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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 ArticleGold Build Tuning Windows 2008 R2
Hi Guys I'm currently trying to create a fresh gold build of Windows server 2008 R2 for our templates, looking for some tuning tips to speed up, tweak, tune, optimize, generally make the image as fast...
View Articlehot add memory - windows 2008R2
Hi, Vsphere 4 update 1 - I need toincrease memory on my windows 2008 R2 enterprise box. Is hot add memory supported for windwos 2008R2 enterprise edition? Is hot plug CPU supported?...
View ArticleESXi 5.0 supports only LAHF and SAHF CPU instructions
Dear team, ESXi 5.0 supports only LAHF and SAHF CPU instructions. Need to understand LAHF and SAHF, and how it's work? RegardsMr VMware
View ArticleVeeam and NFS
Hello, Trying to get some more understanding of the architecture. I did some reading on the Veeam site but still a little vague. I have used NFS years ago with a linux machine attached to the share....
View ArticlevServer - tomcat6 memory usage HIGH
I have installed vSphere vServer on a virtual machine with 2GB RAM and I am noticing that Guest Memory is at 99%. According to taskmanager, tomcat6.exe is using 729MB RAM. Anyone know how I can fix...
View ArticleVMkernel logs issue
I have 2 hosts in a DRS HA cluster that have started reporting warnings in the VMKernel logs. I will really appreciate if you can point me in the right direction as to why these errors/warnings are...
View Articlesetup DPM configuration
hi,I'm looking for enable the DPM configuration, I'm not able to do so..I have Dell Servers (using DRAC) and HP servers (ILO), as ESXi hosts.. in attach the configurations of the Dell server, for...
View ArticlePlaying games on vmware. The best way to do it?
Hello, I am a little bit new in the whole VMware scene. But really my goal was to have an ESX 4.1 server with virtual machines on it with the purpose for remotely gaming. I heard that de vmware view...
View ArticleThe hard disk is blank.
hi I have ESX 4.0.0 installed and if I try to add a new storage (SCSI Volume, Raid5) then I get this message: "The hard disk is blank."Error during the configuration of the host: Failed to get disk...
View ArticleDetected Invalid Snapshot Configuration Error
I had a vm with two virtual disks. One of the virtual disks was stored with the vm and other one on a different datastore. The vm was running on two snapshots. The snapshots were taken using both the...
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 release - is this last release for ESX hypervisor ?
Hi, I am planning the upgrade from Vsphere/ESX 4.0 to 4.1 on new hardware because it seems VCenter only supports 64bit Operating system apparently. I was reading some postings and blogs and noticed in...
View ArticlevSMP on 12-core AMD/16-core AMD
Hi All, I have been seeing relatively poor performance on a CPU intensive 8-vCPU VM (W2K8) compared to a 4-vCPU VM (W2K8) on a HP DL585-G7 server with 4 x 12-core AMD Opteron 2.1GHz processors. I have...
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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 ArticleNetwork uplink redundancy fake alert
Hi there, Do you all encounter false alert for network uplink redundancy alarms and network connectivity lost? Everytime the alarm triggered, customer will call and request me to check onsite, but the...
View Articleself signed ceritifcate with esxi server
i have one vmware esxi server installed on vmware workstation on my machine.In general we install esxi server on one machine where it takes its ip addressAs i have limited options i installed esxi...
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Host doesn't have a journal...
Dear Team, Suddenly our Datastore losses connectivity with our ESX servers and the running VMs are poweredoff because .vmdk is not accessible to these ESX host. once the Datastore connectivity restored...
View ArticleDefragment VM (vmdk) on ESX 4.1
Hi All, I have few Windows 2008 Servers running as VM on ESX 4.1.SCOM/Microsoft reports that we need to we need to defragment the VM's.Can you please let me know the way on how can I defragment the...
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...
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