All VMs in the host machine is powered off
Hi All, All the VMs in our host machine is powered off frequently. Hyper visor is vSpeare 4 . I went through the log file and found error for'Mar 10 15:27:13.817: vcpu-0| CPU reset: hard.Any idea why...
View ArticleDistributed Switch uplink problem - vim.dvs.DistributedVirtualPort is not...
Hi all, I am trying to add another physical link to a distributed switch uplinks. The story unfolded as per below:- default ESX 4 build created with 'standard' virtual switch with pNIC 0 uplink &...
View ArticleCan't Migrate VM
I am having trouble migrating a VM from a datastore. I am trying to decommission this SAN and I have been able to move all other VM's off except one. I am not able to move it powered on on or off....
View ArticleHow to you Monitor your Environment?
I have been exploring monitoring my 4.0 environment for a little while now and I am just curious how other people are doing it... Are you monitoring each ESX server and pulling VM monitoring from host?...
View ArticleWindows 2008R2 snapshot problem on 4.1
I have problem with snapshots on one of my VMs. And what's strange it started only last friday. One of my DC's on Win2008R2 refused to take quiesced snapshot after clod migration from one cluster to...
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 Articleinfiniband and esxi 5.0
I have an infiniband card in my esxi 5.0 server I'd like to utilize. I see mellanox only provides drivers for esxi 4.0. Can someone point me in the right direction to find drivers for esxi 5.0?...
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 ArticleWant to know about vApp
Hi All, Good day!!! I would like to know about vApp in vSphere. I did not understand the exact functionality of vApp even after I had gone thorugh couple of articles in google. Below is what they...
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After rebooting ESX 4.0 no vSphere Client access for 15+ minutes?
It seems that in the first 15-20 minutes after a reboot, the ESX 4.0 host server is unreachable by the VI client. Also, running the vmware-cmd –l command from the console as root produces a similar...
View ArticleNot able to install ESX 4 on dell RACK server R900
Hi Friends, Ysterday I downloaded vSphere (ESX 4 & vCenter Server 4), but unable to install ESX 4 on Dell RACK server R900 (Is it not supported ??) So I installed ESX 3.5 update 3 on Dell RACK...
View ArticleMIGRATING VM on Local Storage to SAN
Hi, I've setup two temproary ESX with production VMs. Now the new SAN is in with two new esx. The temproary ESX have no SAN, thus VM reside in local hardisk. If I setup a new virtual...
View ArticleMicrosoft not support VM from Clone template or Sysprep
Hi, My colledge mentioned that MS is not support VM that clone from template or from sysprep, is this true? MS even publish this KB which refer to sysprep:- <![endif]><![if gte mso 9]>...
View ArticleWhat is Runtime Name
I have just installed vSphere 4.0 and VC 4.0. I have noticed something called Runtime Name. I have tried to figure out what that means but without luck. Can anyone explain what vmhba2:C0:T3:L0...
View ArticleWARNING: LinChar: LinuxCharWrite?
Hi, Has anyone seen this in their logss? What does it mean? I have googled but no luck.Seem to be getting heaps of these WARNING: LinChar: LinuxCharWrite: M=226 m=0 flags=0x1002 write 12 bytes at...
View ArticleMy Microsoft cluster service keeps failing
I have two virtual machines on two separate ESX 4 hosts. Each VM is running Server 2008 Enterprise with Failover Clustering installed. SQL 2008 Enterprise is installed on the cluster. MSDTC and SAP...
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 ArticleIntel SRCS16 on ESX4 - Poor write performance
Hi everyone ! I need to change HD on one of my ESX hosts that only have 250Gb of total space, so we buy 5 HD of 1Tb. This week-ends, I put another Raid controler (Intel SRCS16) and connect one 1Tb just...
View ArticleVMs show as Powered Off but are Powered On
We have 3 ESX 4.0 hosts in a cluster. We accidentally issued a shutdown command on one of the hosts. This put it in single-user mode. At the console we did an exit command and we were able to get the...
View ArticleIPMI / sfcbd-watchdog Freespace problem
Hiya, I have a problem with one of our hosts. /var/log/ipmi/0 fills up in less than a day. The files selsel_raw getting massive and I cannot seem to find a reason for it. The only way to get the host...
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