Applying Patches and Updates from SSH
Anyone know a good and easy way to apply patches to ESX from SSH or CLI.Thank you
View ArticleIs sql2008 r2 sp2 compatible with vCenter Server 5.1?
The VMware Interoperability page shows that sql 2008 r2 service pack 2 is not approved to host the vCenter 5.1 database. Does this mean it does not work or that it just has not been tested? Is...
View Article3D Accelerator in ESXi 5.0
Hello,I am new to this community. Let me know if I have posted my question in wrong place. We have 5 numbers of ESXi 5.0 hosts in our environment. My question is; 1) How can I check whether ESXi host...
View Articleporting linux block driver to ESXi 5.0
Hi All, We are porting a sample linux block driver to ESXi 5.0. During the porting we got error in header file. below mentioned ---------------------------------------In file included from...
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Overlay CPU usage of multiple VMs on the same graph?
I've been clicking around the vSphere Client for a while now and can't seem to find a way of showing metrics from multiple VMs on the same graphI can show many metrics from the one VM, or many metrics...
View ArticlevApp startup questions
Hi I'm self-learning vSphere and met questions about vApp startup sequence. In normal situation I can create a vApp in vCenter and define the startup sequence of multi VMs, when manually start/stop the...
View ArticleESXI 5 download vSphere client locally?
Hello everyone. I might have missed the option/setting, but im looking for a way to download the vSphere client from our local ESXI host.When we type in the IP on the host in a browser we get a...
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Auto Deploy - Unable to properly boot ESXi 5.1 properly on HP Blade Servers
We have recently upgraded our vCenter to 5.1.0b, and ofcourse I wanted to update our running (stateless) ESXi blades right away. It appeared this is a little harder then I expected it to be. The image...
View ArticleHP Smart Array P400 and ESXi 5.1
Hi, This is probably a discussion for the Hardware section however I dont have permission to post in there so I am posting here. I have just come into 4 X HP Smart Array P400 all complete with 512MB...
View ArticleTrend Micro Deep Security Supported With Vmware
Trend Micro Deep Security Supported With Vmware
View ArticleVM with 20 Tb volume
Hello, I have a local datastore on my server (Dell R510) with 12HD x 2Tb on RAID 5.Total available space: 20 TbI need to create a VM with Windows Server 2012 Standard with one single volume with all...
View ArticleParent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created.
I recently had one of my virtual machines go down and I couldn't login to it to access anything, so I mounted it as an additional hard drive to another virtual machine in order to access data I needed....
View ArticleUsing a physical workstation to host a remote virtual machine (ESXi 5.1 /...
Hello. I'm a student projecct manager working for Durham Technical Community College's IT department and part of a team trying to construct a remote computing environment. The plan is to integrate the...
View ArticleCreating a DMZ for a web server in ESXi 5
Hi all, I am running vSphere 5 and I have a few vSwitches with several guests on my LAN. Each ESXi box has 12 physical NICS. If I create a new vSwitch and connect it to one of my physical NICS and then...
View ArticleFailed to clone disk: There is not enough space on the file system for the...
The Situation:1. We have two SuperMicro servers running ESXi 4.0, and do cross-backups each night between the servers using vkmfstools. Earch server has Windows 2003 Server VM running Windows...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Hangs after a few hours to a few days of running
Hi, i am hoping someone can help with the crurrent issue I am faced with The build machine we are using for ESXi 5.1 is as following Gigabyte GA-970A-D3 motherboardAMD FX-8350 (Eight Core) CPU32GB...
View ArticleEsxi5.1 High Disk Latency
Hi All, I detected recently a bad event : Device naa.60080e50001807f8000005224d79f052 performance has deteriorated. I/O latency increased from average value of 7007 microseconds to 144414 microseconds....
View ArticleVirtualize a HDD
Hi guys, I'm pretty sure that you though that this was just using VMWare vCenter server converter Stand alone but it doesn't work. What I want to do is the following: We have a client who has a file...
View Articlevswp file usage if reservation is set to max ESXI 5.1
Hello,I have a question and I cannot seem to find the answer to. I have an esxi 5.1 host with 8 vm's on it. The host has 128 GB of physical memory and each vm is given 14 GB of memory. So with all 8...
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esxcli doesn`t connect to ESXi5-Host
Hi, i`m running five ESXi5-Hosts with two SANs. Now i wan`t to get these hosts and the SAN into our monitoringsystem, which wouldn`t be a big problem. Buuut: The esxcli-Command only works on one of...
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