What is VSphere?
What is VSphere?, EXS4? and Cloud Computing or Cloud Operating system? Could anyone please explain there terms in single line, I mean single line definitions? Are VSphere and Virtual...
View ArticleTask in Progress does not clear
A recent task called 'NetApp Storage Discovery is stuck on 'In progress' and will not clear. How do I go about clearing this task from the 'Recent Task' tab? This task is not running. The vsphere host...
View ArticleMixed memory sizes in Dell R710 to achieve 1333mhz speeds versus 800mhz
We have some Dell R710's that were originally ordered with 48GB in a 12x4GB 1333mhz config (RDIMMs). We ordered 6 additional 4GB 1333mhz memory sticks to fill out all 18 banks for a total of 72GB. The...
View ArticleAlarm-Host Hardware power Status
Hi All,I am getting the red alert "Host Hardware power status" in Vsphere 4.0, what does these error means, can someone please let me know is it a hardware error, or any issue with the esx,what should...
View ArticleQuestion involving NAS Storage and ESX 4.1
Hi, I have a NAS storage from Softlayer that has the following instructions for linking. What is the best way to link this NAS and create a Datastore out of it? Thanks. Method 1 - Command Prompt...
View ArticleUnable to start restored Win2003 guest
I am using veeam to backup and restore VMs and I am not having any problems with other VMs either restoring to the problem host or on other hosts. The issue is this: I restore a VM after making a...
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Host Processor Status Alert
Hi all I hope you can help me. We have been getting this Alert from the start. Even if there are no VM running on the servers we get the Alert We are running ESX 4 with all the latest patches. Out...
View ArticleDisk out of space - best practices
Hi, running vspher 4.0 update 2 - windows 2008R2 enterprise guests. the log drive 100GB e:\ is quickly running out of disk space and I need to grow it larger.The e: drive LUN is presented by a dell...
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 ArticleHelp: can't start VM - invalid argument when I try to start it, view the flat...
My raid controller card crashed the other day and I had to "Power Down" the VM which is running Windows 2008. When I tried to start it back up, I get the error "Message from thematrix.cafeyoyo.com:...
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 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 ArticlevSphere on Power On Virtual Machine: Reason: 22 (Invalid argument)
Hey, guys.Saturday morning I had a issue with one of my virtual machines: I could not access its console via vSphere client, so I sent a poweroff command (button). The virtual machine stuck at 95%, and...
View ArticleIdentifying Disk Model
Hi, we have an older system (that we're migrating off of, but still is in production at the moment) running ESX 4.0.0 build 171294. Today during routine checks, a predictive drive failure was noticed...
View ArticleError setting up iSCSI
I have two ESX 4.1 U1 hosts in my environment. Recently purchase a Dell Equallogic SAN PS4100 and having problems getting one of the servers to communicate with it. Following the procedure online (and...
View Articlevmxnet3 interfaces cannot enable auto negotiation
I'm using a customized linux guest system (kernel 2.6.36, no vmware tools installed), wanted to switch from e1000 to vmxnet3 for better performance, but found auto-negotiation is off by default and...
View ArticleCommand not found in service console ESX 4.0 u2
Hi all, I have a very simple question. I haven´t accessed the service console of ESX 4.0 for a little while and today I needed to run some commands to verify information about some HBAs. I logged in as...
View Articlevmware vcenter 5.1 converter plugin
hii upgraded vcenter from 4.1 fo 5.1a , hosts still running esx4.1 i dont see the vmware converter plugin anymore cant p2v within vsphere client ? is it still there or do i have to use the standalone...
View Article[VMware vCenter - Alarm Host connection state] Host connection state changed...
Hi All, During off hours when the vRanger kicks backup on all the VM's then we get this alert ""[VMware vCenter - Alarm Host connection state] Host connection state changed status from Green to Red"""...
View ArticleUnable to remove old snapshots
Hello all, Our backup software (BE), have left apprx 13 snapshots behind, I was able to find outfirst snapshot's .vmdk file is in lock state and more are filling up. They are not available in snapshot...
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