Network 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 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 ArticleDatastore failed on SAN and esx4 errors vmw_psp_rr:...
Hi I have had a LUN failure on SAN so datastore became inactive . I did a rescan hba and rescan datastores ... host is constantly thowing this on syslogs I have manually removed the datastore by...
View ArticleVirtual Machine redundancy
Hopefully this is the correct forum as i am using esx 4.1 Here we go: I have x number of hosts. (ill be using 2 to explain but know i have more)I have 1 vswitch that runs all of our VMs bound to 2...
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...
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....
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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...
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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...
View ArticleBroadcom 57711 + ESX/ESXi 4.1 + Jumbo Frames
Having some issues getting Broadcom 57711 NIC working on ESX/ESXi 4.1 with MTU 9000. On ESX/ESXi 4.0 U2 I have no problems getting and MTU of 9000 working, I can push our EQL PS6010 SAN pretty hard and...
View ArticleESXi 4.1 PSOD when performing certain Linux disk operations
Hey all, I am running ESXi 4.1 on an Intel server and I get PSOD's whenever I perform certain disk operations. It seems to happen when I partition a disk or once in a while when writing to disk. It...
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 ArticleESX4 + Nehalem Host + vMMU = Broken TPS !
Since upgrading our 2 host lab environment from 3.5 to 4.0 we are seeing poor Transparent Page Sharing performance on our new Nehalem based HP ML350 G6 host. Host A : ML350 G6 - 1 x Intel E5504, 18GB...
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Unable to extract the OVA file
Hello, i just tried to convert a vm guest (win2003 windows box with 150gb single partition) toan .OVA File. The Export itself was ok, no errors. Run VMware vCenter Converter again to upload the OVA...
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 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 ArticleIncreasing netapp lun size
we have esxi4. 1 hosts connected to netapp filer via FC. On the netapp we have luns on volumes, and these luns on esx are mapped as vmfs datastores on ESX. One of the luns is running out of space,...
View ArticleESX 4 U1 Hosts Lock with SD 0:0:0:0 still retrying after 360s
We just upgraded fro ESX3.5 to ESX 4 U1 a few weeks back. We are running on a IBM Blade Center S with HS21-7995 blades and using the SAS RAID Module for Storage. On two occasion all the ESX hosts...
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 Articledetermining which ESX host a vm is on from script?
Hello, I have a need to be able to determine which ESX host server a vm is running on from a script... Existing script infrastructure is in WSH/vbs for windows vm's. Is this possible? I know vmware...
View ArticleSolaris 10, 32bit and 64bit oddities
I'm trying to set up some Solaris 10 VMs, one 32bit and one 64bit, but running into some strange issues. Before I go into the details, just FYI our ESX 4 hosts are successfully running quite a few...
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