Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit - Unable to connect to the MKS:Internal Error
Hi there I found out, when i connect to a freshly installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bits English with SP1 Computer where i did install the vSphere Client (latest Release) and i connect to the Virtual...
View ArticleESX 4.1 Grub Error 17
I've just started working with a new client, and they have had an intermittent issue with one of their two hosts. The secondary host is currently running a VM with vCenter and Veeam in it and an older...
View ArticleESX host drops out of communication
Ok this one is a little unusual. Here are the symptoms that i've been seeing. The host has had two losses of communication in the past 7 days. One loss of communication was at about 7:30 pm and the...
View Articlemount root partition of esx 4.1 in rescue mode from livecd
Hi guys! I have problem with recovering esx 4.1 upd 3 server. To my shame i deleted /lib64/libc-2.5.so -->/lib64/libc.so.6 link and rebooted a server. So now esx makes a core dump and won't start...
View ArticleMissing X drivers for Ubuntu 13.10?
I'm setting up a Ubuntu 13.10 guest on an ESX 4.1.0 host. While installing the VMGuest tools, I get this message" "Distribution provided drivers for Xorg X server are used." "Skipping X configuration...
View ArticlevSphere Client Can't Connect Over SSH Tunnel
I have a couple of ESX 4.0 servers sitting in a lab on campus, which is usually not where I am. Typically, I set up an SSH tunnel to connect remotely to my network and forward some ports over the...
View ArticleRunning Into Some Storage Issues in a Mixed ESX4/ESX3.5/ESX3.0 Environment
We are in the process of bringing our 16 or so ESX 3/3.5 blades up to date by doing new installs of ESX 4.0. We currently have 3 of the 16 converted. I've moved some test vms over to the new ESX4...
View ArticleUsing IBM MSM Megaraid Storage Manager
I need to manage disk array (raid 1,5) in a ESX host, without restarting or shutdown the system, my server is a Lenovo with an LSI ServeRAID BR10i SAS controller , I've download the MSM storage manager...
View ArticleStarting vmware-aam:Timed out waiting for vmware-aam to startup......
VMware ESXi 4.1.0 build-260247 -- This server is out of the management of my virtual center... the server is up and functional.. tried restarting the mangement agents on the server using...
View ArticleIncrease VM disk size in vsphere client?
If I increase the disk size of a guest in the vSphere client by going to the VM's Edit Settings shown in the screenshot - is that the equivalent of the command line "vmkfstools -X 100GB whatever.vmx"?...
View ArticleRDM is really required ?
RDM is really required because of performance reason I have veeam backup repository , the repository partion is an RDM , recently we faced disastor suddenly RDM lost and also the data ? Please advise
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 Articlebnx2 Purple Screen - BL460c G7
Hey guys – I have four identically configured BL460c G7’s (ESX 4.1 Build 348481) – recently one of them purple screened on a bnx2 broadcom issue. I brought the host back up thinking it was a one-off,...
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APD of SAN connection status with HDS AMS1000 storage system
my environment:one HP DL580 G7 server with two FC HBA(Qlogic ISP2432 4Gb FC adapter),HDS AMS1000 storage system with dual controller(firmware version:0773/D-H),BROCADE 300 24-port san switch,ESX 4.0 or...
View ArticleUpgrade ESX 3.5 to 4.1
Hi All, I am planning to upgrade ESX 3.5 to 4.1, so could you please share your thought Is it possible to upgrade ESX 3.5 to 4.1 directly ? What is the best way to upgrade the ESX 3.5 to 4.1 through...
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 ArticleHow to mount Usb Hdd on Redhat 5.4 vm running on ESX 4.0 Host.
Hi All, I want to mount USB HDD to Esx 4.0 host.My infra is.1)IBM blade HS22.2)vmware esx 4.03)one of the blade having redhat 5.4 os. I want to mount my usb drive to redhat virtual machine.Please...
View Articleunable to remove dead path from HBA ports vmhba1/2
Hi all, I have a dead path on both the hba ports vmhba1 and vmhba2. I tried rescanning it but no go.I am not sure how to proceed on this ... Please assist me. Here are the details [root@xxxxx...
View ArticleRescan doesn't show new LUNs on FC HBA...need to reboot?
On our ESX 4.1.0 boxes, we attached an unused FC HBA from each server to a new SAN and presented LUNS. The HBA's always did show up in vCenter, but I expected that after doing a "Rescan All" the new...
View ArticleExtracting the latest VMware.log file from the VM datastore without downtime
Hi All, Can anyone please assist me in extracting the latest vmware.log file from the VM datastore which should contains the most recent Error log the VM directory ? I'm in the process of...
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