make backup of VM
I have a VM that can be deleted, but I wanted to test being able to make a copy and put it back in vCenter/vSphere if needed. I've think I've figured out at least two ways to download it.1. Browse to...
View ArticleIs it free to download it?
I'm logged and I try do download VMware-ESXi-5.1.0-799733-depot.zip in order to integrate a RAID driver, but I cannot download it because the link is greyed.¿What can I do? Anyone knows why this occurs?
View Articlevmhba not detected via pass-through
I'm trying to setup nested ESXi on my lab and I have set pass-through for a couple QLogic 2562 HBAs. Installed 2 ESXi 5.1 as VM and added those HBAs as PCI to each VM. On host1 (esxi-lithium01) It only...
View ArticleHelp.. BSOD
Hi. I have a problem I was hoping to get some advice on. I have a HPML350e Gen8 Server.It has ESXi 5.1 installed on the internal SD card which the server uses to boot ESXi from.I have a 2TB RADI5 array...
View Articleguest cpu configuration
i want to learn that . What is the difference between number of virtual sockets : 2number of cores per sockets : 8total number of cores : 16 and number of virtual sockets : 1number of cores per...
View ArticleHost cache - single SSD or SSD in Raid-1?
At work I have three IBM HS22V blade servers that have 2 SSD (60GB) in raid-1. At the moment ESXi 5.0u2 is installed onto the SSD, but I'm going to reinstall ESXi onto USB keys to completly free the...
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