After P2V, Windows 2003 cannot open control panel
Hi All, I ran a P2V last weekend. The Phycical Server is a Windows 2003 Standard Server and improted it to ESX. The P2V seems to complete successfully; but when a Domain User logs on they cannot open...
View Articlevmware 4.1 and hooking up 2 different iscsi SAN units
I am stumped. Ive got a 4.1 enviroment that is using 2 SAN units 1 is a SATA SAN isolated on its own pswitch using iscsi on 10.10.10.1 all running over the software iscsi adapter...over 1gbe...
View ArticleClik here to view.
how to check where the ESX i 4.1 is installed
Hi, Greetings, We are in a process of upgrading ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5. while going through the ESXi 4.1, not able to see the local VMFS datastore of that ESXi server, but if i go though the storage...
View ArticlePast few days all guests have slowed to a crawl.
For some reason, in the past few days, all the guests on my esx box have slowed to a crawl. According to the resources though, I have plenty left. I have about 25 machines but I have 48GB of ram. THe...
View ArticleBest Practice to install VMware Tools
Dear Team, I want to install / upgrade VMware tools on Rhel and SUSE Linux VM, have following queries on the same 1) Before installing / upgrade VMware tools shall i take a clone or snapshot first, if...
View ArticleClik here to view.
General questation about NLB
Hi ,sorry for my bad Englisch . I have basic questation about NLB in the Vmware . I have two virtual machines with created unicast NLB . I set notification switches off .Now I have trouble with connect...
View ArticleVmware ESX 4.1.0 - Alarm System Chassis 2 MCK Card or Link 0 : Undetermined...
Hi Friends, I am new to this Technology, Can you please advise the solution for this below alarm in out VMware Environment. please find the attached screen shot of this . during this failure all the...
View ArticleVMWare tools ESX 4 for Windows 7 x64
I'm trying to install VMWare tools for Windows 7 x64 on ESX 4. The OS installed just fine, but when I try to load the tools I get almost all of the way there and then get the error: Error: 25030....
View ArticlePage Fault exceptions since upgrading to vSphere 4
I've filed an SR about this but I'm still working through the 'maybe it's your hardware' stuff with the support reps. We upgraded one of our ESX 3.5 hosts to ESX 4 and ran for a couple of days with no...
View ArticleWindows Guest disk defrag necessary? VSphere 5.x
Is there a recommended solution for defragging disks on Windows guests in this type of environment? --- VSphere, ESXi, Version 5, using iSCSI SAN environment (both RDM and LUN to LUN utilized), Windows...
View ArticleWindows 2000 Ethernet Controller - Driver
I have installed windows 200 server on to seperate vSphere deployments and on both installations there is a problem with the Network Card's device drivers.VMware tools is installed and this is a new VM...
View ArticleResources currently in use by other operations. waiting
I am getting this message when vmotioning a machinbe to different host. Also a svmotion is currently running too.
View ArticleConvert using cold clone process into VMware Workstation
hi We would like to convert a physical Unix in our Branch abroad using cold clone process with VMware Converter.In this Branch, there is no ESX, so we will try to convert into VMware Workstation.Then...
View ArticleProblems PXE Booting ESX 4.1 VMWare - Error "0xc0000001"
I am trying to PXE boot a VM that is running on ESX 4.1 and while the VM is booting up the PXE image I get the error seen in the attached screenshot. The VMs that I am trying to PXE have either the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Slow performance on SAN with 10Gbe via VMXNET3
We have built a SAN using Nexenta and 10Gbe for our VMWARE environment and with some tweaking and testing I am able to hit up to 1GBytes (not Gbps) per second to the SAN using iSCSI from a Win 7 Guest...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 Slow Mouse After Sysprep
So,I know installing VMware's WDDM driver in C:\Program Files\Common Files\VMware\Drivers\wddm_video will fix slow mouse problems normally and it does. I've installed this into a VM and converting this...
View ArticleAdd vCPUs to Linux 2.4 guest to speed it up?
Hello, I was hoping someone could answers some questions for me. I'm running vSphere 4.0 with about 5 32-bit Linux guests running kernel 2.4. All have 1 vCPU. Everything has been fine for years but...
View ArticleThe warning bar "Number of active connections has changed" keeps popping up...
Hi guys, While running ESX 4 with any OS VM I keep getting the "number of active connections has changed. There are now 2 active connections to this console" message. I know in ESX 3.5 if you...
View ArticleLogs "Long VMFS3 rsv time on..."
Hello, I’m running in the following trouble few weeks ago about my infrastructure, VMware vSphere 4.1 on HP blade BL460G1 and storage HP EVA 6400. Description:The VM symptom is slowdown in accessing...
View Article