USB undetectable in vSphere 5.1
Hello,I connected my usb key on my client computer and I add the USB controller in my VM but when I add the usb device "usb device unavailable"you have a solution?thank you for your help
View ArticleESXi Hypervisor - Guest OS startup on Boot question
Hi All, I'm very new to the VMware game and I intend to start playing with the free products available and gain a good understanding of it. My question that I've currenty got is this:I have my desktop...
View ArticleRemove 1 vCPU from VM with 2 vCPUs
Hi, We have some server with Windows 2008r2 Datacenter and Vmware Esxi 5.1.We have a lot of server with 2 vCPUs, we need to remove 1 vCPU from these servers and add these vCPU to other servers.There is...
View ArticleLSI MegaRAID + ESXi 5 - Deep analysis
Hi all,Im running an ESXi 5 host with Patch 768111 and an LSI 9260-4i Raidcontroller and I want to manage my Raid on a virtual maschine with the MegaRAID Storage Management Tool. I installed the latest...
View ArticleHow to shrink thin guest on VMFS5? or change block size?
Hi all, I'm trying to find a way to shrink bloated thin-provisioned guests in an all VMFS5 environment. We upgraded from 4.1 to 5.1 and then also storage vmotioned all of our vm's to newly created...
View ArticleAdding RDM containing data?
Hi,I have a couple of ntfs HDD holding data that I'd like to add to a VM as RDM using this trick : http://www.tumfatig.net/20120226/raw-device-mapping-of-local-sata-disks-on-esxi/ My question is, can...
View ArticleLatency Setting with vSphere standalone client
vSphere include a latency setting, but the stand alone client doesn't. How can I set that with the vSphere stand alone client?
View Articlebackups failing on new vmfs 5 due to 1mb limitation
Hello, we have a situation where we have a few large VMs that were failing to backup using the vRanger product. at the time, we were on ESXi 4.1 and we had to create a new volume with a 4mb block size...
View ArticleRelease dates 5.1GA 5.1.0a+b
Hi,I'm trying to find the release dates of 5.1 from the first to the current release.I couldn't find the GA release date or no release notes at all. The release notes of 5.1.0a says 25 Oct 2012 and the...
View Articleopenfiler chunk size for esxi5/vmfs-5
hi all, i read an article about proper chunk size for big IOPS, it need to be small chunk size on big IOPS and vice versa on small IOPS with big chunk size. So is esx5 vmfs 5 big IOPS? if yes, can i...
View ArticleHow many shares do VMs receive which are not in a resource pool?
I have the following resource pool configuration on a cluster: resource pool 1: normal - 10,000 shares, 10 vms, no limits, no reservationsresource pool 2: normal - 10,000 shares, 5 vms, no limits, no...
View Articletime sync
I want to know if my guest windows os be member of domain controller and its time synic via w32tm service from domain time and in other hand vmtools sync time checked and esxi host be sync from...
View ArticleHP Smart Array controller Health Status with non HP Server and ESXi 5
For the upgrade to VSphere 5 of our existing HP Prolient servers we wanted to use newer Supermicro Units but stay with the Hp Smart Array P410i controllers and disks we had before. For this task we...
View ArticleUpgrade manager on windows 8
1) We have an server running version 5 and would like to update it to version 5.1 so we can server 2012 to do some testing. This is our first VMware host and I am unclear on what needs to happen to do...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 host accepts no network connetctions
Hi guys, I installed a new 5.1 ESXi Server from Scratch and there is no network activity!Through boot process I can see the Intel E1000 driver is loaded.The physical Link is up and shown correctly on...
View ArticleESXi 5.x on Alienware M14xR2
Hello everyone! This is my first post, so i guess i salute you community! This is the problem: I've been trying to make ESXi 5.0 and 5.1 work on an Alienware M14xR2 for about three weeks already...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 doesn't boot on ESXi
Hi, I have ESXi 5.1.0 build 799733 installed on the server. And VMware vSphere Client 5.1.0 Build 786111. As far as I get this version of ESXi should suport Windows Server 2012 setup. I downloaded both...
View ArticlevSphere Web Client and Mac OS X
Hmm... with the release of 5.1, they seem to be encouraging everybody to move to the web client. But it seems that Mac OS X is still not supported. What's the plan to support Mac OS X? I really...
View ArticleNAS hardware for ESXi 5.1 lab?
I am looking to build a NAS for my lab at home. I was thinking about putting ESXi on a home built NAS and using the EMC VNX storage appliance. If I wanted I could also maybe throw vCenter and AD on...
View Articlerunning uefi sct tool on vm
I installed esxi5.0 with virtual machine setting to UEFI BIOS support. I tried to run the uefi sct (self-certification tool) on uefi shell however the installation stops saying unable to copy the...
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