Create New Virtual Machine is greyed out
I can't create a new virtual machine in vSphere client. Right clicking the host or going to File > New Virtual Machine is greyed out. It seems like most administrative functions are greyed out,...
View ArticleUsed Space showing 0.00B
Hi there, We have an ESX cluster with an attached SAN, I checked today and it seems like for one of the virtual machine the datastore has a used space as 0.00B of 68GB (screenshot attached). We're...
View ArticleUpgrade ESX 4.0 to 4.1
hi Howto upgrade ESX 4.0 to 4.1 using esxupdate?BTW which zip file do I need to download from www.vmware.com/go/downloadpatches to do an upgrade?
View ArticleCannot do Storage Vmotion of an VM which has RDM attached
Hi, Iam unable to to storage vmotion for an Virtual Machine which has around 8 RDM attached to it. I see the error incompatible device backing specified for device '0'. can anyone let know why is the...
View ArticleHow to add hot swap sata hard drive
Specs:Server:33650 M3OS: ESXi 4.1.0RAID config: RAID 0 Hi Everyone, I just bought a 500GB hot swap hard drive, based on the above specs, how do i configure it to become a data store? VM host cant seem...
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....
View Articleinsert the ESX installation media Error
guys, during the install, I"m getting "Insert the ESX installation media," but the DVD is in the drive, I click ok, and keep getting same error.... anyone come across this before?
View ArticleNLB MultiCast and Flex 10/Virtual Connect
Hi all, Im not sure if anyone can help me here or point me to some good doco, but cant hurt to ask. I administer quiet a large ESX environment and this environment hosts a heap to windows NLB...
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ESX 4, MD3000 - Virtual Disk Not On Preferred Path
Hello All, I have two clusterred ESX 4 working on Dell R805 each and it works with Dell MD3000 Matrix. Each ESX has two iscsi controllers, one is with "red" ip range and one with "blue" ip range, then...
View ArticleESX SNMP Configuration (for HP SIM) & sending an ESX Test Trap via SNMPTRAP
Greetings. I recently needed to configure / fix my ESX servers to communicate properly over SNMP to my HP SIM server. Note: This is for ESX 4.1 and HP SIM 6.2. There were many problems I needed to...
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
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Get all VMs with "vmware-vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms"
hello! I have following problem.I have a shell-script and want to get all IDs and Names of virtual machines: for i in `vmware-vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms | sed '1d' | awk '{print $1":"$2}'` all is fine,...
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...
View ArticleAdd Hard Disks for Active-Active Windows 2008 R2 Failover Cluster
Hi all,We plan to create an Active-Active Windows 2008 R2 Failover Cluster in vSphere 4.xHere is the requirements: 1.Node1 should have the following disks during normal operation C drive (VMDK) P...
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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 ArticlevSphere Client could not connect with the vCenter Server "servername"
Details: The server took too long to respond. (The operation has timed out) We have an existing ESX3 environment with vcentre server 2 managing.I have built 3rd ESX server ESX4, and installed vcentre...
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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 Articleextpart problems
In the past, I have never had any extpart issues. Yes, once in a while I might need to go to safe mode to run it, but that wasn't often. Recently I started working with a new environment at another...
View ArticleHow to set DHCP for VMs in VMware ESX 4?
Dear Friends I create three host that all of them configure in VLAN 2 that is not in DHCP and never configure auto IP for the machines that in that VLAN.In one of these hosts, I have two vswitches, one...
View ArticleProblem USB device VMware ESXi 4.0.0 - 4.1.0
Dear, I have a problem for my server to recognize USB devices.VMware ESXi is installed 4.0.0 and 4.1.0 and in both cases these devices do notrecognize me.The machines I tested on Windows Server 2003,...
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