Cannot 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 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...
View ArticleProblem with Vmware Networking
Hi Everyone, Good Morning! I am newbie to VMware. I am using Vmware Vsphere 4.0 ESXi on a server having two physical NIC adapter. I am confused with a scenario in networking that it like below: 1. I...
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 ArticleUnable to clone VMs between datacenters
Hi, we have two datacenters, managed by one VCenter server. I am attempting to cold migrate a VM from Datacenter 2 to Datacenter 1. It gets approximately 3% complete, then fails with the error "Could...
View ArticleUnable to connect to the MKS: The remote host certificate has these problems:
Hi, We have a 4 ESXi host cluster all running vSphere 4.1. Recently i started to upgrade them to update 2 and all the additional patches. After upgrading the vCentre Server to the latest version (or...
View ArticleIIS performance 50% slower on a VM?
I've got a cluster of IIS Servers that we host our web application on. Recently, we converted several of our web servers from physical machines to virtual machines. By converted, I mean we built a...
View ArticleLoss of communication while removing a snapshot on ESX4
Hi guys, this is the scenario: ESX 4 build 261974 hosts on NFS shares datastores (on a EMC Vnxe3150 storage) I take a snapshot on a VM i lost a pingi remove the snapshot i loose 10 pings (unacceptable)...
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 ArticleESX 4.1 with all patches locks with sd 0:0:0:0: still retrying 0 after 360 s
I have seen this around the kbs about mirrored drives and it being corrected in patches, but we are using EMC Clariion SAN for vm storage and have 4 other hosts that have been in our DRS for quite some...
View ArticleDatastore Increase Button Greyed out
Hi All, I checked couple of articles and could not find any solution, I have VMFS 3.21 & 3.31 which are showing Increase button greyed out. I am able to increase other few datastore on the same...
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VM 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 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 ArticleIncorrect disk option "thick"
Hi All, I am going to create a share storage between 2 vm on esx 4.1. for this i am running the command "vmkfstools -c 50000M -d thick -a lsilogic cluster.vmdk". but i am getting error with "Incorrect...
View ArticleIn-Guest iSCSI vMotion Support
Hi, we're using in-guest iSCSI using Microsoft iSCSI Initiator to host our Exchange 2010 volumes. We just noticed that snapshots are not supported, can anyone advise if vMotion is supported with this...
View Articlevmdk file cannot be deleted from Data store
Hello,I have been looking around for a resolution to a issue where we cannot remove 2 .vmdk files shown below (from a ls -la in ssh)-rw------- 1 root root 262144 Jul 31 13:55...
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 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 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 ArticleUrgent! Cannot Remove Snapshots Data store Full
Good morning, Setup:+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Vcenter Server 5.0 running on physical serverESX1 - Vsphere 4.0 LOCAL STORAGEESXi - Vsphere 5.0 iSCSI shared storageESXi - Vsphere 5.0 iSCSI...
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