Console Window Becomes Unresponsive
Hi All, I am currently in my trial for ESX 4.1 (moving from VMWare Server 2), and I am running into one slight issue that effects 2 of my 5 virtual machines that I can't seem to explain and Google has...
View ArticleDisappearing virtual network device under Windows 2008 R2 SP1 in vSphere 4.1
Has anyone seen an issue where after an upgrade from Windows 2008 R2 to Windows 2008 R2 SP1 the virtual network device suddenly and somewhat randomly ejects itself from the VM causing the virtual...
View ArticleTP AutoConnect/VC Gateway Services showing up on Servers after VMware tools...
Hi All, Since upgrading to ESXi 4.1 then upgrading VMware tools on our Windows servers we have noticed two services being created - TP AutoConnect Service [Stopped|Manual|LocalSystem] TP VC...
View ArticleSnapshot Removal stuck at 95 % and cancel is greyed out
Snapshot Removal stuck at 95 % and cancel is greyed out, How can i stop the snapshot removal
View ArticleVM 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 Articleunable to unlock a virtual machine
Hi guys, Whenever i try to power on a virtual machine, i get the error below. Is there a way i can unlock the this VM from its host. Unable to access file <unspecified filename> since it is...
View Articleenable incoming SSH as root user on ESX 4
hi Howto enable incoming SSH on ESX 4 to connect from any PC in LAN as root user via putty?In vSphere Client under Security Profile -> Firewall SSH Server und Client are already enabled but it...
View ArticleCannot delete consolidated helper 0 snapshot due to full HDD
HI, I need some help resolving this issue of deleting snapshot. There is a consolidated helper 0 snapshot in snapshot manager which is hogging all disk space. Now VM is in error state due to full hdd....
View Articlehow to convert VHD to VMDK SCSI device.
hi, i have converted VHD file to VMDK file and put it into SCSI strogae. when i powering on the VM it says disk read error occur. i found that virtual device node is IDE it should be SCSI so that the...
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 ArticleSlow performance on SAN with 10Gbe via VMXNET3
We have built a SAN using Nexenta and 10Gbe for our VMWARE environment and with some tweaking and testing I am able to hit up to 1GBytes (not Gbps) per second to the SAN using iSCSI from a Win 7 Guest...
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 Articleshare virtual disk on virtual 2 linux machines for oracle rac
Hi I am trying to share virtual disk on 2 virtual linux redhat 5 machines for oracle rac.The configuration was done following the document in...
View Articlevsphere client on Windows 7 rc
Has anybody managed to get the vsphere client working on Windows 7, it installed fine but when I try and login to an esx server, I get an error: Error Parsing the server "192.168.1.10"...
View ArticleESX boot hangs on loading storage drivers
i have a ESX4 server,ESX boot Hangs onLoading storage-drivers,10minutes later then continue booting normally and when i shutdown/reboot ESX also hangs on“please stand by while rebooting 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 ArticleVM’s DNS registration deleted when upgrade VMtools
Hello. We're having issues in one environment with some Windows VMs. I'm going to explain the scenario: Previous scenario:- All the hosts were ESX 4.0.- VMs had several E1000 NICs.- VMware Tools were...
View ArticleError validating datastore for vmotion fault.systemerror.summary
I want to vmotion a machine to a new datastore and in the past I've done numerous vmotion tasks from server to server or datastore to datastore without problems. When I click next through the migrate...
View ArticleCleanup: Unable to delete generated zip file
I am finding the following message in the jointool-0.log in D:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\tomcat\temp 2011-11-30 14:49:28 INFO] Creating new record with data: id: '1073743327' data_type:...
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...
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