vmotions failing at 78% - a general system error occurred source detected...
Hi everyoneAfter upgrading from vmware 3.5 to vsphere 4.1, we are experiencing lots of vmotion failures ( VM tools are up to date and VM's HW are at level 7).The error message is :a general system...
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ESX on HP Blades using Virtual Connect
I have two HP c Class blade chassis, configure in a stacking link via Virtual Connect. I am looking for some input here. We don't have LACP on the ports where these chassis are connected into, we were...
View ArticleSwap: vm 5342: 2457: Failed to open swap file...
Hello, we're running ESX 4.0 on our hosts. when i backup or copy larg file (More than 1TB) the host is disconnect and vCentter acnnot connect guest but guest it can run normally.We can use SSH to login...
View ArticleVM’s DNS registration deleted when upgrade VMtools
Hello. We're having issues in one environment with some Windows VMs. I'm going to explain the scenario: Previous scenario:- All the hosts were ESX 4.0.- VMs had several E1000 NICs.- VMware Tools were...
View ArticleError validating datastore for vmotion fault.systemerror.summary
I want to vmotion a machine to a new datastore and in the past I've done numerous vmotion tasks from server to server or datastore to datastore without problems. When I click next through the migrate...
View ArticleESX 4 cannot be installed on VMWare Workstation
Hi all I have recently tried to install vmware ESX 4 on VMWare WorkStation 8 on my windows,but it failed to be installed and it said you must have 64bit version of CPU but my CPU is core i3 and with...
View Articleesxi 5.1 - Unable to connect to NFS server - FreeNAS-8.3.0-RELEASE-x86
I get "Unable to connect to NFS server" when I try to connect to FreeNAS NFS share using ESXi 5.1, but both can connect to NFS share on linux. Further linux can connect to the share on FreeNAS. I...
View ArticleDatastore failed on SAN and esx4 errors vmw_psp_rr:...
Hi I have had a LUN failure on SAN so datastore became inactive . I did a rescan hba and rescan datastores ... host is constantly thowing this on syslogs I have manually removed the datastore by...
View ArticleMonitoring ESX 4.1 with Nagios XI
We are running Nagios XI 2012R1.1 and are trying to monitor our ESX 4.1 hosts. I ran the Nagios XI vmware monitoring wizard but I can't seem to get Nagios XI to monitor a vmware ESX 4.1 host service...
View Articleunable to remove dead path from HBA ports vmhba1/2
Hi all, I have a dead path on both the hba ports vmhba1 and vmhba2. I tried rescanning it but no go.I am not sure how to proceed on this ... Please assist me. Here are the details [root@xxxxx...
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Recovering accidental deleted VM's in ESX4.0
Hi, I accidently deleted a VM (centos) in ESX-4.0 and was not able to recover the data on the same. Could any one please help on this. ESX server was configured with RAID-1 (DISK MIRRORING) which is a...
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Hurry!!!Need a help!! VM is orphaned after reboot esx while vm is running!
Hurry!!! VM is orphaned after reboot esx while vm is running! esx is 4.1 and vcenter is 4 After reboot esx while vm is running1.vm is orphaned2.in this esx, I can't find vm's vmdk or vmx3.in this esx...
View ArticleI'm seeing cpu freezes at random in most of my VMs ESX4.0.0
I'm seeing CPU soft lockups in most of my VMs. Some of them freeze completely, some of them require rebooting after a freeze, some of them shake it off and keep running. I'd really like to understand...
View ArticleAdd Hard Disks for Active-Active Windows 2008 R2 Failover Cluster
Hi all,We plan to create an Active-Active Windows 2008 R2 Failover Cluster in vSphere 4.xHere is the requirements: 1.Node1 should have the following disks during normal operation C drive (VMDK) P...
View ArticleCould not find any recognizable digits.
After downloading an .OVA to a VM server. I try using the Deploy OVF Template tool, but when I hit the next button from the deploy from file selection I receive the following message Error The OVF...
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PSOD issue ESX4.1 (following Array have Missing or Rebuilding or Failed...
Dear Team, We have got PSOD issue on one of the esx host, after hard reboot are getting this error and boots then after every 30Mins reboots or PSOD Need ur urgent assistance on the same. regardsMr...
View ArticleCannot do Storage Vmotion of an VM which has RDM attached
Hi, Iam unable to to storage vmotion for an Virtual Machine which has around 8 RDM attached to it. I see the error incompatible device backing specified for device '0'. can anyone let know why is the...
View Articlehow to convert VHD to VMDK SCSI device.
hi, i have converted VHD file to VMDK file and put it into SCSI strogae. when i powering on the VM it says disk read error occur. i found that virtual device node is IDE it should be SCSI so that the...
View ArticleHP NC532i (Broadcom 57711E) network adapter from flex-10 caused a hard crash,...
Is anyone else having this issue? We just had 3 servers crash due to a bnx2x_panic_dump. Once the network cards crashed the ESX server had to be rebooted to come back. Even though only a few vmNICs...
View ArticleVM Defrag
Wondering what people out there are using for defraging Windows Guest OSes running on vSphere (Wondows Defrag or 3rd party)? Is it a good idea to do this like you would a physical machine? I have read...
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