ESX4.1 LSI 6Gb SAS 9200-8e HBA
I have a LSI 6Gb SAS 9200-8e HBA install to PowerEdge R510. This is a dual port HBA. I am using ESX4.1U1 #348481. From viclient – Storage Adapters, I see LSI2008 vmhba0. I wonder if this is correct....
View ArticleProblem update Firmware emulex card (FCoE) thought One command Manager
vCenter 4.1ESX 4.1 update 2OneCommand Manager 5.2.12.2-1 << install on ESX using esxupdateCIM Provider << install on ESX using rpm OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter 1.1.0...
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VM showing up as invalid - failed to find a host for powering on
Hi folks. I have a good sized ESX cluster, with about 20 hosts and Enterprise Plus licensing. I recently did a power down/up of my entire setup, and all but a handful of VMs came back up cleanly. About...
View Articlenetapp missing paths
Hi, I have an odd problem where one of the controllers on our netapp fas3140 died over the weekend, everything failed over to the remaing controller as it should. However, the failed controller is now...
View Articlemultiple swap files
How to troubleshoot if multiple swap files occurred in virtual machine o esx host?
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 issues with audio - No Audio output device detected
We are still on 4.0 update 3 and will be moving to 5.1 here in the next couple of months but we are testing a new Citrix xenapp environment on 2008 R2 servers and noticed that there isn't a sound card...
View ArticlePublic/Private IP addresses
Hello, I am trying to setup the VCL application. On one configuration page, it asks for public & private IP addresses. On my home network, I always have the management network as the private....
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 ArticleDefining additional iSCSI Software Adapters
My setup is two VMware ESXi 4.1 servers which are clustered. I have a iSCSI software adapter installed and setup on one of my VMware ESXi 4.1 servers. It works fine and I can access the SAN from both...
View Articleissues with data transfers and speed copying data into virtual machine
i have as small vmware 4.1 enviroment. I have 30gb id like to transfer into a vm on my host. My san has 10gb iscsi connectivity. My front end switch where my VMs connect is 1gb. if i connect a usb...
View ArticleUnable to connect to MKS: vim.fault.nohost
I have a standalone IBM x3400 server configured as host with ESX4. I installed 3 VM: VM1: Windows server 2003 R2 - Secondary domain controllerVM2: Windows server 2003 R2 - Application serverVM3:...
View ArticleThree VMs with same SID, what to do?
I deployed three Win2008 R2 VMs from the same template and made the mistake of not using customization to change the SID. I have verified using PsGetsid that all three have the same SID. These three...
View ArticleSAS HP 1/8 Autoloader G2 changer does not appear on the VM's Device manager
Hi All, I have an ESX 4.1 host and a VM that is running Windows 2008R2 OS. And a SAS HP 1/8 Autoloader G2 and HP SAS controller is pluged in to host machine. On the VM's device manager there is a...
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Power down or migrate disconnected VM (on disconnected ESX server)
We've got 4 ESX servers in our infrastructure. After power failure three of them powered on, but one didn't (esx-02).On this host we've got virtual machine called f12-dns-02. Now esx-02 is...
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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 ArticleDisappearing virtual network device under Windows 2008 R2 SP1 in vSphere 4.1
Has anyone seen an issue where after an upgrade from Windows 2008 R2 to Windows 2008 R2 SP1 the virtual network device suddenly and somewhat randomly ejects itself from the VM causing the virtual...
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Windows 2008 R2 + ESX4 + vCenter Client Console = FREEZE
Hello, i reproduced this several times now and also found a coressponding thread in the microsoft newsgroups, (...
View ArticleUnable to access file since it is locked
Hi, I am running 2 ESX Hosts. On each host I was running just the 1 virtual machine (both of which connect to disks on the same SAN). I have now created another Virtual Machine to run on each host (4...
View ArticleESX 4.1 - Unable to Delete Datastore
I have 3 ESX 4.1 servers managed by vCenter ( not clustered ). I have moved all VMs off of ESX1 and am attempting to delete a secondary datastore. The datastore is empty and I have the server in...
View ArticleVMICTimeProvider?
I'm investigating a time shift issue with several 2008 R2 guests on vSphere 4.0. Time synch between guest and ESX has been disabled in VMTools but one of the customers engineers has asked me to...
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