Advanced parameter Disk.DiskMaxIOSize ???
Customer has ESX 4 hosts. they have all of their servers set with advanced parameter = Disk.DiskMaxIOSize set to 32. The default value is 32767. I can't find documentation on this parameter. Does...
View ArticleESX4.1. Installation – No standard keyboard supported on hardware platform,...
Hi, I am trying to install ESX 4.1 on one of our bord, but we are getting below error, During the ESX 4.1 installation, we observed that it reports error “i8042.c: No controller found. “ For this...
View ArticleNetwork 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 ArticleThe dreadful "Unable to connect to MKS: Timeout while connecting to read"
Platform - VMware ESX 4.1Kernel 2.6.18-164.ESX on an x86_64 GUI access using vSphere Client, Firefox & IE (different versions), CentOS, Ubuntu and Win 7 OS, tested direct connectivity, and via...
View ArticleSLES for VMware - 2 Questions
Hi, i have 2 questions regarding SLES for VMware. Question1:What is the exact difference between SLES11 SP2 for VMWare and the normal SLES Distro ? Is it using a special VMI enabled kernel and does it...
View ArticleSnapshot Size Calculation
Hi All, I have a VM which has 5 disks. Total Space taken by all the disks is 350GB.Out of this 350GB -- free space (across drives) is 25GB. Rest 325GB has data.If I create a snapshot then how much...
View ArticleIncredibly stubborn vm won't power down
Hi Everyone, I have a VM that I cannot shutdown. It's causing "Update child resource configuration" tasks every second on the host it resides on. I have tried to shut it down from the GUI - no luck I...
View Articlealert from host
hello everybody i have e strnge massage thet came from vcenter for ine of my host . i could not explain this message . The massage is as below: test trap received from Vcenter with SNMP Varbinds...
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 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...
View ArticleQuery on ESX 4.1 update
Dear My ESX version is esx4.1 260247 , please let me know if i want to upgrade what series we have to follow i.e. Series 1 downlad direclty update1 ,2 & 3 then install update 1,2,3) following is...
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...
View ArticleStorage path redudancy alert
Dear All, We are having two ESX 4.1. server with NETAPP iSCSI storage attached. We are getting freqauent storage path redudancy alert for one of server. However data store is connected and no issue...
View Article[VMware vCenter - Alarm Host connection failure] Host hostname.local is not...
Hi All, We are receiving the below alarm frequently on our ESX hosts. The alarm triggers and gets closed within19 or 20 seconds. We don't see any issues during the alarm. We have checked hostd, vpxa...
View ArticleBest Practice to install VMware Tools
Dear Team, I want to install / upgrade VMware tools on Rhel and SUSE Linux VM, have following queries on the same 1) Before installing / upgrade VMware tools shall i take a clone or snapshot first, if...
View ArticleDefining additional iSCSI Software Adapters
My setup is two VMware ESXi 4.1 servers which are clustered. I have a iSCSI software adapter installed and setup on one of my VMware ESXi 4.1 servers. It works fine and I can access the SAN from both...
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PSOD issue ESX4.1 (following Array have Missing or Rebuilding or Failed...
Dear Team, We have got PSOD issue on one of the esx host, after hard reboot are getting this error and boots then after every 30Mins reboots or PSOD Need ur urgent assistance on the same. regardsMr...
View ArticleESX mount command
Hi All, We have a mixed environment of 2 ESX 4.1 and 1x ESXi . I am running the mount command on the the two ESX 4.1 servers and it doesn't show the san storages which have been mounted under the...
View Articlebig eror : deleted a Datastore on storage
Hi all, I'm a little bit disappointed with my big mistake : I've deleted the LUN mapped to our ESX 4.0 infra."fortunaly", there was only 1 usefull VM.The issue is tha Datastore is still in Datastore...
View Article2nd Datastore missing after physical Harddisk failure
Dear all, Need some advise for the following; ESX4.1One of the physical harddisk is spoilt on 2nd partition (red light) Replaced with hot swap Using 2 Partition, 3 disks raid 5, 5 disks raid 52...
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